Se.
» _ Castlé@ir News March 27, 1985

RESIDENTS SAY

TESLIN, Yukon (CP) — The recluse who was shot to
death by police after he killed an RCMP member on a
frozen lake in the Yukon was described as a shy, lonely
boy by people who knew him in his home town of
Lawrence, Kansas.

Mike Oros, 33, had haunted the remote lerness
area south of Teslin Lake, a 150-kilometre waterway that
straddles the B.C.-Yukon border, for several years,
before he was killed after he shot RCMP Const. Mike
Buday, 27, on Tuesday.

He lived by his wits, hunting and trapping, stealing
from cabins, emerging every few months on a road, on a
lakeshore or on the outskirts of Atlin and Teslin.

It was a world away from the quiet, midwestern
community of Lawrence.

Little is known about Oros — a landed immigrant
from the U.S. who told some Teslin area people he was a
Vietnamese war veteran — but Lawrence residents
interviewed by the Vancouver Sun recall him as shy and
quiet, the only son of a single mother who took off from
home halfway through high school and hasn't been seen in
the area since.

“He was a kind of loner, always kept to himself,” said
Blanche Timmerberg, a custodian at the junior high
school Oros attended in the mid-1960s.

SEEMED LONELY

“He was such a sad little fellow, so lonely-like, I took
pity on him, tried to make friends with him.”

Despite her efforts to befriend him, Timmerberg
said, she never did make much contact with the young,
painfully shy Oros.

“It seemed like when people spoke to him, I don't
know, it was just hard for him to talk.”

Timmerberg's recollections jibe with
neighbors of Oros’s mother, Margaret, on a quiet
residential street in Lawrence.

Arla Clyatt, who lives three doors away, remembers
helping Michael register at the new elementary school

those of

Trapper was a loner

when he and his mother moved to Lawrence from North
Dakota in 1961 or 1962.

“He was in the fifth or sixth grade,” Clyatt said. “A
very quiet boy with brown hair. They had just moved in
down the street, so I gave her a hand and took the boy to
school on his first day.

“He never seemed to be doing things with other
children. Then, when he was in high school, he just
disappeared. He hasn't been back to see his mother in a
long, long tim

Clyatt said Margaret Oros never spoke of her Son or
the boy’s father.

“She told me she sent him (Mike) away to live with
relatives in Wyoming after he left, but she never said
anything else,” said Clyatt.

Officials at Lawrence High School said a check of the
school records showed Oros was near failing in his
sophomore year, the equivalent to Grade 10 in Canada.

The boy passed the year but didn't return to school.

Between his departure from Lawrence in 1968 and
his arrival near Teslin in the mid-1970s little is known
about Oros, except that he picked up g conviction for drug
possession in 1971. There was anéther brush with the
law, a fraud conviction, in 1981.

On Monday, March 18, Oros fired shots at a plane
chartered by the RCMP to investigate a complaint Oros
had ransacked a Hayes Lake homestead, stealing
everything he could pack onto toboggans.

Over the years, reports to the Teslin RCMP about
Oros had become increasingly disturbing. He would walk
into a campsite at night, sit with a rifle on his knee and
ramble incoherently about how the Central Intelligence
Agency was trying to poison him.

“He lived like an animal,” said Cpl. John Grant of the
Teslin RCMP. “The end of the lake was his and nobody
else's. He was filthy. He ate bad meat.

“The guy wasn't a hero and we would hate to see him
glorified. He was an animal.”

Baby brokers enter hospitals

EDMONTON (CP) — The ment, as saying.
Edmonton Journal says “People are approaching
“baby brokers” are entering these girls when they're
hospitals and pressuring physically and emotionally
mothers into signing adop- most vulnerable.
tion consent forms, speeding “We don't know who these
up the process for the sale of people are or where they're
infants through private adop- taking the babies after they
tions. leave the province,” he said.
“We have no right to ban The newspaper quotes
visitors, so we can’t protect unidentified social services
young mothers from the on- workers at other hospitals as
slaught,” the newspapere saying mothers are being of-
quotes John Koch, director of fered sports cars, expensive
the Royal Alexandra Hos- trips and sums exceeding
pital’s social services depart- $10,000.

