‘The audience was treatedtoa unique Christmas
as youngsters from Cassey Hall sc

lay Friday night
oo] performed a December tale.

complete with Druids and athletes. _

.Gasoline and alcohol - a lethal mix

terms of how many to being impaired while
drinks you've had. Some in the care and contrel of
people are impaired after an automobile. Here the

Qver three, hundred
British Columbians will
be killed this year by the
lethal combination of
gasoline and alcohol.
These deaths wil] take
: place because even a few
aleoholic drinks’ can
cause 4 perilous lack of
mental alertness in a
driver behind the wheel
of a two-thousand pound
machine clipping along
faster than any. horse.
More than fifty per cent
of B.C.’s traffic. tatalities
involve alochol.

With the highest im-
paired driver per capita
rate in Condederation,
the provincial govern-
ment has served notice
that it’s getting very,
very tough with drinking
drivers. - Attorne

2 Columbia has had enough
of roadway rouléite...We
mean business.”

‘These days the” lice,

. Magistrates and = in-

surance companies treat

drinking drivers with a.

heavy hand so it is well
that drivers understand
the barious charges and
procedures related to
drunken driving.

The oldest and simplest —

charge is impaired
driving. A driver is guilty
of it if his ability is im-

ired; it does not matter

if he’s driving well or not. -

-However, Vancouver
lawyer Ace Henderson
points out that most
impaired drivers are
netted after they attract a
policeman's attention
with erratic driving.
Henderson says _ its
“largely a myth created
by the atterney-general’s
office that a lot of
runken drivers

_ The police will look for
signs of impairment like
slurred speech, red eyes
or the odor of alcohol.
Sometimes they.ask the

driver to perform tests
like picking up coins from
the ground. Oftne they

’ will slyly ask the driver to

walk over to the police
car to retrieve his licence
and then observe his walk
for signs of unsteadiness.

A driver is not required
by law to perfomr these

tricks or do anything

beyond providing his
licence, insurance card,
name and address. As
Henderson points out
“You don’t haye to say
anything but if you don’t,
the officer may conclude
that that in itself is a
sympton of impairment.
T’ve seen this happen
many times.” ..:

The important thing to

can be a dangerous
impairment behind the
wheel, yet almost im-
perceptible to the driver.
Ace Henderson adds “It’s
dangerous to think in

Ungame improves

communications

CONCORD, Ont. ~ The
Ungame, a new Parker

_ Brothers board game,
+ Was invented by Mrs.
- Rhea Zakich, a southern

to improve com-

on the U.S. west coast,

., The Ungame is now being.

:, made by Parker Brothers
- of Concord, Ontario for
| Canadian sale. ‘The
- Ungame board features,
“on one side, the English-
< lafguage version, and on

. the other side, the French
. version,
: The. ose -of the

‘ game is to listen to each‘
- other and to share honest.

‘feelings. “ Shades of
Esalen“ and the
. psychiatric couch!

rdered not to talk ‘by

- er doctor durifig a three-

_ Age

: SCHENECTADY, N.Y.
.: (AP) — Jane Fonda says
today’s -college ‘students
‘are suffering through

“the age-of nothingness’’

ote ce

and “the Goodbar syn-
“drome”
* To try to enlist. them in

~ her battle against... the
= power of corporations,

abe 18. touring’ campuses

"Mt breaké:'my heart

.. when I go on foja-campus .

and I sometimes just

stand kind, of anony- .
. moulsy on ‘a lawn. and:

:. watch you.all go by with

your glazed’ eyes,”’. she
- told. a group .at Union
. College recently...

ae

“] think it's horrible”

"being a student. in the
_ 19703," she said. ‘“It’s like
ath

California - homemaker, -
munications between —

pie, _
A runaway best-seller

-. Tom

month convalescent
period following a major

throat operation, Mrs.

Zakich wrote dawn every
question she wished
people would ask her and
all the questions she
wanted : - ask, but
couldn't, These questions
formed the basis for this
communications .game

which she named The’:

* Ungame because there is
no competition
everyone wins.

