cs _Castlégar News July 13, 1988 Advertising battle NEW YORK (REUTER) — Mike Tyson is at the centre of a fresh battle between two soft-drink heavy- weights, with Coca-Cola. claiming that Diet Pepsi's ads featuring the boxing champion are misleading. Coca-Cola Co. has ‘asked all three major U.S. television networks to pull a 30-second commercial showing Tyson telling reporters there was no question who was going to win the big fight, meaning Diet Pepsi beating Diet Coke. Pepsi's new advertising campaign built around Tyson says that Diet Pepsi “beat the taste of Diet Coke” in consumer taste tests, but Coke says indignantly that is not true. “We couldn't let that claim go un challenged,” Carlton Curtis, vice- president of Coke's corporate com. munications, said in a telephone in- terview from Atlanta. At stake is a fast-growing part of the massive $40-billion market for soft drinks. While Pepsi has a long way to go to catch up, statistics show its diet cola is gaining market share from its bigger rival, For the month of April 1988, Coke and caffeine-free Diet Coke had 10.1 per cent of the U.S, soft-drink market share based on supermarket sales, reported Beverage Digest, while Diet Pepsi trailed\with 6.9 per cent of the market. BEAT SPINKS Tyson beat Michael Spinks for the undisputed world heavyweight — WANTED — CLEAN COTTON RAGS ay Pe. Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave., Castlegar LN Westar Timber WANTED White Pine Logs (oii sizes) Top Dollar Paid Contact: Cam Barlow 604-365-8437 Collect 7a.m. to5 p.m. 1. Tune-Ups are required. a7 volo \ Career Opportunity FULL-TIME LICENSED MECHANIC ust be well versed in: 2. Alignments Must possess own hand tools. Complete benefits plus bonus program. Must be good with general public, Competitive wages. Please phone 364-2661 for appointment, ask for Dan. Written applications SHOP HOURS Monday-Saturday 8:00-5:30 3. Brakes in a 91-second match on June 27 in Atlantie City, N.J. It was one of the most hyped matches in boxing history with Pepsi as the exclusive sponsor. All three major U.S. networks said the Coke challenge is under review, a process that could take two to four weeks. Curtis said Coke had heard about the planned commercials several days before the first ad broke on’ June 27, the night of the Tyson Spinks fight, and protested to all the three networks. “Pepsi still hasn't produced their research,” Curtis said. “Their claims are unsubstantiated.” However, Pepsi said it has plenty of proof. “Our research is fundamentally sound. It's based on long understood sampling practices, and we stand behind it,” said Stuart Ross, manager of Pepsi-Cola Co.'s publie relations in Purchase, N.Y. Pepsi is a unti of PepsiCo Ltd Ross said Pepsi has submitted statistical information to the net works and in addition has written to Coke suggesting problems with Coke's testing methods. 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Many researchers, says Keon — who has Pacemaker technology improves with time electric cord connected to a massive console which controlled the plastic heart's rythym; a human experiment some scientists say should never have been tested. Clark lived 112 days on the artificial heart. Then Keon offers the story of Noella LeClair, now living happily with her family in Ottawa. EeClair lived for one week with Canada's first artificial heart in 1986 until Keon found a healthy human one to replace hers. Now, 443 patients around the world have received artificial hearts — generally used today asa bridge to help keep the body running when the patient's own engine has seized and a donor heart isn't yet available. Of that number, one third are stili alive, Keon says. CONSIDER ETHICS “We certainly all recognize as medical people and health pi i of various kinds the need for pioneered Canadian artificial heart tr — have had trouble carrying on with heart transplant research because society considered their work taboo. DENIES REQUESTS “In some cages, requests for initiation of cardiac transplant programs have been denied by a hospital board of trustees.” This was true in 1980 of the Massachussetts General Hospital in Boston, he says. Yet heart transplants have a much lower death rate than patients undergoing some other treatment, such a¥ heart-valve replacement. Keon shows a photo of Barney Clark of Salt Lake City — the world’s first artificial heart recipient. He too is plugged into the wall with an ethics committees and for careful consideration and deliberation,” he tells delegates at a recent inter- national conference on rehabilitation. “However, we must also recognize