The Journal, in the first of
a series of stories on the
issue, says the Royal Alex-
andra told the provincial
Social Services Department
of six suspicious cases in the
last 12 months, but received
no response.

“In all these cases, there
are very many unknown
factors,” Koch is quoted as
saying. “The mother is pres-
sured to release her child,
there's a quick transaction
and the baby disappears out-
side the province.”

from the province.

Physicians

lation.

30” EASY
CLEAN RANGE

$569

Family Size
15 cv.

7 ew.

*
*
*

HOMEGOODS

MAJOR
APPLIANCE
SPECTACULARS

“SEE THESE AT HOMEGOODS"

FROST FREE REFRIGERATOR

Extro Lerge Femi Size

“SEE IT AT HOMEGOODS"

rorrane §=6 $519
auitiN —-s« $479

8 Cycle Dishwashers
3 Level Wash
Energy Saver

693-2227

FURNITURE WAREHOUSE

Open Mon. through Sat

AT CHINA CREEK

Sharon Heron, the depart-
ment’s acting director of
child welfare, said the gov-
ernment doesn't get involved
in the private adoption pro-
cess if the infant is taken

Dr. Roy Le Riche, regis-
trar of the Alberta College of
and Surgeons,
said baby-buying is a world-
wide controversy and is hap-
pening more often in Alberta
because of inadequate legis-

* Castleaird Plaza

Government inspected poultry
¢ frozen

young
turkeys

Canada utility |. f 8
60 a
kg 2.

2 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU

Castleaird Plaza Store Open for Your Shopping Convenience
Until 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays.
Prices effective until Saturday, March 30, 1985.

YOUR SATISFACTION
IS OUR MAIN CONCERN.

* Downtown

Cut from Canada grade A beet
boneless blade

roast or

von

al inspected pork

cut into chops
fresh whole
kg 3.28 tb.

California grown ¢ fancy * Sunkist

navel
oranges

20 Ib.
9.09 k
family box i]

golden
ripe
bananas

\

2

Gun Qee
iid
2

4

bathroom
tissue

4 roll pkg. a

Compbells

vegetable
soup

for @

mm” \ fw

er Aart m~ KA

—fNI~T

kg 4.37 tb.
Government inspected poultry

fresh
frying

al | 3
corupy
kg 3.04 tb. a

California grown

fresh ;
broccoli

kgl.74box ib.

Ll

imported * Canada no. 1

cooking
onions

oa kg
pkg. a

Oe a
ween

ground
coffee

* regular
* fine
* auto

369 g. pkg |

Sprite,
diet
Sprite

Plus deposit

98°

M
4
\ ies acteme 7 Coke, diet Coke
2
4:

SUPER SAVER SPECIAL
Canada * grade "A"

large eggs
dozen

ctn 79

With One Filed Super Saver Card Offer Good Thru Mar. 30, 1985

SUPER SAVER SPECIAL
economy pack

bread

With One filled Super Saver Card Offer Good Thru Mar. 30, 1985

WIN $1,000

BY USING YOUR

CASH CARD

From Kootenay Savings

VANCOUVER

procedures, says Ken

(cP) —
eliminating the need for radical surgical incisions in some

The use of lasers is

Yip, biomedical engineer at

Vancouver General Hospital.

Intense heat can instantly vaporize skin lesions in a
puff of steam, precisely directed laser beams can destroy
tumors beneath the skin, and thin shafts of
light can weld tiny rips, seal blood vessels and clear away
opaque tissues in the eye.

Medical slides of before-and-after laser treatments

laser

show large cancer lesions shrunk to nothing, facial “port
wine stain” birthmarks removed, and recalcitrant and
disfiguring warts, sears, moles and funguses eliminated
after years of unsuccessful treatments.

There are seven

said Yip.

cavity.”

by cells.

lasers at Vancouver General
Hospital and the B.C. Cancer Control Agency.

“We've only come into lasers in the last year or two,”
“That will increase quite dramatically. The
beauty of the lasers is, they offer you access to the body

DYE IS INJECTED
In what is known as photodynamic therapy, a
laser-sensitive dye is injected into the body and absorbed
The dye fades from healthy cells but lingers in
cancerous cells. When red laser light is shone to the body,

it is absorbed by the dye, causing a chemical reaction
which destroys malignant cells.

