th 1 B8 CASTLEGAR NEWS, DECEMBER 16, 1981 Ze & (Ann Landers “4% Dear Ann Landers: | am one of the fortunate women who can afford to drive a car these days. | don’t mind picking up my friends who don’t drive. But it is irritating tobe taken for granted. May ! make a few suggestions to help keep friendships together? If someone you know has extended the courtesy of providing you with transportation — please: . Be ready and waiting at the time the driver is supposed to pick you up. 2. Don't expect the driver to pick up your friends. He/she has his/her route planned and may have agreed to pick up other passengers. 3. Don't ask the driver to stop while you run errands, (Mail a letter or pick up a loaf of bread or drop something off at the cleaners.) 4. Don't linger to talk when being dropped off, unless the driver asks you to visit a bit. 5. Do not smoke in the car unless the driver does. Even asking for permission is bad manners. Some people who don't smoke might be reluctant to say so. 6. Don’t be a back-seat driver. If you feel the Dinosaurs a mystery SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For perhaps two months, the Earth was wrapped in a cloud of dust so thick that the sun was obscured and temper- atures over land everywhere fell below zero. Within six months, says a new verion of a two-year-old theory, the landscape was littered with carcasses. Species after species became extinct. Plants stopped grow- ing and dinosaurs couldn't find enough food and died. The idea that a giant as- teroid or comet, crashing to Earth and kicking up huge clouds of dust 65 million years ago, ended the 140- million-year reign of the di was described at a driver is unsafe, you should not be a p ger in that person's car. 7. If you are a frequent passenger, it would be gracious to send the driver an occasional gift. Send flowers or bake something special. Come up with some meeting of the American Geophysical Union by atmos- pheric scientist Owen Toon. Toon, of the U.S. National i ; of y ‘our app! “Thank you.’ — Long Time At The Wheel. to Dear Wheel: Good list. You are bound to hit some hot buttons out there, but you'll open the eyes of many who will profit from your suggestions. Thanks for the input. Dear Ann Landers: | am a woman of 83 with a preblem | hope you can solve. For the past two years | ave lived in this lovely nursing home. | realize | am very lucky to be able to afford tobe here. ~ Now for my problem, which will seem trivial to you because you hear so many eve day that are worse. A woman moved in here several months ago and was allowed to bring her cat. | have a terrible jobia about cats. ! really dispise them. Cats affect me the same way rats or snakes affect other people. This woman lets her cat roam cround everywhere. When | am in the lounge and that cat appears, | become terrified. She often jumps on people's laps without warning, like a tiger. There are many cat lovers in this place, and they love to hold the cat and pet her. If this animal ever jumped on my lap, | would die of fright. 1 will be forced to find another place to live if this problem is not solved. | do love it here, Ann, and need your advice. — M.S. In Philadelphia. Dear M.S.: You should have no hesitation about telling the person in charge of the home exactly what and Space Ad- ministration’s Amers Re- search Centre at Mountain View, Calif., said theories of the end of the dinosaurs continue to stir considerable interest. The extinction of the giant reptiles launched the age of mammals, which survived, Toon theorizes, because they were small enough to burrow underground for warmth “and could probably stumble across enough food,” includ- ing dead dinosaurs. “All the mammals were mostly mice and little things like that and that's how we survived,” he said. “... But if you're a big guy like a din- osaur, you've got to find an awful lot of food.” KILLED BY SIZE He said cold and the inab- ility to find food probably killed off any creature that weighed more than 76 pounds. The idea of a dust-produc- ing collision was proposed in 1980 by a team of scientists led by Walter Alvarez of the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Labora- tory. They based the theory on geologic evidence that, about 65 million years ago, a thin layer of debris was deposited — around the Earth. The con- centration of certain metals in this layer is much different than that found in the Earth's crust, but about right for an asteroid. The group concluded that a meteorite, perhaps 13 kil- ometres across, caused a dust cloud that darkened the rth for several, years. Toon, with colleagues at Ames, RD Associates of Marina del Rey, the Uni- versity of Colorado and Infor- matics, Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., used computer simul- ations designed to study vol- canic ash and the atmos- pheres of other planets to better determine the effects of such a collision, The team presents a dif- ferent picture, with shorter but more dramatic impacts. “The duration was less than six months and possibly less than three months,” Toon said. The crash, possibly in the ocean, would have had 10 million times the energy of the Mount St. Helens vol- canic explosion last year, he said. Baby born in hot tub: SAN CLEMENTE, CALIF. (AP) — Giving birth under water isn't for every- one, but Keiko Beatie, who had her baby in a hot tub, says it was an experience she would be