Interested students crowd around Sharon Gevatkoff, Castlegar city
hall accounting clerk, to learn a bit about how the town works.
; Students are part of Stanley Humphries secondary school English as a

Second Language class. From ieft: John Bounthoeng originally of
Laos, Jagmohn Sandhu originally from India, Adriana Leon-Magava
of Mexico and Shamsher Sandhu.

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TORONTO (CP) — To be
successful — sexually, pro-
fessionally and even crim-
inally — what you really need
is a pretty face.

You can get by if you're
homely, but a growing num-
ber of studies by psychol-
ogists and sociologists inter-
ested in attractiveness, the

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 28, 1981 A6é

Pretty face is an aid

openly rejected by members
of the opposite sex, are gen-
erally ignored.

Dr. James Olson of the
University of Western On-
tario conducted studies that
tried to inhibit sexual ster-
eotypes based on beauty.
But he found that males con-
sistently chose pictures of

suggest that homely people
suffer severe lifetime handi-
caps.

They don't do as well at
school, they get longer crim-
inal sentences, and, while not

women as being
“outgoing, sexually warm,
intelligent.”

The unattractive. women
were judged to be cold and
socially undesirable.

Olson admits such atti-

Alphi Phi takes
a foster child

Members of the Alphi Phi
Sorority were delighted last
week at their chapter meet-
ing when news came about
them receiving a foster child.
The group had'applied to the
Christian Children’s Fund of
Canada in October, to spon-
sor a needy child as part of
their service project.

Mrs. Gnanam Govender,

Transplant

Brother gives aid

BURNANBY (CP) —
ger Ben Matson went
through a month of pain to
help a brother he had never
met who suffers from leu-
kemia.

Matson, 29, had bone mar-
row removed from his hip
and transplated into his

81-year-old brother, John.

Hoffman, whom their parents
had given up for adoption
when he was about a year
old.

Thanks to the operation,
doctors now give Hoffman, a
psychologist from Boston, as
much as a 50-per-cent chance
of survival.

Hoffman’s adoptive par-
ents moved to Portland from
Canada and it wasn’t until
last year after his leukemia
was discovered that he made
contact with his natural fam-
ily in British Columbia.

Hoffman's four brothers
and three sisters — the ones
he had never known before —
agreed to undergo tests to
see whose marrow could be
used for the transplant.

Blood tests narrowed the
choice to Ben and his 37-
year-old brother, Art. i

WENT FOR OPERATION

In mid-November Matson
went to Boston for the oper-
ation.

Matson says it was a bit
strange at first to meet
Hoffman but there is a family
resemblance and they soon
got along well.

Bone marrow was removed
from the front and back of
Matson’s hips and given to
Hoffman.

Matson says he was so sore

for a month he couldn't even
tie his shoes but there's no
question that he'd do it again
if necessary.

“It's quite a thing just to
hear about it but to be able to
do it is even greater,” Matson
said. “It made me feel good
just to do that for somebody
— let alone your own broth-
er.”

Hoffman is planning a visit
to B.C. to meet other family
members when he recovers.

“Our parents haven't seen
him yet,” said sister Sylvia.

CB operator sends help

RICHMOND (CP) — After
183 days in the British Col-
umbia wilderness, a 33-year-
old resident of this Vancou-
ver suburb was rescued —
thanks toa CB radio operator
in Colorado who was ill at
home with a virus.

Harry de Weyer left home
Dec. 6 for a week of camping
in the mountains northwest
of Harrison Lake, about 80
kilometres east of Vancou-
ver.

De Weyer, a truck mech-
anic, took along food, a tent, a
camp stove and his dog Toby,

CBD could aid
epilepsy victims

TORONTO (CP) — A sci-
entist with the Addiction Re-
search Foundation of Ontario
says one constituent of mar-
ijuana, known as cannabidiol,
or CBD, is an anti-convulsant
and could be promising as a
drug for epilepsy.

But Dr. Kevin Fehr said
that, since cannabidiol’s anti-
convulsant effects have only
been recognized the last few
years, more research is
needed.

Fehr said scientists do not
recommend that epileptics
take crude marijuana be-
cause the major constituent
of the drug, tetrahydrocan-
nabinol, or THC, causes and
suppresses convulsions as

climate marijuana, so an
epileptic using Ontario-
grown marijuana could con-
ceivably experience anti-con-
vulsant effects not evident
from imported marijuana.

Fehr said CBD has under-
gone limited clinical tests.
One study was done on eight
patients taking CBD as com-
pared with seven others tak-

_ing a placebo.

It showed seven of the
eight patients taking CBD
improved significantly.