The number of patients treated by photodynamics is
expected to increase to 50 or 100 this year from the 30
patients treated over the past two years using just the
one powerful Argon laser at the Cancer Control Agency.

“This has put British Columbia in the forefront of
treatment of lung tumors in Canada and for that matter,
in the world,” said Dr. David McLean, chairman of the
agency's skin tumor group and president of the B.C.
Medical Association's dermatology section.

“For that we thank the government in this year of
restraint.”

McLean said the $130,000 investment for a single
laser will pay rich dividends; laser pationts con be treated
as day patients, inating costly i

McLean said laser therapy has not replaced chemo
therapy and radiation as the treatment of choice for
cancer.

“My own philosophy is, it is new, we do not know the
long-term cure rates, we do know the cure rates of
standard treatments, therefore they should be offered
first.

“The majority of people I treat have such extensive
disease, the majority of work is palliation.”

McLean said there should be greater use of carbon

dioxide lasers such as

that

bought privately by

Vancouver doctor James Danton, whom he calls “the
pioneer of the CO2 laser in all of B.C.”

Danton's

$50,000 laser

took its place in his

dermatology practice two years ago. He uses it to
eliminate port wine stains, thick abnormal collections of
blood vessels beneath a normal skin surface.

To remove this and other skin conditions, Danton's
laser creates a controlled second-degree burn.

“It’s just like Star Wars — instantly as it impacts on
the skin, it creates steam,” said Danton. “You usé it
literally like a wand or paintbrush on one layer of tissue
at a time. You wipe away the debris with hydrogen
peroxide, then you can vaporize individual blood vessels

or clusters.”

While they can work near miracles,

disadvantages.
sers are cos!
consuming and mi

there are

Jy, training in their use is time
taken outside Canada, and British

Columbia Medical Services Plan has no fee item at the
moment to cover skin and other laser surgery, said

McLean.

Danton estimates that half of laser skin surgery
candidates cannot afford the break-even fee of $250 an

hour.

Use of laser therapy increasing

FOR INSULIN
Vanadium may be substitute

VANCOUVER (CP) — Se
ientists at the University of
British Columbia say they
believe ium, a metallic

U.S. seientifie and medical
journal, said laboratory tests
on diabetic rats have proved

compound found in seawater,
grains, fruits and meats, may
prove as important as insulin
for the treatment of diabetes.

“We don't want people to
think we've got an overnight

treatment,” said John Me
Neill, dean of pharmaceutical
(But) it appears

you can give this drug for a
long period of time without
deleterious side effects. We

think ean substitute (for
insulin.)
MeNeill, whose work is

being published this month in
Science, a highly regarded

and he hopes to
begin tests on humans later
this year. :

Other researchers have
feared that vanadium might
be toxic in amounts required
to be effective, but McNeill
said no signs of toxicity have
been seen in the rats and
rabbits in the tests that
began in September 1983.

While drugs do not always
act the same way in humans
as they do in animals, simple
drugs, such as vanadium,
usually have similar effects,
he said.

The rats were treated with

large daily doses of vanadium
and within 24 hours, the rats
were no
sugar in their urine. The rats
have also been
extreme side effects of dia
betes and injected insulin,
including vision, circulation
and heart problems.

pediatrics at UBC,
been researching pancreas
cell transplants for diabetics,
sai
treating diabetic p:
really, really there.

preliminary stage of obser-
vations, but
about the research is that it
is very genuine and I share

their excitement.”

Dr. Joseph Larner, a Un
iversity of Virginia professor
who has worked with van-
adium, said it is “a pretty
darn good insulin-like agent”
and the UBC research team's
results are interesting, but
years of testing are nec

longer excreting

freed of

Dr. John Tie, professor of
who has many drugs are
ally, but
they come up with unex
pected and unforeseen side
effects..Caution is the word.”

