Dear Ann Landers: I don't know how to say this, but I am in

‘desperate need of an answer. If you print my letter please don't

igive any clue as to my name or the part of the country I Hive in, No one must trace this question to me.

Is it possible to sue a husband for rape? I hope you won't tell

@ to see a lawyer. All I need is a yes or no answer. Thank you.

—Once Too Many

‘Dear O.T.M.: The answer is no, (P.S. Any woman who asks such a iqueation should, in my. opinion, see a buchen a legal

seltenn ora dlvorce.)

marriages and three di

would be a very good one. +. Now my proble years my

Dear Ann Landers: Tees see td og an aa by s ‘astrologer. She told me I would meet a man and fall in lov. 20, But she warned me against marrying him. According to a chart, it would be a Siasstar. B She said'I would end up with three

My chart saya I should wal wait until I am 29 years old, at which fooT will meet a man who is flv professional’ field. That marriage,

oars my sciicr esi a \ecording to the astrologer,

Tam in love’ with a man who is not five senior, He-is four years older than L He is not a

Professional He is employed by his father. I am not 29, I am 22. + Thave postponed the wedding twice because I keep thinking about what the, astrologer said..Please tell me if you think I am

being foolish.

—Star-Bound And Hung-Up

Dear Bound And Hung: Today; anyone who marries, with or jwithout an astrologer’s chart, is taking a chance. One ouf of every three couples who say “I do" this year, will be saying “I want out"

sooner or later, (In California, it's ‘do not, consult the stars, but many highly

1 personally

ne out of two.)

intelligent people do. They point out (and quite logically) that junar movements influence behavioral patterns (hence the word “lunaties") so perhaps the position of the stars may also preordain

what Seatiny has in more: for us. e

Bi Dear Ann Landere: A friend of mine bas attached herself to me like a barnacle. Every morning she phones and asks, “What are you doing today?” Then she Broceeds ¢ to invite herself along. She kn

jaws every Mov!

Please don’t tell me to drop her. She's good as goldwould

give me the shirt off her back. If I ever get ina jam,

need somone

to take my kids, bake a pie, run an errand or whatever, she's

Johnny-on-the-spot. T need your advice, Ann.

—Blood-Hounded - _ Dear B.H.'d: If you really want to get rid of the barnacle, stop...

asking her for favora. When you no longer feel abligated you'll be

able to shake loose. There's ne such prose a free lunch, lady. -

Coufideatial to A Leadon Rara Grrl wiih Cieica Under by Eyes: Tn Sot marpeised sort ott sleep latte: Vo ‘You sleep days, Your only

hope is to atop turning the clock around. morning and fix breakfast for the farplly. Landers

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The Early Years 1935-1941

A Brief History of the AA

Submitted By Castlegar A.A. Group Alcoholics Anonymous be-

gan when two individuals first shared their experience, Strength, and hope with each other—and then went out to help another still—suffering alcoholic.

Tt was June, 1935, Bill W., the, New York broker: who paced the hotel lobby in Akron, Ohio, had once been pro nounced a hopeless alcoholic. + Yet six months before, he had apparently lost all desire to

rink.

Now, an important busi- ness deal had gone on the rocks, He was alone and acutely’ de- pressed—gripped again by the terrible obsession to blot. out past, present, and future witha drink. His own survival de- pended on: helping another drunk, He could not slay sober alone. But all his old drinking buddies, wary of lecture anc reform, had refused his help.

Bill W. searched through the phone book for someone , who might put him in’ touch ” with another alcoholle, It was in . the desperate need to save himself from the one drink that”

could lead ‘all the way to |

insanity or death.

The: phone call led to’a +

meeting with the late Dr. Rob © &., a physician who had vie tually destroyed his practice: and reputation because af aled- *

hol. This was the last major .

.step in the formation of the, A.A. recovery - prograin—the

discovery that alcoholics,. sick - or well, have mutual need: for

one another.

Much of present AA,

theory and practice was known J - before this meeting—that alco- "|

holism is an incurable illness, but recovery is possible in rare instances through total ‘ab- stinence spurred by .mental and/or spiritual reorientation. -

The Oxford movement ©

taught that fearless self-inven-

tory ‘and aid to others helped. maintain sobriety.

