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Ford's biggest disaster

EDMONTON (CP) — Gary Fakeley recalls. that his father visited a Ford showroom in late 1967, glanced at the new Edsels, left and bought a Vauxhall from a General Motors dealer.

Fakeley, 10 years old at the time, said it was the first time his father turned down a Ford.

“He was staying away from (the Edsel) by a country mile.”

Most car buyers steered clear of the Edsel, a blocky car in the 1960s style with lavish amounts of chrome, gimmickry and speedy performance. The car, which took its name from Edsel Ford, son of Ford founder Henry Ford, was a disaster that added a new word for flop to the language.

The Edsel’s front end featured a vertical, oval- shaped grill — described by a comedian as looking like “an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon.” The interior was distinguished by a push-button gear shift mounted in the hub of the steering wheel.

COLLECTS EDSELS

Such memories flooded back to Fakeley in 1979 when he decided to get an old car. He went to buy a 1959 Chevrolet from a Saskatchewan farmer, but he was drawn to another car — a ‘68 Edsel.

Fakeley, 40, now has a collection of 18 Edsels at his country home near Edmonton. Included are sedans, convertibles and station wagons built during the three-year Edsel production run.

Other people share Fakeley’s passion for the car.

Businessman John Antal wanted a Ford when he went to an Edmonton showroom 30 years ago. The sole Edsel.on display was stuck in a corner.

“I looked around and liked it,” said Antal, who still has the car.

Antal said he was happy with the car's performance and although he has had many other cars, he kept the Edsel.

Fakeley is a charter member of the Edsel Owners Club, Prairie chapter, established in 1984. The chapter's 110

members own a total of 850 Edsels, The club has a total membership of 1,200 in the United States and Canada.

Fakeley wrote to Ford Motor Co., former dealers and employees to find out about Edsel sales in Canada. A total of 118,287 Edsels had been built when production ended in November 1969, but only 7,440 were sold in Canada.

‘The Edsel was introduced in the United States with much a hafere on Sept, 4, 1967; The low-key Canadian debut was a week later.

“Ford spent $100 million promoting and advertising the Edsel,” Fakeley said.

In the United States, Ford paid all expenses to take 75 automotive writers to Detroit, ted the Edsel and then gave each journalist a new Edsel to drive home. Only 17 writers made it to their destinations.

Fakeley said that and other plenty

DRUG HELPS CANCER VICTIMS GAIN WEIGHT

TORONTO (CP) — When a number of women in the United States were given a hormone-derived drug to treat advanced breast cancer, they experienced a side-effect rare for cancer patients — they gained weight.

‘That phenomenon has led to a new study to determine if the drug, called megestrol acetate, can help patients with other cancers to avoid debilitating weight loss and boost their ability to overcome the disease.

Dr. Simon Tchekmedyian, a Los Angeles cancer —— says many cancer patients suffer cachexia, a

weight loss characterized not only by destruction of fat célls in the body, but of muscle tissue, including the heart.

In a year-long study of 28 women with breast cancer in early 1986, Tchekmedyian found all but one of

of bad publicity. “Within 10 days, Ford knew it had a lemon.” TIMING WRONG

Ford had conducted extensive market research in 1955 and '56 to see if a niche existed for the Edsel. The decision to build the car was made in the spring of 1965, with automobile inventories at record lows and the stock market at new highs.

But by the time the Edsel hit the market the United States was in a brief but sharp recession. Sales of existing car lines shrank and that doomed the Edsel.

“It was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Fakeley said.

The Edsel Owners Club has annual conventions in the United States every year. Fakeley drives to them when he can, including the 1986 meeting in Kansas City when he made the trip in his pink 1960 Edsel sedan.

“Every time I stop for gas, it draws a crowd.”

Sometimes there are Edsel jokes to endure, by Fakeley takes them well.

“With every person who tells a joke, I see a little envy in his eyes when I drive away.”

Society to be more ‘militant’

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SASKATOON (CP) Canadian Cancer Society will become more militant in the future and spend more time lobbying governments on health issues, Doug Barr, the society's chief executive of- ficer, said.

