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Rev. "Mack ‘Mcferran surrounds:

-NANCQUVER (CP) —

_ himself with the books and mementots whch inapired him
to enter the Anglican ministry ‘3d years ago. oe vey

+ MéFerran, executive director’ of the provinclal ‘John :
on Howard Society, saya it was Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
- that inspired bis career. working with: pribonert "2s
_-: "The plight of’ Jean: Valjean, who stole twa. silver can.
-: -dlestichs and-was saved from the law: -by a bishop who'teld
"the police they were.a gift, was. played out In McFerran’s-’

own life in 1979 when he bought two: candlesticks ‘still hot -

from the altar in Rome from 8 thief who was just a step

ahead of the police. |

The candlésticks now stand: ‘atop a filing cabinet ‘in
McFerran’s office. . ;
_. Born-in Ontario, the 54-year-old McFerran remembers
‘when he first starting working with criminals in the 1940s
‘alter a discharge from the Royal Canadian Air Foree. He

stood over six feet tall and weighed 245 pounds and was

dubbed the “gospel puncher.” —_-
McFerran said one day he met a man lying in his own

_ excrement in a drunk tank ‘who cried out; _'Con you help

me?”

““T guppose in some ways that was the chap who helped
me to make a decision to help those people on the edge of
society,” he said.

MeFerran then became assistant chaplain at the Don Jail
in Toronto. He gave seven sermons every Sunday in. a
chapel that consisted of a wall of prison guards surrounding
a makeshift altar.” ,

“Thad to sing and Ihave a terrible voice, pray .

do everything.” .
From there, he went to the Prairies where, as a travelling

al had to

-, minister, he established churches and missions. During this
period he also graduated from Emmanyel College ‘in

Saskatoon. .»

In 198, he was sent to St. James Church in Vancouver. °

Other than the years spent as counsellor for the Alcohelism
Foundation of B.C., where he established some of the first

“ detoxification clinica, and 12 years.in New Zealand-as

director of the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Centre,
McFerran has spent most of his adult life working in”
corrections.

He sald he is frustrated with the feudal penitentiary
system.

“You're using an outmoded model to deal with tragedies :

of soclety,” McFerran said. “‘There is little likelihood

you're doing little more than deforming therm (prisoners)

rather than reforming them.”

‘McFerran said while some people are mentally « disturbed
and should remain inside a correctional institute, there are
others who should never be detained in the first place.

He said that of the 800 young people who pass through the

_ Willingdon Youth Detention Centre near here every year, 80
‘per cent can fit back into society. Bul £0 per cent-can never
be assimilated in the community because they cannot cope
end another 10 per cent have never committeed a crime but
get caught in the system because there is no place to put
them.
. McFerran would like to see short prison a sentences for all
criminals except those who are dangerous and emotionally
disturbed. He favors more programs where prisoners work
and live in the community while they make restitution for
their crimes.

g& juoda ,

insemination issue

TORONTO (CP) = “A childless couple will io to court
today to fight for-a baby boy born to an artificially in-

_ seminated woman because of what one doctor says is an

. inadequate legal system. -
Dr. Lawrence Komer blames the dispute over the child on
government foot-dragging..
Komer, who performs about five artificial inseminations
a week, Is not involved with the couple in this case and has
never been involved in a surrogate mother-case but his
concern about legal pitfalls is not new.
What happens if a child has birth defects? Can the perm
donor be sued? What's to stop an anonymous sperm donor

from eventually trying to search for his child? Or to claim .
custody?

"There is no legal control over who can bea sperm. donor, ed
just as there are no legal anawers to any of Komer’s —

questions. .
Laws are needed to spell oul those; answers and. io make

sure a doctor is not held liable for birth defects if proper

procedures have been followed, sald Komer.

“I don't own a thing,” he.said, "My wife owng all the
asseta because I’m afraid someone may sue me over an
abnormal birth.”

The childless Toronto couple, who had iried for six y years
to havea baby, as a last resort turned to a Michigan lawyer
who charged $5,000 to find them a surrogate mother. ”

‘The couple planned to pay $10,000 plus expenzes toa U.S. _

woman who would be artificially inseminated with the
—husband's sperm and carry the child for them, but the
Ontario government. put a. stop to the plan, calling it. haby-.

“> buying.

The woman, who is married, agreed to waive the fee and
planned to give up the baby — an elght-pound, seven ounce
boy born June 28 in a ‘Toronto hospital — — to the couple in a
private adoption. ‘

_ But the hospital refused to ‘surrender the baby to the
couple and called in the Metropolitan Toronto Roman
Catholic Children's Aid Society- to assume ) custody: of the

child.

Under the Vital Statistics Act,. the surrogate mother’s
husband is.the legal father of the child since she was
married to him at the time of the conception. . :

To claim parentage, the Toronto man must provehe ls the

biological father in a family court hearing in Toronto toda: ye
In the meantime, the Children’s Ald Society is seeking

interim custody. order and wants to place the baby in a

foster home.

Although Komer is sorry-for the family Involved, he’s

. glad the _Surrogate,. mother. case has Received public. at-
tention: ¢

MP py worried here's; 's going tobe a tragedy and the person

who's going to get hurt is the child.”.
The artificial insemination procedure is‘simple.
“All we do 1s squirt a little sperm from ‘a donor ori to the:

cervix" at the time of ovulation,-Komer explained, Most of -

the insemination patients at his practice in Burlington, just
de Hamilton, have husbands with low sperm counts.
donor is lined up but never seen by. the recipient of the
sperm. Komer said he could use frozen rather than fresh
sperm “but it's like vegetables: I don’t like frozen as well.”
comer insists on precautions — making sure donors have

_ above-average intelligence and are in good health — but he

ssys there is nothing compelling him to-do so.
“Not only cam any doctor do it, but 0, could the barber
across the sértet”. —

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included Foreign. Secretary_Francis Pym. .

