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And in outlying areas that were free of glaciers, such as Atlantic Canada, the same process pumped the mantle up into what is called the “peripheral bulge.” When the ice retreated, Atlantic Canada began to sag again while Central Canada rose. BEACHES INLAND Geologists were the’ first to spot the process, They discovered evidence of beaches far inland from the present shores of Hudson Bay, and by dating the series of early beaches they could calculate the rate of uplift. Some of these ancient coasts lie about 150 metres above the present sea level. Measurements of tide levels over the last half century have helped to refine the picture. TS, Mountainview Agencies Ltd. SALESMAN OF THE YEAR EAST & adel eeerrnare CONGRATULATIONS GLEN! 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Lambert heads a project to establish precisely where Canada is rising or falling, and but how much. “a TOOLS SPECIAL Lambert's team uses two important tools: a satellite system,and a $100,000 instrument called an absolute gravi meter, pne of only six such devices in the world. In the gravimeter, an object the size of a golf ball is dropped inside a metre-high tube. A laser beam shines on the falling object and its acceleration is measured with By JUDY CREIGHTON to hospital after fainting Canadian Press spells. Two weeks later, she An 87-year-old woman dies of pneumonia. with a bad heart is admitted The family is stunned. The woman had no signs of pneu monia when she went into hospital. It's a familiar scenario. Despite the multitude of antibiotics and advances in medical technology, in fections and their complica tions continue to be a major problem for modern med icine, especially among the elderly Pneumonia is still a lethal disease in old people,” says Dr. Gilbert Rosenberg, head of geriatric and continuing- care medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont He said 70 per cent of NEED To KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR NeW COMMUNITY ? .. has a wide selection of RECREATIONAL extreme pi the refl d light. After 2,000 drops, an ro dl aise is calculated, Once acceleration is known, the instrument can gauge the amount of mass in the earth directly beneath. Taking readings Over several years will show how much matter is oozing in beneath the Earth's surface as the mantle rises. The instrument has already taken initial readings at two stations — in Churchill, Man., and Yellowknife — in what Lambert hopes will be a minimum 10-station network. This summer he plans to establish two more posts, both in Quebec — at Poste-de-la-Baleine, a native ity on James Bay, and at Schefferville, TAKE YEARS Lambert says it’s a long-term project. “You would have to use this device over a period of about six or seven years in order to plot up the changes with time.” Some construction is required at each new site to ensure the machine rests on the bedrock or is bolted to a concrete base built on bedrock. Lambert said Halifax and Fredericton are potential stations where the descent of the peripheral bulge can be measured. Lambert's project will also take direct measurements of the rising land by using a satellite network called the Global Positioning System. The system has already been used to get a first reading at Churchill, Man. One of the five satellites now in the network aims a microwave beam at a receiving station equipped with a highly accurate atomic clock. By noting the time it takes to receive the signal and comparing it with another station receiving the same signal, scientists can determine the relative heights and distances of the stations to within two or three centimetres. Lambert says the plan is to take pretise gravity and height readings at each of the stations in his network over many years to produce a more complete picture of isostatic rebound NEED BASELINE No such baseline exists in Canada, but Lambert says federal scientists hope to establish a “baseline” soon between the National Research Council's radio telescopes at Penticton, B.C., and a recently mothballed observatory in Ontario's Algonquin Park. By measuring the time it takes signals from distant stars known as quasars to reach the two stations, scientists can determine the distance between the stations to within a centimetre or two. Pneumonia still lethal deaths caused by pneumonia pneumonia in nursing homes occur in the older population. have a significantly higher Several factors lead to the mortality rate than elderly higher incidence of infection people who contract the res among the elderly than the piratory disease outside an rest of the population, Ros- institution, he said. enberg said. These include Rosenberg said that after diabetes, chronic lung di- catching an infection, the sease, urinary or bowel in- elderly may be at increased continence and improper use risk because of their general of sedatives and tranquil- frailty and the fact that they lizers, which many contribute are less likely to have clas. to immobility. sical symptoms such as pain HOME HAZARD and fever. Malnutrition can Another factor could be an also contribute,.to the prob- institutional environment lem, he said. where antibiotic-resistant However, he added, one bacteria may abound. 