happy to repeat. “Yes, I would. Definitely,” the 26-year-old mother said two days after the birth. But she cautioned: “You have to know you're right for it.” Her baby was under water for 13 minutes after the birth. “Basically why we did this is it’s a very gentle, non- traumatic birth,” she said. Underwater delivery, an ex- perimental technique frowned on by the medical profession, is an attempt to ease the baby into the world by simulating conditions in the womb. Beatie, who works as a “holistic” health said she monitored the baby's heartbeat with a stethoscope after delivering him in the tub in her living room, without a doctor or nurse in attendance, “When he was underneath the water, he was going College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, says such deliv- eries are risky. While a child doesn't need to breathe through his lungs as long as the umbilical cord remains attached there is a risk of water entering the child's d if the through his own {i in order to clear the amniotic fluid from his lungs,” she said, The birth of Christopher Kenichi Beatie is believed to be the ninth underwater de- livery in the United States. About 50 such births are re- ported to have taken place in the Soviet Union since they were pioneered by swimming coach Igor Charkovsky 11 years ago, Dr. Keith Russell, presi- dent of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics and past Pp of the A i Princess of Wales No. 1 LONDON (REUTER) — The Princess of Wales has overtaken her husband, Prince Charles, to become the most popular member of the Royal Family, says a public opinion poll. The 20-year-old princess, who married the heir to the throne last. July and is ex- pecting their first child in June, was voted “number one royal” by 61 per cent of th people interviewed. Prince Charles took 22 per cent compared with 70 per cent a year ago in the poll conducted for the News of the World newspaper by Audi Sel placenta separates while still inside the mother. This could be fatal, said Russell. Russell said it's unlikely such births will be allowed in hospitals until more data is availalbe, so they must take place at home, far from hos- pitals’ emergency facilities. He said statistics show infant death and serious illness occur three to four times as often in home births as in hospitals. “T think that these (exper- imental) methods are more of a self-gratification for the parents than they are nec- essarily a physiological bene- fit to the baby,” he said. MINOR SPORTS Sure, we're interested! Phone the Castlegar News for details on how to get reports of your organization onto the sports pages. 365-3517 you have told me. No resident should be permitted to inflict her pets on others. The woman should be told that she can keep the cat in her room, but it should not be permitted to roam around and jump on the other residents. CONFIDENTIAL to Westchester Parents Who Can't Just Stand By: There's nothing wrong with giving your married son a hand — but don't give him your right arm. Newlyweds don't need a nine-room house in White Plains. Necessities are one thing but luxuries should be earned. Rubik's cube is no puzzle to him LONDON (REUTER — A 15-year-old British schoolboy broke a world record this week for solving a Rubik's Cube, the hot-selling puzzle that has adults in 30 coun- tries scratching their heads. Julian Chilvers of Norwich, England, beat nine finalists in the British championship at London's Savoy Hotel, solving the puzzle in 25.79 seconds. The previous record of 25.85 seconds was held by a French boy. Chilvers told reporters he used a little car grease to move the sides of the multi colored cube more quickly but would not disclose how he worked out the puzzle. He said he hoped to do it in 15 seconds at the world cham- pionship in New York next year. Movement brings sense of awareness EDMONTON (CP) — The subtle are barely istry, psychology and other discernible — but devotees to the Feldenkrais Method of awareness through move- ment say the results are much more tangible. The method involves put- ting the body through a series of small gentle move- ments. Participants in the classes being held in Edmon- ton report being more re- laxed and aware of the world around them. “The idea is to retrain the nervous system,” says in- structor Joan Stanley. She says the basis of the Feldenkrais technique is that humans use only about 10 per cent of their potential, adding the system changes the way a person moves and, as a result, the mind. Stanley learned the meth- od directly from its creator, Moshe Feldenkrais who de- veloped the technique in the 1940s. The Israeli physicist im- mersed himself in neurophy- siology, anatomy, diochem- in search of a way to avoid surgery on his in- jured knee. FEWTRAINED He put what he learned into a book called Body and Mature Behavior but it wasn't until the '70s that his method spread to North Am- erica, Now there are about 60 trained instructors on the continent. A key point in the Fel- denkrais technique is its in- sistence that learning be fun. Ther is no right or wrong way and even those with certain diseases or the el- derly can benefit from the program Stanley says. “The less you do, better it is.” she says, explaining that in order to discern minute differences in muscle pattern, muscular ef- fort must be minimized. “One of the side effects you get is flexibility and greater freedom of movement. A lot of people do it for that. 