B.C. by ‘Sterling Publishers Ltd.” Registration - “Nick Walton . stat rir Photographer: ‘Sports: . Kelth Alford. _ Reception-Classified: ; Carolyn Gibson : Cireulation: - oe a hn : = ~ “Marla Taylor “NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT ced The Herald retains full, complete: and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial _ or photographic conten! published. in the Herald. Reproduction 1s not permitted without the written permisalon af ‘the Publisher. ; . ee . “4 5 U_ Prevention possible? . VANCOUVER (CP). —A thundering mudslide. that crushed two. teenage boys and demolished homes in’ Lions Bay Friday could have been prevented if proper studies had been conducted, says a Seologist hired by ‘angry residents to, look into the slide. © ~ “Theloss of human life could have been prevented, "said . Lu Bayrock, president of Bayrock Surficial Geology Ltd. “The timing of a slide and the path it will take can be predicted with the right study. That study has never been conducted. moos Some of the 65 ‘familles who left Friday and” early Saturday from the sllde-stricken village, about 25 kilometres north of Vancouver, as well as residents of eatby Harvey’ ‘Creek, returned to clean up their homes Sunday. “It’s beyond my ‘eompretiension that only two people — were ‘Killed, vs "Bayrock said as he surveyed the wreckage Sunday. : The slide destroyed a bridg the mish yo an te as Suen ge below the highway and covered the fag ‘tien Davi _Wade, 19, and brother.Tom, 1a, were sleeping. The highway, which hugs the steep sides of Howe Sound, + asking motat'dp Cahealre inhisare air pollujers to support Neate her bate agast strong ald ran cotrots ft the US. oe diox : uM Caitadian, chambers ‘of commerce ‘and: delegations rom “Don Schaffer, ; er Bey jhas become: notorious for - ‘glides in the’ last two years, iclaiming at least 13 lives... i Nine people were killed ‘in - October, 1981, when: four Vehicles plunged over the edge of the washed-out M Creek bridge, three kilometres north of winter during heavy. rains, a woman was swept from a private bridge on her properrty-at nearby Strachan Creek. Another’ woman, visiting from Toronto, was waiting ina line of snow-stalled traffic when a boulder tumbled down . the jmountainside and crushed her car. ; | Some Lions Bay residents : SBy there is-no éo-ordination between government: agencies to deal with the ‘problem: They protest -that’ officials, who were aware of dangerous - _highway conditions an: hour: before.an avalanche of mud cascaded down Alberta: Creek, Should. have issued a war ning. : about every. five’ years to clean out-fallen logs and debris that can:act as mud dams, He also recommended. ‘im-. Ijons Bay. Later -that — Bayrock said work crews. s. should: be sent: up the gullies ; mediate rebfaiitlhig ot logged-over areas to prevent top soil . from being washed down the gullies. I Large trees which stand on the edge of ‘the waterways ‘ bhould be topped or taken down, as well, he'sald. But even with all this. care, the natural erosion of the. molintaie. annot be stopped. ; + “You can only postpone it for 50 ora 100 years," he said. “There is nothing that can be done to stop the natural rosion of the mountain.” : Instead, studies can be made to predict what paths the’ mud, Tock and tree avalanches will take. Residents in thosé paths can be warned, and further housing development can, he stopped i in those areas. ° : Bayrdck explained that the path of an avalanche i is quite harrow and most houses in Lions Bay and other areas ‘would - be unharmed. — ’“Tt’s like liquid concrete,” said Bayroek;: “in chis description of a slide, “It has the density of rock. You beara roar, then yousee a mud wall 10 to 15 feet high travelling al about 15 miles an hour, but looking like ite:coming much. faster. [t will take out anything in its way: °°; ; Poll released: TORONTO (CP) — A Gallup poll: taken last month suggests 36 per cent of Canadians have been, touched in some way by unemployment compared with 3 ber cent in a similar survey last fall. The poll was based on’ 1,055 interviews: ‘with adults: 18 years andaver. A sample of tals size is considered accurate within four percentage points, 19 out of 2 timés. “With this. inargin of error, the difference between the poll taken ‘last - month and the one.in the fall may. not be‘ significant, ;, - Of those who responded in the January survey, more than one-third said they, or members of their family, have bees: alfected by unemployment... Results of the poll, released today, also indicat that 0" se -: per cent of Canadians 'beliéve they, or their family, will be. affected by unemployment before the recession ends;-: Fear of unemployment appears to:be highest in the ‘ad a a or “Rock, a University of California-Los; Angeles, clinical } a -BASKATOON: (CP) =. : ” stages. Early diagnosis can definitely boost'the cure rate. _ Rock noted that anorexia ; iervoga is: “Gan extremely , perienced by many: " falled.