Man mows
his roof

By RICHARD
COLLICUTT

Truro Daily News

STEWIACKE, NS,
(CP) — They laughed at
Fred Parnell when he aid
he intended to build a
house with 4 grass roof.
They still chuckle,
especially when he's
mowing his roof.

But the last laugh is

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The 42-year-old Air
Canada aircraft

technician says sod
provides a lot of in-
stilation and is cheaper to

install than regular
roofing.
The ancient  con-

struction technique once
was used on walls as well
as roofs. He predicts a re-
care to sods, at least for

ing.
Parnell’s sod roof cost
about $600. He estimated
a conventional roof would

have cost $1,400, to $1,800..

It started when Parnell
saw an experimental sod-
roofed house in Wolfville,
N.S. and talked about

jutting a similar roof on

e house he planned to
build.

“I was going with the
conventional roof, to tell
you the truth,” he said.
But teasing neighbors
and friends dared him to
use grass. It turned intoa
bet, and he went ahead

with sod.
WALLS

STURDY
NEEDED

Parnell’s house is one
of the prefabricated log

ckages that have

ecome fashionable
recently. Itis its solid log-
on-log construction that
give the walls the support

ey need to hold the roof.

And support it needs.
The load of sod trucked to
the house weighed 21 tons
in its fairly dry form.
Parnell has no idea how
much it weighs when it is
wet.

The construction of a
sed roof worried Parnell

for a while. Would it, leak ;, the,drop:

or would -warms “pore
through the frame under
the sod?

To prevent anything of
the kind, he topped the
two-inchthick tongue-
and-groove pine underlay
with two thick layers of
tarpaper jfollawed by
three layers of heavy
plastic film.

By the time the roof
underlay was ready it

Antlers big business

SAN FRANCISCO
(AP) — Jung Wang has
made a modern-da

business out of the an-
cient Oriental belief that
a slice of antler in your
morning tea is all you
need to put a bounce in
your step and a spark in
your love life.

Wang says his firm, U-
Jin Enterprises Inc., has
processed 12,000 pounds
of Alaskan reindeer
antlers and 20,000 pounds
of elk and red deer an-
tlers from New Zealand
this year alone.

Working out of an old
radio studio, U-Jin buys
the antlers and cures
them in walk-in ovens.
The elixir is then shipped
mainly to Oriental and
Soviet ports.

In Hong Kong, devotees
pay as much as $700 a
pound for the prime, top
part of an antler, Wang
said. But it is the Soviets
who swear most devoutly
by the power of the horns
to stimulate the heart,
ease digestion and relax
muscles, he said.

In the Eastern world,
the well-to-do drink tea
boiled from the antlers
and lesser ingredients for
30 days straight in the fall
or winter to shore them-
selves up for the year
ahead.

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio
(AP) — A sea rescue
involving this land-locked
southern Ohio town?

The rescue actually
was in the Atlantic Ocean
off the coast of Florida,
but it was made with the
help of an Ohio ham radio
operator.

Larry Beckwith, who
has been a “ham” for 50
years, was on the air

was midwinter and the
eontractor arrived with a
load of frozen sods.

“The pesple had to put
the truck with the sods in
it in a barn to thaw it
out,” he said.

TWO LAYERS USED

Two layers of sod were
used. They laid the first
layer grassside-down and
fastened it securely to the
pine underlay by placing
chicken wire over it. then
the second layer was laid
grass-side-up.

To ensure agaist any
sod slipping, Fred bolted
four-by-six timbers along
the eaves. thi ;

i everything in
Jace, Fred dnd Leona
arnell settled in for

their first winter.

For the first couple of
months the propane hot-
air furnace system was in
constant use until the
pine logs dried out.
Meanwhile, the heavy
roof
warping as the logs dried.

“Since then, I’ve never
had the propane furnace
on,” Parnell said. In-
stead, he uses a small
wood stove installed so its
heat goes into the fur-
nace’s cold air return.
The furnace
distributes the stove heat
throughout the house.

A sure-fire indicator
that the roof isn't letting
heat out is that every
chilly morning when the
lawnis covered with frost
the roof has the same
white layer.

Parnell says he’s sold
on the sod roof and would
definitely use it again if
he built another house.

The roof has one
drawback. It’s alive, and
like a lawn it needs
regular attention.

Parnell uses a Ladder to
climb to the roof and son
Wayne, 15, hands him up
the gasoline lawnmower.
The exercise takes about
five minutes.

At the back of the house

drop 4g the ground :is
aboist 25" féek. “With the’
mower in one hand and
clutching grass with the
other, Parnell holds on
for dear life when he
approaches the ‘roof's

edge.
But keeping his second
lawn immaculate is a
passion with him because
of the kidding he has
taken about the roof,
His fear is dandelions.

early in the morning last
week when he heard a
weak signal for help,

“I was using a new
amplifier with con-
siderable sock to it is why
I picked it up,” he ex-
plained.