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Dunning was do! nothing inister than strolling throug! Gate Park in San Francisco ona sunny summer Gay in 1892. It was to be a da: Joka would remember for the s life. Bouncing baby rest of ly bench proved to be Mrs. Cordelia Botkin. At a mature 38, Cordelia was an attractive morsel, who really responded ‘to John’s advances. Cordelia’s husband, who had the rather pleasant first name of Welcome, n a banker in K: City before moving to Calif housekeeping in Stoc! Welcome had an adult son by the time she met John Di in. the; Obviously the Botkins were not on terms, for Cordelia spent all of her time in San Francisco; while Welcome our rem: the environs of Stockton. Took a room ete found J attractive in many ways, not the least of which was his youth. At the ‘thought had no doubt occ to her that the number of years left to “back’to the park. Cordelia didn’t even bother to come home. When questioned about his negligence and ained aie absences, abe ea be each week: ant have mi didn’t realize expli \3 ts cisco. She packed up the baby and went home to mommy and dad a still ho normal finished the evening of the children its taken a decided turn for the better in ‘recent ps ‘or ie r rect On this day the mail contained a small’ special delivery package ai ge addressed Dunning and postmarked San cisco. Had some friend rem her from years before when she lived in the Bay area? Mrs. 7 ned { anticipatio chocolate ce the parcel with some n, The package co! creams and a jonsant » but for the life ber were the box along to Mrs. Dean ie Dean children. As this peaceful ‘family:scene was taking place, two Mis! iteman and Miss ‘women, s Bat in, passed in front of the house: Mau ning sweets, not and the figure, 7 ere On and lates before ret to chat with Mrs. Dun- - and her sister. They were te sample several of the celicious e creams. J that it was not g ited. y remarked thing for the teeth best for the ou know. The two girls eir way. Mrs. for the e' P) as a war ; he had to work late Mrs. Di ited Press to report to Puerto he broke the news more, he didn’t fornia. In fact, {ation with Mrs. wi In the middle of the night Mrs, Dun- lent st cram] Kk to ever- lia she thought it a great from her stuffy husband, ‘whom abe: & saw anyway. Dunning of heel Then he thought of his baby. looked at Cordelia. Then he Then he rented a room. John and Cordelia embarked on a prolonged affair. Cordeli: manent room on Ge: nience’s sake John too! same house. Poor Mrs. Dunning felt that some- thing ras rotten in the state of Den- - mark. John paid scant attention to her _erior and the baby. Many nights each week he St. For conve- a room in the ware. The set-up suited soon as the wife was and Cordelia e They dined at the best restaurants, were constant theatre-goers, and regu- visi cetrack. dy in Dover, Dela- as so often happens of men, eid felt that enough was came sudd 5 reak 2s March 8, 1898, John wag assigned by the lust fine. As. were the past six years. The doctor was no sooner back at his residence when i It was no use, John explained as best he could that all good things‘come to an ‘That night John left San Francisco by Durin, tearful farewell, Cor- train. During a well, delia lost her cool and made a dreadful arded the scene. John si led, 4 and figured that was that. He was wrong. ‘we know, cious,° innoc: creams. "t was those - ent looking chocolate By Vie Parsons PEKING (CP) — Hust- ling tailors do a booming business at sidewalk stalls, cab drivers vie for a for- eign client at Peking air- port and peasants sell quality vegetables raised from private plots at state- approved free markets. All are signs of the lim- ited private initiative now permitted by the Chinese government as the coun- try’s sluggish economy struggles toward develop- ment. Although not all experi- mentation has been suc- cessful, the pragmatist + school of economic thought led by Vice-Chairman Deng Xiaoping now has the upper hand in China. The intellectual ferment among China’s Communist economic planners has re- sulted in challenges to hidebound ideology that would have been heresy not many years ago. Some economic zone” where for- eign companies will be permitted to operate under ‘ a mixed capitalist-socialist economy. Incentives can be paid to workers and the unproductive can be fired. — External Affairs Min- ister Mark MacGuigan, af- ter a meeting with Deng in August, says he has been told the Chinese are pre- to use economic techniques that were “pre- viously identified as capi- talism” by. radicals who have had Deng purged in the past as a “capitalist- roader.” ' — The authoritative Xin- hua news agency reports favorably the remarks of a provincial official who calls for abolition of the rural communal farms that were a keystone of Mao Tse- tung’s revolutional re- forms. PROBLEM FAMILIAR China faces a host of — A factory manager in the city of Chengdu ex- plains that workers who do not produce face pay de- ductions, a big step away from the egalatarianism that once saw every work- er paid lless of effort. P some of which have a familiar ring to Canadian ears — inflation, unemployment, lack of skilled workers, energy shortages, increas- ing income gaps between the rich and the poor and in some — Along the China-Hong Kong border, the Chinese are establishing a “special sectors. Much of the innovation