‘It there 1 was a Canadian record for such things, organizers of a Michael Jeckson dance contest in. Winnipeg ‘probably’ would have Beat It... “The' contest, scheduled for a local shopping mall, had'-to be ‘cancelled when the huge crowd of a spectators became too large for organizers to handle. , mm Brenda Sigurdson, promotions co-ordinator fora fm local radio station, sald more than 9,000 techagers - : appeared at the mall to watch a Michael Jackson mm Moonwalk Contest in which 19 contestants were to . compete for a trip for two to see the teen idol on his ay. thought, there would be about 2,000 people at the shopping centre, but it was more like a. Michael | i Jackson concert,” she sald. “There were about cig to ten t ten thousand people in the shopping centrg.” ; Two y young Britons left London’s Tower Bridge on Sunday'in a run around the world... fm compiercial artist Robin Cross, 25, estimated it would | té.their almost 29,000-kllometre marathon. - They are being followed by a New Zealander on a ‘bicycle pulling a trailer of supplies. -~ Tha two said they almed to runabout 30 kilometres a day, three days on and one day off, with the frat stage taking.them across “suppose it'sa bit eccentric but I think there area jeer wo would like to come with us," " ' Weston: sal Well, tt tums out the savior of Harold Bollard's : } hapless Toronto Maple Leafsis none other than .. + the ; § honibastic octagenarian himself.’ m .A‘Toronto newspaper had claimed it was golng to | m ‘unveil the latest great white hope for the National “Hockey League.team in its Sunday edition, but when ~ the paper hit the streets readers found a: picture ‘of # Ballard, in Leaf regalia firing a puck, on the front - page and a full-page color shot of the owner on the - @ back page of the sports section. - @ Leaf ticketholdere, who faithfully fill the Gardens for. - @ each home game and haven't thada whiff of a Stanley ; 5 Cup in 18 years, Mark Thatcher, son 1 of Britain's prime rninister, | Bays’he'll move to the United-States because of problems he has created:for his mother: through his. im buslriess conrectlons. 4 Ina newspaper interview, Thatcher accused critics ® of his business affairs of trying to get at his mother through “him and said he is moving because of the : vation it has caused her. a 6H Mescribed the Jast 12 weeks as “bloody” as ® Margaret Thatcher was harried In Parliament and in the press about his former job as a consultant with a § British company. The company received a $450 £ million-contract to bulld a university in Oman shortly ] after his mother made an official visit to the Arab- state in 1061. However, the prime minister. needn't worry that her son will be unemployed in the United States -— he recently accepted @ $65,000 a year {ob promoting British itis sports cars. te. Hepa ce ghegesary Foytr Mike Bossy of the New York Islindera will store so” goals a.year. nuk taxes and death, Bossy's 50th was inevitable ein a key showdown Saturday against the cet Veshington Capitals in a game that decided ; the National Hockey League's Patrick Division champlonahip. , Bossy, who later added his 5ist into an empty net, i & produced the winning goal at 6:56 of the third period ° ee ‘put the Islanders in front 2-0 and stave off ¥ Washington’ 5 lateseason rush for’ the top” position. }Male pap test SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) — Every man over the age of 45 should undergo a male Pap test —a almple, F painless way of detecting prostate cancer, says Saint John urologist studying the disease. Dr. Arthur Chesley, who bas been doing research at St. Joseph's Hospital under a Terry Fox grant, says mort ‘han 2,500 Canadians died from prostate cancer in 1989, The ‘figure Was over 24,100 in the United States: . ‘The incidence of cancer of the prostate in Canada Chesley paid in aninterview. “If detected at an early stage this disease Is curable.” Chesley, a a professor of urology at Dalhousie University in Halitax, said more than 90 per cent of- all cases are diagnosed too late. Men are reluctant to have the test sind physicians usually avold it, he said. The: test, which is less expensive than the Pap smear for women, requires only.a disposable glove fj and a small amount of lubricant. ““The examination is done rectally, " Chesley sald. “The prostate gland is palpated gently. by the doctor who is looking for any nodules or unusual farmations that could indicate the disease.” - A bi is performed on suspicious lesions. aenceee Sitot project conducted in Saint John, 1,267. men were examined. Four cases of prostate cancer. were