The UBC work was done
by MeNeill, Dr. Clayton
Heyliger, a post doctoral
fellow in pharmaceutical
sciences, and Arun Tahliani,
a graduate student.

feel the potential for
ients is

“No. 1, I think this is a

what I learn

Homosexuals infected

MONTREAL (CP) a
study of male homesexuals
here found more than a
quarter of them had been
infected by a virus believed
to cause the killer disease
AIDS (acquired immune de

ficiency syndrome), says the
chairman of the National
Advisory Committee on
AIDS.

Dr. Norbert Gilmore, who
released the findings, be.

lieves the results were rep.
resentative of other major
Canadian cities with a large
homosexual population such
as Vancouver and Toronto
The Royal Victoria Hos.

Sex

NEW YORK (AP) — Stud.
ies in Canada and other
countries suggest teenage
pregnancy rates in the

United States might be re.
duced by promoting contrac.
eption and information about
sex, says a research facility
operated by Planned Parent
hood

The study, produced by
the Alan Guttmacher In
stitute, a facility operated by
Planned Parenthood, said the
two factors appear to have
helped keep teenage preg
nancy rates in Canada, Brit
ain, France, Sweden and the
Netherlands lower than in
the United States.

None of those countries
has an official policy of dis
couraging sex among teen
agers, leaving that decision
to parents, churches and the

teenagers themselves, the
study said
Instead, “the role of the

government is essentially to
address the problem of child.
bearing.” Jeannie Rosoff,
president of the institute,
told a news conference.

One strategy is sex educa

pital immunologist stressed
that infection by the virus
HTLV-III does not mean a
person will fall victim to the
deadly disease that knocks

out the body's immune sys.
tem, leaving it prey to a host
and

of virulent infections
cancers.

The implication is
infection by the virus “
step closer to AIDS,
more said in an interview. “It
does not mean someone will
necessarily go on to develop
AIDS.”

About 70 per cent of AIDS
victims are homosexual or
bisexual men, but other

high-risk groups
hemophiliacs,
drug users and Haitians

the epidemiology
unit at the

vides researchers with a way
to assess the extent of the
AIDS problem in Canada

cent of the
appeared healthy at the time
of the tests had antibodies in
their bodies indicating they
had been
virus.

include
intravenous

“With Montreal at 28 per
cent and Vancouver and
Toronto probably the same,
this means they become
centres of the epidemic from
which it can be expected to

Colin Soskolne, director of
research
Ontario Cancer

Foundation of Toronto, called propogate,” Soskolne said.
the Montreal study “highly Forty-four others in Gil
significant,” saying it pro- more's study already had

AIDS or milder versions of
the disease. Another 202
heterosexuals, who acted as
controls in the study, had
negative readings.

The subjects represented a
cross-section of gay lifestyles

some had only one regular
partner, others had many
sexual contacts.

It found that 100 — 28 per

358 who

infected by the

education works

tion and discussion in schools,
youth groups or elsewhere,
she said Formal sex
education works in Sweden,
while other countries provide
it through the media or in
clinics, said Noreen Goldman,
one of the study's authors
and a research demographer
at the Office of Population
Research at Princeton Uni.
versity

Hospital

VANCOUVER (CP) — If it
isn't an emergency, the B.C.
Health Association recom
mends people stay away from
the hospital.

In the wake of renewed
calls for restraint in the
recent provincial budget an
nouncement, the association
says it “must recognize that
hospitals, long-term care fac.
ilities, and other forms of
health care organizations will
be foreed to operate in a
restricted mode.”

Eugene Tomasky, assis
tant executive director, said
ministry reports culled from

are available free or at low
cost in those countries,
Jacqueline Darroch Forrest,
research director at
Guttmacher institute.

occur in 96 of every 1,000 fe
male teenagers age 15 to 19
in the United States,
pared with 45 in England and

minor health concerns such
as cuts,
pains that could be treated in
a doctor's office the next day,
he said.

the fact (of
emergency department) that
it could have waited. What
we are asking is that people
take a hard second look and
they probably will find it is
not an emergency.”

Wales, 44 in Canada, 43 in
France, 35 in Sweden and 14
in the Netherlands.

The five countries were
the chosen for study because
their adolescent pregnancy
rates were lower and be
cause they were thought to
resemble the United States
in level of sexual activity and
cultural backgrounds, the
study said.

