A2 New peace formula suggested By Nicolas Tatro BEIRUT (AP) - Saudi Arabia’s Crwon Prince Fahd has proposed a new approach to peace in the Middle East, saying Arab states will re- cognize Israel's right to “live in peace” if Israel] will allow creation of a Palestinian point blueprint in an inter- view with the official Saudi press agency that was pub- lished Saturday by news- papers in Beruit. CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 9, 1981 In what some diplomats viewed as significant, the plan made no mention of the Palesine Liberation Organi- zation, Both the United States and Israel have re- fused to consider the guerr- illa group as a partner in peace negotiations. “Perhaps the omission is to make it easier for the U.S. administration to support the sort of un resolution he is suggesting,” said one West- ern diplomat who asked not to be identified. Elsewhere in the inter- view, however, Fahd men- tioned the “need for the American government to re- cognize the PLO because if is a fact and‘a reality and any comprehensive peace in the area must depend upon reality.” Fahd's proposal comes after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s visit to Wash- ington, where Sadat urged President Reagan to open negotiations with the PLO. Western diplomats who specialize in Saudi affairs said the crown prince's package appeared to designed as an alternative to Inspite of Canadian economy PM continues to travel By Roger Smith NAIROBI (CP) - Prime Minister Trudeau left Friday for a weekend in the Kenyan bush with no indication he plans to answer demands from home that he turn his attention from international affairs to Canada’s economic problems. An aide to Trudeau said the government has no plans to recall Parliament before Oct. 14 to take action on the economy. Opposition leader Joe Clark and New Democrat leader Ed Broadbent have demanded an early return of Parliament and a new budget to deal with economic woes that have sent interest rates soaring to record levels and caused the value of the Canadian dollar to tumble. The aide, who said Trudeau has been briefed daily on domestic develop- ments since he left Canada July 27 to attend the royal Despite _lingering_fever Pontiff recover ROME (AP) — Despite a lingering fever, Pope John Paul is recovering well from abdominal surgery, and will leave the hospital in about a week, his doctolrs said Satur- day. “The (Pope’s) condition remains good,’’ a medical bulletin said. on the The pope is running a slight temperature of up to 37.5 degrees Celsius, which is normal after such an operation, said Dr. Emilio Tresalti, chief medical offer at the hospital where the Pope is recovering. “The Pope should be released about 10 days after the operation,’ or about next pontiff for one hour Wednes- day to reverse the intestinal . bypass that was performed May 13 after he was shot in St. Peter’s Square. Tresalti said. After he leaves the hospital John .. Paul. is tor wedding in London, said it would be up to Finance Min- ister Allan MacEachen to decide when to bring down 3 new budget, not expected until late October. The prime minister, will address a United Nations al- ternative energy conference this week. Trudeau and the boys - in- cluding Justin, 9, and Sacha, 7 - left several hours later for a weekend in the Kenyan ng well Since the operation, the Pope has taken a few steps in his 11th-floor hospital room and sat in an armchair for several hours at a time, doctors said. The pontiff left the Rome hospital for the first time on June 3, three weeks after the shooting. He was re-admitted 17 days later for treatment of pleurisy, an inflammation of the: i the stalled U.S. - sponsored Palestinian autonomy talks between Egypt and Israel. The plan, a composite of proposals contained in pre- vious UN resolutions, called r: j Israeli withdrawal from all territory occupied in the 1967 Middle East war. + Removal of all Israeli settlements on the West Bank of the Jordan River and other occupied areas. «Guarantees of freedom of worship for all religious groups in the holy land, bush to see elephants, lions and other wildlife for which this East African country is famous. Kenyan officials re- leased a detailed itinerary of Trudeau's plans to visit Mount Kenya national park and the Masai Mara game re- serve. He is to return to Nairobi Monday for the conference opening and will deliver his speech Tuesday. Trudeau is to return to Canada Aug. 16 after‘a trip to neighboring Tanzania for talks with President Julius Nyerere and several more days of private holidays. Cities losing money New Westminster, B.C.