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For international understanding

JOHN CHARTERS’

Reflections &
Recollections

“It was the best trip I have
ever been on, no matter how
you rate it — education,
enjoyment, interest or what-
ever" — Dr. Terry Manders.

Away back in February,
1981, after months of inter-
views, selections and training
sessions, five young business
and professional men and one
Rotarian team leader left on
Feb. 16 from Seattle for a
seven-week intensive tour of
Australia. One of these men
was Dr. Terry Manders of
Castlegar.

I wrote a column on the

tion sessions (the second with
their wives in attendance),
this number was reduced to
five candidates and two
spares. Ali seven, plus the
Rotarian Group leader, then
underwent two weekends of
preparation — the first in
Pullman, Wash., for lectures
in Rotary history and ideals,

purpose and preparations for

the trip. On his return, I
started a companion piece to
tell a little of his experiences,

which was interrupted by |
events. I then misplaced the |

manuscript.

Since, however, Dr. Man-
ders’ experience was of inter-
est to so many and since
silence defeats the purpose

DR. TERRY MANDERS

(inter
ing) of the study exchange,
T'm starting again (with apol-
ogies for the delay).

It began a little more than
a year ago when the names of
20 young carefully selected,
now Rotarian professional
men were sent to Rotary
District Governor Allan
Speers of Cranbrook. These
men were the candidates for
the much-prized Rotary
Group study exchange team
dstined for Australia.

After two intensive selec-

Ameri history and gov-
ernment; the second, in
Castlegar, on Canadian his-
tory, government and geo-
graphy, by a Selkirk College
lecturer.

On the third weekend,
they were given final in-
structions, uniforms, many
souvenirs and gifts for their
Australian hosts-to-be and a
send-off dinner, and left from
Seattle on Feb. 16. Their
destination, via Hawaii and
Aukland, New Zealand, was
Rotary District 965 of north-

ern New South Wales in
Australia.

While the purpose of the
exchange is to give the team
members a wide range of ex-
perience, special efforts are

made to give each team ,

member specific

in his particular profession.

Thus, Dr. Manders was
given special visits to hos-
pitals and clinics and his
hosts included medical doc-
tors, a veterinarian, an x-ray
technician, hospital adminis-
tractor and pharmacist, as
well as an electronics tech-
nician, a banana farmer, a
building planner, a wheat
farmer (10,000 acres) and a
bee farmer.

In the course of his tour he,
together with his four team
members — Max Kepl (bus-
inessman, Spokane), Kenton
Bird (Lewiston news editor),
Don Mausseau (Cominco en-
gineer, Rossland), Nick Men-
ring (Pullman lawyer) and
Dick Ellingword, Rotary
tem leader, (water condition-
ing, Spokane) — took thous-
ands of pictures and slides
and gave, received and pur-
chased many souvenirs.

The slides indicate that
they visited schools, hospi-
tals, a cotton gin (with “bee
hive" burner) numerous
farms, rain forest preserves
and an oyster lease (where
they gorged on oysters and
drank the famous Foster
beer); a sunflower oil plant

and a satellite receiving dish
of which the Australians are
very proud. This dish is in
contact with satellites all
around the world and, said
Terry, talking with Cowichan
on Vancouver Island was as
clear as talking to the neigh-
bor next door.

Australia is a land of great
contrasts, with climates
ranging from temperate in
the south to tropical in the
north, with a range of prod-
ucts to match. The absence of
a cold winter (at least in
NSW) has both advantages
and disadvantages, It has
meant that, in many cases,
corridors in public buildings
such as hospitals, were exter-
nal (cooler), but that without
the killing cold, insects flour-
ish and crop dusting is a nec-
essity. It has meant beautiful
beaches and long warm sum-
mers in scanty clothing. It
has also meant a very wide
distribution of skin cancer.

When we were last three
four years ago, the Aus-
tralians were experiencing
widespread and serious
flooding. When the team
visited this spring (Austral-

isn autumn) there was 2

widespread drought. A slide

picture of the famous opal

diggings at Lightning Ridge
fore shows a sett]

country.