“We're not just an organi- zation prepared to deal with people after they get cancer,” we also want to prevent cancer and deal with future patients,” he said in an inter- vie.

Barr and the board of di- rectors of the National Can- cer Institute, the society's

—The research arm, were in Sask-

atoon for a board meeting.

The society has become more politically mature and realizes it can do something to change laws and policies which will lead to improved public health, he said.

The biggest project now is the anti-smoking lobby.

‘The society realizes smok- ing bylaws and changes to public transportation policies are making a difference in tobacco consumption. The issue of second-hand smoke also has a huge reservoir of public support, he said.

According to Honda, the 9-litre Hyundai Stellar CL should cost

That is why the society lobbied on behalf of Bill C-61, which bans tobacco promo- tion and supports increased taxation on tobacco.

Increasing tobacco taxes is an important cancer pre- vention strategy because teenagers are far more sens- itive to an increase in price than adults, Barr said.

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Research has shown most people become hooked on smoking between the ages of 12 and 19 so, if people don't start during their teens, they are not as likely to start later.

‘The tobacco industry has tried to get around the increased price of cigarettes by producing smaller pack- ages, which the cancer soc- iety calls “kiddie packs.” Barr said the government should tax this type of product so the price is the same as other

which ‘the society can be- come involved in is research into why people smoke, said Dr. Richard Margolese, as- scciate director of the McGill ‘cancer Centre in Montreal.

Lung cancer kills almost 1,400 people in Saskatchewan each year, and probably the same number die from chronic respiratory disease and kidney failure associated

ith smoking, Margolese said.

the patients gained weight while being treated with megestrol acetate. Before taking the treatment, 13 of the 28 were severely underweight and had no appetite.

“I saw many of these patients when they came to the clinie and they were so hungry that they couldn't last an hour without eating something,” he said in an interview.

LOSE WEIGHT

Scientists do not know why many cancer patients suffer severe weight loss, he said. Some lose weight even though they are eating properly.

But believes the p1 of cancer cells may produce a substance or response that affects the body's ability to store energy in the form of fat.

Although cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation can diminish appetite because of side-effects, Tehekmedyian said cancer patients often begin wasting away long before they are diagn

“What happens with these people is that they go into process of emaciation,” he said. “They get weaker and weaker and they go into a spiral where weakness produces apathy, profound tiredness, depression. And then the less hungry they are, the weaker they are, until it reaches the point where they don't care about food anymore because they're close to death. And then they die.”

Cachexia reduces quality of life for cancer patients, who are often too weak to function normally, he said, adding they are often physically unable to withstand the potent drugs and radiation used to treat the disease.

It is not clear why megestrol acetate causes weight gain, but Tchekmedyian said it may send a chemical message to fat and muscle cells and cells in organs to “hold on and store energy,” or it may cause the hypothalamus gland to increase appetite.

In his study of 25 male and female patients with a variety of cancers, being conducted in several U.S. research centres, about half are receiving megestrol acetate and half a placebo. The patients have been taking the drug for 2' months, and 18 have had follow-up examinations. Of those, nine have gained weight, Tchekmedyian said.

Because researchers are not told which patients are receiving the drug and which the placebo, it is too early to say what has caused their weight gain, he said. Results of the study will likely be published in about a year.

Nurses cope with shift work

TORONTO (CP) — A __ The nurses from Stanford

group of night-shift nurses — mindful that accident rates soar between midnight and 6 a.m. — monitored their own behavior to determine ways to cope with shift work.

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— Sleep before work, not after. You'll feel more alert if you go to work directly after sleeping, when you are at the beginning of your energy cycle.

—Be bullish about sleeping soundly, even if it means establishing harsh rules around the house. Since the telephone is the most disrup- tive noise, disconnect it or invest in an answering ma- chine. Earplugs, “day sleep- er” signs on your front door, shades, drapes and adequate locks on doors and windows are also advised.

— Eat normally. A hearty breakfast may seem strange at 10 p.m., but three normal meals a day will help your energy level.

— Exercise. You'll feel a lot peppier with at least three 20-minute sessions of some kind of cardiovascular activ- ity each week.

