oyers and esday noon. Wed etaries at the ¥ ah annual four-hour dinner at the Terrace Hotel, Ottawa Offbeat Ottawa,-Have you ihe bia ay recently in e city newspapers, news like fashion has been changi ' The “in"thing now is not what the majority of editors for long years back have called hard news. Which is news that is news, or what, he newspaper is supp be all shout. The high fasion on the metro page these days Is chatter, gossip, guff about the so-called beautiful people, and who is holding hands with who in the High Places of power. ee” never let it be said is newspaper ignorers the tread. without’a word Tracing YOUR Family’s “Roots” Family tree hunting is now only second to coin collecting in hobby popularity and library resources throughout the world are being strained to the limit to cope with thedemand. Incidentally, if you are visiting libraries anywhere to start your search and want to browse through the penealogical section, the books you need are usually listed under the 929 area. If the library, like university libraries, doesn't use the Dewey decimal system then your material is probably listed under the section. The Canadian Archives in Ottawa is one of the rresource areas that has been feeling the impact of genealogy’s sudden popularity, and its in- terlibrary loan system covering’ microfilmed rocords of Canadian census material etc. has had tostepinto high gear. No matter where you are, if your local library has a microfilm reader and is part of the interlibrary oan system, then you can order those early Canadian records. Once they arrive at your library you normal] have a month to ch them out. Along with genealogical ‘ societies and other’ information sources the more specialized branc microfilm libraries of The Genealogical Society in Utah are listed in “Trace your Family Tree’. Scattered over Canada, there are presently two of these specialized libraries in B.C. one in Vancouver and another in Kelowna. Both have access to more than a million microfilms of early records Yankees counterfeit By FRED ROTHENBERG NEW YORK (AP) — New York. ‘Yankees Peady star-studded pit- ching corps at major league baseball's recent winter meetings in Hawaii, but, in the ocess, intensified the tration felt by several of their top minorleague pitchng pros . Ken ray, Gal Patterson and Jim Beattie feel betrayed by the team's purchasing propensities and think the American League club’s cheque- book policy is counterieit. “I don't think they can’ keep pushing the young guys back,” said Clay, 23. "I think they should go with their organization more, ‘That's what they have a minor-league system for.” Patterson, 22, said buying pitchers “has a real emoralizing effect on the young pla in the f dtiation”” keeps hearing how the Yankees are big on developing and_ using their young players, “then they go out and buy players.” ; The World Series champion Yankees have become very successful by turning their pockets inside out, but it’s their farmhands who, ultimately, are paying the price, The Yankees say the farm system is not being - overlooked—that more money is being chan- nelled into the minors than ever before and that, in baseball and war, you can’t have too many arms. “You can never have enough pitching,” said Cedric. Tallis,’ the Yankees’ new vice- president and general Manager who succeeded wheeler-dealer Gabe Paul. “It's a competitive business, and may the best man win. If we have a surplus of pitching, we can trade.” - With the free-agent signing of RaWwly East- wick and the buying of Andy Messersmith in Honolulu added to the earlier purchase uf Rich Gosgage—the — pitching plus of this year's free- agent orop the Yankeus nave iG aarmne hurlers oni rest? not nearenally abbet'a couple more Catfish Hunter, etal aitany for thee ako a attie, 23, said he - numbers nine. As starters, the projection is tight- anders Ed Figueroa, Dick aro vive Tesdertttiet and ‘left-handérs “Ron Guidry, Don Gullett and Ken Holtzman. The bullpen includes lefty arky Lyle and righties gage and Eastwick. HOLTZMAN IGNORED Figueroa, | Hunter, Messersmith and Gullett were beset by injuries last season and Holtzman was rarely_used, which means the * Yankees’ youngsters could even- tually get action. Clay made 21 ap- for the ankees in: the 1977 season pitched against’ Los Angeles in the World Series. Patterson also spent some time with the Yankees in 1977 following a 16-4 record with their top farm clubs the year before. He had a sore arm for much of the 1977 season. Patterson said he would consent to one more year with the Yankees’ organization in the minors, but Beattie wants only to wear a major league uniform— preferably one with ti ‘pinstripes. wand more briefs CAGE DIDN'T HELP LONGLEAT, England (CP) — When 40 television