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COMPUTER AGE . . . SHSS principol Lach Farrell at the IBM PC-XTR computer which is
beginning to ease the load for administration at the high school.

SHSS in computer agé

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN
Staff Writer

Some stud at Stanley dary
School may think the new $10,000 administrative
computer which now does timetables, daily attendance,
and will eventually spit out report cards is a blipping,
gleeping Big Brother appearing right on schedule.

One student recently commented that the risk of
cutting classes has increased because “that machine cap
tell what class you're supposed to be in.”

is simply a “very powerful computer”.
“It'a not 1984, it’s not Big Brother,” he explained

Tonk in yer, was available, before on
the school's master timetable.Now the procedure is much
faster. _,

In fact, “speed of access of information” and
“accuracy” are two of the computer's big advantages,
King said.

He says before the computer, it would take 45
attendance infor-

It now: takes 36 seconds to feed 28 sheets of
iqnd into the and five more
minutes for the computer to scan and make 28 print-outs
of daily King the cuts
down on manual work by 10 per cent.

The computer stores each student's attendance
record in an individual file, which can be recalled
instantly if need be, said King, providing information on
absenteeism and tardiness.

All information stored in the computer can be
co-related and cross-referenced, he added.

For example, “I ean get out of the computer all the
kids who've missed 10 days,” said King. If a parent
phones up to inquire about their son or daughter's
attendance the information can be recalled immediately.

scheduling,” be stad, Te et
' for attendatics sthediping by cbst
| $8,000 — but since it Gain be tined in ‘the future, meaty ts
saved, said Farrell. m
King said in three or four years, money spent on the
system — which also includes a Centary 8000 seanner and
recovered.

" said King.

According to Farrell, this means the computer can
hold up to 10-million bits of information. It can handle up
61,500 students, he said. $

King says #0 far, he’s been “extrentély pleased” with

with it have

although he says “you can get glips which ean oceurr.”
But the system has been “amazingly” free of bugs,

He said this year Stanley Humphries will look into
having the computer makeup report cards, process
forms and letters, and compute the school's internal
accounts and inventory.

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Despit
lost $15 million in the fiseal year ending March 31, 1964.

The 1983-84 report noted the numbers of vehicles
(4.5 million) and passengers (12.4 million) were virtually
identical to 1962-83.

The financial impact of the “no-growth factor” was
offset by staff cuts, fewer sailings, reduced fuel
consumption, a near-freeze in capital.expenditures and
higher fares on major routes, the report said.

DIANA DAMAGES

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Tropical storm Diana,
after a loop through North Carolina that caused at least
$61 million damage, sloshed across the Outer Banks and
moved offshore, where. it sat Saturday building toward
hurricane strength again.

“It's over water now and poses no major threat,” Sue
Yeaman of the National Weather Service at Rleigh said
this morning.

In Miami, forecaster Bob Case of the National
Hurricane Centre said the chances that Diana, down.
graded Thursday to « tropical storm, could pick up
strength are “probably pretty good.”

Meanwhile, rain-weary residents of North Carolina's
southeastern coast left storm shelters Friday to see what
Diana had left behind after raging ashore Wednesday.
Teams of state, federal and local damage assessment
experts worked in Wilmington and New Hanover and
Brunswick countries.

_ TWINS SEPARATED

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After nearly 25 hours of
complex surgery, physicians separated six-month-old
Siamese twin girls joined at the tops of their heads, a
hospital spokesman said.

Plastic surgeons from a team of 11 doctors at
University of Utah Medical Centre continued the
operation Friday afternoon, placing skin flaps over the
girls’ exposed brains, which now have protective skull
coverings at the top, spokesman John Dwan said.

Doctors planned to close the skulls later with bone
fragments taken from them in previous operations

EARTHQUAKE

TOKYO (AP) Two sharp aftershocks jolted
central Japan Saturday following a severe earthquake
that brought about huge landslides in a mountain village,
killing two people and leaving 27 missing.

Rescue teams found the body of a 67-year-old woman
Saturday in the village of Otaki, 193 kilometres
northwest of Tokyo, Nagano state police reported by
telephone. The body of a 65-year-old man was recovered
there after the initial quake Friday.

Authorities said 27 people were missing in the same
area, and there were unconfirmed reports that the new
aftershocks had caused another landslide that killed one
person.

CRIME FIGHT

PEKING (Reuter) Peking’s intermediate court
has pasted up the names of 23 more criminals executed in
China's severe campaign against crime

The posters in the suburbs of the capital listed 22
men and one woman found guilty of violent or other
serious crimes.

Like other previous reports of executions, most of
those listed Saturday were in their early 20s. One person
was 19

The exact number of executions since the govern
ment initiated its crackdown on crime last year is not
clear, but posters reported around the country have

around 1,000 deaths.

In provincial towns, photographs of executions are
often shown as a warning to potential wrongdoers.