He determined that the
call was from: a ship
about 32 kilometres from
Miami. It turned out that
the boat’s captain,
Lawrence Otera, was
seeking U.S, Coast Guard
assistance. His ship,
carrying five passengers
bound for Lima, Peru,
was taking on water
through a hole in the bow
and he was trying to get
to Miami for repairs.

For the next four hours,
Beckwith and two other
radio operators com-
raunicated with the ship
and the coast guard.

DES PLAINES, Il.
(AP) — Brian Carlson
could barely believe his
eyes when he opened the
black case a traveller left
behind at a highway
restaurant. It contained
packets of neatly
wrapped $100 bills, .

Carlson, 17, said his
first thought Monday was
to “go where it’s warm"
with the money, which
totalled $22,961.

But the youth, a $2.40-
an-hour busboy at the
restaurant near Chicaga
along the Northwest
Tollway, stopped
daydreaming and turned
the money over to state

police.
Police said the mone
belonged to Josep

Faust, 71, of Marathon,
Fla. He was given the
black case when he later
returned to the
restaurant looking for it,
authorities said.

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Clowning around is part of the fun at Christmastime at Children’s Hospital. Five

year old Brenda joined in the Christmas activities when a special friend, Mr.
Kiwanis Clown, came to visit and leave a toy for her while whe was hospitalized.
Christmas at Children's Hospital in Toronto arrives early in the season. En-

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the weleoming of

Santa are a part of the special moments the children share.

_ Success isn’t easy, -

woman says

By PABLO FENJVES

MONTREAL (CP) —
Architect Eva Vescei
used to shun questions on
the difficulties of being a
professional woman.

“I would say: ‘Look, I
don’t have problems, I’ve
made ithaven’t I? But
truthfully, it hasn’t been
easy.’

The 47-year-old mother
of two was among the
thousands who attended
the National Women’s
Conference in Houston
last month during which

women _ pushe for
measures promotin
greater social an

economic equality. The
experience gave her the
courage to speak out.

“Tt’s true that I often
had difficulty getting
hired -*beeduse I’m a
family:woinan,” she said.
“Prosfiective’ employers
used to wonder what
would happen if my child
took sick,

“T’ve never — been
rejected in the form of a
straight ‘No, you're a
female and you just can’t
do that’. The thought was
surely, there but it has
never been quite that
direct."

Mrs. Vescei, a tall,
woman with
curly, black hair, has to
her credit a recently
completed, $102-million
development in down-
town Montreal.

WINS HIGH PRAISE

La Cite, touted by its
owners as one of the best
examples of urban
redevelopment on this.
continent, is her most
prized achievement to
date.

It features three 30-
storey apartment
clusters, a 500-room

hotel, a 26floor office P

enclosed

Bank
left open

MONTREAL (CP) —
An embarassed security
official confirmed today
that a north-end bank's
main door had been un-
locked during most of the
Christmas weekend.

‘All we can blame it on
is human error,”' said the
Bank Canadian National
official. The door had
been unlocked for almost
four days but the bank re-
ported nothing missing.

tower, an

Police were tipped off

about the unlocked door

when a customer, Fer-
nand Raymond, entered
the bank Tuesday to pay
a gas bill and found it

deserted except for a 12-
ear-old girl looking for
er aunt.

Raymond said his first
thought was that there
‘‘was a holdup going on.”

‘He quickly grabbed the
‘girl and ran out into the

street where he hailed a
passing ‘motorcycle

‘police officer.

shopping promenade and
a sports and leisure
centre,

Among its notable
features is a hidden
trucking network which

silently and efficiently
services the stores and
disposes of refuse. The
network, the enclosed
promenade and the ex-
tensive underground
parking facilities can be
easily incorporated into
future developments,
said Mrs. Vescei.

She came to Montreal
from Hungary shorily
after the 1956 revolution
and spent her first two
years here working as a
commercial artist.

Her husband, also an
architect,. managed. to
land a job wi
desi
Marie, a stately 45-storey
structure which has
become a downtown
Montreal landmark.

They needed a dratt-
sperson and  Vescei
suggested they hire his
wife. They did-and she
stayed with them for 11
years.

A short while after she
took the job the firm
hired another woman

MUST PROVE THEM-
SELVES.“

“We worked terribly
hard... We over-
compensated because we
were women. In my
opinion, professional
women turn out to be
among the best, most.
serious-minded workers
because they must
continually prove
themselves,

During her 20 years in
Canada, she has con-
tributed to a number of
rize-winning projects,
including Montreal's
Place Bonaventure
(Massey Award) and, in
Halifax. Dalhousie Uni-
versity’s Life Science
Building (Design
Award). ‘ile

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In 1975, Mas. Vescei was
designated’a “Woman of
Achievement’’ by the

CA. yaf

City
’ the

‘the’
ers of Place Ville

The multi-faceted La
project is doubtless
ighlight of her
career,
suffered through a host of
unexpected problems.

Residents living around
the development—many
of them students at-
tending nearby McGill
University—criticized
the project because they
felt it destroyed the
essential character of the
neighborhood.