Red and white cards
with questions for light-
hearted fun and black
and white ones. to attai

deeper . understanding ™.
come with..the game.
“Players ‘iwho™ land . on:

“Tell It Like It Is", “Do
Your Own Thing”, ‘or
“Hang Up” must‘answer
questions “honestly, iand
briefly.

There are additional

trying to drag yourself
through marshmellows.
It's) the age of
nothingness.”’

’ She and her hitsband,
' Hayden, are
promoting their Cam-
paign for Economic De-
mocracy, urging -. more
public control of cor-

rations and an end to
fax loopholes, : oy :
Although her lecture is
on “corporate tyr nny,’

Fonda, a Vassar dropout,’ ‘ -
art of the reason™

says
shy's ack is because she
wasted her school years
and hopes to persuade
others not to. ee

-enrich:

and:

*.° was at—gettin

in which a
woman's obessive sexu I. '
“T think that “the®
. situation that exists now...
among young people like

cards available: blue one

‘feature questions sub-
‘mitted by students and

suit all ages; pink cards,
designed for tamilies to
their _inter-
personal com-
munications, green cards
contain questions sub-
mitted y marriage
counsellors and
psychologists and Orange
cards have questions
submitted by ministers
on Christian beliefs.

The unique rules of the
Ungame restrict any
playcr from talking or
interrupting during
another’s turn,

Aside from its use at
‘home, The’ Ungame has
received ‘considerable
acclaim from educators,
psychologists, and

. juvenile correction. of-

ficers as a valuable
counselling tool.

of nothingness

yourselves is the fact that
there is no clear issue,”’
she said. ©

‘It was easy to become
involved in the 60s—there
was the war. It was a
burning issue. And it was
more than a moral
issue—it directly affected
the lives of male
students. It was where it
involved
and active-~and you don’t
have that now.”

“The Goodbar

syn-
drome”’

she cites is

_drawn from the movie

Looking for Mr. Goodbar,

young

appetite ends in
‘tragedy~her life devoid
of any meaning. :

_and amount of drug
the bloodstream can be months

one drink.”
The impaired driving

law presumes that an |

impaired driver sittin

charge can also stick in behind the wheel of a sti

case of impairment due

car is going to drive it

to drugs, prescribed or unless he can prove

not, or drugs in com-
bination with alcohol.

Diazapam, an extremely says
tranquillizer discover that you can be

common
and reputedly the mostly

otherwise.
“It’s a bit of a shock”
Henderson ‘‘to

quilty of this offence even

widely prescribed drugin without driving. For

North . America,
causeimpairment,

particularly if mixed with you sta

can example, at a party
' you're really drunk: so

er out to the car

even miniscule amounts to wait for your wife or
of alcohol. Dr. Stuart girl-friend who is going to

MacLeod recently

claimed before. The

drive you home. If you sit
in ‘the driver’s seat, you

Canadian Society of ' could be arrested.’

Clinical Investigations
that a new test is needed

“The. maximum
nalties for all types of

to show impairment due — impaired driving charges

: 7. todrugssince they donot have .-
Get... remepaber: ihow-easy i eghow: Up in -breathalizer ‘doable

2 y. d LE
3 Gene Apatite ha hp

tests. ~- ee
In faet, the presence

rec.

_ ave recently been
Conviction, * the: “driver's ..

license is automatically

sin suspended for three

and a_ fine

determined by means of ranging as-high as 2000
blood and urine tests but - dollars or six months in

drivers are not obligated

jail is imposed, although

to give them. In the case the average fine is het-
of acciderita resulting in ween 300 and 700 dollars.

hospitalization,

though, However, around

the hospital takes a blood Christmas time, judges

sample upon admittance.

usually impose heavier

This is occasionally used sentences...

by the police as evidence
of drug impairment. -
According

_Ilfdamage or injury has

resulted from the im-

to: some pairment, the licence is

experts, a major form of suspended for six mon-
impairment, aside from ths, evenif this means the
that related to alcohol dirver will lose his job.

and prescirbed drugs, is The old

due to marijuana. Here,

artial suspen-
sions which allowed

too, a driver can be drivers touse the car only

convicted iftiis proven to for work are no longer.

a judge that his ability to given.

drive was impaired.
A less
charge is the one related

Stewart
top pop

SANTA
Calif, (AP) — Gravelly-
voiced Rod Stewart's
Tonight's the Night was
named top pop single of
the ye r Sunday at the
Billboard No. 1 Music
Awards.