( (CP) - The B.C. Government is withholding payment of homeowner grants and this is convalesce for-.at least a month at his summer retreat south of Rome. the lung, and cytomegalo- virus, which is similar to monomucleosis. Ninth jailed Irishman dies on hunger strike BELFAST (AP) - Hunger striker Thomas MclIlwee died Saturday on the 62nd day of his fast, the ninth Irish nationalist guerrilla - to succumb in the Maze prison death fast, Britian’s North- ern Ireland office announced. Mcllwee was 23. Mcllwee's death came just a day after jailed Irish na- tionalists issued a statement seeking to open dialogue with the British about their de- mands. Friday night, about 400 relatives of the Maze prisoners rallied to show support for the hunger strikers and try to put down speculation a rift was deve- loping between those urging the fast be dropped and those wanting it to continue. The British minister for Northern Ireland, Sir Hum- phhrey Atkins, said in Lon- don that the new statement from the Maze prisoners Friday did not change their position. He said he could see “nothing to suggest that they have understood the govern- ment’s reasons for refusing to concede their five demands.” Before his death, McIlwee was said by his supporters to have been suffering kidney problems and his left eye, his only good eye, was said to have become infected. The other eye was lost in the pre- mature explosion of a bomb he was carrying in 1976. JAILED FOR LIFE It was on that mission that Mcllwee was captured by police. He was later con- victed of manslaughter in the death of a woman burned to death by an_ incendiary device he allegedly planted and was sentenced to life in prison. Eight other convicted guerrillas have died in the Maze since the fast was begun by Bobby Sands March 1 in a bid for what the nationalists call more humane treatment in prison but British authorities say is a thinly disguised bid for political-prisoner status. The most recent deaths took place last weekend. Kieran Doherty, 25, died last Sunday, in the 78rd day of his fast, and Kevin Lynch, also 25, died last Saturday in his Vist day without food. Mcllwee’s . death leaves five prisoners participating in the hunger strike. Parks fight moves into court VANCOUVER (CP) - The war in the woods moved into the courts Friday as lawyers for a firm of wilderness guides launched a law suit against the Greenpeace Foundation’s anti-hunting tactics in Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park. First round in the court- room battle went to the guides when Mr. Justice Alan Macdonell of the B.C. Supreme COURT ISSUED AN INTERIM ORDER PROHIBITING Greenpeace from ing the remote park in northern B.C. The judge's order, to which Greenpeace consented, applies until Aug. 18, at which time lawyers Robert Gardner and Rod And con- spired to injure the guides’ business. Court documents presen- ted to Justice Macdonnel indicate the guides are claim- will apply for an inj ing d for pending trial of the guides’ law suit. The law suit, filed on behalf of Skeena Air Guides Ltd., which conducts busi- ness under the name of Collingwood Brothers Guides and Outfitters, alleges ion and inducing breaches of con- tract. Greenpeace claims that five of its members received cuts and bruises in an en- counter in the park with five unnamed individuals. Labor attempting to heal rift VANCOUVER (CP) - The Canadian Labor Congress and its 17 inter- been trying to establish a rival labor organization to the the Canadian national building trades union have agreed to make one last attempt to resolve their differences before spit- ting irrevocably into two warring camps. The building trades have Federation of Labor, ever since they were suspended April 30 for non-payment of congress rules. Canadian leaders of the building trades unions, repre- senting about 230,000 con- struction workers, have asked for a meeting with the full executive council of the congress in what they des- eribe as “an 11th-hour effort” to patch up their differences. The congress agreed and the meeting has been scheduled for Aug. 27. Loca- tion was not announced. . costing more than $15,000 a day, says the Union of B.C. Municalities, The union is “serious; concerned