But Fehr said the study
was inconclusive because the
results were not correlated
with the dosages and all the
patients took their en,
ar’ ti

well as having a psych
effect.
The doctor said

rugs.
He said the U. S. uae
A of S is ex-

grown in cold climates has
more CBD than THC, while
the reverse is true of hot-

pected to soon publish a re-
view of marijuana’s thera-
peutic uses.

all packed in a four-wheel
drive vehicle.

Three days later, about
one metre of snow fell,
prompting de Weyer to leave
his campsite. When he had
travelled about two kilom-
etres, he began to skid off the
road. Efforts to pull the ve-
hicle back on the road with a
winch resulted in a broken
steering mechanism.

De Weyer settled down to
nine days of radioing for help
on his citizens band radio.

TEXAS HEARD

De Weyer's first successful
call went through to Fort
Worth, Tex.

“All they said was that I
was in no immediate danger,”
de Weyer said in an inter-
view. “The fellow down there
couldn't pronouce Skookum-
chuck (a tiny town about 82
kilometres north of Harrison)
or Lillooet.

“I tried to call back and
correct him, but the signal
kept fading out.”

He also got through to
operators in Oklahoma and
Nebraska, but the messages
received from the U.S. by
Pemberton RCMP — 50
kilometres north of de Weyer
— were scrambled.

In Colorado, near the
northwest town of Craig,
Robert Culp was home from
work because of a stomach
virus. At about 11 a.m. on
Dec. 18, he was calling his
wife as she drove to work.

“As soon as I got back (to
camp) I tried once again on
the radio and I hear him
(Culp) talking with a lady,”
said de Weyer. “I started
calling ‘Mayday. Mayday.’ He
answered back.”

sins,

ski vowed as early as February, when he became
premier, to destroy Solidarity.

Jaruzelski, an army general and defence minister, was
named Communist party chief three months ago.

JAPANESE INCREASE DEFENCE

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government, citing U.S.
pressure, Monday approved a 7.7-per-cent increase in
defence spending for fiscal 1982, officials said.

The United States, which spends more than five per
cent of its gross national product on defence, has urged
Japan to contribute more to the defence of its own shores.

WOMEN SHOULDN'T DRIVE

RIYADH (AP) — A Saudi Arabian Moslem religious
lawmaker was quoted today as saying women should not
drive cars because that would mean “running the risk of
falling into incalculable sins.”

In an interview with the newspaper Al-Jazira, Sheik
Abdel-Aziz bin Baz was quoted as saying Islamic law
forbids women from driving automobiles, He said that
allowing women to drive cars would be “fraught with a lot
of depravity, including being bare-faced, being along with
strangers, and running the risk of falling into incalculable

60,000 HOMELESS
JAKARTA (AP) — Flooding from five days of heavy
rainfall forced the evacuation of about 60,060 people from

NEWS BRIEFS...

SOVIETS IN POLISH UNIFORMS

BONN (AP) — Polish and Soviet army officers began
preparations to crush Solidarity soon after the
independent union was formed 16 months ago, a former
Polish general was quoted today as saying.

Leon Dubicki, 66, who defected in August to West
Germany, also told Der Spiegel magazine that Soviet
soldiers dressed in Polish uniforms probably have been
guarding key military installations in Poland since
martial law was declared Dec. 13. :

Dubicki told the magazine that Gen. Wojciech Jaruzel-

Jakarta and its suburbs,
Monday.

One man was killed Sunday by electrically charged
floodwater in the capital, and a teenager was reported

missing, police said.

In Bogor, two people were killed and three others
injured by landslides caused by the heavy rains, officials
at the Department of Social Affairs said.

BLOODY BATTLE

MANILA (AP) — Soldiers killed eight rebels during a

bloody battle with a band of perp who robbed four

Indonesian officials said

banks, took 22 h

minister, the Philippine news agency said.

The news agency said a soldier and one hostage also
were killed in the fighting in the area of Mindanao Island,
about 800 kilometres south of Manila. It was not clear
from the report how many of the 37 rebels remained at

large.

It was not known whether the soldiers recovered any
of the $212,000 stolen Dec. 16 from four banks in
downtown Digos, in Davao del Sur province. -

GRAVE MARKER MISSING
WASHINGTON (AP) — The marker and wooden cross

at Robert K 's

a F

Cemetery were reported stolen Sunday, the U.S. Park

Police said.

The markers were valued at about $150, police said.
They said they have no suspects.
BEAR HUNT IN LONDON
LONDON (AP) — Police armed with rifles hunted for a
brown bear Sunday night in London's East End, after
13-year-old Tommy Murray and a friend said they saw it

on Hackney Marshes.