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’ ‘Sunday to win the professional stone-skipping. tournament

another prize — 45 kilograms of fudge: — ~, because of

" says being “‘president of the United States three times,” is”

- conference in New Delhi, India, where he will appear in a

~~ Comedian George Carlin, who suffered his second heart
attack in May, is planning to resume concert and recording
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LONDON ( AP) —

Prince Chartes Is among. ‘the | seven”

Only lant week, Charles win named Kittian of the Year ca

- for Woking smart in traditional Scottish dress. 0" |:

Others on‘ the British beat-dressed list Include actor

Actor Richard Burton, twice married to Elizabeth
Taylor, headed Mr. Harry's list of the “scruffy seven,” that

” Mr. Harry made its selection trom the results of a poll It
conducted through major British newspapers. outside

The &th Earl Spencer has installed two slot machines at
Althorp, the stately” home where his daughter Diana, a
Princess of Wales, grew up. - o

The Earl hopes the one-armed bandits, installedin the tea. -
room and tourist shop, will help raise the $121,000 needed _

Canada has-long been known for its hockey players, but —
now it has a world-class stoné-skipper as well. | ~~
Dave Hollins of Ottawa put in a I-skip performance.

in Mackinaw Island, Mich. -
Hollins pocketed $200 for the victory but had to turn down

customs complications,
Actor Chariton Heston, often touted for political office, _

enough for Any man:
Heston referred to his presidential movie roles at a news

film on refugees.

The former Oscar-winner said he hes “great respect" for
his friend Ronald Reagan, but does not want to follow in his
fooisteps and enter politics.

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- Carlin, 45, will learn from doctors this week if he needs
by-pass surgery, aif operation that would keep him. in
hospital until September. ;

if not, Carlin will be back at work within a “weele.

Two commercial jet pilots were taken abeck. last week

chair.

Piloting the strange aircraft was Larry Walters, a 33- a ;

year-old Los Angeles truck driver, who soared five

“kilometres above ground buoyed by 4$ weather balloons.

During the 45-minute flight, in which he used jugs of
water as ballast, Walters got so cold he became numb.

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> Wrappedaround a power line in Long Beach, Callf., about 33

Kilometres from where he started. .
US, aviation officials, not amused by the atunt, intend to

charge Walters with violating the’ Federal Aviation Act.

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‘Ten-year-old Nick Markerinis of Woodbridge, Ont., may
be the firat person toturn a paper airplane into a Boeing Ta?
jet. :
It was Nick’s hand-made creation, thrown by his father,
that hit a buli’s-eye fram eight metres away towlnaunique .
contest at a recent Toronto Blizzard soccer. game. The .
prize: a returty flight to Montreal for Nick, his father, and
116 guests, plus tickets for all to Saturday's North American a
Soccer League Toronto-Montreal game. :

. Unfortunately, the jet didn't perform as well as Nick's

* airplane. Due toa flight delay, Nick and bis friends missed.

the first half of the game, which Toronto lost 2-1.

: ‘Motorcycle mamma
instructs in ‘safety

‘VANCOUVER (CP) — Juliet McLaren has come @ long
* way from what ble calls. her ‘Ladies Home Journal
i period.” ;

Recently, the 47-year-old mother of four graduated from
Simon Fraser University with a inaster of arts degree in

. English, She received the $10,000 Bert Henry Memorial
’ Graduate Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding over-all

student entering a PhD program at Simon Fraser. a
When she is not studying she is often riding along dusty

" roads on her 1976 Suzuki 500. Sheia a senior instructor inthe |

B.C. Safety Council's motorcycle training program.

Seven years ago she had never ridden a motorcycle and ‘
probably never thought she would, .

“I was a product of the post-war generation,” she says,
“and did all the usual atuff women of my generation were.
expected to do.” :

When she was years old she adopted a “social mask’ to: -
‘conform to the day's. notion of how a young lady should .
behave to catch a man — “being cute, and flirtatious. an

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She met her husband at thé age of 19. At 20, she was

_ married, and thé couple later moved to southern California .- ao

where her husband got a job a3.a French instructor. She had

four children in five years. -
“TL was like something on television. My mother botght t

“me a copy of the Joy of Cooking and a subscription io the -

. Ladies Home Journal and we lived in. the’ auburbs.”

But the suburban American Dream didn’t have enough © 7

“ challenges as her children grew older.

“I decided I had to learn to be more iridependent.” ee
. She decided to go back to school in 1964, graduated witha, |
bachelor of arts in English in. 1967, “went to library school

for.a year” and then got a full-time: bb ua ‘Feference a

~ Ibrarian. - le .
In 1973, her husband took a job at a Vancouver school. ne

McLaren founda-job ata publiclibrary, butshefeltshewas

back to the ‘Ladies ‘Home Journal days — ~ Mying | inthe

suburbs and wearlng a mask,”

"Twas -just wretched, I don't think my + bnisband's
colleagues thought [ was the most wonderful thing to come _
down the pipe. 1 think they thought I was a little weird, .
always volcing my opinion.” a

The couple split up:in 1978. oe

She met a man who was selling a Honda CL 450 and
bought it for $400.

In 1979 she decided to get a master's 3s degree in.arté. .

“Some women have never lived alone. or had that feeling
of confronting, the warld. aaa