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CASTLEGAR NEWS, DECEMBER 16, 1981

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Author Mike Cramond,
whose book Killer Bears
attempts to explode pop-
ular myths about bears,
says any bear, male or fe-
male, black, brown, polar
or grizzly, must be treated
as potentially dangerous.

The friendly, cute, cud-
dly animals that appear in
television shows and fairy
tales, don’t exist, says
Cramond, who wrote an
outdoor column for The
Province for 22 years.

In a recent interview,
Cramond estimated that he
drove 60,000 kilometres in
the course of his research
for the book and flew at
least as far again. He visi-
ted survivors of bear at-
tacks, went to sites where
attacks occurred and
talked to park officials and
game wardens.

He also drew on his per-
sonal experiences with
bears. He has been at-
tacked several times, once
by a bear who intended to
make his infant daughter
into a meal. Cramond was
the skin of that bear at
home.

He said that a firearm of
sufficient power, in the
hands of someone able to
use it well, will usually end
most bear attacks.

But what about the
growing number of people
who venture into bear
country backpacking and
fishing?

GIVES POINTERS ;

Cramond gives t¥em
pointers in his book — keep
a clean camp, treat every
bear as dangerous, stay
away from cubs — but
there are no sure-fire rem-
( edies against an attack.

Bear myth must go

“Always keep an eye
open for bear sign," he
sald. “Bear scats are un-
mistakable; if they're fresh
it means bears are not far
away.

“Watch for bushes
where bears have been
foraging for berries or foli-
age. They'll often be quite
badly broken up.

“If the injuries to the
bushes are fresh, get out of
there as fast as you can. If
there is still wet saliva on
the bushes it means the
bear is very close, so get
out of there even faster.”

ARE NO RULES

Cramond said there are
norule in a bear attack. He
describes a bear attack as
getting into the ring with
the heavyweight champion
of the world. The champ
has jaws and teeth that can
crush your skull like a nut

and he's wearing knuckle-
dusters with long steel
spikes.

Cramond said some peo-
ple have stayed on their
feet, tried to fight the bear
off and survived. Others
have been killed trying the
same thing.

Some have played dead
and the bear has left them.
Others have played dead
and wound up being dead.

“I think some kind of
personal tear-gas weapon,
something like Mace might
help.” He also said a wea-
pon similar to shark re-
pellent sticks could be ef-
fective,

Cramond said he loves
bears and wants them to
be understood. His book
was meant to increase
public understanding and
to save lives — of both men
and bears.

Men break tradition

WINDSOR, ONT. (CP) —
While plenty has been said
about women taking on non-
traditional jobs, men are in-
creasingly moving into jobs
long associated with the op-
posite sex.

Having a male nurse take
your temperature, a baritone
voice place your long-dis-
tance call, a man behind a
corporate reception desk or
transcribing a lawyer's notes

are all becoming more com-.

mon,

Although he likes the
atmosphere of dealing with
the public, Barron says
there's one d: to

While women are taking
maternity leaves or time off
to raise families, the male

the job — he's making con-
siderably less than he would
as an autoworker.

His complaint is echoed by
others in non-traditional jobs.

“If I was married and had
children to raise, I'm quite
certain my wife would have
to be employed,” says John
Jenkins, head nurse of the
rehabilitation ward at Wind-

Among those making the °F Western Hospital.

switch to non-traditional jobs
is Pat Barron, 31, an auto-
worker-turned-bank teller.

“I was at Chrysler for nine
years,” he says. “I just more
or less got fed up... But I
didn't know what I wanted to
do.”

His wife suggested he take
a bank tellers course at St.
Clair College. After he con-
tacted the i — who

Ahurse for 15 years, he's
one of 758 registered male
nurses in Ontario out of a
total of 4,000 nurses.

Although Jenkins says it's
not uncommon for a factory
worker to be paid more than
8 registered nurse, his. job
has stability, something few
factory workers enjoy.

HAS ADVANTAGES
_ Being a man in a female-

was surprised that a man
wanted to enrol — he decided
the course sounded good and
gave his notice to the car
manufacturer.

Even before graduating he
was hired by a downtown
Windsor bank, where as the
lone man behind the counter
he gets noticed. He says cus-
tomer response is generally
good and he gets along well
with other tellers,

MAN ‘INTERESTING’

“For the most part, they all

also
Hes some unique advantages.

Garlic oil
can reduce

blood levels

Taking a small daily dose
of garlic oil can. sharply
reduce blood levels of chol-
esterol in both healthy people
and those with heart disease,

astudy publish

say it’s
having a man around.”