Animal experts called in to examine tracks in the snow
said the footprints appeared to confirm earlier reports
that a large brown bear was oh the loose. .

at National

De Weyer managed a clear
connection and the Colorado
State Patrol in Craig relayed
the message to Denver, and
then to Pemberton RCMP.

De Weyer was rescued by
helicopter the next morning.

He had to go back to Tok,
the next day because there

wasn't enough room for the ,

dog in the ‘copter.

who fora
foster child and who looked
after all of the necessary cor-
respondence, received confir-
mation of the sponsorship
just last week.

The child is Che Lamu of
Kalimpong, India and she is
10 years old. In the “Personal
Sponsor Folder” which was
sent along with a Photo of
Che it said that she is in
Grade 3 and her favorite
subject is math.

She was suffering from ex-
treme malnutrition when she
first became part of the

CHE LAMU
project, but now has im-
proved greatly.

Her chores are cooking and
cleaning. She likes skipping,
and is very intelligent and
seems quite alert.

Her father, who is deaf and
dumb has a meagre income
which is not sufficient to
provide the necessities of life
for his family.

Each ‘member of Aloha Phi
promised to take turns writ-
ing to Che to get to know her
and let her know that some-
one cares,

Solar an investment

BOUCHERVILLE, QUE.
(CP) — With its sloping roof
and large verandah, Bob and
Beverly Brown’s country

bing tile floor and a collector
panel on the roof are the
components of the system.

Each of the panes fitted
into the

home looks like at
other. picture-book.. farm-
houses across the province. -

But: their century-old
dwelling in this small com-
munity 48 kilometres from
Montreal has something the
others don’t: a connecting
space-age structure that con-
verts the sunshine into en-
ergy. It helps provide at least
half of the home's heat re-
quirements in winter and all
of the heat in the fall and
spring.

The 425-foot-square solar
addition was built at a cost of
$35,000 last year, but the
couple doesn’t begrudge a
penny.

“Adding the solar unit vir-
tually doubled the space of
the house, but our heating
bill only went up $35,” Bob

said electrical heating sys-
tem and two wood-stoves are
used for backup on cloudy
days, but the heat bill isn't
expected to rise much above
the $335 it costs each year
with the solar set-up.

“November is usually the
worst month because it's
very cloudy,” said Brown, an
architect who teaches at a
Montreal college.

WALK BAREFOOT

But “January is sunny and
we can walk about the house
barefoot when it’s freezing
outside.”

Three massive floor-to-ceil.

-are. designed to.catch the.sun ,

‘at different times of the day. -

“In winter the sun is lower
than in the summer, and it
was designed to absorb the
heat of the sun. In summer
the sun is higher so it doesn’t
shine in directly — so we
have more shade,” Bob ex-
plained.

The active part of the col-
lection process works by
means of the fibreglass-rein-
forced plastic solar panel and
a black absorber plate on the
roof.

The air in the collector is
heated and blown in a cir-
cular motion to rocks under-
neath the floor. The rocks act
as heat retainers in the same
way that a plate continues to
release heat after it's taken
out of a heated oven.

COMPLETES CIRCLE

They slowly release the
heat overnight — the colder
it is the faster they work —
and the hot air is blown up-
ward again to complete the
circle.

When the sun sets, the col-
lector cools down and shuts
off automatically through a
self-adjusting thermostat and
the heat release starts.

Good caulking and weath-
erstripping complement the
system.

But the Browns aren't fin-
ished their drive toward en-

ing windows made of one-
inch-thick double-glazed
thermal panes, a heat-ab:

ergy self- Their
next project is to build
automated shutters that will

sun begins to set.

“I like to think of the house
as a living, breathing organ-
ism,” Bob said. “I want it to
be able tolive and breathe on
its own, without relying hea,.
yily on support.,: MS

“We strive to be indepen-
dent in our lifestyle. And we
want the house to be able to
take care of its needs when
we're not there.”

tudes can be severely dam-

” aging, “but it seems to be

deeply buried in the sub-
conscious.”

“I have no idea how it can
be changed,” he said,

LOOKS COST MONEY

Canadians are clearly
aware of the power of beauty
— women spend $950 million.
a year on beauty aids,

Men now are spending
some $40 million for colognes
and associated products.

The advantages. of being
pretty start young.

Pretty children get better
grades in school, regardless
of their intelligence, says Dr.
Judy Langlois of the Uni-
versity of Texas.

Dr. Gerald Adams of Utah.
State University says stu-
dies show that good-looking
people are less likely to be
convicted of crimes and, if
convicted, are less likely to
get long sentences.

As society fragments and
people have less opportunity
to get to know each other on
other levels, first impres-
sions take on an even greater
importance.

