co_CastléBar News _ociober7. 1907 Group dating RID sive te): hit with teen (cP) — Another Saturday night and you ain't got nobody? If you're a teenager, that old Sam Cooke lament is no big TORONTO deal. One-on-one dating is be- coming passe, says psycholo- gists, teachers and teen- agers. More and more teens trav- often co-ed cliques of friends with similar tastes in fashion and music. Some experts say this represents a more mature Others say teen- agers are not learning about responsibility in one-on-one attitude. relationships. Peter Zollo, vice-president of Teenage Research, an American marketing firm, says research shows teens are busier than ever and friendships are more impor- tant than romance. Teens say, even boys with boys. Today's school proms are a strange mutation from those interviewed rec- ently see nothing wrong with going to a party or dance alone. Everyone dances, they romantic affairs of the past. Girls don't wait for that special boy to invite them; they may ask a boy them- selves. More likely, they'll go in a group. “They're looking after each other's feelings,” says Peggy Aitchison, assistant head of mathematics at Newton- brook secondary school in Toronto. “They're pleased to help someone out and be their date just so they can go to Whether it de- the formal. velops into a long-term re- lationship seems irrelevant.” Bob Farrel, head of guid- ance at secondary school in rural Bruce County, says this is not unique ‘to urban areas. When supervising school dances, Farrel has found 75 to 80 per cent of the young- sters arrive in groups. Gregory Fouts, professor of child psychology at the University of Calgary, says television, computers and working mothers have left young people lonely and alienated, so they seek the Saugeen District company of others. Because they spend so much time in front of the TV, their social skills are weak and they lack social self-con- fidence, Fouts says. In groups, they learn to socialize in a safe environ- Ss TELEPHONE 365- 5210 ox. Biocahorp tl be ccna tens sip im Denver kr teeters pena pl col a Accounting Rocky View Tax & ment, where they don't have to carry the ion. Some experts say this means teens are delaying sex. Others disagree. “There's a lot of activity at parties,” says Sue Johanson, a sex educator who runs phone-in shows on radio and TV. NOT LOVING “There's no parents home, and they go upstairs for a quickie . . . with one of the gang, something like musical partners. That scares me, because . . . these aren't loving relationships.” Youngsters in serious re- lationships are usually from working-class backgrounds and don't plan to spend a long time in school, or have prob- lems at home and are lonely, says Lynda Arbour. Love letter writing proves popular service TORONTO (CP) — letters. Essman, a New York free- lance writer and would-be is a kind of surro- novelist, gate lover, a Cyran de Ber- gerac of the 1980s. For $35 US a year, Essman sends out 12 personalized, fantasy love letters and a Valentine's Day card for more than 300 subscribers to his service, called Incurable Romantix. “People don't write letters the way they did in previous generations,” Essman said from his home in New York City. “We live in a tele- phone-TV society. “People will spend an hour SHER Castlegar News is publthed by Castle News Ltd Mail subscriptions rate to the CASTLEGAR is $35 per year ($40 in communities the post office has let te jer service). The price on newsstands is 60¢ for each edition. The price delivered by per carrier tor (collected monthly) class mail registration number 0019. 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(Les) CAMPBELL Publisher Aug. 7, 1947 1973 BURT CAMPBELL Publisher RON NORMAN, Editor; PETER HARVEY, Plant Foreman: LIN- + Office GARY FLEMING, Elliot Essman doesn't have a girl- friend right now and he doesn't want to get involved for awhile. But every month he sends hundreds of love picking out a greeting card but they won't sit down for 10 minutes to write a letter.” His customers — most of them women — generally fall into two camps. There are those who have no one to send them love letters, so they arrange for Essman to mail them mem- orable missives from a fant- asy partner — either some- one they know or would like to know. A few juest letters from the likes of film actor Mel Gibson. REVEAL FEELINGS Then there are those who are romantic in spirit but faint-hearted when it comes to actually committing their feelings to paper. Essman composes a new one-page, single-spaced love letter each month and sends to the subscriber, or to a des- ignated lover. He said there isno sexually explicit material in his let- ters. “The sex is there, but it’s all meant to be in the imagination.” Here is an excerpt from one of his love letters, sent from Andy to Diane: “It's a hard world out there, and yet you give me reason to be gentle, reason to hope, to dream and to strive for things. Whatever hap- pens, I know I always have my Diane and you always have me. “I want you to know that. I want you to never forget that Iam here for you, that I will always be there when you need me, that I will always be part of your life.” WRITES NOVEL The idea for Incurable Romantix was a case of life imitating art. Essman was writing a novel in which the main female