Executions in China are carried out by a bullet fired
into the back of the head

INDIA CLASHES

NEW DELHI (AP) About 300 demonstrators
were arrested and 50 wounded Saturday in clashes with
police in the southern Andhra Pradesh state during «
geveral strike called by opposition parties demanding
reinstatement of the state's ousted chief minister, police
said

A spokesman for the state police control room in
the state capital Hyderabad told The Associated Press by
telephone the strike had paralysed many parts of the
state of 54 million people.

The shutdown halted traffic in Hyderabad and closed
shops, businesses and schools, said the spokesman, who
spoke on condition he not be identified There were no
specific reports on the success of the strike outside
Hyderabad.

The strikers were protesting the Aug. 16 dismissal
by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government of former
movie idol Nandaburi Taraka Rama Rao, who had led a
state government opposed to Gandhi

LEADERS MEET

MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent Soviet official who
met with Rev. Billy Graham Saturday said both hope that

A $100 fine was given to
Samuel Stoochnoff who.
pleaded guilty to supplying
liquor to a minor.

. 28 6

Steven Gleboff was fined
$75 after pleading guilty to
being a minor in possession of
alcohol.

“ee «

A, 14-day intermittent jail
term, was handed to Doreen
Ritter who pleased guilty to
driving with # blood aleohol
content over .08.

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Fruit stricken
with canker

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) —
The interstate shipment of
citrus fruit from Florida, hal-
ted by a federal quarantine,
will not resume until authori-
ties are sure an incurable
bacterial infection is tracked
down and contained, a U.S.
Department of Agriculture
spokesman said.

Federal officials said the
ban imposed Friday on the
state's $1 billion-a-year citrus
industry is an “extreme step”
necessary to stop a “po
tentially catastrophic” out.
break of citrus canker.

“We hope the fresh frait
will start moving in just =
few days,” said Betsy Adams,
a spokesperson at the de
partment in Hyattsville, Md.

The indefinite quarantine
will be lifted after groves are
inspected and certified to be
canker-free and after fruit is
treated in chlorine baths as a
precautionary measure, she
said

not feel the embargo at the
supermarket, industry offi
cials said. The ban does not
apply to processed products,
such as orange juice, which
makes up the bulk of the
Florida crop, Earl Wells of
Florida Citrus Mutual, a
growers organization, said
Friday

Citrus canker is a bacterial
disease that shows up as
brownish yellow spots’ on
leaves, twigs and fruit and
spreads quickly if unchecked
It can cause fruit to drop
early and eventually kills the
trees. The only known cure is
to destroy the infected

It is harmless to humans,
but can be carried on cloth
ing.

So far, the disease has
been confirmed only at
Ward's Nursery, a 24-hectare
site in central Florida's Avon
Park where inspectors began
burning « million trees or

M a 's will

dlings on Friday

Tranquille may
become jail

VICTORIA (CP) Pro
vincial officials have denied a
contention that the govern.
ment had decided to turn the
Tranquille institution for
mentally handicapped in
Kamloops into a jail.

Human resources critic
Emery Barnes released
earlier Friday what he said is
a secret gavernment docu
ment on the plan for the
Kamloops institution.

Tourism Minister Claude
Richmond, who represents
Kamloops in the legislature,
confirmed that the document
exists but said the jail
proposal is just one of many
for the property

Richmond said cabinet has
made no decision on what to
do with it

Ken Horodyski, a spokes
man in the Attorney Gen
eral’s Ministry, said he
knows of no plan to change
Tranquille into a jail

Barnes said the document
“helps explain why a rigid
deadline for evacuation of the
facility is being imposed by

Human Resources Minister
Grace McCarthy.”

The document says Tran
quille is being considered by
the government as a possible
site for a jail because it is the
least costly alternative to
rebuilding the Kamloops
Regional Correctional Centre
or constructing a new faci
lity.

The government has been
under fire recently for
moving some of the patients
out of Tranquille in the
southern Interior to Glendale
Lodge in Victoria rather than
to community houses.

The government, which is
planning to shut down Tran
quille by the end of the year,
plans to place all except 55 of
the 825 patients in commun
ity homes.

McCarthy said Thursday
that of the 65 remaining, 17
will leave Glendale for ex
tended care shortly, and the
rest will be released as soon
as they are ready and there is
space available with ad
quate care.

POPE SPEAKS

continued trom front poge
unionists and businessmen to join in a
movement that would ensure ‘‘tech
nology which has done so much to build
Toronto and all Canada will truly serve
man, woman and child throughout this
land."’

The Pope’s musing on the economy,
including a call in Flatrock, Nfid., last
week to big business to put people
ahead of profits, have not passed
unnoticed

The business community regrets the
Pope's endorsation of the Canadian
bishops’ earlier call for # restructuring
of the economy, Sam Hughes, president
of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce,
said in a weekend interview with Stan
dard Broadcast News.