that we cannot afford to create bureaucracy that will frustrate young scientists and deprive patients of medical advances that could be of benefit to them.” While new and better work with artificial hearts continues, human heart transplatation is no longer experimental surgery, Keon says. A total of 1,415 heart transplants were performed around the world in 1986 — up from 1,000 in 1985 and 95 in 1980 — a far cry from the solitary efforts in 1969 by South African surgeon Christian Barnaard, he says. No cure found yet for Rett syndrome By SHERYL UBELACKER TORONTO (CP) — Sarah was a normal, lively toddler, taking her first steps and uttering her first words. But when she was about a year old, something began to go terribly wrong. The babbling baby talk ceased and her movements became jerky and uncertain. By the time she was two, months, sometime between the child starts to speech and much of her voluntary motor function. There is severe men- tal and physical impairment. nine and 18 lose Province of British Columbia Ministry of Transportation ‘and Highways HIGHWAYS—TENDERS Electoral District: Nelson/Creston Highway District: New Denver No. 34 the once playful child would just stare at the wall, continuously clasp- ing and unclasping her hands like a washerwoman wringing out wet clothes. “There I would be coming home and she would meet me at the door or say ‘Daddy,’ recalls her father, Enie Sniedzins, a 45-year-old business ex- ecutive in Toronto. “Then, all of a sudden, I'd be coming home and she wasn’t turning around. I would clap my hands, drop a book behind her to get her attention, and she just wouldn't respond. “I thought she was losing her hearing. In the process, all the skills she had acquired — her grabbing and her verbailization — she was also losing.” Sniedzins and his wife took Sarah from doctor to doctor, but no one could determine what was wrong with her. Some said she was a slow developer, others that she had “autistic tendencies.” READ ARTICLE It wasn't until Sarah was eight New Denver except holidays 358-2212. Province of British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Highways HIGHWAYS - TENDERS Electoral District: Nelson-Creston Highway District: New Denver Project or Job Number: C468) Drainage Highway No. 31A Project or Job Description: Ditching and Culvert Installation Tender Opening Date/Time: July 19. 8, 2:30 p.m. File: 34.0-23 Surety Bid Bond or Certified Deposit Cheque is not required Tender documents with enveldpe. plons, specifications and conditions of tender are available free of charge ONLY from Ministry of Tran: Sportation and Highways, Box 159, B.C. 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McCARGAR Acupuncture treatment based on ancient method By PATTI FLATHER Press VICTORIA — A marijuana-like odor wafts from the burning stick as Patti Farand holds it close to acupuncture points on Joe Turner's bared torso, pulling the stick away quicky when her classmate yells “hot!” But Farand, 28, is not giving her fellow student an illicit drug. Despite the pungent smell it’s actually dried leaves of mugwort, a healing herb used to warm her patient's “energy channels.” Learning about exotic herbs and acupuncture needling techniques used by the Chinese is why Farand, Turner, and 31 others are enrolled in the Academy of Science for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Victoria. Acupuncture is based on the principle of a life force, or Chi, flowing through the body in two opposing) but unifying channels, the yin and the yang. Balancing that life force — and e: ig ailments or pain — by inserting tiny needles into special points on the body is the basis of the treatment. Farand heard of a vacancy at the school and laughs as she recalls phoing her father on the farm about the $4,000 tuition and telling him, “Dad, sell a heifer.” NINE GRADUATE Farand of Meadow Portage, Man., was among nine students who graduated in May from the only English-speaking acupuncture school in Canada. Only Alberta and Quebec license acupuncturists and Quebec has several French-language schools. In most parts of Canada only medical doctors are legally ized to practise “It's not illegal and it’s not legal,” says Junji Mizutani, a director of the Ontario-based Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Association. Provincial medicare programs don’t cover acupunc ture, which costs between $35 and $50 an hour. The Victoria “campus” is two quaint, brightly painted Victorian-style houses, with no-frills interiors renovated by students, and a trailer in the nearby community of Sidney. Students treat about 75 