over the with- holding of homeowner grant to ae thie Recognition of the right of two million Palestinian refugees to repatriation, as well as compensation for those who did not wish to return to their homeland. UN trusteeship in the ini lated West independent Palestinian state with Arab East Jer- usalem as its capital. , Guaranteeing the right of all states in the area to “live in peace.” Guarantees of any Bank and Gaza strip during a transition period of a few months, Establishment of an French by the United Nations or “some of its memers,” presumably the United States and the Soviet Union. in fran stay in embassy BEIRUT (AP) - French nationals awaiting eyacua- tion from violence-wracked Iran were reported still in- side their embassy in Tehran Saturday as Iran's media announced a top Islamic judge was assassinated and the government executed another 46 opponents, Tehran radio reported Ahmad Faeihi, a chief judge of the Islamic Revolutionary Court and two of his body- guards were slain in the central Iranian province of Fars. His attackers, who escaped, were described as two motorcyclists who ambushed his car. The radio also said that firing squads executed 46 “counter-revolutionaries,” raising to more than 800 the number of Iranians killed in the crackdown on foes of the fundamentalist regime. Observers in Tehran reached by the Associated Press said the French nation- als were gathered inside the French embassy compound in downtown Iran. FRANCE WARNED France has come under sharp criticism from the Iranians since former pres- ident Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was granted political asylum in Paris and Friday, a top Islamic clergyman warned the French embassy might be taken over if Bani-Sadr anda leftist leader are not re- turned to Iran by France, which granted them political asylum. Most of the 144 French citizens in Iran were denied . permission to leave Iran last week, although French off- icials announced Friday arrangements were being made to get them home later this week. Iran would not allow the French nationals to leave on a French jet Thurs- day and refused permission for a French jetliner sent for them to land at Tehran's air- port. Krawczuk funeral will be Tuesday On Friday,.Mary Krawe- zuk of 306-llth Ave. Cas- tlegar, passed away at the age of 77 years, | z Funeral service for the late Mrs. Krawezuk will be Tues- day, at ll a.m. at the Castle- gar Funeral Chapel, with under the guise of ‘cash management study’,” said first vice-president Jim Tonn. “The total impact to muni- cipalities could be more than $15,000 a day,” Tonn said in the telegram, sent to Finance Minister Hugh Curtis and Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Vander Zalm. Municipalities have budgeted on the basis of receiving such payments, but none have been made since mid-July, Tonn said. “It is of serious concern to the union that the province would choose to generate provincial revenue at the expense of municipalitie and local taxpayers,” he said. Mirers spend “more. aeste VANCOUVER (CP) - At least $101.2 million will be spent on exploration and development of metallic min- erals in B.C. this year, the B.C. and Yukon Chamber of Mines predicts. This compares with $81 million last year, the cham- ber said Friday in a news release. . But the chamber expects a slight drop in coal explora- tion to $26.6 million from $27 million last year, the chamber said Friday in a news release. But the chamber expects a slight drop in coal explora- toin will decline to $1.6 million from $3 million, the chamber said. It said the small company share of exploration funding is expected to rise to 24 per cent in B.C. from 15 per cent last year, and to nine per cent from four per cent in the Yukon, During the first six months of 1981, 34,827: claim units were staked in B.C., up from 83,635 during the correspon- ding 1980 period, the cham- ber said. burial at Park Memorial re 'y- Besides her husband, James Krawezuk, Mrs. Krawezuk is survived by a son, John J. Strelioff of Cas- tlegar, a daughter, Mrs. Susan Wilson of Sandy Lake, Manitoba, five grand- children and four great grandchildren. She is predeceased by three brothers, and a sister. Mrs. Krawezuk was born February 9, 1904 at Blaine Lake, Sask., moving to Toronto, Ont., and coming to Castlegar in 1977. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Mortgage rates’ scars will linger OTTAWA (CP) — People losing their homes because of high mortgage rates will be afflicted by an ‘air of defeatrism for many years to come, says Opposition Leader Joe Clark. “‘When people lose a home, they lose the habit of trying to build for something and... .ta lolt of the people who can’t afford to renew homes now, those people won't try anything again,” the Progressive Conservative leader said in a weekend radio interview. “They’re going to simply accept that they fought with the system once, the system smacked them in the teeth and they’re going to lay back and not be as_ vigorous participants in the Canadian society as they could have beren.”” Mortgage rates have been tising steadily in recent months and currently are running at about 20 per cent. Both the Conservatives and New Democrats say thousands of people are losing their homes because, when it comes time to renew a mortgagte, the new rates are unaffordable. The country is faced with an economic crisis and a VICTORIA (CP) - Just one day after British Colu- mbia Finance minister Hugh Curtis announced a restriction on government hiring, Premier Bill Bennett said Friday he has hired another executive director for his office. Audrey Schatz, 47, pre- sident of B.C. Personnel, employment sgency: will be responsible for office administraion and community liaison in his office. Bennett said in a news release, Her salary wasn't dis- clsoded, but government figures show that Tony Tozer, another executive director to the premier, was paid $45,000 last year. Tozer works a couple of days a week in Bennett's Premier melts hiring freeze Victoria office and the rest of the week in his Kelowna office, a spokesman in the premier's office said. Schatz was vice-chair- man of the Vancouver Board of Trade until her new appointment, Curtis said Thursday the number of permanent pub- lic service employees on staff wouldn't be raised above the number employ- ed on June 30. He also imposed volun- tary ministry controls on travel expenditure, a 90- day hold on new or extend- ed consulting contracts to offset a possible deficit in his $6.7-billion budget and a reduction of all overtime expenditures to 90 per cent of last year's level. "JOHN CHARTERS’ Reflections & a, e) Parlimentarians discussed ideas ST. JOHN’S, NFLD. (CP) — When parlimentarians meet they talk about finding better ways of doing things an dmany ideas eventually have a beneficial impact on the public, says Speaker Len Simms of the Newfoundland legislature. Simms, host of the 21st Canadian Regional Confer- ence of the Commonwealth Parlimentary Association which ended Friday, said in an interview the main pur- pose of such meetings is to share ideas. Although no decisi are ning of the St. John’s Regatta — sharp divisions showed up in a discussion on whether the Supreme Court of Canada should have been asked to decide whether Canada’s constitution could be brought home from Britain over the objections of some provinces. Gerard Amerongen, Alber- ta legislature Speaker, said western Canadians do not think it was fair the court was asked to make the decision. He said some westerners feel that because judges are appointed to the court by the made or resolutions passed on topics under discussion, the various views raised by participants often lead to improvements in parlimen- tary practices and legislation, Simm ssaid. “These discussions cer- tainly have an impact on the general public. Each delegate goes back to his own province... and tries to advocate some of the things discussed.”” In addition to the 9 official delegates, there were more than 100 other persons in the city in connection with the five-day conference, includ- ing technical and support staff and spouses. There also were observers from the Caribben, Britain and the French islands of St. Pierre-Miquelon off New- foundland’s south coast. THE BAY The conference opened Mnday with a tour on a spec- ial train along the shores of nearby Conception Bay. On Tuesday delegates worked over the question of whether communications be- tween elected members and their constituents should be g on Clark said. “This kind of situation just can’t go on and the govern- ment of Canada has got to come back from holiday and start to face up to its responsibilities.”” Clark wants the govern- ment to recall Parliament from its summer recess and introduce a budget that will prividce tax breaks for homeowners and small