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~ Cheap Shot —

~ Vander Zalm’s headline hunting, cheap shot at
'. welfare recipients should be recognized for what it
: really is: a calculated statement by a shrewd
- politician who knows how to use the public
- prejudice againt those on the social assistance
: Toles to gain popularity for himself. A half-baked

. proposal by a minister of human resources without

‘ any respect for human beings.

Bill Vander Zalm’s proposal to put welfare

recipients to work repairing damage to schools left
by vandals gives us some insight into the workings

of the man’s mind. —

He must regard human beings as untapped
_Yesources to be exploited and channeled the same
_ way B.C, Hydro regards rivers as sources of
: energy to be dammed and used to produce power.
. Because its only from an engineering point of
- view that his proposal makes any sense at all,

Unfortunately for Mr. Vander Zalm, his ministry is.
=not called the department of human engineering,
rand he has no mandate to force his clients to work

= for the province just because they collect money

=from it.

Applying for social assistance is the last resort

for people in the province who have no other source *

*:of income. ‘They have no choice about it - they must
= eat, so they swallow their pride and ask for money
z:to keep them alive. It’s precisely because welfare :
z:recipients have no other choices that the minister
_ = would be breaking the law by forcing them to work.
2:Social assistance is not a pay cheque, and a welfare
=-recipient could not quit if he didn’t like the job the

: ‘human resources minister hand

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= SAULT STE, MARIE,
“ONT.'CP-+Peter Richtig, a
professional astrologer,
‘gays there is a_ correlation
‘between the birth date of an
‘Pndividual and his tendency
to commit crimes

:[ He said in an interview
fhat criminals are more
‘@ften born between Sept. 23
‘and Oct. 22 than any other
time of the year,

> Richtig’s conclusions are
}ased on 4 study of 200 male
Griminals conducted four
Years ago when he was a

arole officer in Thunder

fay, Ont.

= Richtig, 28, plans to
publish the study in book
form and use it with his
students and clients.

=: “There’s a high rate ‘of
ériminals born under the
Bign of Libra,” he said.
“Those born under Scorpio,
Between Oct.23 and Nov. 21,
Have the lowest rate.”

= He said crimes involving
fire or explosives were
committed mostly by
’ Sagittarians, Born Between
Nov. 22 and Dec. 22.

: Crimes relating to
children were usually
committed by Leos, Born
ketween July 23 and Aug, 22,
‘and crimes involving break,
enter and theft were usually
committed by Taureans
born between April 21 and

May 22.

“ VARIES BY SEASON
=“People born during
winter are more violents;

ed him.

A LIFE OF CRIME

people born in summer are

aggressive
crimes suchas eter were

Rapists tended to be
Pisceans, born between
Feb. 2 and March 20. .

Other Type of crimes and
their perpetrators’ most
frequent signs included ;

22,

to
-Petty crimes,
to

2 . .
Shoplifting and stealing.
Gemini. May 23,to June 21.
Richtig taught himself the
principles of astrology,
which hold that the
movement and postion of
heavenly bodies influences
the affaire ot mankind. to

“lm a hard person
please,” he said. “ a
Scorpio, things are either
black and or white for me,
so if I thought astrology was
not valid I would have
what

dropped it.

“Its hard to say
astrology is ba on.
Either the planets influence
or pull us, or they just
happen to be there at the
same time things happen.

“I just know it works”.

HERA

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DT a nase rea

“I's your wife againt”

: By HOWARD BENEDICT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Buoyed by the
successful first free flight of the space

shuttle Enterprise, the .U.S. space -

program once again apprears healthy and
vigorous, .

The Enterprise carries the promise of
cheaper, far easier access to space and
eventually, perhaps, its colonization.

Unlike the scientific queets of most of
the 30 U.S. manned space flights to date,
this new era of the spaceplane will em-

asize human needs and economic

nefits.

That's the message being given. by
President Carter as he prepares a
response to the first National Aeronautics
and Space Administration budget to come
before him.

The prospect of the shuttle has restored
some of the old bounce to NASA, which
has not sent anyone into space in the las
two years.

Memories of the glory days of Mercury,
Gemini, Apollo and Skylab were revived
Aug. 12 when the Enterprise flew for five
minutes after being ejected from the back
of a Boeing 747 over Edwards Air Force

Base, Calif.

The two astronauts aboard, Fred Haise
and Gordon Fullerton, guided their 75-ton
craft to a perfect landing on a dry desert
lake, duplicating manoeuvres to be
performed when Sater shuttles return to
an earth landing strip from orbit.

TRIMMING THE COSTS.