patients a week at a clinic in one of the houses. ure. “They have survived the primitive conditions of the new school,” says Wee-chong Tan, who founded the school in 1984 and is its president, An Anglican minister and biochemist, Tan also helped found Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, also on Vancouver Island. The students, who have practised during the last three years by sticking needles into each other as well as patients, range in age from 24 to 47. For Norman Sim, a 29-year-old former police officer, learning Chinese medicine_was “the first thing I've ever done in my life that doesn’t feel like work.” “I'm very emotionally attached to the school,” says Farand, a former drug and alcohol treatment counsellor. “It gives me a whole new insight into myself.” Mary Watterson, the president of the 75-member Acupuncture Association of British Columbia, says of the school: “I think it's wonderful, it certainly sets a precedent in Canada.” There's an icy reception, however, from the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons, where registrar Craig Arnold says tersely, “These individuals have no legal status in the province.” The medical establishment has long been wary of non-western techniques, even though Chinese writings on acupuncture date back more than 2,000 years and the World Health Organization lists about 40 ailments that can be helped by the treatment. Acupuncture is used most commonly in western countries to treat chronic pain, but practicioners say it can be used for other problems associated with menopause, hypertension, asthma and indigestion. Dr. Mike Greenwood, a medical doctor on the Victoria school's faculty, admits to skepticism among his peers about eastern \mgdicine. But with health care costs rising, Greenwood says it makes more sense to try a holistic eastern approach before ordering costly scientific tests. However, he says, doctors fear malpractice suits from patients if they miss any medical problem and so they routinely order tests. Babies fight for lives By STEPHEN WARD Canadian Press HALIFAX — For the two years of his life, Daniel Stewart's world was tiny, tidy and antiseptic. In his Halifax hospital bed, the child breathed with the robotic rhythms of a ventilator machine that was both his lifeline and albatross. Born 11 weeks premature, Daniel's lungs were left scarred and rigid by the machine's pounding. “There were lots of tears and ups and downs for both of us,” says his mother, Darlene Stewart of Kentville, N.S. “If there was a problem, having to hear it on the phone wasn't nice when you couldn't be there.” Although a battery of therapists, doctors and technicians tended daily to the brown-haired child, Daniel died earlier this year at the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital. Other premature children keep up the battle for life. Their helpless parents maintain hope. JOY DAMPENED Advances in medical technology are keeping frail, premature babies like Daniel alive longer: Minutes after birth, parental joy is often dampened by risky surgery, intimidating hardware, mounting costs and an uncertain prognosis. Becky Attenborough, head nurse of the“neonatal unit at the Izaak Walton, the largest children’s hospital in the Maritimes, says the emotional and financial strain on parents can be severe. . “It’s very hard on relationships,” says Attenbor- ough. “Not every person can cope with stress in the same way. And for some, there is grief at the loss of the perfect child that was expected.” In 1980, 360,377 premature babies were born in Canada. Of these, 4,044 infants, born after 28 weeks’ gestation, died. Five years later, the survival figures show a marked improvement: 3,269 of 367,376 babies born after the same gestation period died. Seven-month-old Zachary Longmire is one of the survivors. When Zachary was born two weeks prematurely, his intestines, spleen and stomach were pushed up into his chest area and his lungs were abnormally small. After corrective surgery and 11 weeks on a ventilator, the blond, blue-eyed child recovered in a glass incubator amind stuffed elephants, toys and a baseball cap. Several weeks ago, Zachary — connected to a portable oxygen machine — went home from the Izaak Walton. Long nights waiting in hospital corridors have left Zachary's 30-year-old mother, Karen, with questions. “Medical science has &me a long way but it hasn't come far enough, because a lot of the things they do to save kids comes with associated problems,” says Longmire. Although she’s grateful her son survived, she says “you can’t help but think that, in some