In addition, contraceptives

said

The study said pregnancies

com

s for emergency

hospital
number
emergency rooms has been
rising steadily

Despite their caution, the
association says the financial
picture for health care is not
entirely cloudy.

records show the
of people visiting

Many of the visits are for President Herman Crew

son has said the association
will take a “reserved stance”
on the budget until it asses.
ses the health care financing
inerease, which the govern
ment says is five per cent

bruises, aches and

know after
visiting the

“You always

Crewson said it's actually
about 4.5 per cent, and that
costs of new facilities have to
be figured in before the as
sociation will know its true
position.

Poor people more likely
to die of heart disease

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Poor people are far more
likely to die of heart disease
than the wealthy, the Amer-
ican Heart Association said
recently in a study, and the
chief researcher says access
to medical facilities may be
the reason.

“Conventional wisdom has
it that in the U.S. population,
white males are at most risk
of having a heart attack,”
said Dr. Ralph Frerichs, an
epidemiologist. at-the—Uni-
versity of California who
conducted the study for the
Heart Association's Los
Angeles affiliate. “We see
from this report that in Los
Angeles County, that's not
just so.”

The greater proportion of
poor black men than white
explains why black men
overall had higher heart
disease death rates than
white men, Frerichs said

The study of 180,000 de
aths in Los Angeles County

found poor people are more
likely to die of heart disease
outside a hospital or other
medical facility. That sug-
gests that inadequate access
to health care, and not just
lifestyle, may explain their
higher death rate, Frerichs
said.

The findings, which sho
wed heart disease death
rates increased steadily as
median family income dec-
lined, were based on analysis
of death certificates_of all
179,529 Los Angeles County
residents who died of all
causes from 1979 through
1981

The link between poverty
and higher cardiovascular
disease death rates probably
holds true nationally, Fre:
richs said

“Twenty years ago, heart
diseases especially heart
attacks — were mainly in the
upper class,” said Dr. Rich
ard Havlik, an epidemiologist
at the National Heart, Blood
and Lung Institute.

SPOT REDUCING

But in the last decade or
so, “the impression is that it’s
less well-to-do people who
have maintained the bad
habits” — fatty diets, smo
king, lack of exercise and
failure to control hyperten-
sion — “while the well-off
have either gotten medical
care for their high blood
pressure, modified their diet
or are more fitness con-
scious,” Havlik said in a tele-
phone interview from Beth-
seda, Md.

Among males of ,all races,
those living in neighborhoods
with a median annual family
ineome of $13,600 U.S. or less
had a heart disease death
rate of 460 in 100,000 — 40
per cent higher than the 329
in 100,000 death rate among
males in neighborhoods whe
re income exceeded $28,501

Among females, the death
rate in the poorest group was
268 in 100,000 — 27 per cent
higher than the 211-in
100,000 rate among women in
the highest income group.

Doesn't get rid of fat

By KIRK LaPOINTE

The Canadian Press
You look at your stomach
and find a spare tire, so you
start doing sit-ups. You look
at your thighs and find a little
extra bulk, so you take up

jogging to shed the flab
It's called “spot reducing”
exercising parts of the

body so you can reduce the
fat that covers them. For a
long time, many athletes,

trainers and fitness experts
thought it was‘one of the best
ways to turn sagging flesh
into muscle.

Sad to say
doesn't work

Peter Burwash, a former
Canadian tennis champion,
should know. Only a few
years ago, he was 25 pounds
most of it in
the form of an expanded
waistline. It wasn't that he
was sedentary

spot reducing

overweight

I was doing 200 sit-ups a
day,” he says. “All I ended up
with was a cast-iron set of
stomach muscles and a flabby
covering. It got me
dering.”

ALL THE BODY

The fat deposit may rest on
your thighs, belly or upper
arms, but it really belongs to
your entire body. Weight
lifting for your arms, jogging
for your thighs or other
specific exercises may build
muscles, but that won't guar
antee an accompanying dis

to won

appearance of fat in those
areas.
What you need is an

all-round workout

One of the underlying
problems related to fat loss is
that many people mistakenly
think fat can be “converted”
to muscle, or that muscle can
turn to fat. They look at their
fat and simply take aim on it

But fat and muscle are
distinct entities. Both can
diminish, but they aren't
convertible.