There are few slides which
do not remind us of the stan-
dard costume of the land —

with ‘houses, as well as
nearby pits and caves, all
surrounded by an earth-work
dyke in a wide flat plain.
Tn the cooler weather (up
to 95 degrees F.) the people
live in the houses; when it
gets warm, they move into
the cooler caves. The dyke

long shorts, shoes
and shirts for the men; cot-
ton dresses for the women
and uniforms for the school
children, as well as some as-
pect of the Australian pass-
ion for horses and country
horse sports — “not unlike
Anaheim Lake stampedes”
adds Dr. Manders,

keeps the At and pits
from flooding when it rains.
Terry's diary is studded
with “Great day! Another
great day! Visited sheep
ranch to watch sheep shear-
ing (6-7,000 sheep on 29,000
acres).” A slide shows the
shearers at work — “a tough
business.” There are re-
peated references to flying
— popular mode of travel
in Australia in spite of high
taxes and tiny landing fields.
Asa pilot he was able to log
many extra hours with his
hosts — “excellent flyers” —
as co-pilots and see much
more of the country.
cellent flyers” — as co-pilots
and see much more of the

Dr. was spon-
sored by the Castlegar Ro-
tary Club and went to Aus-
tralia on the understanding
that on his return he would
be prepared to share his ex-
perience with others as. a
part of Rotary's philosophy of
service and international un-
derstanding and goodwill.

He has already given a
program for several clubs
and groups. Those who have
not, and wish to do so, while
keeping in mind that he hasa
very busy practice, should
speak to him and make the
necessary arrangements. He
has come back with a great
understanding of “down-un-
der.”

Exercise on job
cuts time losses

LONDON, ONT. (CP) —
On-the-job exercise may be
part of the solution to ab-
senteeism in the Canadian

in improvement of supervi-
sor-worker rapport,on the
job because bringing em-
ployees together at the same
level for i

says a U

of Toronto researcher.

Michael Cox, an exercise
specialist, told the annual
meeting of the Ontario Oc-
-cupational Health Nurses As-
sociation that company fit-
ness programs seem to have
a significant impact on re-
ducing lost work time.

Cox noted the full explan-

interaction on the job, Cox
said.

Men showed greater im-
provement in lowering ab-
senteeism rates that women
who as a group always have
more lost time than men, he
said.

Cox estimates at leat 100
Canadian companies now

Journalists top alcohol

By Austin Rand

An Ottawa study of drink-
ing habits among white-collar
professional males shows
that 59 per cet of journalists,
48 per cent of professors and
28 per cent of accountants
consume some alcohol every

lay.
The study used question-
naires and lengthy inter-

views to obtain data on™

25-man samples from each
group. It is of particular
interest because there has
been little information on the
drinking patterns of specific

ation for the
remains unclear, but in one
study exercise cut absen-
teeism by about a third. In
one company with a new fit-
ness program, the annual ab-
senteeism rate fell by about
2.5 days from the average of
eight, he said.

He said absenteeism costs
Canada millions of dollars
more than strikes. One com-
pany saved $175,000 a year in
lost time and its improved
work records may be a result
of the camaraderie and em-
ployee motivation induced by
the fitness program.

Employee turnovers
dropped from an average of
15 per cent to 1.5 per cent, he
said, representing an equi-
valent saving of $510,000 an-
nually in training costs for
new people.

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Another benefit appeared

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have full 1) fitness
programs and about 1,000
others have some form of ex-
ercise. Almost every new
building in downtown Cal-
gary has some exercise fa-
cility, he said.

It is easier to incorporate
fitness programs in white-
collar industries, he said, be-

cause such workers generally-

have more flexible working
hours than  assembly-line
workers.

Cox said absenteeism may
have to lot to do with job
boredom, poor lifestyle and
alcohol.

“Fitness programs offer an
alternative to all those
things,” he said. “If you can
get people physically active, I
think you change their whole
lifestyle.

“If they’re down in that
room (fitness centre) they're
not out having a martini

lunch.’ y

In simple frequency, jour-
nalists outstripped academics
and accountants. Journalists
had on average seven drink-
ing occasions a week. Pro-
fessors averaged five to six
drinking occasions per week
while accountants had only
three or four.

Journalists drank more
often, but the actual quantity
each time was similar to that
of accountants. and profes-
sors. Members of each group
averaged two to three drinks
per occasion.

When data on frequency
and quantity were evaluated,
31 per cent of the journalists
turned out to he in the
“heavy drinker” category,
equal to the number of heavy
drinkers among the accoun-
tants and professors com-

ined.