At first, A.A. maintained close contact with the Oxford groups, but the relationship ended in 1987. Since then, the “fellowship has been completely

: independent of any other move-,

* ment or organization. It works

only for the recovery of other alcoholics.

The co-founders of AA. | gathered in a third member * almost i but it was

f0-Year Light Bulb

‘Would you like to be able to buy light than

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slow going thereafter. Six months later, Bill returned to New York to start a group. A third group was formed in

life span of 10 years? Well, it that this will

Hollister has developed what he calls the Litek bulb. .This bulb not only lasts up to 10 years, but saves on energy as wel

To aid Hollister in market ing and production research, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Adminstration has awarded him a contract for $310,000.

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Unlike the average light bulb, which ‘produces illumina- tion by means of the glowing tungsten filament, the Hollister

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By 1938, there were only 60 members.

Rashly, they decided’ to publish a book incorporating. - the experience and thinking of those who had already found sobriety. The title “Alcoholics Anonymous” gave the fellow- ship its name.

In spite of their high hopes, the amateur author-publishers were left with 5,000 copies of a book that no one seemed to

-- want. The printer’s bill was'un-

paid, and on one oceasion they were nearly evicted from their modest headquarters. ~ Then, a Cleveland news- * paper ran a ten+ part series on A.A. that resulted in a deluge of inquiries. AA,

“could stay. sober where one .

{could not~because separation ‘meant loneliness, despair, and j ultimately, death, i" Early members, like those: j today, were above all, human, + Sobriety came first, but there ‘were also granlinne. unwork- table plans for A.A. hospitals fund-raising drive a8 ani wersonal power and prestij : ‘These faulls, however hu- + man, tended lo divert, members from their primary: purpose. Thus it was ‘for practical

i reasons that such Uraditions as *-

‘financial self-support; anony-, [mity, group aulonamy, non-- y affiliation, and others were. ‘devised. . tt Since those (irst days, A.A.

;members have continued to”

carry the message uf hope to “those Who are willing to listen.” {They have shied way from: anything ¢hat smacks of tecture d reform: Nothing in A.A. iss The A.

“group consricn erning power. These early members pav- ed the way for thousands of men: and women who meet today in over 27,000 proups in. about 92 countries: throughout’ the world. Saved from insanlty or death, nese cole are once again useful citizens, produc-

‘tive employees, and assets to themselves and their families.

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the Cleveland-Akron area. Barely sober newcomers were pressed into immediate service to help those who were even newer than they. .

A.A. gained a non-alcoholic friend with just about Pekatd new member—doctors, cl men, relatives, friends ‘and on em- ployers of alcohclics.

Among those who took an active interest was the late

G John D. Rockefeller dr., who ,

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A.A. in 1940. He helped make A.A. “respectable” when he stood up and told the world that he believed the organization was worthwhile,

National newspaper cov- erage of the Rockefeller dinner helped boost membership to,

2,000 as groups were launched © in nearly a dozen major cities.

In 1941, a feature article by Jack Alexander in the Saturday Evening Post brought in thou- sands of new members. Addi- tional thousands who came to A.A. in later years gained their first knowledge of A.A. from this story. Today, in pamphlet. form, this article is still avail- able from the General Service Office.

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CB:Radio is B

g in North Ameri

# Existing CB Channels are Reported Approaching the Saturation Point

By, Alan Daniels st Vancouver Sun i

Don Mather is seething. As a member of the coast guard auxiliary in ‘Delta, he monitors his citizens’ band radio to save lives, But now, loud and clear over his living room CB set, he is tuned in to a bucketmouth, with a cranked-up $200 special, whose sole aim appears to be to - coax his girlfriend out of her , clothes.

The conversation goes lke this (eat your heart out, C. W. McCall):

“You. got your birthday auit on 10-4"

“Negatory.”.

“Gosh darn it, I though ya

sais be in yer birthday suit," ‘I got my ‘jamas on.”

“Well, that’s close. You're setae, down there.” (Laugh- ter).

There was more. The con- versation; all of equally banal, had gone on for 15 minutes (10 minutes more than the legal limit). It was a good example, says Mather, of how people to whom CB radio is no more than

a toy are taking over the .

airwaves.