— Keep an active social life, which contributes to your energy level and lessens feelings of isolation, depres-

SPECIAL RECOGNITION . . . John Glavin (left), manager of The Dominion Group of Canada, presents Charlie Cohoe with specially com-

By CasNews Staff Cohoe Insurance Agency Ltd. celebrated its 15th anniversary with an open house Wednesday. In a special ceremony, John Glavin, prune of the

Cohoe celebrates 15 years

missioned Royal Doulton figurine of Sir John A. to mark 15th y of Cohoe In- surance Agency Ltd. —CosNews Photo by Chery! Colderbank

‘y of the ps was the company’s first president.

Glavin said the figurine was given in recognition of Cohoe's A tncrenrmee and integrity” and for his

Dominion of Canada General owner Charlie Cohoe with a Royal Doone A figurine of Sir John A. Macdonald.

The figurine was specially commissioned by The Dominion of Canada Group to mark the 100th

to the Cohoe accepted the figurine with thanks, saying the 15 years “have been a lot of fun’ He also paid tribute to his loyal “friends, clients and associates” and to his “very loyal employees.”

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Economic future cloudy

TORONTO (CP) — Plummeting stock markets have sent investment analysts back to the drawing boards, revising for corporate and, in many cases, gloomily lowering their estimates.

“We have revised all of our economic assumptions, earning estimates for companies and the whole

However, the i lowering their estimates, citing predictions of a pmeniy economy and cautious consumer spending, spurred by the market crash this month.

Hahn Mecca some sectors will be hit almost

said Wilfred Hahn, research director for Prudential- Bache Securities Canada Ltd.

“We are going on the premise that the financial collapse we've seen does have fairly significant economic impli- cations. I think it’s illogical to think otherwise.”

Yet there are some optimists.

Michael Ryan, research director with Pemberton Houston Willoughby Bell Gouinlock Inc., said he thinks companies making up the Toronto Stock Exchange composite 300 index will see profits rise by 25 per cent in 1988.

“I think people are making a grave mistake in presuming the market decline has changed the economic outlook,” Ryan said. “We've had so many examples recently where we've had severe market declines without any change in the economy. The economy has just kept expanding.”

He sees the economy climbing next year at a rate of 8.5 per cent, slightly better than this year’s rate.

SFP reports record sales

higher prices enabled Slocan more than doubled to $3.4 Forest Products Ltd. to in- million or 71 cents a share crease net earnings 62 per compared with $1.3 million or cent for the nine months 28 cents a share a year ago. ended Sept. 30, the company Nine-month sales in- said in a news release. creased 63 per cent to $102.7 Net earnings rose to $8.9 million from $62.9 million. million or $1.90 a share

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goods, such as automobiles, auto parts and appliances.

He sees the economy shrinking by 0.5 per cent in the first quarter of next year. He had earlier forecast growth of 1.5 to two per cent. And in the fourth quarter of 1987, the economy will grow by only 1.5 per cent, instead of two per cent previously forecasted, he

Dylex Ltd., a Toronto-based apparel company, will be hit badly by the falling stocks, said Helen Murphy, an analyst with Prudential-Bache.

She has dropped her estimates of Dylex's profit per share to 36 cents from 85 cents for the fiscal year ending Feb. 2, 1988, and to 65 cents from $1.40 for the year ending Feb. 2, 1989. Profit per share last year was 51 cents.

David McLeish, research director with Walwyn Stod- gell Cochran Murray Ltd., is also reducing his estimates.

He said that profits of the TSE 300 companies next year could be 10 to 15 per cent lower than this year’s, with housing starts, auto sales and advertising linage among the areas suffering the most.

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“It could be that profits for some of these companies will be erased totally,” McLeish said.

Still, he added that some stocks in the financial and utilities sectors, for example, will hardly feel the pain.

Fred Schilling, an a it with Nesbitt Thomson Deacon Inc., expects share profit at Algoma Steel Corp. Ltd. of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., will tumble to 65 cents next year from his originally forecast $1.55.

He predicts that Seleo Inc. of Toronto and Dofasco Inc. of Hamilton will also see drops next year from initial fore- casts: to $1.55 from his initial $2.25 at Stelco and to $2.20 from his estimate of $2.60 at Dofasco.

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