which aims at overcoming China's economic those difficulties and boost- ing China’s economy was first tested in Sichuan province under the guid- ance of former ‘governor Zhao Ziyang, a Deng fol- lower and current premier of China’s state council. The economy of Sichuan, China's most populous province with nearly 100 million people, was badly hurt by fighting during the Cultural Revolution and Zhao is credited with promoting managerial im- provements, _ decentraliz- ing decision-making and expanding the private plots of peasants. “Zhao applied a liberal thought changing has lost profits that might. have been reinvested in the country’s current en- ergy efficiency is “retched” or “The profits of the plant has decreased but the fac: tory has not been allowed to lay off workers,” ex- plained factory manager Chen Li. “We still have to pay them and that has made our responsibility very heavy.” U is a ma- and is a must if an energy crisis is to be averted. The bank argued that China must quickly switeh to coal to conserve oil for a At the Chengdu Mea- suring and Cutting Tools Factory, production work- ers are paid in eight scales ranging to 103 yuan a month from 32.50 yuan. There is aneven larger gap for the 82 office and levels — 30 ical production and export, where the Chinese can make much-needed foreign jor problem in China with an estimated 10 million people jobless, many of them young, and few op- portunities opening up. At the Chengdu factory, for example, there are few jobs available despite male dose of to get the economy of Sichuan moving,” says a Canadian diplomat stationed in Pe- ig. About 100 freelance tail- ors who set up tables and sewing machines on a street in Chengdu, Sich- uan's capital, are an ex- ample of the medicine be- ing applied. LINES SHUT DOWN A result has been over- supply of these products which, combined with re- duced demand because of cuts in heavy industry, has forced shutdowns of some lines. Shutdowns in China, however, do not mean lay- offs, so the Chengdu plant at 60 years of age and female retirement at 50. “We are having prob- lems on. how to accom- modate all the requests for jobs, especially for the children of workers who want jobs,” says Chen. As‘an indication of the acuteness of the problem, * 8.6 million students will be writing examinations this year to fill 300,000 slots in colleges. The disappointed ones will be joining mil- lions of others seeking work. Another bugbear for the Chinese economy is energy waste. A recent World Bank report on China said Over-all, the World Bank gave China an optimistic “review, endorsing current efforts to improve econ- omic efficiency. A similar trend is no- ticeable on billboards on the main streets in Peking — they’re overwhelmingly advertising rather than political. Foreigners who live in Peking say the ratio of advertising to slogans is a way of keeping in touch with the political current of the day. On Changan Av- enue, one of Peking’s main streets, there are bill- boards plugging a British airline and Japanese ster- eos, television sets and sewing machines, as well as Chinese products. To an outsider, perhaps one of the more startling discoveries is the inequit- ies in pay at Chinese factories. yuan to 240 yuan. The factory manager, elected to his post, re- ceives 140 yuan a month. The chief engineer gets yuan. With recent changes in the economy, factories sim- ilar to the Chengdu plant now are able to make more decisions independently of central authorities. Profits are invested in plant ex- pansion, for social services and living quarters for workers and used to pay salaries. H Ls Independent operation has created some prob- lems, however. When un- skilled managers made lo- al i CASTLEGAR NEWS, DECEMBER 16, 198) ip HO! “Bbclng the tcandy to the stop where te choc, V4 3 where 10CO- lates fad Parl lerk in the store the Shr Dover. She remembered Co: cation tag from lef. It was nm shop, where again Cordelia purchaser. traced to a li was identified a: On the Cordelia bought the chocolates and the ee ay, she had been living in Room 26 at the Hotel Victoria. Wouldn't the rter found a part floor. Tt was a seal used ¥ ‘chocq lates. Cordelia fore ‘sending the choco- As if all this araan't enough, Cordeliay even encountered one of those which stretches coincidence to its limit. When she mailed On Feb. 4, 1899, Cordelia was found guilty of murder and sentenced to prison for life. Normally gates of prison: should have closed behind Cordelia, leaving only.the memories of her sensa- tional poison case, but Cordelia -was not average lady. She had her la aj * oma technicality. While a’ lowed to egveral months after the conclusion of her trial, co; J Cook made some inquiries and discov: rdelia had turned on the charm. She seduced two lothing, | e2 to Sra lle shepping ing when the mood struck her. It beat some poorly thought-out projects contributed to na- tional deficits. _ shes One of the inefficiencies is related to supply. There are about 100 factories similar to the Chengdu plant in China which manu- facture such products as drill bits, cutting tools and calipers. in years for. the court to that the -judge at Cordelia’s trial had instructed the jury that Sircumstantialevidedce: was superior to direct 80 Tally, Cordele Botkin war teassferred to San lelia was fel Quentin Prison. Four years later she died there of natural causes, Chocolates, anyone? rer