However, this does not

necessarily bear out the
stereotype that a lot of jour-
nalists are problem drinkers.

“By standards currently in
use, many of the people in
this study who don't have
problems with alcoho! would
be designated heavy drink-
ers,” says Florence Hughes,
assistant professor of sociol-
ogy and coauthor of the
study.

“In most government re-

ports on the health of Can-

adians, someone who has two
drinks a day every day,
which a lot of people do,
would be a heavy drinker,
but it is doubtul that this
really adds up to a drinking
problem.”

Ron Cosper, assistant pro-
fessor of sociology at St.
Mary’s University, Halifax,

26-year-old
woman has

sex tuplets

HILDESHEM, WEST
GERMANY (AP) — A 26-
year-old woman gave birth to
sextuplets Thursday — three
girls and three boys — but
one of the boys died shortly
after birth. Doctors at St.
Bernhard’s Hospital said Eli-
sabeth Notzom, wife of a local
butcher, and the other five
babies were doing well but
the next few days will be
critical.

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the other researcher in-
volved in the study, adds:
“What we have shown is that
though there is a trend to-
wards heavier drinking in
journalists and professors
than in accountants, it is not
due toa small group of heavy
drinkers. It is rather a gen-
eral occupational pattern
that doesn’t necessarily in-
volve large amounts of al-
cohol.”

study

The researchers have
found that journalists, when
describing their drinking
habits, focus on how much
they can drink, while pro-
fessors speak of “discrimin-
uting taste, a love of fine-
wines, really snobby stuff.”
Accountants emphasize the
importance of presenting a
responsible public image and
are the least likely to drink
with colleagues.

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CALGARY (CP) — The
Alberta Children’s Hospital
is about to enter the world of
nuclear medicine in a big
way.

Cardboard boxes and elec-
tronic bits and pieces in a
small room in the hospital's
radiology department have

Nuclear medicine

In children's hospital

The gamma radiation
comes from radioactive {so-
topes of certain elements,
such as {um, indiu or

dren in southern Alberta
could be examined on the
machine each year.

said the ma-

iodine, which are injected
into the body and home in on
target tissues because of the
way they have been chemi-

dit

been turned into an emissi
computed tomography scan-
ner, or ECT scanner, which is
used to look inside the body.
The device in the Calgary
hospital, and another one be-
ing installed in Los Angeles,
“are the first two units in the
world,” radiology director
Dr. Richard Wesenberg said
in an interview.
Wesenberg said the
$400,000 ECT scanner can

cally treated.
dreds of t

sional images can be stored in
the memory of an attached
and then

chine is so new even its
manufacturer, Siemens Elec-
tric of Holland, doesn't know
its full potential.

“We really do not know
what it's full potential is.
There isn't a big backlog of
experience with emission

hy in

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mation-paced, three-dimen-
sional picture doctors have
not been able to get before.
PICKS UP DEFECTS

“For a given organ, like the
liver, we will be able to see
how the liver looks in various
sections and pick up small

children.”
Siemens will be looking for
feedback from the hospital on

the machine's performance in
actual work with youngsters
ranging from newborns to
high school football players,

Wesenberg added Calgary
will get a second ECT
scanner in December or Jan-
uary when Foothills Hospital
receives one to be used for
adults.

“With one at Foothills and
another at Children’s Hos-

pital, we in Calgary should |

become leaders in North
America in research with this
machine.”

a Wedding Bells _/

best be das a kind
of “inside-out” x-ray machine.

A normal x-ray machine
produces an image of internal
structures by bombarding
the body with x-rays from
the outside. The ECT scan-
ner uses a shower of sub-
atomic energy particles
called gamma rays which
radiate from within the organ
or structure being examined.

said.,

He said the ECT scanner
can find tumors as small as
two millimetres wide —
about the width of a match
stick — a valuable aid in
monitoring cancer patients to
see if the disease is spread-
ing.

The Calgary hospital es-
timates more than 2,000 chil-

Survival only
half the battle

MONTREAL (CP) — Sur-
viving cancer is only half the
battle; -the other half is
getting through the ordeal of
treatment and the fear of
having the disease, often
without counselling or sup-
port from a hospital.

The medical system has
eimply become better at
treating the disease than at
caring for the patient.

