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Students attend UNA conference -,

By Patricia Popoff

Three Stanley Humphries
Secondary School students,
Shirley Richards, Cathy Bey-
non, and Patricia Popoff,’
accompanied by Mr. D, Car-
ter, attended the United Na-
tions Association Students’
Conference in Vancouver,
May 8 - 10.

Although most students
were from the Lower Main-

This grad
prank tops
them all

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP)
— Students at Kalamazoo's
Loy Norrix High School may
have thought their eyes were
playing tricks on them.

Sitting atop the roof early
one morning, about 18
metres up, was a Volkswagen
Beetle.

On the ground, school
officials were trying to figure
out how to remove the car,
which had no windows,
engine or wheels,

“F can only assume it was
the senior class,” said princi-
pal Jack Blanke. “I have no
idea how it got up there

“Somebody went through a
lot of work,” said Richard
Kowal, director of building
services, “We're talking
about hundreds of pounds of
steel. Kids can be pretty
ingenious at times.”

Blanke said workers {from a
tree service were called to
use a large boom and sling to
get the car down.

He said he doubted he'd
find the pranksters,

“There are 400 in our

nior class,” said Blanke.
“And I doubt if anyone will
come in and confess.”

CASTLEGAR NEWS, June 3, 1981
isarmament, human rights, energy

land and Vancouver Island,
there were also some from
Kelowna and Clearwater as
well as Castlegar. The stu-
dents stayed at the Jericho
Youth Hostel with the con-
ference held at UBC,

Fridsy night the students
registered and signed up for
various seminars. There was
also some time to meet the
other students and to par-
ticipate in a sing-a-long. One
of the favorite songs was
“You Can't Eat The Oysters
in Vancouver Harbour,”

Saturday morning began
with speeches by gueat
speakers. Gene Errington,
Mike Wallace, and Harry
Rankin were among those
who spoke. Afterwards the
students went to their chosen
seminars which were con-
cerned with world disarma-
ment, human rights, and
energy. Each student at-
tended a morning and after-
noon session, After the last
session, the day's events
were reviewed.

Saturday evening the stu-
dents attended a banquet.
The guest of honor, Michael
Manley, the former Prime
Minister of Jamaica, deliv-

“ered a speech on the North-

South Dialogue.

Sunday morning, the fa-
mous Canadian scientist, Dr.
David Suzuki, provided the
basis for a lively and enter-
taining discussion on the ef-
fects of science on our every;
day lives. He focussed on the
average person’s ignorance
of science. He used the ex-
ample of when he was doing
on the spot interviews in
Manitoba during a freezing
winter. As a woman walked
out of a supermarket carry-
ing various tropical fruits, he
asked if science affected her.
As she hurriedly looked at
her digital watch, she replied

that it did not,

During lunch, Saturday af-
ternoon'’s groups presented
those three skits: A true-to-
Ife court case of male dis-
erimination, a public hearing
about B.C, Hydro's “Bite C"
project, and a court-room
drama involving a multi-
national weapons apd toy
factory and concerned citi-
zens ot the neighborhood,

After the presentations
the students discussed the
conference in small groups. A
meeting was then held to

decide what kinds of practical
solutions could be put into
fuse.

For example, moat stu-
dents signed a petition which
urged the Government of
Canada to press the United
States to sign SALT II and
actively to support the con-
voning of a European Con-
ference on Disarmament as it
is the world’s most heavily
armed area. It was also
agreed that the youth of the
world must get involved be-
cause it is they who will
inherit the Earth.

A historic low

Copius amounts of rain and
a meager supply of sunshine
made May a pitiful epoch in
the annals of Castlegar’s me-
teorological history.

Arecord 102.8 mm. of rain
surpassed the previous high
of 94.1 set in 1978. Measur-
able rain fell on 19 days, one
short of the récord set in
1977. A thunderstorm on the
S0th set new records for all
short-term amounts from five
minutes to 24 hours.

Sunshine was also‘a his-

207. OFF (Ges

torie low. A total of 149.4
hours compared to the nor-
mal of 232.2 hours and the
former record low of 163.7
set in 1977. The mean wind of
6.5 kph was slightly above
the record low of 6.3 set in
1979,

Temperature was nearly
normal, with a mean of 12.8
comparing to the average of
13.0, The mean maximum
and mean minimums were
both modified significantly to
produce this result.

VANCOUVER (CP) — Fal-
jers are the “big bucks” men
of the British Columbia forest
industry and until three
years ago Frank Armich of
Port Alberni was, one of
them.

But an occupational dis-
ease called vibration white
finger caused him to hang up
his chain saw in a job that ow

pays $160 daily.

bas ak liminary findings of a
study funded by the PWwork:
ers’ mpensation Board
show as many as 60 per cent
of the 1,625 unionized fallers
in B.C. may be suffering from
vibration white finger,

‘The disease is a circulatory

- ailment caused by excessive

vibration from - high-speed
tools such as fallers’ chain
saws, Initially it produces
temporary numbness and a
tingling in the fingers as they
slowly turn white, especially
during the cold, damp wea-
ther of B.C.’s coastal foresta,
As the condition grows
more serious, it can lead to
permanent numbness and, in
Tare cases, gangrene.
Armich says he can barely
sleep nighta because of
numbness in his right arm,
He has trouble holding ontoa
knife and fork, and cups of
coffee occasionally tumble

from his hand.
HANDS USELESS

“It gets me down some-
thing terrible,” he safd in an
interview. “I'm cranky as hell
around the house. Thirty
years in the Industry and
now I can't do anything with
my hands.