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The gene appears to start a complex chain reaction of hormones that eventually leads to the development of a male. Without the gene, the embryo begins a different pathway and grows into a female. The gene is on the Y chromosome, which is part of the inborn genetic library of men but not women. The researchers believe that a virtually identical gene controls sex determination in monkeys, dogs, cattle and all other mammals. ‘For about the first six weeks of development... all fetuses are sexually identical.’ “This clearly is a landmark set of experiments,” said Nobel laureate David Baltimore, director of the i d Insti for Bi dical Research, where the w gene was isolated. “Although it-doesn't tell you anything that you've always wanted to know about the difference between men and women, it tells you how that difference was first laid down.” The research may also provide new clues for coping with infertility and pi of sexual ISOLATE GENE The gene was isolated by Dr. David Page and at the Whitehead a lab affili with Institute of Technology. A report on the work is being published in the journal Cell. Page said his work provides “a strong circum- stantial case” that the gene really is the sex trigger, but he cautioned that more work will be needed before this is proved conclusively. For about the first six weeks of development in the womb, all fetuses are sexually identical. They can grow to become either boys or girls. Page believes the newly dis- covered gene — called TDF, for testis-determining factor — rules whether they will grow testes or ovaries and thus be male or female. Everyone is born with 46 strings of genes called chromosomes. Two of these, called X and Y, are the sex chromosomes. Women have two X chromosomes, while men have X and a Y. To find the sex trigger gene, the researchers studied about 60 XX males and XY females. These are “sex-reversed” people who appear to be exceptions to the rule. The XX males are sterile, but otherwise they are physically normal men, even though they have the two XX chromosomes of women. XY females appear at birth to be ordinary girls, but they do not mature sexually, and they have the chromosomes of men. GENETIC MIXUP Through a genetic mixup, the XX males carry a tiny bit of the Y chromosome on one of their X chromosomes. And the XY females are missing the same portion of their Y chromosome. Page’s research set out to find the piece of Y chromosome that the XX men had and the XY females lacked. Among them was an XX man with only half of one per cent of a Y chromosome, and an XY female with 99.8 per cent of the Y. By analysing and comparing their genes, he narrowed down the target to one small snippet of genetic material. Inside this stretch of genetic code, he believes there is one gene that is essential for maleness. To prove they have found the sex trigger, the researchers plan to implant the gene into the embryo of a mouse with two X chromosomes and see whether it developes to be a male. Page said his discovery probably could not be used to intentionally produce male children. Any boys born through shifting the sex trigger gene to an X chromosome would be sterile. WOMEN'S INSTITUTE ACTIVE Editor's note: Following is the conclusion of Kathy Armstrong's two-part history of the Robson Women's Institute, which celebrated its 75th anniversary today. By KATHY ARMSTRONG The institute also had a library and sponsored both Girl Guides and Boy Scouts, It established Christmas tree parties and entertainment for the teenagers. “One of our first large expenditures was a piano,” wrote Carter. In 1920 the WI began raising money to buy the piano, and, with the help of a bank loan for $350, bought the piano a year later. It is still in use at the Robson Recreation Hall today. Together with the Farmer's Institute, the WI opened a tourist park in 1927. The park was located near where the Ponderosa Trailer Park is now located. Before the dam and the sawmill and being a fair distance out of town, it was a favorable place to hold picnics and social events. Later the park was used by the Scouts and Rovers. Deeds to the park were turned over to WI when the Farmer's Institute ceased in 1970. The park was then sold in 1973 with the proceeds being invested to raise money for scholarships. At the Institute's 30th anniversary in 1943, five charter members were presented with lifetime member- ships. “In 1946 we made a substantial contribution to our Community Memorial Church,” wrote Carter. According to long-time member, Ivy Salekin, the contribution aided with church renovations. The Institute turned the deeds to the cemetery property behind the memorial church over to the chyrch in 1987. The WI now donates money for its upkeep. When Newfoundland was brought into confederation in 1949, WI branches in that new province were twinned with sister branches across the country. The Robson WI has been corresponding regularly with its twin. Twinning also takes place in the home region with twinning changed at the region's annual conference. Robson was twinned with Slocan City for 1987. After the war, the Institute administered the KRC (Kinnaird-Robson-Castiegar) Welfare