: une in this village‘nor

page J “ Tha Harald,’ Thursday, hit 4, 1983

“MILLBANK, Ont. (CP) From the | first light of day until ;

way past dark,” parked ars and pickup lrucks:'line the
arrow dead-end ‘street outside a: weather-beaten | frame

‘ of Stratford.: -. © .
: For hours on end; people, sit‘in their vehiclea awaiting

their turn to see Vera McNichol, the 7-year-old clairvoyant:

whose predictions. are credited. by Many With helping find : -

4 | missing relalives, lost possessions and d pets or or foretell

\ job moyes'and marriages: re Penner
‘. McNichol, perhaps

| years ago, 0):

Tuer, 33, had been: ‘missing for alinost a. . month when”

" McNichol told searchers his. body would be found “deep in ini:

the ground southwest of the house and ngt far from it.
possibly in water,”

Tuer's body, weighted by a” * chain and an auiomotive ;
_ transmission, was s eventually found. at the bottom. of" an

“Super senic

abandon ned well ‘about my ‘dlometre. southweat ‘a “hie
_ farmhouse, He had shot in the head by a .22 ‘calibre.
bullet. Abrother, Willlam, was 6 bsequently found guil gullty of
murder and sentenced. to life prisonment,: |" ~:
FAME WIDESPREAD | \

While details of that: sruesoine! ducriely ave dimmed, :
‘fortune-+teller | “continues a
; Undiminished,, Attracting a steady’ Stream of Visitors to’ this ;
“Y quiet hamlet in the heart: of Mennonite’ coumiry. . \. 1€r, WAS.

a .” Most of her clients are: wome?, ‘some returning for repeal - eo

vialis ‘after ‘absences of years.. pes :
* MeNichol; a ‘short, ‘plump and. motherly’ person, greet
“everyone. ‘with a: ready smile and: ‘warm’ welcome, In the:

MeNichol's. . fame ' as a:

. -itchen where her husband, John, 80, keeps a fire going ina

wood stove. A “visit with Vera”: generally: lasts. At least. an.
- hour, often longer, and includes a- sessicn' with the cards— '
: the first deck exploring the past, the second foretelting, the 7

* future.
ay don't rush anybody. " MeNichol sald, Nor. dots ahe

. freezing,

. really

Indians safeguard lives patroling back alleys

KENORA, Ont. (CP) —_

Few people would dare
venture nightly into the
town's. unlit, ‘bottle-strewn
alleys where. men ‘and
women drink cheap wine,
rubbing  —aleohol
_ chemical disinfectants.
But for Daniel Greene, a
53-year-old Ojibway, and his
partner, Susan Fobister, it’s
just part of a night’s work.
_- At $4.75 an hour, they

comb the back alleys for the .

Kenora Natives Street

. Patrol, started ‘in -1977 to
_ prevent accidental deaths,

among Indians. Death ‘by
drowning
train accidents has. long
plagued. Kenora’s Indian

~” population,

A study by the Grand
Council Treaty No. 3,-
published 10 years ago,

revealed that nearly 200 .

Indians died violently in the
Kenora area during a 42-
month period ending in
June, 1973. :

“Conditions | haven't
changed,” says
Lorraine Major, a health
worker for the council,
hich represents about 25
ladian bands.

“Right now in town they
(patrollers). are catching. a

lot more people but out on

and.

and —

the reserves the death rate ~
is still very high.”

Comniunity health
workers say that, while
alcohol problems among the
Indian residents’ have not
decreased, — the - nightly
patrols have helped cut the
number of ‘accidental
deaths.

"Joe Seymour, executive

director: of the Ne-Chee .

Friendship Centre, says in

1981-82 patrollers took.500 °
people
. Detoxification Centre, 20 to
‘the local bospital,: referred
121 cases: to -the police,

to the Kenora

provided transportation to

72, and’ gave other help to
' 489 more people.

HARD TO ASSESS VALUE

. Even with these statistics,
Seymour says its difficult to.
determine how many lives
have been saved by the

‘patrol,

He says waking up a

- drunk and welking him to a-
detoxification centre may -_.

be less dramatic ° than

rushing a child from a

burning house. -

+. “But if you: find, a.. guy

passed out on the dock, ‘all
hehas to do is roll over once

“and he’s in the water,”
Greéne and his partner -

qualify for the jab because

they speak Ojibway - and
communicate easily with ©
the street people, But they |

have another important link:
to the street’ —. both ‘are

: former alcoholies.

- “T've been off the booze,
it’s going on the fifth month
now,'” said Greene.
first, [use to be ashamed of

it but.I’m not now. Because | ~

it’s ‘past ‘now, hopefully. "
: Their own. experiences ; as
alcoholics - and ~.. street

_ survivors are all Greené

and Fobister use to guide
them in the program, which
is funded with a $79,000-2-

year grant from the Ontario-

Ministry of. Community and
Social Services,
On one recent patrol, they

.. Skipped between snowbanks.

near the waterfront — to
search the darkened bowels
of empty buildings behind.
the town’s Main Street,

‘Nobody was hiding there,

drunk or hurt.