Rogers-style vehicles shuttling between
earth and orbit. —
More drop tests from the Boeing jumbo
jet are scheduled to check various flying
characteristics of the shuttle. L
barring major difficulty, John Yardley,
NASA associate administrator for space
flight, said the first shuttle should be on a
Cape Canaveral, Pla., launching pad in
March, 1979.
That probably will be only a two-day
slight, with two astronauts aboard.
It would be the first of six orbital test
sights planned for the craft that year. To
perfect landings techniques, the first four
are to land on the desert expanses near

_Edwards. After that, landings will be on a

15,000-foot funway that has been built near
the launch site at Cape Canaveral.
After a flight, a shuttle will be
refurbished for another launching, an
operation expected to take two weeks or
less, NASA says each of the projected five
shuttles should be able to make 10 or more
round trips into orbit. Yardley said he

“gees no reason why each can’t fly as many

as 500 times. ;

The shuttles are to begin operating for
real in 1980 - doing things manned space
vehicles have never tried before.

They will be used to position satellites in
orbit fer communications, navigation,
weather forecasting, military recon-
naissance and scientific research. The
crewmen - up to seven on a mission - will

But .

- chin

Space shuttle a boon to ex

missions that could last ‘six months or

more. .

Yardley said the longer stays would
enable construction crews to build space
platforms, which could be the foundations

‘for large space stations.

NASA is forecasting 560 separate
shuttle missions between 1980 and 1991,
more than one a week. But then, the

‘types of rockets now used to Jaunch

satellites no longer will be built. :
The space agency, which has already
booked all its flights for the shuttle’s first
two years once regular trips begin, ex-
pects to generate more business as
potential customers gain confidence.

‘Western Union, Telesat Canada, In-
telsat and Satellite Business Systems, are
expected to sign contracts for the laun-
‘of commercial communications
satellites. Geosat Committee Inc., a
group of nearly 100 U.S. corporations,
including ixxon and Kerr-McGee Oil, has
been-formed to work closely with NASA
on industry needs, such as geological
' Pharmaceutical and high technology
firms hope to take advantage of weighless
orbiting lab conditions to simplify the
manufacture of many items, from exotic
enzymes to perfect ball bearings and
single-crystal semi-conductors.

Large space factories could evolve from
this carly research and perhaps open up

i
i

ploration
costsand considerably extending the lives _
of many payloads.
With the capacity of hailing up te.65,000
pounds, these spaceplanes, onte in‘orbit, —
also will launch probes bound for other. -”
planets. And they will carry up a small. -
station called Spacelab, being developed
by a consortium of 11 Western European .
countries. Spacelab also will be capable
of repeated round trips into orbit, perhaps
as many as 50. . we
Eventually, the shuttle fleet may ferry
people and parts for the construction of
solar space stations, space’ factories, —
moon bases ond habitats for colonies far.
beyond earth. :
A recent NASA - sponsored study
concluded that a space settlement for
10,000 people could be a reallly * years .
after a. decision to build. it.

Yardley said a go-ahead for sucha
colony would be based not on technology,

* ‘but on social and political reasoning. He

said the project is already feasible. -
“Before we make that commitment we |
would have to have a better un- -
derstanding of why we want to colonize
space,” said NASA administrator Robert

ch.

Yardley said that during an. early
shuttle flight, NASA hopes to orbit a 25-
kilowatt, "solar-powered generator, to
which the spaceplanes could dock, —
drawing electricity to extend their orbital
lifetime to 60 to 90 days. For later, there is

-Alchol abuse Cancer, June ©

Much remains to

be done before the
United States sends a fleet of these Buck

be able to repair an ailing satellite or
bring it back for maintenance, cutting

the next industrial revolution, say some

business analysts.

THE PROGRAMS
ARE 50 Awful E
GET MAD WHEN WEY
WWTERRUPT Td
p, COMMERCANLS

Row on row of br

VANCOUVER CP -
Twisted, torn vehicles, once
somebody’s pride and joy

are parked in a neat row, 8 °

tidy morgue of broken
dreams,

The morgue is the In-
surance Corporation of
British Columbia's Van-
couver area salvage depot,
located on eight acres of
fenced off iand in “east
Vancouver,

Old

By MARY VAMIEDAKIS

_ ATHENS Reuter - A
Greek anthorpoligist- says
he believes he has found the
oldest skeleton of a man to
be unearthed in Europe.

Dr. Aris Poulianos, 52, a
graduate of New York and
Moscow universities, also
suggests thatthe man whose
bones were found in a

northern Greek cave dating.

back to 700,000 years ago
uséd fire, was right-handed
and may. have had ar-
ticulate speech.

In 1970, while searching
for water, villagers of
Petralona found the cave
where the remains of the
“Petralona Man” lay.

Visitors to the cavern, 20

Salonica with Mount
Olympus visible over the
brown plains, can see at the

WOULD SHOCK CAR BUYERS

Some people say a.tour of
the yard should be man-
datory for all newly-licensed
drivers-a look at -the result
of incompetence, inattention

- or foolhardiness.

“If the public could see
it... if they could only see
some of the gruesome im-
pacts, maybe it would sober
them up on the roads,”’ said
Alex’ McKenna, the man

“who runs seven ICBC

entrance hundreds of boxes
of archeological finds, in-
cluding a rhinoceros skull
some 300,000 years younger
than the Petralona Man.

The villagers blasted open:

the cave, and Poulianos,
president of the An-

thropollgical Association of -

Greece, said it had been
elosed for 500,000 years
before they opened it.