CB radio is booming. in North America. In Vancouver alone there are 13,000 licensed operators—and applications for new licences are being made at a rate of 1,000 a month, Radio Shack, which claims about 50 per cent of the retail market in

Canada, expects that its sales —

this year will exceed 132,000 units, |

Most will be bought by sensible, legitimate users (“A good operator is almost never on the air,” says Mather) but a small percentage of frivolous users—perhaps only five per . cent—is making things miser- able for everybody.

They talk on channel 9, whichis supposed to be for emergencies only. They clutter up channel 23, supposedly reserved for municipalities, And they increase the power of their equipment—which is also illegal (and is the equivalent of shouting to make yourself heard)—so they can wipe other users off the. air.

“They arg causing us feqiita” a headache,” says Larry Reid, Vapcouver, manager of Com- munications Canada, the agen-‘ cy responsible for licensing and . policing CB use.

“The biggest problem with those who modify their equip- ment is that very often they don’t know what they're doing,

‘They don't do a good job, with the result that they put out spurious signals. which inter- fere with other services. “They can cause both TV and stereo interference—we've had many ineldences of opera-

‘tors getting: into the cable

system, They get onto police, ambulance and taxi wave lengths—almost any type of communication services can be interfered ' with because of “spurious signals. ‘

“We have even had in- stances of these irrespdnaible people putting out fake distress calls. As far as I know, there haven't: been any accidents here, but the potential of danger to human life is there.",

Last month, in Colorado, a death was blamed on misuse of CB radio. A’ retired Denver policeman had a heart attack. A woman trying to summon help over CB radio was intercepted and wiped off the air—a tech" nique known as “carrier-throw- ing.” She changed channels, ‘The ‘carrier-thrower followed her.

“I told him: ‘My god, a man may be dying, please clear the channel so we can get help to him," she reported. “He gave mea Bronx cheer, but eventual- ly -he must have got the message because I didn't hear from him again.” In any event, it was too late. The cop died.

Don Mather and others say the same thing could happen

here. It is a situation of increasing concern to serious CB users,

“Let's face it, B.C. is long overdue for disaster and when it happens CB is going to have to play a major role,” Mather. adds. “But the way it's going now DoC (Department of Com- munications) would have. to come on and lay the law down and say this band is for the express purpose of such-and- such a disaster—and the clowns will still get in the way, trying to play Joe Hero.

“There are times when we would just like to say ‘I've had it’ Then you pick up a boat rescue and : ‘you're right back in, it again.”

Mather, a B.C. Tel super-

7. visor has been interested in CB

since it started in Canada in 1957. He would like to see thé regulations changed to make it more difficult” to get. a CB operating licence.

“We think people should be required to get 4 licence before

Unemployment Benefit Deadline

_The Hon. Robert Andras, Minister of Manpower and Im- migration, issued a reminder last week to the large number, of workers between 65 and 70 years of age who have not applied for their unemployment. insurance retirement benefit.

About 50,000 persons now eligible for the special 'three- week retirement benefit have failed to apply. The figure represents about two-thirds of the total number of ‘those eligible. After Aug. 15, 1976, this benefit will no longer be available to persons in this age group.

“The Unemployment Tn- surance Commission wants to make sure that this particular age group is made aware of this special benefit before it ex- Pires,” Mr. Andras said.

In order to qualify, one

must have ‘worked and con- tributed to the unemployment insurance program for at least: 20 weeks in the past year from the date of application.

Removing. coverage from

the 65 to 70 age group was the result of Bill. C-69, which was passed. by Par! ent: last December. After Aug. 15, only persons 65 years of age will be eligible | for retirement benefits.

change was’ made because of the improvements in other income maintenance pro- grams available to persons 65 and over, such as the Canada and Quebec: pension Plas cH Old Age Security.

The commission is now arranging with the Canada and Quebec pension plans to advise persons reaching 65 to apply for

this benefit. Employers have.

also been reminded to stop

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they can buy a CB unit, Instead of the other way around," he added, “At the moment it's ridiculously easy to get a licence, I could get one for my

dog if I filled in the form and *

mailed in the money ($19.50, buys a three-year licence),” 1

Larry Reid concedes that!’