discovered and two of those cases were in the early stages and curable. ONE IN 20 MEN : Chesley said his research shows that one in 90 men @ over 45 develops prostate cancer. Thirty per cent of men over 50 have the disease and, at age 75, every male ‘has developed it to some degree. Treatment for the disease includes radical prostatectomy for advanced cases, radiotherapy and in some cases simply monitoring. “The radicat treatment can cause impotence, but. later surgical procedures can sometimes be used to correct that problem, "he sald. "Therearé few. aide effects froni radiotherapy but there fe acne Incidence. of impotence.” Chesley said patients my go yearn. betoré realizing they have. prostate cander. Their first-indicatlon is often the development of urinary tract discomfort. § §Advanced prostate cancer can -be extremely painful, Chesley said, The urinary system fails and ] the patient experiences 4 multitude of problems. Chesley’s research discovered that North American blacks have the highest incidence of §. § Prostate cancer in the world, but African blacks have | § Slow rate. Orientals have the lowest rate unless they @ migrate ‘to North America where, within a Seneration, they develop a rate equal to that of other § North Americans. ; { Chealey and a team ‘a ‘workers have produced J Posters ‘and pamphiété for the public and Professionals, plus a slide presentation to teach the examination technique. , Coe, oe @ next concert tour. ‘ - Becurity «. Consultant Henry. Weston, 22, and ; : take’ them: two years to become ‘the first people to Aa usiial, the biggest April Fool's joke is on Maple The wu sun rises in the eidat The POA Catholld aio" ‘and the United States is second only to lung cancer,” ~ "VANCOUVER (CP) = Five, Years. Adrian Raeside ‘started sending: out hundreds of: . cartoons a month, he was pleased if a paper accepted”, one and paid hin $2... _? “Today, at 28, ‘heimakes as much as $500 fora singe cartoon’. sald. _ Airough | his. Canadian and’ U * “syndicates. Stl, he ‘feels a. ‘ite: gulty ies pen oe do imoney on elec ie. gadge a stereo. yideo- - cassette Tecordey’ aha the remote-contrgl toys he! could never have asachild. “ - “T particularly feel I shouldn't be spending. money a - this way when I'm. drawing cartoons abott the. unemployed and the tough time they are having, “he said-during an interfiew, ; “Even befare Raeside learned tocrawl, he was using | crayons to draw. But he made a serious effort toearn _a Lying through his art only after a‘varlety of jobs . : that followed his graduation from -high school. - Originally-from New Zealand, Raesids arrived a Saltepring ilend with his family in 1972. MONTREAL (CP) - _ In launching its Pegasiss 2000: system . ‘Monday, Vancouver-based, CP. Air’ is . ‘garibling that‘ Canada is blg enough for two national computer airline reservations systems. : CP Air's entry is‘aimed directly at Air Canada, which has enjoyed a near monopoly on travel agency vy . automation with its Reservac system. Reservac, which lists all the major: airlines, is used - by thousands of travel’ agents to make reservations and order tickets. * But Air Canada competitors charge that Reservac - . “gives Air Canada flighte greater prominence. At a recent: Canadian Transport Commission hearing, . DAYTONA BEACH, ‘Fla. (AP) — A: new anti cancer drug that transforms tumor cells into near ', normal cells without the devastating side effects of. existing chemotherapy is being tested on humens for the first Ume, researchers say. -~ ~ yather than execute the tumors will reform them," _said Daniel Dexter, a researcher with E.L du Pont: de Nemours and Co. Speaking Sunday at a science writera’ seminar -. sponsored by the American Cancer Society, Dexter’ said existing drugs are highly toxle to normal cells as well as cancer cells, : The new drug, called N- ‘nethylformamide, ia one of a class of drugs that Invade cancer cells and ‘somehow cause them to mature into ‘cells: that’ are almost normal. It is not known how the drugs work. These near normal cells lose the ability to.grow wildy into the tangled knots of Hastie found in tumors. The new drugs, ‘called differentiation ageénis or maturation agents, are Industrial Solvents, -whose . a bead Oy nema a od Coekeoaue vung ine waits “Washington ** ue It's ‘difficult to say this without insulting our good ° nelghbors to the south, but the truth ‘seems to be that the father of their country, George Washington, was something of a bore. Oh, he was a nice enough guy, honorable and all -; that. But nature just didn’t seo fit to serve hie. a “no particularly