‘Traces of bones and
ashes in hearths at all
cultural levels in the
Petralona cave can leave no
doubt that the man was a
fire user,” Poulianos said.

He added that the burned
bones represent the oldest
traces of man-made fire
ever found and that the
Petralona may be the
longest-inhabited cave
known in Europe.

salvage yards in
province.

Car advertisements tell of
the pleasures of driving, the
pleasure of owning a new
car and the pleasant places
to go, he said. But they den't
show salvage yards, where
some of these pleasures
come to an abrupt end.

There is a North
American sedan in one of

The dating of the skeleton
at 700,000 years puts it in the
same league with examples

of Homo Erectus found in -

Java‘the Java Man, China
the Peking Man and in
various sites in Africa.

In Europe, his next-oldest
relative is the Heidelberg
Man - actually the

Heidelberg Jaw, as that was -

all that was left-discovered
near the Wst German city in
1907. + It.is estimated at
300,000 to 450,000 years old,
but it is in poor condition
and hard to date.
Petralona Man had his
troubles as well. A worker
used a pickaxe-
archeologists usually use
toothbrushes and dental

‘probes to clear away dirt

from the skeleton and
smashed many of the bones. .

‘smashed against it.

the rows, its front torn into

an unrecognizable shape’

and punched at almost a

Tight-angle to the rest of the
hey The windshield has

broken -where two heads
The
steering wheel is
grotesquely misshapen.

There ig an import sports »

car, every Panel of its body
twisted and crumpled. In
the back are an opened

MAY HAVE USED LANGUAGE

est cave man found ~

Other bones crumbled to.
dust when workers took
them outside the cave.

The skull, however, was
well preserved under
stalagmites and the bones of

- guch ereatures as lions,

hyenas, rhinoceroses and
bears have also been found
in good condition.

Poulianos said that in 1975
theskeleton of a child, as yet
undated, was found and
other skeletons, yet to be
excavated, may also prove
to be human. ~

Petralona Man himself

died old for his times, -

Poulianos said, living to the
ripe old age of 30.

Uranium thorium: tests
and electron spin resonance
dating, a new.: technique

‘wasn.

a plan to orbit, 20-kilowatt unit to permit
attachment of Spacelabs or shuttles for

Actors:
mimic
drunks

EDMONTON CP - A
group of University of
Alberta student actors
toured the province this

sobering

_ Summer with a-

message.

The Intimate Theatre of
Alcohol Awareness is an
emotional encounter with
the problems of alcoholism.

- Designed to expose social,

workers, ‘youth *¥roups,3

nurses and prisoners to
Many common situations
involving. alcohol, the
theatre group is sponsores
by the Alberta Alcohol an
Drug Abuse Commission.

“The response has been

_ very positive,” said Bar-

bara Baldwin, a spokesmen

“Tt’s easier to see a solution
to an alcohol-related
problem when the situation
has been graphically por:.
trayed on stage.” _

“Bach of the characters in
the play is a real person.

The actors met . with

bottle of rum, an opened ~

bottle of Coke and a dozen
beers in a carton. There is
also an opened bottle of
mouthwash. ;

“T suppose that was the
drink before meeting the
roadblock," said McKenna
holding up the green moutli-

sell: tthe
licensed

McKenna
vehicles _to

wreckers or bonded dealers. |

which measures damage
caused by naturally ae-.

curring radiation, both |

confirm the skull’s age as
700,000 years, plus or minur
10,000, ‘he said. .

Stone implements were
found near the man, and
Poulianos said the edge of
one “knife” is dulled in such
a way that could only be
explained by constant right-
handed use.

Right-handedness has
about the same location in
the brain as speech,” said
Poulianos. ‘This knife
proves that the Petralona
Man was right-handed and
so may indicate at least to
some extent a development
of articulate speech, which
reflects a qualitative leap in
man’s evolution.”

problem drinkers and their
families at the Salvation
Army, Alcoholics

, | Anonymous and other social
n r agencies. Then they went to,
' _the streets, talking to skid-

the

road alcoholics. Research
took several months.” -

In one town, a’ minister

‘was so moved by the young

actors’ dedication that the
play was presented in
church, replacing his
Sunday morning sermon,

The message comes .
across through a series of
fast, poignant - sketches. —

ere's Jim, an ex-cop who
saw too much and drinks to
forget. Lynne, with a family
history of alcoholism, began
drinking at 12 and now, at
21, believes she has her
problem under control.

Trudy, a young native
woman, drinks to survive
the hostile environment. of .
the city. ooo
The Intimate Theatre of
Alcohol Awareness is made
up of actors enrolled last’
year in a senior im-
provisational theatre class
at University of Alberta.. As
part of their course, . the
sutdents were requested to
Produce a dramatization of
a spécific social problem.

They chose alcoholism.

ties with someone with &
drinking problem, and this
immediate concern resulted .
in a deeper commitment to
the unique project.

All productions include -

_ discussion and question-

and-answer. periods with
abuse commission.
representatives who travel

with the actors. -