businessmen facing bankruptcy because of high interest rates. Parliament is not scheduled to,resume until Oct. 15. “Right now, the Canadian economy is priority No. 4 for the Trudeau government; it’s below the constitution, below North-South relations, below their ideology on energy. “It’s No. 1 priority for the people of the country and what we need is for the people in finance to be sitting down, putting together a new budget.”” Air show marred by plane crash ABBOTSFORL B.C. (CP) -A light plane flipped over during an emergency landing at the Abbotsford airport, 70 kilometres east of Vancou- ver, during the 20th annual air show Saturday. The 450 Stearman biplane, piloted by Hank Schmel, was taking off with wing-walker John Kazian aboard when it was forced to land in the southeast corner of the field in tall grass. Schmel said the airplane failed to develop “Normal take-off poer.” The airplane, worth $70,000 was severely damaged, he said. Schmel was taken to hos- pital for recautionary x-rays, Kazian was not hurt. During a monring session Wednesday — the afternoon was free to allow the visitors to see the 15Sth annual run- federal g there is a tendency for them to adopt a centralist view. ‘CONSULT MORE’ Amerongen suggested there should be more consul- tation with the provinces on appointments of Supreme Court judges. Walter Baker, Progressive Conservation MP for the On- tario riding of. Nepean-Carle., ton, said the previous Conser- vative government had ap-. pointed judges only after con- sultation with various provin- cial and federal organizations involved with the legal pro- fession. Baker, Conservative House Leader in the Commons, said an analysis of the court’s past rulings showed that the back- ground of the judges did not affect their decisions. Amerongen said he did not imply disrespect for the court, but merely wanted to describe how western Cana- dians view the matter. Thursday was another free day, with delegates invited for a boat trip of Conception Bay and an evening lobster boil. Business sessions ended Friday with a discussion of the transportation of danger- ous goods in Canada. Next year’s conference will be held in Yellowknife, N.W.T. It’s an old routine but it still works VANCOUVER (CP) - A man awaiting trial Friday on five bank robberies pulled the “ol’ Switcheroo” and remains at large with “tl whole force looking for him, a Vancouver police spokes- man said Saturday. Whena new deputy-sheriff called the name of a prisoner about to be released, Allan Edward Speidel, 22, answer- ed, gave the right answers to a list of questions and was released from the Justice of the peace office at Vancouver provincial court. “It's the oldest trick in the book,” said George Allan, manager of sheriff's services. “It goes right back to medieval times, back to the days of the penal colonies in Australia and it’s the most difficult thing to stop, even with full descriptions.” Allan said the rookie deputy-sheriff checked Speidel’s physical appear- ance with the description of the prisoner about to be released. It was all there their weights, heights, facial features, even the same drooping moustaches. But, as Allan noted, the description could have fit thousands of other young men, MISTAKE CAUGHT The escape wasn't dis- covered for 30 minutes. Another deputy-sheriff re- Plied the job had already been done. But the older employee know it wasn't so. The checks began and the two men quickly discovered the mis- take. Speidel was returned to Vancouver Thursday night from Winnipeg where police nabbd him as he attempted to secure the birth certificate of a dead man, And the rookie deptuty- sheriff? Allan smiled and said he may havea hard time getting the rookie to release any prisoners during the remain- der of his probationary period. “It could have happened to anyone, even someone with lots of experience .. . It's probably the forth time this has happened here in the last five years.” Recollections » JOHN CHARTERS Graduates hold a family day | Stanley Humphries Wednesday ’s i "54, '55 and 156 graduates held > their reunion last. weekend with the major account In e of the Castlegar News. This.is the conclusion, a family day at Kinnaird Park, of that three- day affair. ¢ Sunday afternoon was family day for the homecom- ing. Parents, grandparents, children, other relatives and friends-300 of them-met at Kinnaird Park where in’ the summer sun and beneath