CASTLEGAR NEWS, June 3, 1981

One man’s opinion

Driving laws

By FRED MERRIMAN
lagree with Alex Fraser when he speoks of toughening up the legislation on
the operation of motor vehicl
have been necessary to get tough. Most
in a safe and responsible manner. Not
@ or more courteous than the self-
people know what the odds cando

{t's a matter of survival
Sometimes | the fer fing ‘hat he ‘offenders and irresponsible among us
have the attitude that laws and highway regulations are only for aged, Inform
and tea grannies who have taken to the highway to admire the scenery and
study the cloud formations. Such is not the cas
Even though the younger drivers have taken much of the blame for the
example of bad manners on the highway, my own observation would charge
mesk and mild-mannered office workers, inattentive housewives and
generally any Introverted type who transforms into a Bobby Unser just
because the wheels are humming on the blacktop,
In fact, even me: 1 spend much time scanning Foodside hiding spots, feeling
somehow strangely j ly jealous about those hot, hot cars which carroom past my
struggling VW lil m driving backwards, Sometimes | hit 60 or better just to

keep with the flew of traffic and feel like I’ve [ust broken the 11th comman- -

dment. Many of my speedier friends have written-off the speed limit signs as.a
complete wast of metal and paint.

' bnew the 2 Q very find line separates me . . . the good guy from the oth:
guy... thebad

Toughening up othe legislation may deter the chap who values money or his

fraedon more than a sport of a time burning the needle; somehow | doubt it.

| question the success of tougher laws because most true 3; jers do not
know they are speeding. Drunk or sober they are spaced out on an ego-
building power trip which equates the feel of a leather-bound steering wheel
with the space-age equivalent of spinning through and between the stars in
time and space with their very lives and destinies at stake.

The serious limit to this driving fantasy is placed by the reallty that other
men, women and sometimes 16-year-old children are on the same course
somewhere betwean Proxima Centauri and the North Star. There simply is not
enough room on 30 feet of winding mountain asphalt to play Star Trek or Buck

Root t think it is so much a problem of making new laws as it is of finding
out why an Increasing number of normally peaceful, docile, and law-abiding
citizens have this overpowering urge to go bananas behind the wheel of an
automobile.

It is sad but true, Mr. Fraser, your driving public is clamouring for attention
and they shall now receive much attention from your department, I nee s As jh
kind of attention the master and power trippers wanted. f)
aed any attention is better than none atall...ora sudden hie which en-

Is the dream.

Ending their celibacy

HIALEAH, FLA. (AP) —

in the mood. ritual love dance.

“We had practically given Last week, two falmingos
up hope,” Angelo Testa, dir- laid eggs. Another eight eggs breeding.
ector of operations at the have since ap|
track, ssid Friday.

The big, pink birds that. OBES
live in a pond in the centre off,
the track quit fooling-around ‘on the-soon-to-be

af hatch, and. track _. ti
rorkerp are keeping an eye ‘
Offspring. -. ingos’

alled
after the breeding season of Males and females take turns pases atop the palms ont
heir little island to simulate
Environmentalists say the rain, which atimulate sexual

1972, egg-sitting.
But recently, the flamingos
began shaping piles of mud birds. stopped mating when activity in flamingo. -

left by track. ‘workers into the racing dates were
After nine years of celibacy, nests, Amorous males spread changed to March — th
the famous flamingos at Hi- their wings and strutted birds’ mating month. Because
aleah Race Course are back around’ the pond in their flamingos are high-strung,
practically any disturbance
can cause a colony to stop

peared. ‘Track officials tried every-
It takes 21 days for. the thing to get the birds back in
the mood. They even. pated,
i tl

Varied activities marked

National Book Festival |

By JUDY WEARMOUTH

ery

with the National Book Fes-
tival celebrations taking up a
-lot of time and energy. The
Ubraries reported that all the
activities were a great suc.

The main event was tho
visit of Kevin Major,. the
award. winning youth author
from Newfoundland. Approx-

imately 60 people turned out
to the Castlegar Branch for
his very" interesting slide
presentation and reading.
Before “reading, Major
gave out ‘ an prizes to the
winners of the Library's short
story and puppet making
competitions. The prize-win-
ning stories were printed in
the Castlegar News and read
on the local radio,’ All the.

Puppets were on display in’

Becomes. bride
just too often

HOUSTON, TEX. (AP) —
Barba Ann Smith says she is
married only to her fourth,
and Istest, groom, But offi-
cjals ssy they can’t find any
evidence that she ever div-
orced husbands one, two or

three.