Although other men work
as tellers, Barron's case is
different because he has
chosen telling as a full-time
job. The others only pass
through during management
training.

“I don’t know whether I'll
move up or not. If I do, it will
be through work experi-
ence.”

Hobby is shipwrecks

By CLYDE WARRINGTON Thiscan be one heck of alake and Recreation grant, Ver-

=PORT BURWELL, ONT.
(CP) — Lake Erie is the

when it’s roused.”
Squalls can pounce on th

brugge, a 50-year-old mill-
wright, heads to the lake

graveyard of many ships lake without a moment's no- every weekend, weather per-
wrecked during the last 150 tice, says Verbrugge. On mitting.

years, and the hobby of diver

such occasions, its shallow

Accompanying him are

Mike Verbrugge of Straf- waters — the shallowest of divers — he has about 14 to

fordville, Ont., is trying to
find them.
Travelling around the lake

the Great Lakes — can be
treacherous.

It is also a dirty lake. It’s
not for silt to be

in a 18-metre tug d

choose from — from the
London-St. Thomas area.

In two years of visiting the
wreck, the team has con-

with expensive side-scanning so bad that a diver's visibility centrated solely on surveying

sonar, he says finding wrecks
in the murky like waters “is
like finding that needle in ae

haystack.” It requirep ph- ;

tience.

Hundreds of ships lie s Bi
where on the bottom of
Erie. In the last 150 cil |
more than 175 have gone
down off Long Point alone,
many without a trace, says
Verbrugge.

In November, 1979, Bob
Hamilton, a fisherman work-
ing out of Port Burwell,
hooked his nets on something
immovable. A depth sound-
ing convinced him it was a
shipwreck and he called Ver-
brugge.

By 19th-century standards
it is a big one, measuring
metres from bow to stern and
more than 10 metres wide. A
date stamped on the helm
wheel shows it was sailing
during the 1860s or later.

The emblem of a star
mounted on the ship's hull
might mean the vessel was
the Morning Star, a 400-ton
schooner which sailed from
the United States in 1880
with a cargo of grain. It sank,
presumably during a storm,
several kilometres off Port
Burwell.

“They were a hardy bunch
in those days,” Verbruggs
said of the seven seamen who
lost their lives with the Mor-
ning Star.

“They had to be hardy to
trael this lake in all kinds of
weather, from spring to fall.

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or five times and I'd swear it
was a different wreck each
time I see it,” said St.
Thomes diver Bob Johnston.

If it is the Morning Star —
and the survey will prove or
disprove that theory — there
are reports it was carrying a

small cache of gold and silver’

coins.

Wreck-diving is a losing
proposition financially, he
says, and he considers his
work more akin to that of a

Beg ‘Saying turns
into reality

CARSON CITY, NEV. (AP)
— That old saying about
bringing home the bacon has
new meaning for Hank
Thomas: a business associate
sent him a $400 cheque
printed on the flank of a
month-old piglet.

Thomas, president of
Northern Nevada Title Co.,
promptly took the wriggling
porker to the bank, where

the cheque, printed in three
colors, was stamped, cancel-
led and traded for cash.

The payment Monday was
from Steve Griggs of Carson
City Mortgage for an escrow-
closing.

Bank officials cancelled the
cheque by hand, declining to
run the little piggie through
the cancelling machine.

“Maybe off the coast of
Florida in the gulf (of Mexico)
it is treasur hunting,” he
said. “But here it’s adven-
ture. There may be treasure
out there but I dare say if we
found any, the .government
would have a finger in the
pie.”

Not content with one
wreck, Verbrugge will be
looking for another in the
spring. He may be lucky
because, he says, 90 per cent
of Lake Erie's wrecks haven't
been disturbed since they
went down.

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nurse working, ac-
cumulating experience that
can lead to job promotions.

“When you're working
with a large percentage of
females, you have the benefit
of moving .up the ladder,”
Jenkins says.

A head nurse for five
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Male telephone operators,
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“It’s quite boring,” says
George Larter of Toronto.
“There's. very little chal-
lenge.”

President of Local 50 of the
Communications Workers of
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that there are fewer than 200
male operators in Ontario.

He became one so he could
work at night and go to
schook during the day. Des-
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hoping to improve the oper-
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“I would think that if more
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paid.”