the trees, they gathered in ever- changing groups to visit and renew old memories; to take EARL CHERRINGTON . .. liaison with education department. - ae PHILIPPA MACKERETH . . . contact person on phoning committee. pictures; to play bocei ball, horseshoes, softball, or ride the merry-go-round-amidst laughter, music and the free flow df assorted refreshment. Later in the afternoon, as barbecues glowed, and chicken, steaks and ham- burgers sizzled and approp- riate vapors swirled blue and lazy through the branches of the trees, tables were piled with more food and drink, accompanied by the buns, cheeses, watermelon and coffee supplied by the. Re- union Committee. . The hum of anticipation increased in volume and the picnic had begun. in earnest. It: was a. great weekend~ the best, I think, that I have ever enjoyed, and great credit goes to the Home- coming Committee to Joan (Lightle) Martini, Gerry (Guesford) Grunerud; Flor- ence (Cecconi) Kravski and Victor Kravski, to. Moe Zibin, Cyril Sookachoff, John Plot- nikoff, Harry Plotnikoff, Jack Chernoff, Fred Stoushnow, Karl. Koreen, Jeanette (Rysen) Horning, Lynn (Richardson) Gould, Keith Waldie, Gerryann (Wanless). McNeil, Earl Cherrington, Philippa Mackereth, Mildred (Marcellus) Collinson and Jack Collinson, Ruth (Will- iamson) Brock, Burt Camp- bell and, particularly, to Vi (Gleboff) Stoushnow and Sherrel (Riley) Koreen who were the prime movers of the entire event. : Special thanks go to Calona Wineries Ltd. and to Noca Dairies Ltd. and the Arm- strong Cheese Company for their valued donations;. to Bruce’ Charters. for news photos and to the many busi-" ness organizations which lent their aid. s: Special thanks to Fred Stoushown, Area Foreman for taking several of us on a special tour of the new Com- inco Electrolytie and Melting plant at. the operations. It was a “dream time” but one which has touched many of us deeply and will not be forgotten, for, as Montaigne said: “Dreams are the true interpreters of our inclina- tions; but there is art re- quired to sort and under- stand them.” We have a lot of artists among the '64, 65 and '66 grads. y MORE FAT ON FEMMES The female body averages 28 per cent muscles by weight and 25 per cent fat; males average 40 per cent muscle and 16 per cent fat. Bill Kavaloff has been a part of this area and, speci- fically, a part of: the little town of Blueberry Creek, for a long time. He grew up in the “isolated community” near the mouth of Champion Creek across the Columbia River. His first boyhood recol- lection is of rowing with his dad in,a small wooden boat across‘ the. river to the settlement of Blueberry Creek to pick up staples and mail. “We grew our own produce and we didn't eat meat, but we still had to get kerosene and salt.” It was in this rowboat that young Bill was introduced to his first musical instrument. It seems there was an old gentleman living just above the community who went by the namé of Mr. Brooks. “We didn’t know if that was his real name or not. On summer evenings music ‘would be floating down the river. He played the violin, and that was the first time I ever heard a musical instrument.” I asked Bill if anyone still lives near his boyhood home. He told me, “No, not for at least six years. I shudder now,” he went on, “when I drive by and look over. The motor bikes have taken o- ver.” In the town of Blueberry Creek today all the streets are numbered and run off Centre Street, the main street, except for one. B- eresford Avenue. Since I myself live on Beresford Avenue I was quite in- terested to learn how it got its name Bill told me. ume eree ans Bill Kavaloff. . . Blueber LINDA HALL 7 : Getting to Know Your Neighbor { CASTLEGAR NEWS,.August 9, 1981 .” A3 ry is home Creek Water Board.In those early days the residents worked hard to get their water system to serve their needs. During that first year “somebody goofed on en- gineering and left 1,600 feet of wood stave line suspended on tressels which, of course, froze solid in winter.” One of the residents thought of a way to thaw the pipes and Bill remembers working “18 hours without stopping”. With’ Bill's en- ergetic help and his down-to- business attitude, he \was elected to the water board. Bill has been a party to many water “disasters” since that first winter. Just two springs ago, the creek and reservoir became hopelessly plugged up with log jams. But, as always, Bill was out there