Smith says she has hired a
lawyer “to get it straight.”

County records indicate
that Smith has been married
four times since 1970, includ-
ing three times since March
and twice this month, There
are no records of any div-
orces. ,

The marital snarl began to
unravel when a clerk noticed
Smith was seeking a second
marriage licence in less than
two weeks — this time to
marry 8 Nigerian attending
Texas Southern University.
on a student visa. -

Further checks showed
Smith married Michael Visas

Refinus, 29, identified as a

native of Cameroon,
Leonard Johnson of

ton.

‘When officials checked the’
records they discovered
Smith and husband No. 4,
Fabian Obabisi Oha, 81, had
been married by the same
justice of the peace who mar-
tied her to husband No. 3,
Robert Chuks Asomugha, 29,

Smith believes she is mar-
ried only to Oha because she

was’ divorced from ‘Johnson,
Refinus. promised’ He ‘would*

file for divorce, and Aso-
mugha said he would not file
the marriage licence.

She said she was not paid

to get married and has not
been asked to petition the
Immigration and Naturaliz-
ation Service for permanent
rengent status for her hus-

nds.

But Paul O'Neill, INS
district director, said the
agency will investigate whe-
ther any of the husbands

have filed petitions to change -

their immigrant status.

No charges have been filed
but a spokesman for the dis-
trict attorney's office said
false swearing on a. licence
application is subject to a
five-year prison sentence and
that conviction under bigamy
statues carries a possible
two-year to 10-year term.

Kettles

the Castlegar Branch for the
duration of the festival.

Winners of the “Patron of ,

the Week” book draw ‘for
Castlegar were Irene Spence
and Carol. Oglow, and for
Kinnaird, Caro! Honeyman
and Susan 'Fedunee. All the
prizes were sponsored by the
National Book Festival.

‘Thanks to the enthusiasm
and talents of Sandy Don-
obue, Darlene McDowell and
Rik Hall, a series of mini-
workshop demonstrations,
featuring displays of approp-
riate books in spinning, ori-
gami and the use of micro-
computers,. were another
very successful and well-
attended event.

CKQR Radio marked the
National Book Festival by
ne a series of readings

writera, with an in-
pins ion " promoting the

Sager Library. Thanks ‘

slso to the eo operation of
West's, the library mounted
a display of Canadian books
in the store window. The
week was rounded off by a
Saturday story and film show
given by. Sandy Donchue,

Mary Leask, the assistant
director of the Library Ser-
vices Branch, visited the l-
brary last week to meet
bosrd members during her
tour of the Kootensy librar-
ies to discuss local problems.

Possible hazard

Owners of some electric
kettles should be on the look-
out for a possible hazard
according to the Canadian
Standards ‘Association
(CSA). CSA has received
reports of five kettles re-
canuly exploding across Can-

Production’ of the kittles
involved was discontinued on
Feb. 27, 1981. It is believed
that 75,000 of these kettles

storés' x
August 1980 to January 1981.
CSA is urging the public to .

check the base of their kettle
for the following marking:

Creative Appllance
Corporation Ltd.
Model a 120V,
60 eae
UL Liste
ma Kettle SA LR 44450

Ris bearing the above
information along with the
following production dates:
August 1980, September,
1980, ostebes 1980, Novem-

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°An injensive’ “gelf-defence
workshop for women will be’
held June 18 and 14 at the:
trose Commi unity Hall.
ren-Do,” ‘meaning. “wom:
en's way” in Japanese, is an
effective: system of self ir
fonse, developed specifically :
for. ‘women ‘and ‘those nite
ations that they may enpoun
ter.

tt teaches awareness,
avoidance, and action to at-
tack. Wen-Do was originated

by: the Paige mang ‘of Tor -

onto, a “of martial
artists, pelaing, two + black’

belts and three brown belts
in two martial arts, Wen:
Do's initial background in the *
martial‘ ‘arts also includes
many. techniques. not. used-’

before. It is constantly being

to. stress.

y
thropology ‘Association which

HALIFAX (cP) — House-
wives are more likely. to
develop. mental:illness than
are mothers who have jobs
Gutside® the . home, ‘Donna