camermen went to Longleat Safari Park, Wiltshire, to make a film on wildlife, they each had &12,000 in- surance policies against attack by lions, tigers, wild boars and horned rhinoceri. Filming was from inside a specially constructed iron cage— but five men were taken to the hospital with wasp stings. HAND-OUTS STOP- PED PETERBOROUGH, England (CP) — The Lions Club, which has been giving free food par- cels to 100 needy persons In Peterborough for the last six years, has scrapped the scheme. “Some people were tuking more than one parcel,” a spokesman saad representing the equivalent of four million inted volumes of three ed pages each. The microfilms list such ‘ things as ‘ christenings, marriages and ths, census cccintion cemetary | in- on, passenger lists, wills and probate records along with ancient genealogies which have already been compiled. Parish records, cnesus returns and vital records are filmed all over the world so that many researchers find it easier to study records in ‘Canada then in country of origin. This is certainly true of Britain where a large number of records ve filmed TRACING YOUR “One of the things I have to emphasise when instructing budding researchers is to check their own farnily sources before starting involved research. Although cb- vious, its been missed so often that I compiled a; special list of home sources to be checked out,” says Edis. “Trace Your Family Tree” includes the list which starts out with the family itself, ‘the family doctor, lawyer and for- mer neighbours then expands into the varie of household records that can give direct in- formation or clues to the searcher. For the fledgling genealogist the frist step en is not necessarily a librarty, but rather a visit to a senior member of the family to alk over old times and people. Old Bibles complete with fading but legible details of family members are a rea) find. Memeiral cards, old photographs and even pieces of table silver bearing a family name and the maker's hallmark can be im- protant clues to the origins of family mem- bers. Birth death and marriage certificates are invaluable because they are authenticated documents. ’ ty .a withch, Writing letters to relatives or even those carrying the same un- common famluly name can be useful also in tracing the family tree. Edis once went on a six month marathon letter writing spree and he provides sample letters in “Tracy Your Family Tree” to show how its ba Dyrin that period I ‘ g that peri received information on more than 600 members of my growing family. Included among the haul was a family tree dating back to the early 1700's and listing mroe than 400 names. Farmers, pioneers and parlimentarians were represented amon the number.” Although some older family members are still concerned. that their probing might revela amily midseeds most people these da & * reaslize that even royally has illegitimacies and.a Tirate or two in bygone ys adds something the family history. Edis tells of a researcher who discovered his forebears among five brothers charged with horse 8 g@ who swung from the same tree. “Indiscretions are now part of history and there’s no way to change them. The excitement is in finding your own people, learning of their times and realizing that. this business of discovering ancestors can become very big. Just work out the statistics of a single family. Progressive doubling up from the family of today gives two parents, four grand- parents and so on. “Simple - arithmetic reveals a possible million forebears in a mere 20 generations — plenty of room for a pirate or two, or even a duke,’’ Edis stated. So if your new Year's Tesolution is to do your early fa ou couldn’t start in a tter place than pobing through ‘‘Trace your Family Tree” by Graham and Shirley Edis: Published by McGraw- Ryerson and avilable in most book stores for Walk, jog, run, skate, ski, swim, paddle, pedal... don’t lat life catch you with your head down. Fitnessia fun, Try some, Ss » PORT? ’ , holding - vestigate. now and then about the going-ons of the crushed velvet suit crowd. ; Which brings us again to, well, who else but bachelor girl Margaret Trudeau who seldom lets a day go by without getting her picture into trendy photo pages of the “Eye” column of Women’s Wear Daily. WWD, as this ~ New York daile calls ‘ it: self,sees all and tells more about the earryines-on of the Manhattan elite than the mighty Times. You remember recently, Ms. Trudeau barged over from table to table in New York's swanky club “‘21", during a quiet luncheon, to badger: Princess Margaret for an terview-cum-photo? Ms, Trudeau, after who an _—_enterprisin; manufacturer jeans has named his special high society denims “Maggies’’, received the royal freeze for her c e358. But that's not all. Now chatty WWD- must reading in Ottawa ‘political and diplomatic salons-tattles that as a result ,of it, Princess t has been assigned another bodyguard. The Princess was not only incensed by Ms. Trudeau's insensitivity or gaucherie in not realizing in- that protocol required Her © to summon the maitre’d’ to request a lady-in- waiting be asked to relay a message petitioning for an informal audience, but Scotland Yard was seandalized, not to say unnerved. After all, if the walking, talking, discotequeing commercial _for ; Inexplicable plane crash. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A DC-8 cargo jet, trying té land to'pick wu Christrias mail, crash into a snow-covered mountain Sunday after the pilot reported trouble with his landing ger, ‘“Maggtes’’ could ap- proach the royal table unchallenged in the discreet sociall disciplined ‘'21."' wel my dears, what else so utterly impensable could happen. : The additional agent h from Scotland Yard now on royal social posting is expected to guarantee that things hence forth will be stricly de rigueur regardless of Maggies's meandering. And remember the still best-selling “Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow." Well, what more British or English can you imagine in the world of children than Pad- dington bear. But now he's gone bilingual. The nurses at St. Marys Hospital _in Paddington in North London made the bear their gift to the new son of Captain Mark Phillips and Princess Anne. That makes Pad- dington Bear some symbol of its very Britishness. Now the beloved bruin, wearing the same hat and jacket in which he arrived at Paddington Station, with the same tag around his furry neck, is front and centre in Canadian toy shops. But Paddington arrives in Canada in two languages. Read it on the tag he wears; “Please look after this bear. Thank You. Darkest Peru to London, England, via Paddington Station.” And regardless of Paddington’s unquestioned Englishness, also on his tag; ‘Occupez-vous bien de cet. ours merci, Du fin fond du Perous a Londres, Angleterres, via Gare Paddington.” Fair’s fair . in bilingualism, —Butcan you" imagine French champagie or perfume from Paree on the shelves here under an English-as-well label? was ordered to a oe. holdi inexplicably left it. The wreckage of the | United Airlines jet, scattered a barter ale up to the peak and down wetted by a. military Spo! y a ary helicopter about eight hours after it crashed. A two-man _ rescue team, dropped from the helicopter, was probing through snow more than a metre deep in an at- tempt to locate survivors or ies of the three- man crew. ‘ Davis County Sheriff Dub Lawrence said the lane struck ‘‘with emendous impact” and: “T don’t see how anyone - could survive.” * The horizontal tail fin 7 was the largest piece intact. United identified the crew as Capt. -John Fender, 49; First Officer Phillip Modesitt, 46; and ~ Second Officer Steve Simpson, 34, all of the Chicago area. The wreckage was found at about the 2,220- metre level of rugged Bear Canyon D metres north of hpre, said : Sheriff’s Lieutenant Dean - about 1:40 an Sunday. It had been ordered into a holdin pattern when it report trouble with landing gear. Just before the crash, the plane left the attern without explanation, headed east, and could not be raised by the tower, said William Lovett, -traffic control centre chief controller. The U.S. national transportation safety board has sent ateam from Washington tto in- TIB:. It was the secondictash of a commercial abtfcrait in the United States within a week, A char- tered DC-3 crashed shortly after takeoff “Tuesday night from the Evansville, ind., airport, killing all 29 persons aboard, including the University of Evansville basketball team. l pattern and then <. _ THE HERALD. Thursday, December 22, 1977 PAGE 7, Public library news. . FROM THE LIBRARIAN On Saturday, - the: Woorteutter, a good story children: of” Terrace’ about a woodcutter, & listened to Christmas pedlar, and Mr. Louis, stories and saw a puppet Father Christnat goes on show with Santa and his Holidays by Raymond helper. Later, Santa B . For ideas for the ant experlements library, to the delight of try Dr. Zed's Brillant the children. He brought Book of Sclence Ex- treats, including tree periments, 7 ornaments _ for Adults may like these children to make. new books: Canadian . Children may pick up a Frontier: exciting stories free Christmas puzzle at from Canadas history the library to whileaway short stories by Pearl leisure time. For holiday Buck in The Lover, or reading there are new Canada’s International children’s books uestrians. Garbage Delight, a book e library will be of nonsense by Dennis closed Dec. 24. and Dee. 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