in the forefront helping to organize the work that: needed to be done to fix the system. Blueberry Creek now has 210 homes and the water system has had to undergo major changes to service the growing community. Although Bill has been on the water board for as long as he's lived in Blueberry, he's been the secretary for five years now. He keeps records of the minutes, takes care of and sends During the Dep the Blueberry Creek store was run by a widow named Mrs. Beresford. “She was a beau- tiful person, and the cause of a whole lot of people not starving:” She gave credit, apparently, and never dem- anded out tax notices and accepts payments. “I know where every water line in Blueberry is.” Bill said over and over again how he wishes that more young men in the ity of Blueberry. or cut off further purchases because a customer couldn't afford to pay. She made life a little easier for families struggling during those hard years. When it came time to name: the streets in the community, it seemed fitting that Mrs. Beresford be honored. It used to be that the road which runs in front of the now boarded up and derelict store in Blueberry was the main: north-south highway. “I can recall coming to the store with my mom, and the road used to snake along. During the Depression a lot of road work was done. You could see a team of horses with old-fashioned scrapers on the side. They were Building the road. To know what I'm talking about you'd have to have been here when the old highway was here.” Billremembers that a daily passenger train used to run between Trail, Castlegar and Nelson “and Blueberry had a tiny cubby hole of a station.” Bill also remembers an “excellent bus service” be- tween the three locales. When Bill and his wife Florence built their home, there were only fourteen families in Blueberry Creek. Almost immediately Bill began his lengthy time -of service with the Blueberry Sun setting on Slocan Lake from New Denver shore line looking up the Slocan Lake. would. get involved in the management of the water system. “It’s a community water system,” he stressed. Bill got his first job when he was 16 as a locomotive fireman with the CPR. When he left that employ, he worked in building .constru, ction, and. until his’, ret -_ Braces, coming into their own VANCOUVER (CP) — When Susan Beechinor met new clients, she used to talk about the weather to make them feel at ease. “Now they just talk about my teeth,” she said. Beechinor wears braces. At 26, the assistant esecutive recruiter is one of a growing number of adults who have opted for the sometimes painful, sometimes embar- rassing and ultimately satis- fying process of having their teeth straightened. “There was a time when you wouldn't see an adult wearing braces,” said ~Van- couver orthodontist Dr. Lou Netzer. “Now some practices have’ 40 to 50 per cent adults.” “There has been a definite increase over the last 10 years,” agreed Dr. Alan irement in 1966, he was employed at Cominco as a chlorine plant operator. The Kavalofis have a daughter, Grace, who tea- ches school on Vancouver Island, Besides his service on the water board, Bill has also held a position of the Advi- sory Planning Commission for Area J. In this position he had a political voice for the needs and concerns of the community, Fifteen years ago, Bill was diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis.. “Although I do have it, {t hasn't been the end of my life.” And it certainly . hasn't prevented him from taking an active part in his community, « f It also hasn't. prevented him from taking up a new “musical” hobby. About a year ago, Bill stood outside of a music store and looked in at a mandolin, “I'm going to buy that, I said to myself.” He walked in, paid for it, and now spends enjoyable % hours. with his instrument. ~“My wife says I'm not ready for prime time yet.” ‘Bill describes himself’ as “basically a’ private person” . and like so many private persons, ne works inithiuiiy behind the scenes and avoids the limelight. Down through the years he has worked, and continues to ‘work, to make water and a healthy environ-- , ment. sa eects Lowe, head of orthodontics at the University of B.C.’s fac- ulty of dentistry. Neither Lowe nor Dr. Roy Thordarson, registrar of the College of Dental Surgeons of B.C., could provide Canadian figures, but American. .sur- veys have found.20 per cent” four. of the approximately million