Despite advances, approx-
imately 40,000 Canadians will
die from cancer this year and
about 75,000 new cases will
be diagnosed.

Molly, a Montreal woman,
discovered she had cancer
when an ovarian cyst was
removed. Her husband” Mi-
chael had to take-over the
decision-making about her
treatment because she was
too shocked to understand
what was being said to her.

“Someone needs to take
control and deal with every-
day practical matters,” Mi-
chael says.

The patient’s problems of-
ten start in the doctor's office
when he or she first learns
cancer has been diagnosed.

Some physicians don't take
the time to explain the dis-
ease and the . treatment.
Others don’t even tell pat-
ients they have cancer and
the bad news is learned from
another patient while stand-
ing in a hospital line waiting
for treatment.

SUFFER MORE

Physicians, nurses and so-
cial workers agree cancer
patients suffer more than
necessary because hospitals

cannot offer adequate psy-
chological support.

Dr. Robert MacBeth, vice-
president of the Canadian
Cancer Soriety, says lack of

support services has only re-"

cently been identified as a
major problem. He says im-
provement of such services
will become a priority in
coming years.

Many health care prof-
essionals agree the public
and volunteer agencies must
play a larger role in sup-
plying psychological support
to cancer patients, since the
health care system apparent-
ly cannot cope.

Dr. James Holland of New
York’s Mount Sinai Hospital
said ina recent speech: “The
public is part of the team that
must deal with cancer.”

Molly agrees: “Having
someone with you when you
go to see the doctor is
important. I couldn't remem-
ber what was said about my
condition.”

Others cannot depend on
their families to help them
cope with cancer.

For instance, Sam's wife
thought his leukemia was
contagious and insisted he
wear a contraceptive during
intercourse.

His way of coping with the
disease when neither his
family nor the medical sys-

tem helped was to find a’

cancer volunteer program at
a Montreal hospital.

“If patients are given ade-
quate information, they can
adjust,” Sam says. “They be-
come immobilzed through
fear.”

Z. Job File

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didate must have been rained in
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opportunities
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A funeral home in Trail needs
the services of a licensed funeral

frolyats course in the short-wave
method, Salary 60% commission
to start. (38).

A West K
hospital requires

director Salary
$1,700-$2.000/month. (862)

A Castlegar ‘dentist requires
an experienced certified dental
assistant. Employer may con-
sides an applicant with one or
© years’ experience, Must
Lae smoker. lary starting at
$5/hr., ‘eventually /hr (755)

A transport Company in Trail
will require an experienced line
haul driver holding a class one
driver's license with air endor-
sement. Applicant must be over
25 yrs. of age, clean license. To
ari between Calgary & Von-
Wages $12°513/hr. plus

2-29 per nile, (908)
An experienced electrologist
is needed at a Trail beautician

a
Salary approx. $2,000/month,
(1110)

Openings | exist for fully
qualified Fotel and restaurant
cooks; one in Castlegar at $8/hr.

be andone in Trail at $5.80/hr.

A supermarket in the Trail

grea requires an experlenced

cutter or supervisor

With of least 23 ya experien:
ce, Wages $14.02/hr. (885)

Certified Electrician with ex-
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required in Trail. Wages $12-

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A hospital in the Trail area
URGENTLY roquires a registered

nurse,

and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs, Ed

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Reverend logs 13 hours daily

VANCOUVER (cP) —

Rev. Ralph Rowe of Big
Trout Lake in Northern On-
tario told a Vancouver con-
gregation he sometimes
spends 18 hours a day in his
plane while visiting the out-
lying areas in his parish.

Rowe, an Anglican priest,
ministers to the diocese of

Keewatin, an area of 770,000
square kilometres in his Ces-
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He visits 30 Indian vil-
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catechists and native trapper
priests who take special
training but are expected to
make their living doing sec-
ular work.

“I'm not married and it's a
good thing,” said Rowe, who
has logged 6,800 hours in
nearly 26*years of flying.
“T've had five day at home
since May.

“As it stands now, it’s too
difficult for a married man.
We need four airplanes and
pilots, but we only have one.

We had two but it became
too costly to operate both.”

Rowe was an Ontario Pro-
vincial Police constable, but
gave up the job when an
Anglican archbishop with a
plane and no pilot, asked him
to fly the plane for two years
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