Duvall, an, Ottawa ‘sociol-

“Bevan eimployee of the
feral department of public
works, said employed women -
have a chance to get outside
the home and away from the
stresses of child-rearing and:
marital difficulties.
2. “Bince housewives perform
‘the majority of their dutied in
the conjugal: home,’ they are
less likely to be able to put;
their problems ¢ en tem-
porarily: out of ir ‘mind,”...
the sald.

a Housewives and’ working
mothers have different goals
and perceptions, Duvall said,

and because being a mother -

is ‘one -of: their. rolés,: em-
ployed, mothers.:.may...set

“different standards for them

jinted toa recent
American study:of employed
cand non-employed mothers |
“which. found. that working”
mothers were less ‘prone to
the streases associated with
marriage break-up and single
parenthood.
-Duvall was speaking to the
Canadisn Soclology and ‘An-

met at the Learned Societies.
Conference: being “held. at
Dathousie University. i
WIVES WHO WORK,
Employed wives have.two
potential sources” of satis-—
action, Duvall said,” their’ -
paid ‘employment: and their
‘unpaid job of homemaker.
“As wall aa recognition for

additional social contacts and
aichance'to enhance her own”

i
onto: soclologist Shirley Endi-
cott Small took exception toa
theory that. women actually
contribute to the violence *
that is inflicted against them.
“The idea that violence re--.
sults ‘from-a bresk'down in
communications, in® interac-
baad pene ‘wrong is just not :
"said Small who ‘once °
bes “qHome ’ for: battered
yomen out of her own dwell-

“another factor that con-
tributes to wife beated, ‘Small’:
said, : is. western society's
assumption that it is alright.

~ ‘for. men to “chastise” women ”

in order to keep them under °
control.”

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VANCOUVER — Brith

Columbia Resources, Invest-,

tah Columbia’ will be: held: ini

Brings George on June‘16.

mpany Chairman David :
Holwell said the purpose of

the meeting -will :be ‘to: pro-

.vide information and listen to

shareholders: in‘ the : Prince

,George ‘srea: who were un-
‘/able’ to attend ' the» May 4)

annual ‘general ‘meeting of

shareholders in ‘Vaneouver.

‘Travel: Industry;'! Develop--
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(TIDSA) : will assist |-'the:
Greenwood ‘Muscum "Asoc: :
tion to construct a new, mu-"*

“cay shareholder: of -B.
Resources is welcome, to at-
tend,” sald: Helliwell.

The company.wants to see.
how) shareholders : react to .
the. ‘meeting::!-in\; Prince’:
George, before it decides if al
will ‘continue to offer the re:

possible site. :

umbia's Kootenay-Boundary | =

region, has the distinction of

being the first:-city,: incor-'

aves offers cways to |

with harassment on the ©
Steen ia public: places, at:

gatherings, : at work © ;

and in the home, during all

“item ‘to, be. more. active .in

their lives. Instead. of being -
afraid to go out at night, they.
participating . in

Regular fonna he Services
Pastor Dirk Zinner::

‘dnd ‘Sunday. oy Sehrol :
Rob: Ast & 3rd Sundays
fed Bristow.
78) 4

Tam,
‘Pastor tra Johnson.
Phone 365-6762" ""..<

little concept of attack “=

ations and no beset of their”
ta :

{ Trail. She; will be assisted
by Eileen ee ‘of Trail,
ice instructor who

gi
boards,’ community ‘colleges

:and recreation commissions.

i The Jocal ‘workshop begins

Ph. 365-3664 or 365- 3662

Listen to the Lutheran“
Hour Sunday, 11:30 a.m,
on Radio CKQR:..: +

. 365-63!
‘ 9: 50 a.m. Seeey School,
11a.m. Worship Service
7 p.m. Fellowship Service
Tuesday, 7 pm Cottage
E Bible Studies

11:00 a.
WORSHIP SERVICE,”
11:00 a.m, — Junior
"Congregation & Nursery
Minister H. M. Harvey
“uo ..Phone 365-3816

iB!
S complex, promoting ‘the city’

herjtage, will be a significant ,

attraction for visitors. in the .

GHT ;

‘ate Shih & Proyer ~

s Service7 p.m. .:\":
hurch Off

Christian | Eduentlon Hour
~‘Moming ‘Worship
8:30 a.m. &1).a,m,
Feng Service,
tuesday: ible Study

Saturday: Sing People
-7:30 p.m.

Rev. Michael Guinan:
Ph, 365-7
Soturelay N Night Moss.

Sunday ‘Masses at
‘Ba.m. and 10.a.m, :
. ST. MARIA GORETTI

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