Ucences are easy to come by—and because of the large numbers involved it is difficult to police the conduct of CB operators.

Officially, he adds; it's not even called CB in Canada, it's called GRS for ge.eral radio

~ service. Exotic ‘handles’ (such

as Rubber Duck, as in the hit song Convoy) are not allowed. Operators are supposed to

* {dentify themselves ‘only by

their official call sign, a series of letters and numbers, which almost nobody uses. Where's the fun in being a CBer, if you

can't do the good-buddy bit and |

come on like a TV. trucker?

Reid says the existing CB channels are approaching satur- ation point. Small businessmen; for’ whom’ the system was primarily intended, are already abandoning it as a means of cheap communication because of the overcrowding.

The next step, which Cana- djan and U.S. governments are now considering, will probably be to increase the number of available channels,

“The problem then will be where to find the channels,” he adds, “The radio spectrum has got so crowded,”

CB club members, how- ever, blame DoC inefficiency for failing to get.the bucket- mouths off the air.

“They should’ cancel ‘all

their operations during the day

and put their monitoring staff ‘on the night shift: That's when the trouble is. At the monient they only have one guy on at night,” a club member told me,

He said CB abusers are often openly contemptuous’ of the regulations. Recently a man was carrier-throwing in. the Burnaby Mountain region, challenging other CB users to

_..tty to find him,

“DoOSsay(‘they have *to catch people like that Hterally with their finger on the key," he added, “Okay, it’s not easy, but there are CBers who have the equipment and could help track'them down if they were asked. Some of the worst offenders have base’ stations p(CB sets in their homes) they

are not even mobile.

“But they know that in the evenings and on weekends they

can't he touched. They can tie OB channels and sit there and: laugh.”

As frustrations mount a- mong legitimate, CB users, retailers (mostly of Japanese and American equipment) are also laughing—all the way to the bank.

“The saturation point as. far as we're concerned is when ever car and boat in B.C." is fitted with CB radio,” says

Herb Kikkert, manager of |

Radio Shack on Granville Mall. “It's-a boomer right now, isn't it? It’s unreal.”

In 1970 his company sold 200 units in Canada. Last year they sold 73,611 (the best-seller retails for $189). Kikkert says it costs about $20 for a ‘gypo technician’ to boost a CB radio unit from‘a standard four watts to up to 10 watts, which is enough power to over-ride most other operators.

“That's. why they doit," he’.

adds, “So they can over-ride everybody else. But people like ‘that eventually fade out of CB. They sre never biggp with what they've got and they soon get into something else."

Kikkert says’ Radio Shack will not make modifications for CB buyers, but he knows of several places where it can be done.

“Treally discourage people from doing it," he adds. “As soon as they do. it = their warranty is void and they can never come back to us.”

Meanwhile, the CB. boom |

‘continues to gain momentum, although. the effective range.

(bucketmouths permitting) is

+ limited to line of sight and, even,

under the most ideal conditions, is seldom more than 20 miles. it freak

nomenon known as skipping, although to use the skip is against regulations.

To a lot of users, particu-

larly small boat owners, CB is primarily a safety device—and there is no doubt that it has saved lives, Even on dry land, it

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, July 8, 1976

«+ Vancouver Alone has 13,000 Licensed Operator

; Sy

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‘sa way of communica and you have a flat tire. You tion,” says Killert. “No matter ‘can try shouting for help or you

can try to hitch a ride and nobody will stop. But with CB you can get on the alr and bango,, somebody is there." ~

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'b. Excellent buy on a 19" round vanity sink for counter- top Installation. I's While porcelain-on-sleet that's a breeze to clean. Self-rimming style. Complete with

, faucet, chaln and plug: Reg. 41.99. 427 497 652 DLE3.

Save 8 - Compact wall basin

¢. White vitreous china basin with antl-splash rim and fear overflow. Wall-hung model just 18 x 15" to fil Into asmall space. Faucet, plug and chain included, plus easy Install-it-yourself instructions. Reg. 37.99,

427 497 651

~ 42% 33%

29”

Prices in effect until July 17th, while quantities fast

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