“It's best to look in there
anyway,”
“Even in the garbage bins.

- [know — used to sleep

" there. "

Leaving the heart of town,
they walked west to the
Winnipeg River and north
along its shore. A good 20

a minutes: from town, Greene .

WAL

said Greene, .

ambled through the: ‘bush ;
and explained why someone
would bother walking so far
*r from town to drink in: peace.
“You wouldn't" want’ to.
come out here yin just one

“TORONTO. (CP),
--Raymond Burr; who seems

2 thoroughly decent ‘chap,

. says” the theatre is like life.
in that it’s easier to be a had.
guy than a.good guy.

. Burr, -who has had a

. remarkable career playing

both, opened. Monday. night
in . Underground, a ‘new
London-bound thriller that
marks his first. stage
appeararice- in almost 25
years,

“Good guys é are harder “tp
play — they're often very
dull,” he said in a -pre-
opening ‘interview in the
hharborfront

the play's six-week ‘run ‘at
the’
Theatre.

‘The entire play is set ina

London . underground -

subway — car, stalled with :
its 12 occupants, an odd lot

Exercise can be painless

VANCOUVER (cP) —

With the flowers of spring
come the joggers trying to

Shed extra pounds ‘gained —

during the winter. .
'  And- with = the "jogging >
come aches and pains that -

‘often lead to ‘abandonment
of the exercise. program,

‘and in some cases, serious

injuries.

But fitness is more than
developing. stamina, and
should be achieved without

’ pain or stiffness, says a

kinesiology professor. '
. In fact, stamina —
cardiovascular fitness —

ranks third in the factors for

developing - overall fitness,
Says Bill Ross of Simon

Fraser University in neat.

Burnaby, B.C.

“The heart,’ lungs ‘and

‘circulatory system go for a
ride on‘ the joints and |
- ligaments,’ he says. “The

cardiovascular . system
trains very easily,’’

~ Ross says filness consists
of three 8's; Suppleness,
_ strength > and,

stamina.

“A person who gets

breathless while running

. Will-stop and recover,” he
' says, “but a person who
_ doesn’t will tend to persist

and force stress on the

ligaments and joints.
“People must_ recognize

that they must be prepared

before” they begin running. :

‘finally, .

improvement

‘soreness

Canadians snore

Snoring may be the great Canadian pastime.

“About 80 per cent of households were reported to contain
at least one person who snored,” in a survey of more than ..

260 people by three University of ‘Toronto researchers.

Fighty-six per cent of the women said their husbands

_ snored at least some of the time and 52 per cent said the.

snoring bothered them.
Only 57 per ‘cent of the men said their wives snared.
A surprise finding, say the researchers, was that snoring

was not related to age. Older huabands, for example, were |

not more likely to snore than younger ones.

However, considering that more than: half the women —

reported being’ irritated by their husbands’ snoring, the
condition ‘may te a'significant cause of conjugal strife,"
say the researchers ‘in an article in the: Canadian Medical
Association Journal.

The study was made by Dr. Peter. Nottm, Di. Earl Dunn -

‘and James Haight.

Using the stairs whenever possible is an. effective way to

improve and maintain fitness, says. the ‘Canadian Public -

Health Association.

_ Peggy Edwards, progres thanager of the association's

fitness secretariat says the group: will promote: stalr-

walking competitions in offices across Canadd during |

National Physical Activity Week; May 15-23.
_ “Stair walking is a safe and easy way to bulld, more
activity into one’s daily routine,” says Edwards, “Tt is a
sound exercise habit that helps improve fitness, tone leg
muscles, control weight and relleve stress."

_ In the Canadian Journal of Public Health, she says :

walking up stairs, which consumes om average 10 calories
per minute, is almost as good as jogging (12 calortes per
minute), and. compares favorably with other enérgetic
activities such as dancing the rhurnba {4.5 calories per
minute), Walking briskly (seven calories per minute on

" average} or swimming the breast stroke (7.5 calories per

minute}, - . :

“They must make’ hasle
slowly," ©. je

Exercise programs which
cardiovascular
‘fitness put the cart before |

stress .

the horse, Ross says.
“Tt makes sense-(o take a
‘go-slow' attitude and work |

in the area most difficult to -
improve — the muscles and °

the skeleton -- and accept.
slow, Bteady progress
rather than go with a quick
in - the
cardiovascular system and
face a breakdown with pain,
"and, joint
problems.

“If You want to prove you

are unfit, you can certainly ”

do that by Tushing into an
exercise program,

“A sedentary person

"should allow one’ month of
.eradual training for. every

year they ‘have _ been
inactive,” Ross adds, and

_ there should be no morning-

after stiffness.