Runner's World magazine
recently published a study by
Frank Katch, an exercise
physiologist at the Univer
sity of Massachusetts, that
proved the point about spot
reducing.

LOST EVERYWHERE

Katch monitored 19 college
students who did 5,004 sit
ups over 27 days. He found
that fat samples from exer
cised and unexercised parts
of their bodies stayed the
same. Those who lost fat, lost
it everywhere.

It's important also to make

the distinction between
weight loss and fat loss.
Many diets promise weight

but few can ensure fat

loss. That's because dieting
usually leads to a dramatic
reduction in body water — up

to 10 or 15 pounds in some
cases.
But the fat is still there.
The quick-fix diet isn’t the
solution. Burwash
Fat loss is a slow process. I

says.

tell everyone I can: you spent
a long time building up this
fat, don't expect it to dis
appear instantly

In fact. a
program’ might

new
make

exercise

you

gain weight. That's because
the muscles you're building
weigh more than the fat
you're losing.

KNOW FAT TYPES

Men tend to collect fat at
first in the front of the body,
women at the back. To under.
stand how to lose fat, it's
important to understand the
different types.

The smallest portion is the
most important: “essential”
fat, which coats the body's
organs and comprises only 10
per cent of the total. “Depo.
sit” fat, about 40 per cent of
the total, is distributed
throughout the body and how
much you have seems to be
linked to heredity. Then
there's “subcutaneoos” fat
the deposits immediatley un

der the skin — about half 4he
total

You can get rid of sub
cutaneous and deposit fat

but essential fat is there te

stay,” says Burwash, whose
recent publication, Peter
Burwash's Aerobic Workout
Book for Men (Dodd, Mead
and Co., $17.95), was written
with John Tullius

There's still some ques
tions about how much fat you
should have in relation to
your weight. Some marath
oners and triathletes carry
only about three or four per

cent fat, but that’s far too low

for even most fit people
Women should have a fat
content of roughly 18 per
cent to 20 per cent. For mer
it should be 12 per cent to 15

per cent

Women

exploited by

fitness fad?

HAMILTON (CP) — Wo-
men are being exploited by
the fitness fad and ripped off
by exercise clubs and fashion
manufacturers, says a family
physician.

Dr. Peggy Barringer of
nearby Ancaster, Ont., says
women have been led to
believe strenuous exercise is
good for their health.

“Women are flocking to the
fitness clubs like lambs to the
slaughter,” Barringer said.

“But they're being set up
to fail because today’s un
realistic goals are based more
on fads than health.”

Current standards of ideal
beauty, which she calls the
little girl with breasts look,
can be damaging to health
because women are adopting
strenuous diet and exercise
routines to achieve the look,
she contends.

Fitness clothes and ex
pensive paraphernalia are
unnecessary, said Barringer,
adding that Jane Fonda, who
has prompted thousands of
women into exercising with
her best-selling books, videos
and fitness clubs, has done
more harm than good.

IGNORANCE ABOUNDS

Barringer said that during
a recent visit to a Hamilton
fitness club, she found that
most women became dissati
sfied with their figures after
their first pregnancy. Their
responses to her questions
reflected society's ignorance
of the definition of physical
fitness.

Despite all the
emphasis on cardiovascular
workouts, she said, one 1982
study indicated there is no
connection between exercise
and longer life.

However,

current

if exercise ma
kes a person feel good and is
done in moderation, it can be

beneficial, she said. The
problem is that people can
over-exercise, craving the

stimulation of the body's
opiate-like compounds that
comes from a hard workout
As a result, she said, sports
related injuries are on the
increase

“I'm seeing more cases of

knee and ankle injuries
muscle spasms and tend
onitis among my patients

because they're working ou
too much

Walking and swimming are
the safest exercises for mer
and women, she said, becaus¢
they give an all-over workout
without straining the mus
cles

Rather than straining yo
urself at the club
three times a week. why not
romp in the

fitness

go for a
woods with your friends and
family,” she said

just