““It’s a message that we regret having
heard because it means, really, that the
economic realities have not penetratec
the people who wrote the text for the
Pope,"’ Hughes said

Despite the warm affection of the
crowd, the stirring strains of symphony
music and a 10,000-voice choir, there
were some discordant notes, especially
from some of the 8,000 volunteers
working at the mass

Chris Timmermans said he had spent
SO hours at the mass site, helping to
ensure people did not walk across the

rain-soaked field and turn it into a
mucky bog.

The volunteers who had worked
throughout the night had been prom-
ised tents and cots but all they received
was one small tent, no cots and a lot of
mud, said Timmermans, who claimed to
have spent Friday night wrapped in a
plastic sheet

“A lot of volunteers wanted to go
home last night, they were so mad,”’ he
said. ‘‘They are so mad at the
organizers they won't even speak to
them. They stayed here in the end
because of the Pope.”’

Marty Frenette of Oshawa, Ont., a
crowd marshal, complained the mass
was improperly organized. For exam-
ple, the old and handicapped were put
into the muddiest sections, he said.

And among pedple in the aidience,
not everyone agreed . with kinds .of
positions thé’Pope has taken off vaflotts
controversial church issues.

Olga Palermo, « 21-year-old Toronto
student, believes women should play a
greater role in the church. She also
dislikes the Pope’s ban on artificial birth
control, saying: ‘‘The church should
stay out of our bedrooms."’

Earlier, at Sainte-Marie-among-the-
Hurons, the Pope brought a message of
reconciliation

He told 100,000 attending # mass that
natives have a strong place in the
church and now is the time to ‘‘heal all
the divisions that have developed over
the centuries,"’ between natives and
other Canadians.

John Paul challenged ‘‘all individuals
and groups, all churches and ecclestias-
tical communities throughout Canada”’
to create greater understanding and
co-operation between “‘original peoples
and the newcomers to this continent.”’

On a morning made crisp by the rains
overnight, the pontiff visited a shrine
honoring eight Jesuit missionaries tor-
tured and killed three centuries ago by
the Iroquois, including Saint Jean de
Brebeuf and Saint Gabriel Lalemant,
who lived amont the Hurons with whom
the Iroquois warred.

To undeffine his affinity with natives,
ttre Pope took part in a colorful Indian
tellgious ceremony. Following a spirit-
ual cleansing by sweetgrass, John Paul
stood and bowed as he accepted an
eagle feather — the symbol of courage
— from the Awishnawbec tribe

He was also given drums, tobaccos
and necklaces during the ceremony

Indian deacons were greeted individ
ually by the Pope, who said their

lical work was the fi of
Brebeuf's dream

GIFTED

drivers agreed Saturday to
obey provincial government
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continued trom front poge

“I didn't know what to expect of the people, but they

were just guys and girls who do well in school,” he said

During his discussions with them, Romney discovered

he wasn't the only one who rejected being tagged gifted.”

“We didn’t want others to think we considered
ourselves superior or anything,” he said. “One thing that
bothers me is when people think you're stuck-up or

conceited.”
Romney says he finds his high school work sufficiently

challenging, adding that most teachers are co-operative if a

student wants to delve further into a subject

k assig seem just mech
anical, but I bet all sorts of students find that,” he said

According to Romney, being brainy does have a few
advantages. “Good mike can help your confidence, and that

VANCOUVER (CP) — Bus lature orders bus drivers to
return to work in three days
and gives the government

return to work Monday after conditions.

a three-month shutdown of It extends the existing
bus serviee in the Vancouver contract and prevents the
company from locking out

area and Victoria.
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The act also provides for
the union and Metro Transit
to make another attempt to

Kelly said union leaders were

in turn will help you to try harder in a class. . ..” he
explained. “You feel you should be able to do well. and you

put in the extra effort.”

Romney, who was selected for the conference by the
teachers at his school and partly sponsored by the school
district, hopes UBC Connect will continue next year, and
says he gained from the experience.

“It really helped me realize bow much there is out
there,” said Romney, adding that exposure to UBC made
him realize where his high school courses are leading

Encouraged by the conference, Romney says he plans to
attend university, although he hasn't yet selected one, or a

field of study

“The conference was really good for giving a new
perceptiow of high school,” he added.

Bus drivers to return

Union official Randy Thom.
son said although the buses
may be running on Monday,
there could be problems.

He said buses will have to
be driven at 65 kilometres an
hour if sehedules are to be
kept, adding that if drivers
stick to the speed limit of 50
kilometres and other rules of
the road the system will
eventually grind to a halt.

The drivers wanted to
work under {he route sche-
dules they signed prior to the
shutdown June 15, rather
than the fall schedules which
would have gone into effect

new schedules imposed by
Metro Transit after bus
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President Reagan's meeting with Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko will be “the beginning of meaningful
dialogue” between the superpowers.

Georgi Arbatov, head of the Soviet Union's
USA-Canada Institute, talked privately with the Amer
jean evangelist and his delegation for more than an hour.

Arbatov told reporters after the meeting Graham
“has some very sound ideas” on arms control and that
they discussed the scheduled Sept. 28 Reagan-Gromyko

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