The compensation board
study involved 146 fallers
from seven lumber camps on
Vancouyer Island. and the
Queen Charlotte Istands. The
pre! findings, which
show 51 per cent of the fal-
lers exhibiting some signs of
the disease, were rel
during a recent symposium in
Ottawa on hand-arm vibra-

tion, "

Dr. Robert Brubaker of the
department of health care
and epidemiology at the Uni-
versity of B.C,, who is work-
ing on the study, stressed the
preliminary nat ure of the
findings.

“There are still many an-
alysea we have to make, such
as past medical history of the
participants, past job his-
tories and so on,” Brubaker
said. “Our final report isn't
due until Sept. 1."

But Bruce Elphinstone, In-
ternational Woodworkers of
America health and safety
expert, said he already is

PORTSWEAR

alarmed by the figures.
“We knew it was bad, but
we didn’t think it might be as
bad as this. They're talking
about a possible epidemic.”

Heritage
up re-elects

directors

‘The second annual general
meeting of the Rossland
Heritage Society, held April
17, in Rossland City Council
chambers, re-elected the fol-
lowing directors by, acclam-
ation: Bruce Allen, Elizabeth
Fekete, Miles Dean, Eileen
Fletcher.

Membership fees will re-
main the same for the up-
coming year: $5 for a single
memberal’p and $8 for the

Your ‘membership
aieeates your support
for-the exelting enterprises
of the society and entitles
you to vote and receive the
newsletter. ~

‘The executive wishes to
express ita appreciation for
the interest and enthusiasm
of last year’s members and
invites you to. renew your
membership.

Wok

New disease afflicts B. C. faller

tone sald AAP in-
Elphins one ve to 2 wa
ing more attention
ee techniques such ag
helicopter logging, since
newer saws are faster; with
even more rapid vibration.

‘The disease has been rec-
ognized by the compensation
board, but only a handful of
pensions have been estab-
lished since 1976 and they are
confined to four per cont of
total disability. a

mich, unemployed since
anne a8 a faller, said his
pension amounts to $216 a
month, including $40 for a
hearing disability.

“But I just kept working,”
said the 58-year-old woods-
man. “I had a family to feed,
and you keep thinking’ it will
get better tomorrow."

At one point, he tried a
brief sojourn at Harrison Hot
Springs, hoping the hot
springs would restore vigor
to his hands, but he gave up
after a few days.

“Finally, it got 80 bad I
could hardly touch my saw,
and I had to quit," he said.
{can hardly touch anything
now, I don't have any feeling
in my right arm up to my
elbow. I guess I kept
going too long.”

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When Christian Barriere suf-
fered a scuba diving accident
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thought he would have
permanent paralysis and
brain damage — if he sur-
vived at all.

He has been defying medi-
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CARSON CITY, NEV.
{AP) — The Nevada depart-
ment of transportation has
finally figured out how to get
rid of potholes on state roads,
It’s selling them.

Four state assemblymen
were the first customers for
the encased, asphalt holes —
each including a lable en-
graved with the owner's
name, They shelled out $100
per pothole, with the money
going toward a 12-year pro-
gram to improve Nevada's
deteriorating highways.

For-their $100, they got a
two-foot-square box of as-
phalt, with a hubeap-sized
hole in the centre. Billed as
authentic, the potholes look-
ed more like imitations made
for the occasion — a promo-
tion-of road repair.

‘It's about time we poli
ticians put our money where
our potholes are,” said As-
semblyman Pau) Prengaman
{Rep. Reno) one of the buy-
ers. “This is a cover-up that
all Nevada politicians should
not only support, but also
participate in.”

Prengaman admitted he
had an ulterior motive in
buy

|, “and it des-
troyed a tire on my car. This
is my revenge on that pot-
hole, and also a warning to
young potholés out there to
mend their ways or they'll
wind up as a flower pot for
some politician.”

progress that they threw me
out three weeks ago,” said
Barriere, delighted at the
astonishment of the visitors
who in October had seen him
when he was spastic,
confined to a wheelchair and
unable to sit up without help.

“I still don't have complete
flexibility in my torso and my
balance is not the greatest
but it's coming — I'm not
going to give up now,” he
said, walking with an irregu-
lar but determined gait.

He said it can take him as
much as five minutes to undo
the plastic closure on a loaf of
bread.

Barrlere is also slowly
regaining the ability to read,
practising an hour and a half

.a day as part of his home

exercise program.
LEARNS TO READ

“I had forgotten how to
read in the sense that while
most people's eyes follow
along the line, mine don’t,
they remain fixed. So it takes
a lot of tiring concentration.”

That he can do anything at
all is a source of wonder in
the medical profession.

Barriere suffered an air
embolism last June 17 while
practising an emergency
ascent technique in the 15-
metre scuba pool where he
was taking a beginner's
course.

He shot to the surface too
rapidly, causing an excess of
pressure to develop inside his
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lung tissue ruptured and
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Barriere was rushed to
Montreal's Sacre Coeur Hos-
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ever be able to do more than
breathe and take nourish-
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But after 24 days of uncon-
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