Inthe survey, 148 married women and ili men ~ all from. | “Pain is a warning. Any

different households — answered questiorinaires when they .
visited a family clinic for conditions unrelated to snoring.

time you induce pain in any
way, itis a warning. Pain is
a.mistake in training.”

People used to seeing top-
training:

_ calibre athletes -
hard and with ‘pain “must
realize that the athlete has

had ‘years and years” of
_ preparation.” . -

For an ‘ordinary person to
- exercise that way is inviting

injury, Ross says, and the

person probably will give up
and quit trying to become
fit.

- “There - should be no .

stiffness ‘after an exercise

Program — if there is, the _
program is too much,” he .

nates. .

"Warmup. - and
preliminary activities are
important. Just stretching
and walking is a good start.

“If a person is looking for

_Welght control, there is no —

“appreciable | difference in
caloric - requirements
between walking a mile and

running a mile. And running .

should be done: at' a
conversational pace. You

' should be able to talk,

“The ' cardiovascular
system trains beautifully if

the joints and ligaments do

not-break down.” -

“Got a room with a panoramic
view of the city?” |

apartment |
where he’ will reside during

Royal _ Alexandra +

4 charge a fee, i
\ellents. Everyo1 e
told they may,
a including auipbiogr

. Volume of poetry. which

She jecalls having psychic Po il
~her inlo trouble. with her. father ‘who would
a making predictions.” ;
PREDICTED AT. AGE WINE - ae
She waa nine when she predicted iwe pénple — a friends of
her parents and a child —.would ‘die in an accident. —
furlous with.me and gent me'to. bed:
without any supper. My mother Was not surprised because :
she was gifted with, ‘second sight, although: she did't, -

“My father was

bottle;” he sald,

all day,"
The patrollers reached a
hilltop overlooking : ‘ the

Trans-Canada Faghwey, the

including» ‘an American

lawyer (Burr), a Swiss
diplomat, a drunk, a young

“private school. loud-mouth,

‘and others.’ The lights. go
out, there is a. murder.

Suspicion: moves up and |

down the car and Burr

assures the audiénce that

the guilty party will betray
himéelf by his own words.
He does, indeed, but there

are an awful ‘lot.of. words

spoken before he gets

around to it and many may |

find his play too wordy, and

. certainly a bit far-fetched. a

Actually Burr, anative of
‘New Westminster, :
owes a gaod deal to bad-guy
roles — he playéd shadowy,

sinister types .in-more than’
60 movies before he turned *
almost saintly .as- Perry .

“Mason on: the. ‘television
Series that ‘ran nine years.

After that, he was "the

‘ whbelcHalt-bound (Capt:
: * tronside 4 on Ty for a ain ‘eight-.
year run.

uA guy :
would bring a case and’ stay .

BC,

‘orchid

Lake of the Woods, church .
‘steeples and the backsides |
- of Main Street’ buildings,
windbreaks for the drunks. .
-“Il's a nice. view," said -

_ Greene, who | use to Join. his”

_“Easier to. be bad than. good” .

his chances on the stage and

~.that- is’ why, he's . happy
finally to be back behind the .
dootlights, ‘where he got his
.. Start at. age 12, Hesays he
has two more plays lined up,.
one 4 16th century classic
Henry’ the

based -." on
Navigator... av

Now that he's free of long-
run TV serles, would ‘he .

accept ‘another? |

“Sure,” hesaid. “For $150 f-

million; tax free, and six
months off a year” — a long
way of ‘saying no.

Now 65, alittle, greyer’ and
. a lot. bigger, he has.8 fall

TV-movie-stage career, .
grape and vegetable farm in
northera California and an
“and. coconut
plantation - on - a Pacific.
island near Fi.

“When I make a movie I

- have to get up at 4: 30 a.m.;
when I’m a farmer Ihave to

" get up’ at 4:30, when I'm on.
‘the plantation have fo get’ |. -

‘up at 4:30," he said.
a a sense, success apolled :

Now he’s looking forward

business

= pay $00 pat ‘

While she claims

McNichol kitchen,

oot ‘pull'a any y punches if she sees'bad mt
happenings in the’ ‘lords for Someone, MeNichol generall
focuses ‘on any. “happy. tidings ‘she can: turn Up.’ ot
She has no teleptione or appointment book,’ ‘30 ‘anyone ‘who, oO
Wants to see her’ must walt in Une for admission to. the

‘last year and Sin one month had -
Hue on mall “with” Angulfieient ; wo

“friends there, especially in

“That's where mast of the”

people get. mm: over, a ‘ala: °
Greene, The’. Buys. who,
drink. too: much.

‘ gould walk-‘and fot, Imow. .
what's coming. Those: are
the | guys who get run, over, we

early summer. But the train
tracks notched into the side’

of the slope posed a danger.

before, and ‘alter. a ‘bled
British. tour Underground:
will, ‘open in Landon. for

to keeping theatre hours. He
had the Toronto run written
into his contract because he

had never played ‘hera three months, :

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