Dr. Ellen Berschied, a
social psychologist at the
University of Minnesota, in-
terviewed in Omni magazine,
says people can no longer
count on keeping the same
home, job, mate or even par-
os vou their life.

IMPORTANT

un guess is that anything
that increases the number of
brief encounters with other
people increases the import-
ance of physical attractive-
ness,” she said. “People don’t
have a record of behavior to
judge by and they have to go
on superficial characteris-
ties.”

Berschied and her associ-
ates found that most people
consider attractive individu-
als to be more sensitive,
modest, .sociable, outgoing,
interesting and kind. They're
also perceived to be stronger
and sexually warmer.

Good-looking people are
thought to have better jobs
and happier marriages and to
enjoy life to the fullest.

A pretty face could even
save your life.

Socioligist Davie Sudnow
says emergency-room staffs
are more likely to resuscitate
good-looking patients.

Pants exchanged
for 11th time

OWATONNA, MINN.
(AP) — Roy Collette and his
brother-in-law have been ex-
changing the same pair of
pants as a Christmas present
for 11 years — and each time
the package gets harder to
open, This year they came

metre steel casings and
etched Collette's name on the
side. Collette had trouble re-
trieving the treasured trou- -
sers but succeeded without
burning them with a cutting
torch,

Last Christmas, Collette
found a 270-kil junked

din a car
into a one-metre cube.

The trousers are in the
glove compartment of the
1974 Gremlin. Now Collette’s
plotting his-revenge — if he
can get them out.

It all started when Collette
received a pair of moleskin
trousers from his brother-in-
law, Larry Kunkel of Bensen-
ville, Ill.

Kunkel’s mother had given
her son the britches when he
was a college student. He
wore them a few times but
they froze stiff in cold wea-
ther and he didn't like them.
So he gave them to Collette.

Collette, who called the

ible,” wore

Uniform

cover the wi when the.

change

for forces in '82

TORONTO (CP) — Can-
adian Forces plans to change
its uniforms in 1982 to give
“greater identity” to the
land, sea and air elements,
The Star says.

The separate uniforms of
the army, navy and air force
were dropped in favor of one
green uniform when the ser-
vices were unified in 1968

' buy former Liberal defence

minister Paul Hellyer.

While the uniforms will
stay green, the insignia for
the various elements and
their ranks will revert to
traditional forms, the news-
paper says.

“The key thing is that

them three times, then
wrapped them up and gave
them back to Kunke) for
Christmas the next year.
The friendly exchange
continued routinely until Col-
lette twisted the pants tight-
ly, jstutfed them into a one-
2.6.

every i 1 in uniform
will be able to identify him-
self, or herself, as army, navy
or air force,” The Star quoted,
an unnamed senior officer as

Ramsey Withers,
chief of the defence staff, de-
clined comment on any
planned change in uniforms
but. said a committee has
been working on a “number
of identity proposals.”

Of the force's 81,500 reg-
ulars, about 18,000 are iden-
tified as army, 6,000 as navy
and 16,000 as air force. The
remainder are not identified

iad aie and gave them
back to Kunkel.

The next Christmas, Kun-
kel compressed the pants
into a 17-centimetre square,
wrapped them with wire and
gave the bale to Collette.

STUFFED IN CRATE

Not to be outdone, the next
year Colletee put the pants
into a 60-centimetre-square
crate filled with stones,
nailed it shut, banded it with
steel and. gave the trusty
trousers back to Kunkel.

Two years ago, Kunkel in-
stalled the ) pants in a 102-

safe and hauled it to Viracon
Inc. in Owatonna, where the
shipping department decor-
ated it with red and green
stripes, put the pants inside
and welded the safe shut.
The safe was then shipped to
Kunkel, who is the plant
manager for Viracon's outlet
in Bensenville.

Last week, the pants were
trucked to Owatonna, 90 kil-
ometres south of Minneapol-
is, ina drab green one-metre
cube that once was a car. A
‘note attached to the 900-
kilogram lump advised Col-
lette that the pants were in-
side the glove compartment.

“This will take some plan-
ning,” Collette said. “I will
definitely get them out. I'm
confident.” But he’s waiting
until January to think about
how to recover the bother-
some britches.

Shot over
game of
Monopoly

WHEELING, W.VA. (AP)
— A father has been charged
with killing his 26-year-old
son after an argument over a
game of Monopoly, Police
say.

Robert Peggs, 57, was re-
leased on $10,000 bail Sunday
following his arraignment on
the Christmas Day shooting,

by service and are
considered support staff.

steel
ashtray made from 20-centi-

F William Barry
said.

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