Because of the struggle for
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Some of them believe you
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give you a hard time in that
way. But most of the com-
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VANCOUVER (CP) —

Only two out of every 100
newborn babies in B,C. miss
out on an important blood
test that detects two rare
conditions which can be
cured by treatment early in
life.

It is those two per cent
that haunt technicians and
doctors at the Children's
Hospital in Vancouver,
where lab tests are carried
out on samples sent from 100
hosptials and 70 public health
nurses throughout BC,

The implications of missing
samples was driven home
with the case ofa child whose
sample never reached the
Children’s Hospital. Nine
months later, Kyla Rae Har-
rison of Prince George, was
diagnosed as having typo-
thyroidism. The diagnosis
came too late to totally re-
verse the effects of the con-
dition.

The child’s parents, David
and Anna Harrison, are an-
gry about the loss of the
sample and the delay in dia-
gnosing their daughter's con-
dition. Dr. Margaret Mor-
man, who heads the screen-
ing program, said news of the
Harrison's plight was taken
as a personal blow by every-
one involved with the pro-

gram.

A search showed that no
sample from the Harrison
baby ever reached the
screening lab.

The Harrisons say they
believe clear lines of respon-
sibility for making sure the
test is taken have not been
set out.

“In realistic, practical
terms, there will be some
people who are not tested,”
said Dr. ‘David Hardwick,
whose work helped lead to
the of the

nosed after several mistaken

The Ministry of Health
now is investigating the case.

The Harrisons say they
cannot afford trips to Van-
,couver, the only place in B.C.
where Kyla can be seen by
qualified specialists. She is
growing now after the period
of severely slowed develop-
ment before treatment be-
gan.

The PKU-T4 screening
test, involving blood taken
from each child's heel a few
days after birth, detects con-
genital hypothyroidism and
PKU, phenylketonuria.

Hypothyroidism, which
occurs in one out of 10,000
births, is a defect in or lack of
the thyroid gland which pro-
duces the vital growth hor-
mone thyroxine of T4, Unless
caught and treated with syn-
thetic hormones, the condi-
tion results in mental and
physical retardation.

PKU is the lack of an
enzyme involved in the con-
version of amino acids. Un-
detected, PKU leads to men-
tal retardation but, if de-
tected early in life, it can be
defeated by a special diet.

There were 89,000 births
in B.C. last year and two
cases of PKU and six cases of
hypotheyroidism were de-
tected. 2

The test is usually done
five days after birth because
the child must be fed for the
PKU test to be effective.
The samples are placed on
a card which is sent to the
screening lab at the Chil-
dren's Hospital where ma-
chines carry out the tests,
removing portions of the
bloodstains on the cards.
Dr. Norman said some
parents, insisting on rapid
i from

screening program. “We will
do our damnedest to catch.
every case.”

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lor births. A grow-
The Harrison's hypothyr. Fira of parents refuse

kid ‘child was born in Pen-
ticton Regional Hospital on
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Kyla’s condition was. diag-

to allow the tests to be done,
she said.

These cases of refusal or
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Children’s scalds
could be: avoided

OTTAWA (CP) — Hun- ,

dreds of children could be
spared the pain of scalds
from hot tap water if parents
turned down thermostats on
water heaters. :

That's the main conclusion
of doctors at children’s hos-
pitals in Winnipeg, Montreal
and Toronto in an article
published in the latest issue
of the Canadian Medical As-
sociation Journal.

The doctors estimate that
more than 100 children under
age of 16 are admitted to
hospital each year for treat-
ment of scalds, and at least
200 others are treated as
outpatients.

The article says the main
reason for these unaccept-
ably high statistics is stand-
ards for hot water heaters
that were set to accommo-
date dishwasher manufactur-
ers.

The current factory setting
for electric water heaters, for
example, is 66 degrees Cel-
sius — hot enough to produce
a third-degree burn in two
seconds.

The standard setting for
gas water heaters is 60 C, a
temperature that can pro-
duce a severe six
seconds.

Water boils at 100 C.

The doctors say that fami-
lies could turn down the
thermostats to as low as 88 C
and still get good results
from their dishwashers, but.

they say a reduction to 54 C -

would be acceptable.

That would give parents 30
seconds to get a child out of a
tub that’s too hot and owuld
also save energy. costs and
increase the life of hot water.
tanks and pipes.

Turning down a hot water
heater is a simple job for a
homeowner, but may not be
possible for families in apart-
ments and other kinds of
multiple-unit homes with cen-
tral hot water systems.

For these families, in-
creased vigilance is the key
to preventing scalds, the ar-
ticle says.

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