character op- erated a love-letter-writing service, so in February he decided to give it a try. He acquired a mailing list from a romance club and sent out 10,000 letters advertising the service, Essman started getting responses from men, most of whom wanted letters sent to their wives. All his customers are from the United States, but Ess- man hopes to add Canadians to his service and has con- sidered a French version of his letters. One subscriber is a woman from Alaska, who asked that Essman sign his own name. “She wants love letters, said Essman, adding that he’s not looking for a mate through his service. “I know she's far enough away that she won't knock on my door.” Readers can contact Elliot Essman by writing Incurable Romantix, P.O. Box 6919, New York, N.Y. 10128. Sex problem for cancer patients EDMONTON (CP) — The lives of some recovered can- cer patients would be normal if it weren't for sex, says a U.S. psychologist. Barbara Andersen, an as. sociate professor at the Uni- versity of Iowa, told a recent meeting in Edmonton that some women who recover after treatment for gyne- cological cancer — including cancer of the ovaries, cervix and vulva — have problems with their sex lives, including painful intercourse. 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C. vev 28 Feb. 2B Coaching change Jerry Hurd lost his first game Friday as the coteor" neseie new coach . Free Trade Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco says the Canada- U.S. free trade pact is “great”... A3 The winning 6-49 draw were umber was 10. The Provincial lottery draw is 6711897. The winning numbers for West/The Pick draw Friday were 7, 16, 22, 36, 56. 38, 49, 53 and numbers in Saturda 17, 28, 33 and 36. T $500,000 winning number in Friday's ‘s Lotto e bonus the | Lotto Vol. 40, No. 81 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1987 —_ 60 Cents 2 Sections (A &B) NEW CANADIAN . . . Judge Robert han and RCMP Constable Oster present one of 18 new Canadians certificate of citizenship during y at C story A3. provincial court on Friday. See CasNews Photo by Suri Rattan GENELLE FIRM LAUNCHES NEW ‘MESOME’ DOLL By CasNews Staff | Move over Cabbage Patch, Mesome Wares is here. The handmade, soft-sculptured Mesome Wares is the latest addition to the retail doll market.| And-if Shirley Wozney has her way, Mesome Wares will be ‘r.e biggest thing to hit the toy shelves since the Cabbage Patch phenomenon several years ago. “When you look at the potential, there's nothing to say it can't happen,” says Wozney. If Wozney’'s right, it will give a big bpost to the local economy, because the doll is being manufactured in a warehouse in China Creek, halfway between Castlegar and Trail. Wozney, together with husband Allan and fellow Genelle residents Lee and Kimberley Page, are the major figures in Mesome Wares Inc. of Genelle. “He's going to be the second industry (in the West Kootenay),” Wozney confidently predicts. Lee Page agrees, pointing to a recent three-day marketing survey in Vancouver which determined there is a demand for 3,000 dolls a month. “The demand is more than we can sell,” Page says, adding that when it is in full production, the company will employ 24 to 30 people and produge 18,000 to 24,000 dolis a year. Right now, the company has produced 100 to. 125 dolls and has eight employees, five of them full-time. The Pages and Wosneys have been carefully planning how to market the doll, They will introduce him to the province on the BCTV Noon News later this month. As well, consumers won't bé offered only the doll, but an illustrated three-chapter Mesome Wares book of his adventures travelling throughout B.C., a cassette tape, and a poster. The company has also received permission to nick- name the 30-cbntimetre tall doll “The Goodwill Am- bassador of British Columbia? “We have talked to the government officials and MESOME WARES . . . The goodwill ambassador of British Columbia. —CosttewsPhoto svetvilen t)K0.4a peleg bo kace; Mabie” says Page. But he points out that the marketing won't stop with the euddly mustachioed Mesome Wares. The Wozneys edition of 2,000 dolls selling for $99.96, continued on page AZ ALLEGED ASSAUL RCMP deny ost office charges By RON NORMAN Editor Castlegar RCMP deny that they stood by while union pickets beat three postal supervisors outside the Castle- gar post office Tuesday night. Canada Post says the supervisors were kicked, punched and tripped as they tried to escort a truck through 50 pickets at the post office parking lot. Postal spokesman Mike Bradshaw charged that an RCMP corporal wit- nessed the incident and did nothing. “The police stood by and watched wistfully as a couple (of) citizens of this Castlegar News. He said Cpl. Andy Rowe was on the scene throughout the incident and Rowe did not see any assaults, rock throwing or vandalism. He also said Rowe did not see any knife. Keddy said Rowe spoke to the Canada Post security agent and the alleged union assailant “and neither one of them at that time indicated any allegation of assault.” Keddy said it was a half hour later that the Castlegar detachment was called by one of the alleged victims who d he and two country were told The Vancouver Province. The incident allegedly occurred when a half dozen supervisors flown into