situations, people were better off years ago because the child just didn't make it. Then mom got pregnant a few months later and had a healthy child.” The Longmires spent the month after Zachery's birth in a local hotel. To cut costs, they rented an apartment and filled it with furniture from their home near Annapolis Royal beside the Bay of Fundy. Karen neglected her accounting career to spend almost every waking minute in the hospital with Zachary. As she bathed her son and fed him through a tube, her husband, Lloyd, fished for scallops to pay expenses. “I'm your typical country girl,” says Longmire. “I really minded leaving my home” and coming to the city. “Five months before my son was born, ultrasound tests detected some kind of problem,” says Karen, casually dressed in a jean jumpsuit and blue scarf. “Five months is a long time to sit and worry.” Canadi write Editor's note: Many of the thousands of Canadians who have moved to California make a special effort to follow events in their home land and keep in touch with fellow immi. grants. By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Canadian Press LOS ANGELES — With heads high and the Maple Leaf hoisted, the Royal Canadian Legion marches proudly under the California sun. “I always carry the Canadian flag,” boasts 72-year-old Jack Martin, who leads the other 36 members of the San Diego-based Legion Post 5, still loyal to the land they served in war. When Los Angeles lawyer Bill Sobel wants to deal with a fellow Canadian-born lawyer, he thumbs through the Canadian-American Bar Association directory. Any expatri. ate Canadian businessman who pre- fers to patronize a fellow expatriate can consult the California Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Call it nationalism, call it home- sickness, call it a yen to hear the familiar “eh.’ Whatever the reason, of t i i in California are networking. Among them are about 700 Cana dian war veterans bunched in scat tered bands across the state, like the 14-member Royal Canadian Air Force Association in Sacramento. Other groups range from the 400. strong Quebec California Association to the philanthropic Canadian Wom. en's Society. There are real estate agents, law yers and tax accountants who speci. alize in helping Canadian immig rants. One firm bills itself as Can. adian Commercial Advisers — Back ed by 35 Years Immigration Ex perience. CANUCK NEWSPAPER And to keep track of all that's Canadian in the Golden State, and some of what's going on back home, there's a special newspaper. Its publisher is Debbie McLaughlin, 37, a Vancouverite who started the twice-monthly tabloid three years ago. Jnless, it's acid rain, trade or some major topic, you don’t hear anything about Canada down here,” says McLaughlin, looking quite Cal. ifornian in a cool-blue short-sleeve sweater and white slacks, sitting in the palm-lined poolside cafe of a hotel in Newport Beach. (The hotel, by the way, is the Canadian-owned Four Seasons. “It's that bond of just hearing something from home” that draws Canadians together, she says. “Whe ther people are down here one year or 30 years, your heritage stays with you. “In the States, they're very patri. otic and I think that rubs off an youa little but when you get down here. It makes you feel more so about your own country.” The newspaper offers tidbits of news from Canada, along with pro- files of prominent Canadians in Cal ifornia and coverage of social events. A recent issue carried a profile on Joan Winser, the Canadian consul general in Los Angeles, a feature on Canadian actress Sarah Torgov, highlights of coming entertainment events in California, real estate and tax advice and news briefs on an array of Canadian topics ranging from AIDStesting in Winnipeg to skaters Tracy Wilson and Rob McCall preparing “for the world championships. CAN-AM SOCIETY A few hundred kilometres to the north, in San Francisco, Kirk Miller talks about the Canadian-American Society and Chamber of Commerce of Northern California Miller, a tall, gaunt architect from Red Deer, Alta., is the chamber's president. He says the group, which now has over 300 members, began in the 1970s when the Canadian Business. men’s Club merged with the more socially oriented Canadian-American Society. “It's just a way for people to get together, and the idea on the busi- ness side was to network with fellow Canadians and people with an in- terest in Canada,” says Miller, over an up-and-at-‘em Sunday breakfast of waffles and bacon. “We have a program of speakers ... things of interest to Canadians. 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