orthodontic patients in the U.S..are adults, 20-or. older. About 60 per cent of these are women. Vanity is often the decid- ing factor, but an awareness of dental health has also contributed to the rising number of adults’ in braces, said Netzer. He said more and more people are recognizing that crooked and crowded teeth are not only. difficult to clean, but may weaken the gums and cause abnormal wear of the teeth. -Many adult patients come from families where expen- siye dental work was out of the question at younger age, said Dr. Michael /. khiows Whefe every Wate? line ii Bluabetty [6.2/2 -Children’s and teenagers’ teeth can be moved in 18 months to two years by using headgear to: influence their growth, but Wainwright said it may take as long as three years to reshape an adult's mouth, : There is more surgery done in adult orthodontics, he said. Orthodontists..may work with dontists, oral vane, “Td order food’ I) knew’ I could bite at the back of my mouth. ‘And : everything sticks-to them.” ~~ Beeehinor. said she covered her ‘mouth’ whenever «she smiled. ‘ “In the sunlight, I'm ‘still if. i surgeons, family dentists and prosthedontists: to decide which teeth to shift or take out, whether ‘bridgework or partial dentures are needed, and how to correct patients’ jaws. If 2 lower jaw juts out or recedes, it may have to be broken,: : repositioned’. and wired shut. The most.’ widely’ used braces are still the:‘metal ones, which are bonded’ di-. rectly to teeth and linked by varying thicknesses of wires, eliminating the heavy ‘stain- less steel bands. Wainwright said some th are another uver orthedon- tist t.. x “Not many kids from my background wore braces,” agreed Dave Gifford, 36, a high school physical educa- tion teacher who grew up in Vancouver's West End. Gifford said both his par- ents had all their teeth rethoved and until recently, he thought it was too late to save his own from wearing down. “['d asked my previous dentist whether anything could be done, and he said, ‘No. They don’t do orthodon- ties of this kind on people over 25." 4 Gifford wore both full and partial braces for two years. BRACES INCONVENIENT “There's a lot of inconven- ience, appearance for one * thing. And it was very diffic- ult, especially when you are % on stage, up in front to groups of people. Speech is difficult — you are whist- * Teeth can be moved at any age, said Wainwright. “But it does take longer for an adult because any tissue reaction takes longer and the bone is a little more solid.” ting with.) » wires. White-coated wires have also been tried, but the coating chippéd. BRACES COSTLY With ‘average fees for braces avid between Angela Pirozzi of the-B.C. Medical Services Association said 60 per cent of their orthodontic. plans include adults. The majority of these cover 50 per cent of costs up to a maximum of $1,250. Adults and children may : feel equal amounts of pain or discomfort as the wires are tightened around their teeth, but Netzer said adults often make the better patients. “They are more motivated because they are paying for it.” 5 5 Physical discomfort and the drain on the bank account are only part of the irritation of braces. “The biggest problem was going to dinner,” said Mar- ion, Burns, 31, who over a period of more than two years had four teeth extrac- ted, wore a bite plate, partial braces and finally a full band. “or 50 years, it feels like” — of braces came the first time she travelled ‘through ‘the Vancouver International ‘Air- POET had t6 go through ‘the metal detector at the airport and I dreaded it going off.” (it didn't.) - * Lance Bannister, 24; ‘said his worst fears didn't mat-, erialize either. é “I was very nervous when I first: got them,” he'said:\"1 talked to an 18-year-old at my and :-gym who wears braces he said, ‘Oh, forget it. You can't kiss with those things on.’ I gave in to the idea that I would be asexual for two, years. i “Now that I've got them, nothing has changed. Most people don't notice them. All - my life I've been scared of them, and it’s kind of streng- thened my character to see how well I've accepted them.” Thieves secured safe WINDSOR, Ont.. (CP) Would-be thieves who broke into a Coca-Cola Co. plant-and used an arc welder, , yy didn’t open it; they welded it shut... Police said the safe was. more secure, when = the thieves left than it was when. they arrived as they had welded the safe door to its frame.