generous helping of charisma. Or at least that's the impression one gets from the - first episode of the George Washington mini-series — CBS isshowing Aprils, 10 and 11. (The break on April 9 is for the Academy Awards. Various independent . Stations across Canada are alse carrying the series:) The eight-hour series, starring Barry Bostwick in ‘the title role, picks up steam over its three nights. But the kickoff ségment depictingWashington’s early years is painfully slow — when it isn’t "tualetentiooally : SHARE BLAME ; : The producers and writers get moat of the blame for this. They know their countrymen think of Washington with derision, as a rich, stuffy aristocrat. Americans like their heroes.to have a common touch. {So do Canadians; even-people who know almost nothing about John A. Macdonald can tell you he was a drunk.) So the firet episode sets ‘out to debunk the . Washington myth. He's shown as poor. boy, with a cantankerous mother (Rosemary Murphy) who's always whining about money. On a visit to neighbors, he stands in open-mouthed awe at their wealth and at alavish ball, he stumbles and stutters in the company of fancy folk. Old Stoneface has been turned into a-bland young man — or maybe even worse when Washington's record aga military man is taken Into account. . ' _ Even Thomas James Flexner, whose largely | flattering biographies are the basis for the series, - says the really amazing thing about Washington was — . that he somehow managed throughout his long career “to keep from being discharged ag a failure”. - - ASTIN CO-STARS Co-starring with Bostwick, the young actor best known for his work in musicals (Grease, The Pirates of Penzance and the cult movie The Rocky Horror Ficture Show) is Patty Duke Astin as George’ s wile, Martha: - . Former Charite’ s Angel Jaclyn Smith plays the aristocratic Sally Fairfax, the woman who was the Peal love of -George’s life. David Dukes is Sally's flullible husband, George Fairfax. . As befits a $19-million extrayaganza — for which General Motors Corp. is the sole sponsor — the production is stocked with big-name actors in small roles: Hal Holbrook, James Mason, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Trevor Howard and Jose Ferrer. Bostwick is physically right for the part at a lean 6 ‘feet 4 Inches, But he simply is not a strong enough - _ actor to hold. together this mammoth project, a fact . particular evident in the dismal first episode. Of that first three-hour program, the moat outstanding memory is of Bostwick raising and lowering his eyebrows, When Washington is angry, Bostwick ominously crooks one brow: when he's happy, both eyebrows fly up merrily. SPOKE FEW WORDS . That’s not all Boetwick's fault: Washington really was 8 man of few words and that’s why he: js not accorded the same reverence of sme of his contemporaries like. Thomas, Jefferson, - Benjamin Franklin or John Adama. And in the following two episodes,: ‘Bostwick improves because Washington is given a lot more to do, leading battles and dealing with cut-throat opponents. The series covers Washington's life from the age of 19to 51, before he becanie the first U.S. president. ago; when - oe software packages such as the : program, which combines electronic filing, _- Quebecair said the airlines should run Regevac _ is EW TAKERS |. ; . Despite its advantages, CP Air has had fev takers’ we - Anti- -cancer r drug tested - something resembling normal red blood cells, Dexter “normal ‘cells. gunlike normal cells, they do not - also cause the m a wid er NT r at “; ‘side, ‘who stil lives on the island in Georgia . Strait, started sending out gag cartoons on speculation to ‘hundreds of papers from Alaska to * Florida, He also built up:a list of weekly papers in ‘British Columbia that ‘regularly: paid him 2.50 a e | packed some of his samples into a * edrdbsdard sulleaso and went off to seek his fortune in : Toronto:and New York. He ended tip creating the Captain’ Starship cartoon for the Toronto Star's "-ghildren’s page, At firat, he earned $10. strip, five _ days a week, but after three years made $65 a strip ~ plys $120 for a large color strip on the weekend... APPEAR. IN PAPERS - Two syndicates also agreed to distribute his * Gartoons. Today, they appear in 60 Canadian daily © , and weekly newspapers and in about the’ same “ynumber of U.S. dailles, weeklies and ‘magazines, | _ Including .the Washington Post, San. Francisco Chronlele and National Review. . Wayne While both systems enable travel agenta to check - schedules, book flights, print tickets andreserve cars - - and hotel rooms, the new CP