Not 50,
Vescei.
“This area was really

dying, it was in terrible
shane.”

Mrs. Vescei said she
took great care not to
destroy the residential
character.
borhood. 6. Ure

“The apartment © >-~
buildings are stepped so
the streets aren't robbed
of teo much light. And
they're well spread out.”

o of the seven acres
on which the develop-
ment stands are

said Mrs.

designated as park areas -

“for the entire com-
munity. People w'll begin
enjoying the benefits this
spring.”

After years of noisy
construction and
rerouted traffic, it should
be a welcome change.

NOTICE

t she said she |

of the neigh-

Valuable coins taken

HANEY, B.C. (CP) —
Dave Danyluk, 38, an
unemploye man on a
disability pension, said
Tuesday he lost a coin
collection worth $500,000
when thieves broke into
his home Christmas Eve.

“.Danyluk, who said his
collection was started
when he was two weeks
old, said he discovered
the breakin at his home,
about 50 kilometres east
of Vancouver, when he
returned Christmas Day
from ai visit to his
parent s home in nearby

ey, B.C.

Constable Rod Kehler
of the RCMP said that the
breakin was ‘“‘run-of-the-
mill" except for the
coins. Kehler said there is
no way to substantiate
the worth of the collection
“until we get them
back.”

Danyluk said his home
had been ransacked, with
contents of drawers
thrown about. An
imitation pirate’s chest
containing the coin
collection, two rifles and
acase of beer were taken.

HUNDREDS OF COINS

The chest, two feet

SFU girl
may be bride

VANCOUVER (CP) —
A Simon Fraser
University student,
identified as a German

rincess, has been named

yy a British newspaper as
a possible bride for

, _ Britain’s Prince Charles.

Princess Friederike,
23, of the German royal
house of Hanover, has
been living a secret life in
British Columbia and
now. is in _ hiding
somewhere in the Van-
couver area.

Her fast listed address
was in Vancouver, but
current occupants of the
house say they know
nothing,

Her’ presence in B.C.
was disclosed in the
Londen Sunday
newspaper News of the
World which listed her
with three other prin-
eesses as latest candi-
dates to wed Prince
Charles, heir to the
British throne.

A Simon = Fraser
spokesman confirmed
esday that Princess
Friederike is studying at
the university,

al spoke with her over
‘the’ telephone, and she
‘insisted that she did not

wish to speak to
newspaper. _reporters,”’
said Dennis Roberts.

“She said: ‘I don’t go in
for that kind of stuff’, in
reply to requests for
interviews.” ©

Brent Vance of Van-
couver, who described
himself as a current
friend of the princess,
said in an interview that
she wants to remain
anonymous and is un-
willing to talk publicly
about her royal role.

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Asked if he could tell
where the princess now
lives, Vance replied:
“That’s her business.”'

The RCMP’s V.LP.
security squad was
unaware the princess was
in town as were officials
in the Vancouver office of
the Consulate General of
the Federal Republic of
Germany.

“Good God, we knew
nothing of that,”’ was the
response from one police
officer.

The Dec. 11 edition of
the News of the World
weekly paper, which first
printed the story, said the
princess is the daughter
of Germany’s Princess
Sophie—sister of Prince
Philip and first cousin to
Prince Charles.

The newspaper said
that Princess
Friederike's cousin Prin-
cess Marie, 25, i
favorite to become
Prince Charlés's bride.

Speculation over
possible brides has been
raging for months and
has become a favorite
pastime in Europe.

Also in the running are
Princess Marie’s two

has granted interviews to
any of the newspapers.

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long, a foot high and a
foot wide, contained
hundreds of coins with a
face value of $250,000, he
said, but added that the
collector's value is at
least twice as much ag
face value. a

He sald he originally
intended the collection
for his two sons when
they went to university or
if they wanted to start a
business, but later
decided they should keep
the collection until it was
worth at least $1 million.

Danyluk said that
because of injuries
received in 1957 in a car-
train accident, he can't
get reasonably-priced life
insurance, and hasn’t
been able to work for two
years when a broken hip
didn’t heal properly.

“I haven't got
anythin ,” he said. “The
coin collection was the
only thing I had to leave
my sons.”

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Danyluk said he got his
first coin, an. 1889
American silver dollar,
when he was two weeks
old. ;

“It was during the
Depression and I wasina
cardboard bex in a two-.
room cabin my parents
had in Richmond (south ©
of Vancouver),” he said.

He said a salesman who
had come to the door,
asked his mother why the
child was crying.

“He picked me up and
spoke in Hebrew and I
stopped crying right
away,’’ Danyluk said.
“He then put the ‘silver
dollar on my chest and
spoke some Jewish
words. He told my
mother that I had the
Jewish blessing and
would be endowed with
silver as long as I had the
silver dollar.” |

Danyluk said the
collection began to grow
with coins given by
relatives, and was given
to him when he was older.

He said he added more
himself, and is still
paying for some of them,
such as a complete set of
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