The Herald, Wednesday, October 31, 1979 Page 5

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Waterbed store -
is local initiative.

By ED YUDIN
Herald Staff Writer
With the long winter nights just ahead, it’s
time to start thinking about the little comforts
that make life bearable. With this in mind, two

‘enterprising entrepreneurs are opening up the

first combination manufacturing plant and retail
store for waterbeds in the Northwest. ;

Emile Marchand and Brian Clark believe the
market for waterbeds is steadily increasing, as

a th ne

people become more adventurous and ag
waterbeds become more competitively priced.
‘We're keeping our prices as low as possible,”
Clark said. “I don't think you can buy a bed of
this quality in this price range. Within the last
year to year and a half, waterbeds have become
a really popular thing.” oo
Clark and Marchand ‘are busily assembling

their exclusive product at their Kalum Street

shop in Terrace. The beds themselves are
handsomely designed pine frames with the
conventional plastic, water-filled matress, Most
of the units to be marketed will come equi
with a heating unit for those cold winter nights.

Dreamworld Waterbeds differs from other
retail outfits in the area in that they manufacture
their own units.

According to the owners, their quality is
supreme” as compared to the mass produced

“We build one at a time and they build hun-
dreds Lh}

. Thisis Clark and Marchand’s first venture into
the retail business. Clark worked for a courier
service in Terrace, while Marchand was a
welding and carpentry instructor at the Nor-
thwest Community College. “It is more or less a
family setup between ourselves and our wives,”
explained Marchand. “It is our own business,”

There are some popular misconceptions about
waterbeds, especially in regards to their safety
and comfort.

According to the owners of the new Dream-
world Waterbeds store in Terrace, waterbeds
are not a safety hazard.

“All the waterbeds now manufactured are in
accordance to safety regulations,” explained
Marchand.

Marchand ridiculed stories of people drowning
in their water filled mattresses. The heater unit
that comes with most waterbeds is also perfectly
safe he said. As for the health hazard, it's quite
the opposite story.

“Hospital patients are often put in water-
beds,’ Marchand said. “You can lie in one for
eight hours and not get sore from it. Your body
relaxes, your frame fits to the bed, whereas in
mere conventional beds it doesn’t.’" And no,
waterbeds won't make you seasick.

What about stories that a waterbed can do
wonders for your love life? “Whatever turns you
on,” was the reply forwarded by Marchand.

NEW WESTMINSTER,
B.C. (CP) —. A’ mah who!
claims he was. assaulted.
after he witnessed'a New
Westminster policeman
Kissing a women moments
after she stepped out of a
police van couldn't identify
his assailant in provincial .
court Tuesday.

And, Dennis Bewzak, 22,
couldn’t identify the

amorous policeman either.
“Constables Robert
i‘MeGirr, 97, and: Dennis
Vermiere, 32, are charged
with assault causing bodily

rm.
Bewzak told New West-
‘minster .provincial court
Judge ‘Alfred ‘Scow that he
was beaten up by police after
protesting the conduct of an
officer “May 91. Both

He caught cop kissing and caught o

policemen pleaded not

by.

Bewzak said he left a local
las ay nee
stopped after passing him, A
woman got out and, he said,
he saw a policeman get out of.
the passenger: side and
embrace her,

Bewzak said he watched
the pair kiss for about two
minutes, The woman then
walked off and smiled at him.
as she passed,

policeman run over to the
van and drive away. He
flagged down a passing car
and was driven to the police
station where he reported
what happened, Bewzak
testified,  -

Two policeman then drove
him to hospital where four
atitches were needed ta close
the cut across the bridge of
his nose. -

Under cross-examination
from Vermiere's lawyer,

ne in the kisser.

treated Bewzak, said the cut
across his nose came from
his being struck with con-
siderable force by a blunt

Jack Harris, Bewzak denied
he was drunk at the time of |
the incident. He was unable
to identify either officer as
being involved in the assault
or the kissing of the woman.
Dr. Gilbert Dyck, who

instrument,
until Dec, 28,

. The trial was adjourned

Farm land
5
doesn’t
fit i
t in

DELTA, B.C. (CP) —_
Farmers who own 548 acres
of land that council wants to
remove from the
agricultural land reserve
say farming is incompatible
with surrounding residential
development in the area.

Council approved a motion
Monday to ask Environment
Minister Rafe Mair, who also
is land use committee
chairman, to release the
land near Boundary Bay,

south of Vancouver, for
residential use,
the land

“By removing
from the reserve we'd
eliminate the rural-urban
Interface problem,"’ sald
George Spelifore who owns
300 acres of the land, ‘Aerial
spraying and the smell
caused by spreading manure
don't go along with
residential development,"

Spetifore, whose family
has owned the land for 45
years, said a recent soil
analysis showed the land to
be of poor ta medium quality
for agricultural purposes,
largely because of its high
salt content,

He eald any wells dug in
the area contain salt and that
the property was too far
removed from the Fraser
River to make irrigation

e,

Mike: Guichon, whose 43
acres of the property is
currently vacant, said he has
tried raising “just about
everything” on the land,
including grain and potatoes.

“But a sand ridge runs
through the middle of the
land which means it's not
suitable for raising crops,”
Guichon said,

He sald residential sub-
divisions in the area impede
the transport of {arming
materials to his property and
that hikers and golfers
continually encroach on the
i tifore said the
Spetifore said the property
into thiee-quarieracre ite
Bto cre lots
if land is removed from the
reserve,

Gay conduct at issue "222% wee vn

VANCOUVER (CP) —The » -Rights‘Hranch ta'btoa nity: the. policeman’s behavior .
egal: ala wont tan ee Be
romance, and Robert Joyce ” Hebert said he agreed with o to oe ice
and his companion ex- tote] manager John Van S80uld be out catching
changed light kisses and, Qmmen that individual “Timinals, not standing

from time to time, put their remises have the t to aroun hustling women, He
arms about one another over Tight ' threatened to report. them.

set standards of patron “a+ thic the driver j
jumped
Vancouvers West Ende Conduct, If gey affection 18 at 'and threw him geist

unacceptable to manage-
But the. tender mood was ment, 4 can eject the « the side of the wagon, then

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shattered abruptly when fenders, : ordered him to get in,
Bewzak testified.
such public displays of a But Dan Hant, a Bewzek eaid he was taken

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cand. his ‘com..-88¥ , Sotimunity,?", said’ ardered gerta-then struck on
pabazee St, and. hit core “Fomiedeceads ought to have the face. He said he didn't

They were 80 incensed at ‘he same right as hetero- see who aimed the blow, but
the “embarrassing and Sexuals looked around to see both

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