Castlegar from Vancouver tried to guide a mail truck through the picket line at about 8:30 p.m. A Canada Post report said the pickets also threw rocks. “One fellow was knocked to the ground and kicked,” said Bradshaw. “Another was physically grabbed by the eqgrem and pushed against a bus.” third was reportedly cut in the face) feted dhiedy picket punched him as he. tried to photograph the man removing the truck's gas cap. “This particular RCMP officer was present during most of the above and made no attempt to assist,” said the Canada Post report, filed by a corp- oration security official at the scene. Bradshaw said one supervisor called to the corporal that the truck was boing pelted with rocks. Another yelled that he saw a knife — but the corporal had disappeared. But RCMP Staff Sgt. Jack Keddy denied the corporation's allegations. “The report they have given is way off color,” Keddy told the colleagues were punched and kicked. Meanwhile, 16 inside postal work- MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ers at the Castlegar Post office re- turned to work Thursday morning, only to walk out again 24 hours later as part of a nation-wide strike. However, the number of pickets walking the line was down to five because of an injunction limiting picketing. County Court Judge Raymond Cooper granted the injunction Wed- nesday in Nelson in response to an application by Canada Post, backed by 11 affidavits. However, local postal union offi- cials say they have filed documents in coup? court appealing the decision. NDP to field candidates By RON NORMAN Editor The New Democratic Party will field candidates in the Nov. 21 munici- pal and school board elections in the Rossland-Trail riding. The move marks the provincial party's formal entry into municipal and school board politics im the West Kootenay. “We've end d in the Bill Vander Zalm’s decentralization plan. “Their recent regionalization plans make ‘municipal politics too serious a matter to be left only to the Socreds,” Schmidt said. He _pointed out that with the exception of Castlegar schodl board and Castlegar council, “most of the other councils in the area are clearly by people whose politics are past,” explained Ron Schmidt, presi- dent of the Rossland-Trail NDP Con- stituency Association. However, Schmidt said the sup- port has primarily beem financial. Can- didates have never carried the NDP banner or used the provincial party's election organization. That will change this November. “It's time it was done,” Schmidt said. The NDP plans to endorse a candidate for school board and munici- pal elections in Castlegar, Trail, Ross- land and Beaver Valley. But he said if the party is success ful, it will look at fielding a full slate of candidates in future. “You never know, if this works you never know what we'll do next year,” Schmidt said, adding later: “It's not a one-shot deal. A five-member screening com- mittee made up of Association execu- tive members will review each candi- date’s request for endorsement. The committee will then recommend to the full executive one municipal and one school board candidate in each of the four municipalities. The NDP decided to formally enter the municipal political arena because of the Social Credit's govern- ment's policies and Premier somewhat to the right of ours.” Sehmidt said the Socreds have “always had control of city politics” (in the West Kootenay), though it a come about in any organized wi He admitted the NDP “fell dows in “Most people realize it's time for fair representation on municipal coun- cils and school boards. We're not crit- icizing anybody.” He stressed that the NDP is not trying to'take over civie polities, but simply wants more balanced councils and school boards. Schmidt said the NDP will offer some financial aid to candidates it endorses, but more importantly, its political campaign organization. “The money’s a little bit difficult this year because of our election debts,” he said, Asked if he thinks the provincial Social Credit party will follow suit and field municipal candidates to challenge the New D Schmidt replied: the past” by not formally in municipal and school board elections. “They may.” Prison escapee to appear in Nelson By CasNews Staff An Alberta prison escapee has been remanded in custody to Wes- nesday when he will appear in Nelson provincial court to face 11 separate captured a short time later and Watson was apprehended Sept. 13 in West Vancouver. Watson has been charged with Kidnapping. use of ¢ firearm while two counts of charges, i Robert James Watson, 43, was re- maned in custody after defence lawyer John Carpenter and Crown counsel Dana Urban requested the adjourn- ment during Watson's brief appearance Thursday before Judge Bruce Joseph- son in Castlegar provincial court. Watson, formerly of Burnaby, and Patrick Peterson, 39, both escaped from a medium-security prison in Bow- den, Alta. on Sept. 2. Peterson was being in peabotalan of stolen property over $1,000, break and enter, carrying a weapon for the purpose of commiting an offense, two counts of sexual assault, kidnapping with intent to con- fine a person against their yo ba lawfully confining a person their will and being unlawfully Pry Watson had been serving a lé-year escaped. . prison term when, he {