- complex disorder,” aid “that effective ‘treatment thust ecnagers.. ip den’ know where the . ‘combine’ the. skilld - of, Physicians, ‘Peychologists or. rsula (not ‘her “real. sda" ‘tor. suicide: ‘came psychiatrists and dieticians. ; dé) shared, hér thiotights from,"* ahe ays, “ALT know age bracket.-Sixty-three per cerit in that group who were ~ questioned said they, of family members, are affected or. - expect to be affected by being out of work personally: or: through the indirect effects of: {memployment. ae The number of unemployed Canadians rose again: ast: " month to a record 1,598,000. But the jobleasrate,. adjusted for seasonal variations, fell to 12.4 per ‘cent from 12. 8 per cent, the first decrease in a-year, _” , ea. be extreme. he sald. : “elting patients: who “choose | ‘polluters th countries are a Toronto -today.to work’ o int position: on.acid: ‘tain! : The” move- comes: as : uy best, ial ae by. the: ony re is lasufficient inf y weicom: Raed de To on ui! WINNIPEG Credit card holders coded VANCOUVER, (CP) — learn a secret code to use their: cards if a security ‘Heit develiped Bia Walttouvét te :, wits ae ast “Nr atop $300,000 ina ‘year by Credit cardholders may have. t0 paystem, $40 Canada, counterfeiters cost credit card companies rome million in the U,S, Jast year. Visa-member ban me ee id cards i in the Vancouver area Yerfeits used i in ‘the Orient: .-. = |: Eldetic Images gets its’a-D effect’ ‘py ‘using. a. hologram, ", which: ‘ie created by splitting a beam of light —. usually from at ‘laser — and then’ ‘reuniting . the: two-beams on a The codéis partofivelvsystein abeig ‘ancouver. firm to: combat’ losses. from both: cuter and’ stolen’ credit cards. Pairick. Normoyls, of International Phasor lator ‘Litd., sald. in’ a recent. interview. the new" type of card fnd’a scanner should be in limited operation in about two months. ‘The proposed system is in two parts. 1 eyes as. three-dimensional. First, a magnetic strip will be added to the plastic credit 8 Companies using the’ ‘Bidetic system. ‘would have their card now commonly ‘in use. The sirip will contain scram- bled information such as the user's credit limit which ean? be read by a scanner. . 7 ae The scanner which will be distributed to the merchaiit’s® accepting the card is the second step. The scanner, a 10-key "purchase can then. ‘be. made device the size of a hand-held calculator, can ‘oaly read the”. authorization by the card. holder: * information ‘after the’ customer punches: in «a ‘series: of ©. = V ninmbers or letters, that: is his or her own ‘secret cade. 4 -signed bills being sent'in b il, the record will be sent Normoyle said:he: believes the new: system, Called. the: £ “alsetronically ae put on fle immediately. Phasor-Columbia Cryptographic System, wilt curb.the usey. ” of both counterfeit and stolen cards, which Ron Schmidt of: pe Visa USA says‘ cost banks $1.2 billion last year. . : Ss ooaed aif eastern Conada operated ty and ‘Another card manufacturing company, Eidetic Images, : foe is marketing a system’ -which uses 3-D ‘logos aimed" especially at. thwarting counterfeiters. — . v _ Although stolen cards are. a much bigger proberh in* tefeiter's job'almost - “impossible. without - on-the-spot ‘allowing card holders to drive up, insert. their card in the {PUMp, fill up the car and then drive away, without waiting for an attendant. ~ Anorexia nervosa. denied “LOS ANGELES (AP) — Victims of anorexia ‘nervosa, the® eating disorder that compels its sufferers to diet to. the point * of starvation; often deny they have the condition. Medical. experts say that's ‘one reason to be | aware of, its early’ ‘warning signs. : The rare afflication has been linked to the death, of Karen % Carpenter i on Feb, 4, and national attention focused on: ‘the . disorder prompted the California. Dietician. Association to release six warning. signs, = Carpenter, 32, had struggled against anorexia, nervosa and doctors said |t may have caitributed to her death 'f from eardiac arrest. Starvation weakens the. heart misoles. © be “With young people who Start’ developing anorexia ‘ “nervosa, there is a strong denial of illness,” said Cheryl - tablespoons of mustard ona lettuce leat or five aun pees with hot cocoa. : _ Establishment of rigid schedules that ‘are maintaltied Driven: by an obsessive fear oti being fat and” a wildly salty induced vomiting, or abuse of laxatives, Rock