Alr system also allows the travel agent to perform accounting, word- “processing and other business tasks on the same ‘video-display terminal. ‘The system uses the IBM Personal Computer and popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet analysis and graphics. anti-cancer properties were discovered by accident jn the early 1970s, Dexter said. “5 Agolvent knownas dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO, is ; being used to preserve mouse cells during freezing. ‘ ‘| THAWED CELLS “It's extremely appealing to have an agent: ‘that wt When researchers thawed some mouse leukeinic : “ned blood cells that had been frozen with: DMSO, the researchera noticed that the leukemic cells were -. producing hemoglobin, something they had not been . able to do before they were frozen. The DMSO had transformed the mouse cells into said. Cancer cells, he explained, are immature forms of ‘mature and stop dividing. So the DMSO had transformed the cells by causing their maturation, Dexter said, at which point the cells could begin producing hemoglobin. In subsequent experiments, researchers found that similar substances, known as polar solvents, could ‘the-test-tibe-! “*2 iat ee ae ; 2 . * Dexter’ and his- ‘colleague: ‘at Brown Universi ‘ whieh! ‘he left for.du Pont last year, found that N: methyiformamide, or NMF, was effective in fighting human colon tumors grafted onto mice. Trials. with human patlents are. called Phase I studies, intended only to make stire that the drugs do not have unexpected side-effects, Dexter said. Phase I]. testq scheduled to begin this summer uld begin to show whether the drug is as effective ar ie re ae expensive Rane Sect rr, ee ele pees ee ae pe ee Bar a toe e He also does cartoons for government publications * and annual reports. “| work 12 hours a day, seven days a week," he says. He started in a basement studio in his parents’. home, moved to a converted garien shed and now has _ bis own studio in.the same property, © |. jfe9s - _ Raesldé ‘reads. newspapers and maigazites’ voraciously and watches television. He produces five to eight cartoons a week on topics of Britiah: Columbian, Canadian and international concern... “Some days I get Four or fiveidens, sometimes get none, ' It’s “98-per-cent perspiration one-per-cent inspiration.” | _— He drew one of his most inspired cartoons ater, Me _ learning that Peter Sellers had died. “ “in half an‘hour I had drawn a cartoon of the pink panther sitting on the sidewalk, reading a newspaper witha headline about Sellers’ death. There was a tear ” ~ in the panther's eye. . _ “Everybody ran that cartoon. Often a simple idea can be-the most effective.” CP. Air launches Pegasus 2000 system remove any biases in the system. “But when you rely ’ on the competition to display your product, you put 7 yourself at.a substantial risk,” explained vH Dale, CP Air's director of agency automation. so far for Pegasus. In Montreal, only two agencies have switched from Reservac to the CP Air system, © although Kurt Kohler, the alrline’s Montreal sales representative, sald he expects 20 or 30 agencies across Quebec will sign up this year once they see how the system works. And CP Air has a lot of ground to make up in the . ‘reat of the country. As of Monday's start-up, there were 35. agencies on line, compared with 2,600 with | Reservac. Still, Peter Harrison, vice-president of a Montreal travel agency, believes Pegasus 200 is unequalied in the business. And Delta Airlines of the United States _ sgems to agree: It has purchased Pegasus 2000 for “. Use south of the border. , Eventually, CP Air would like to get 35 per cent af the automated agencies, but Kohler agreed it will be quite a while before Pegasus canturn a profit. Air Canada isn't panicking at the arrival of a competitor for Reservac. ‘'There’s a lot of new interest in any new system,’’ said BU! Wenham, an Air Canada official. “But I don’t quite understand why CP Air is doing this, It’s a very expensive and complicated business to be in and CP Air already gets good display on Reservac,”” Wenham added... - But with the prospect of some deregulation: of the Canadian airline Industry and fast changing fares that would likely follow, CP Air felt it needed its own: system to protect its interests, said CP Air's Dale, 100 Hunt Huntley Street] Complimentary Dinner Come & see the illm Sale ATO THE vuON" ‘ tet ." Herald, Monday, Aprit 2. 984, Page 1 | ‘toys INN OF THE WEST, TERRACE ~ Reservations only ‘CALL 635-3803 or 635-7023 in humans as it bas been in mice. 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