Fund for Robson. This fund, a fore-runner to the United Way, was started with the money left over from the Patriotic Society. During the war years, the Patriotic Society collected money pledged from residents in Kinnaird, Robson and Castlegar to assist the Great Ormond Street Hospital for children in England. When the war ended, there was no further need for assistance. During that time, the WI was also in charge of the annual Red Cross Drive. The WI was one of the first organizations to pledge financial support to the District Hospital where they shared the cost of furnishing the Women's Institute Ward with other local institutes. A favorite annual event was the “get acquainted tea” where all women in the valley were invited to come and meet their neighbors. The Institute also conducted spelling bees, poster and essay contests with the Robson school children and held spring plant sales. An annual hands-across-the-border picnic is held with the pienic site alternating between the West Kootenay region and regions in northern Washington. Last year saw “five vanloads of Americans at our picnic according to long-time member Ivy Salekin. This year's picnic will be in Coville. Donations of bursaries and scholarships to Home & A} & a 9° ¢g $ Ey Programme of the Robson Women’s Institute onl MOTTO: For Home and Countey * 1914 PROGRAM . . . Robson Women’s Institute's program for the first four months of 1914. Economics students from Stanley Humphries secondary school and students at Selkirk College remain one of the most important community activi for the WI. Other community groups receiving donations are the Legion Christmas hamper fund and poppy fund, cancer fund, Robson swimming pool, Robson Sunday school, Robson Recreation Society, the Variety Club Telethon, Koote- nay Society for the Handicapped and fire victims. Members take oranges and cookies and entertain residents of Raspberry Lodge. Until two years ago the Institute held an annual fall fair as an event for area resident to display their crafts and garden produce. At one time there was a section for livestock, with chickens, turkeys and other barnyard animals. As most of the support the WI provided to various organizations require money, “Money-raising has been no small part of our work,” wrote Carter. Money is required “to support world wide, federated, provincial and district Institute projects as well as projects for our own community.” And how do they do this? The most profitable in the early days were concerts and plays and the annual Strawberry Festival and Sports Day first held in 1948. Over the years they have held teas, bake sales, whist drives, and coffee parties. Members sold WI cookbooks and distributed drug books to the school board and doctor's offices. More recently, however, the greatest portion of money raised has come from a bi-monthly catering to the Robson Recreation Society's weekly flea market, the annual craft fair and giant raffle. They also hold a book exchange. The Robson WI joins with other provincial branches to continue its support of the Children’s Hospital in Vancouver and the Queen Alexandra Solarium in Vic- toria. Gifts of quilts, toys, stocking stuffers are among the numberous items donated over the years. Letters have also been exchanged with patients. Mrs. George Albany, the WI representative to the Solarium spoke at the 22nd biennial conference held at Notre Dame University in Nelson in 1974. “She said it was a busy place with many activities and holidays made into special days. Hallowe'en, she said was a special time when children, parents and staff all dressed in costume,” according to Doris Bradshaw writing for the Nelsan Daily News in June 1974. “You really are doing a marvellous job in helping these children,” she (Albany) said.” May 4, 1968 WE'RE ON THE RAMPAGE AGAIN STORE-WIDE DISCOUNTS This Giant Warehouse is Ablaze with Red! BUY AT RED SALE TAG PRICES! Big Eastern Ash ROLL-TOP DESKS | SOFA/LOVE/ swe $1099 Indoor-Outdoor Stacking Chairs rs $ I 599 Brass. Fabric Big 3-Piece iCHAIR| Tri-Lite Table LAMPS 7-Piece Umbrell PATIO SET vse? 1395 +3 5 9 Cheval Mirrors $69 $119 Livingroom Table Former resident dies Former Castlegar resident Grace Devitt passed away April 25 following a lengthy illness at the Trail Regional ST. 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SAVE 50% off regular room rates Sundays through shen ly gh une SOR Chay:20 - pe et Ir "Bayshore Inn Box 38, Waterton hare Notionol Pork. Alberta, Conade TOK 2M0 Phone (403) 659-2211 29, 1908 in Coal Creek, B.C. She is survived by several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Devitt was predeceased by her husband William in 1967, two brothers and two sisters. There will be no service at the request of the deceased. The Valley Funeral home is in care of the arrangements. RENT THIS SPACE 365-5210 Stationery Rev. Glen Backus Worship Service 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Youth Group, Sunday, 6:30 p.m. Bible Study, Wed., 8 p.m Lssten tothe Lutneron Hour sunday ‘m_on Radio CROK ANGLICAN CHURCH 1401 Columbia Avenue Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m, Sunday School 10 a.m! Rev. 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