said. Ursula offers __attent t, Ursula said: she "" nutritionist..and dietician: whi - ‘works, swith the: ‘medical After: “Ursula, ani Ib-year-old. was. mp Ursa dnd didn’t _ school’s Eating Disorders Cli Saskatoon high “school °” thin ik ‘she’ tee ld. change "They would rather be left ‘alone, eapectally in the early " g o " she " ne "herself she realized : the. feelings. that prompted “her. - to want to. die - dre ex-" “and she began to fall behind, “It's easier to prevent very. low bodyweight than dt is to ‘ and any outside interest: she rehabilitate someone. who's already ‘lost it.’": " The dietician association warning sgn, released Friday,” atid feelings before, ‘duifing - are: iS and after. the . suicide “at-. : “=~ Dramatid weight fois that ebittinues even after an idea}: . tempt with atteridants at.a.") “ weight fs reached: Rock sald 4:woman may, begin. dieting ' conference called Suicide: - when she ia’ overweight; then: find herself unable to stop, ‘Adolescents in:. Crisp, held.” — Dental of hunger. in which the victim [naiets she feels , on the: weekend... Ty felt: ‘alone, ‘that WF yuildn’t talk to’ -anyone,”?..: future, so I abked wey am ! ere ‘ tall, ever after euting mfriute’ ‘aounts’ for-days on end. as = Marathon: exercisa and: hyperactivity; even: swithout enough food to maintain a: ‘sedate lifestyle.” - she gaid, - “Although’ In: ~ Incréased. social isdlatjon, vite fe vey. close to.my mother, I : -- Bizarre rituals’ slyrounding eating and food finding. ‘was: afraid “what, -her- _ Rock sald one cetrhon fitual, often seen in people who.are'- fenetion, would , : be: pid“ ‘starved, Is to.’ ‘literally siretch meals for. hours to’ get | “couldn't ‘tell. ‘my:' friends; - Maximum enjoyment from minimum quantity. Also, “they : Because they're my age. and: Kel more and more picky about what foods they Will eal and". didn't want to burden tnay eat only ene ‘or two items all day jong.” ’ Those items demos Jun: belore thie ruleide ‘considered .. ‘that -month - - siothing hap- pened - to: dissuade her,’ 80 father’s. painkillers, os os pe felt, really: inéd: and, “wondered what my parents Mes + Photographic ‘surface. The image formed is read | by ‘the: Own unique logo embedded i in the, card, making | the coun o The: Vancouver. firm's “system - can also be’ tied into a’ Geniral data bank or the: ‘inerchant’ 6 own com puter. No ; The added capablility“ ‘also will’: “ald “merchants. by.” streamling their billing system,- Instead: of. the current: : ‘ Normoyle said plans for the first use of the ayitem: will be. ; ’ The - system - will be married to the gasoline. pump,: ithexcessive zeal: “They do exact things at exact times," 7 ; ' Rock-sald. “They havea very tight schedule to Incorporate I, their exercise regimens and alt their. food regimens. mo distorted image of theit own bodies, victims may: ‘vesort to” student, aitempted to kill — _things;. school: was boring - ’ tried to. develop, invariably 7 “is. that-1 thought: I couldn’ ae ~ change.” thé present’ and . there was no ‘hope ‘for the : She- sald “she seriously Lecominitting _.suleide for one month before ; - thé actual attempt: During: “one morning before going nae : _ school she took sore of her nat ne said thal; “although he was: tinaware ‘6f “any statements: by: ‘his official in Washington, Hydro’ was /» “We are strong supporters of it," Maeaphay ; said..“t hope ‘that. view prevails" ‘on ‘both ‘sides of the border, at He sald there was: an inprease in U.S, p Hlution wants to ae it “stopped ‘and Teversed.”.-* : “Scott, director of environment aciences for Union On; fala the: Canadian delegation: to’ the ‘meeting: rebretented, in- ustries: with 250,000-employees. and $25° illion’ nla! sales while the U.S. delegation represented companich iit ° alma me ‘million, employees, and close’ Canadian firths repre fin fiat : Canada‘ Lid;, Noranda ‘Minds Lid, ‘Dotasco Ine., CHL; Lid., “Consolidated: Bathitst Ine, and Ford Mo or. Co. of “Foot fetishist ~gends. his Jove . LONDON (AP) — _his north Wales home. asa token of affection for his ‘Wife _ Rosalind. + And at the coast resort town of . ‘Great ‘Yarmouth’. 50 - couples planned to mark St:-Valentine’s Day with an all-out ** assault on the world record of. two minutes, : a8 ‘Seconds’ for the longest. underwater kiss, ; “Those were- just'{wo :of ‘the ways ‘British’ “shed ‘their traditional -reservi'Peb:M"@nd vow undying love’ in ‘an annual eruption 6f eeentiltity and endearmerits. . Valentine's Day also brought the traditional outpouring of oddball love notes pliblished by the thousands in dally newspapers, even! the traditionally proper Times, ** ” - ‘They'were signédby the'likes of Crunchy Bear, the Foot ne fe