Natalie Cole presented
the award and also ac-
cepted it on behalf of the
British singer.

Stevie. Wonder won two
awards from the well-
known recording industry
magazine— top male
artist and top solo artist.

Wonder was among the
minority of winners who
showed up in person at
the nationallytelevised
show co-hosted by

Gees.

Emmy Lou Harris

well-known convictions,

For second and third
things get
really tough. Second
offenders face six month
suspensions of their
licences or, in cases of
damage or injury, a year.
A jail sentence of bet-
ween fourteen days and a

year is imposed.
MONICA, Third

time offenders
can kiss their driving
privileges away in-
efinitely. They won't
need them for the three
months minimum they’re

going to spend in jail.

anyway

Naturally, automobile

insurance premrinms sky-.

rocket after anyimpaired
conviction and, the in-
surance company washes
its hands of apy driver
who causes or suffers any
damage while under the.
influence. The impaired
driver is liable for all
damages.

An impaired driving

Kris ict @
Kristofferson and the Bee conviction stays on thy

Canada for life although:

anywhere in

prosecutors exercise a lot

accepted an award for ofdiscretion here and will

Linda Ronstadt, named

sometimes not press a

top female artist of the second offence as such if

year.
Fleetwood Mac won

a considerable number of
ears have gone by since

twice, for top pop BrouP ihe original offence.

and top pop album—
Rumours—and Cat Ste-
vens accepted one award
and Donna
accepted the other. -

Miss Summer

Summer and
also enough to deter

_ And if these traditional
impaired driving charges
the increasingly
harsh penalties are not
the

came on stage to accept drinking driver, the law

her own award as top
disco artist. .

Barbara

award for top easy-
listening artist was ac-
cepted
ferson.

+
”

has some further
methods that Jeave the

Streisand’s guess-work out of con-

victing,, namely the
breathalizer machine and

y Kris Kristof- the driving over .08

charge.

a ra

‘he has said:

THE HERALD, Tuesday, December 13, 3977, PAGE 7

Book Review we

TORONTO—His .
Christian faith is not
worn on his sleeve but is
expressed in compassion
and understanding and a
lifetime of service to his
fellow men.

Dr., Robert Baird missionary. became a
McClure would be the last legend in; the f He.
to axribe» exceptional ion field, it is the
walities to himself. unorthodox, robust,
jographer Munroe Scott hearty Robert McClure.
does itfor him. - Not over-burdened with
So the the United patience at any time, Bob
Church of Canada which McClure has no patience.

commissioned Scott _ to
write the Hfe story of a
medical missionary who
by any standard can be
described as a great
Canadian.

Bob McClure is self-
. misslonary in Zaire,

deprecator. Of himself,
“I'm no
angel. I'm a_ gutter
wallah.”* ;

He drew upon the idiom
of India, where he served
for 14 years after half a

lifetime in China,m for -

_ with thoae who, in

Hts 406 pages, with but

one photograph, are
pac with stories of
quiet heroism, Christian

service and adventure. It
is filled, too, with Me-

Cluriams,.for if any

good
health, do not know what

‘ta -do in retirement.

“Senior citizen” has no.

: place in-his: bocabulary.

Now 77 and just back
from a.spell as doctor-

Africa, and looking
around for something
do, McClure ex-
claimed in a recent

-broadcast interview:

.“They-rea crying for
le over there. Go and -

the expression. - work for no » You'll
The request of the be fed and watered.
United Church for Scott What's money anyway?”

to “do’;’? Bob McClure
seemed simple enough. It

wasn't, The story was too in
hapes MeClure he
Years will not be

long, too involved, too
complex, for one book,
Scott settled for the
doctor’s firat 43 years.

The result is McClure:
The China Years.

B her Scott, in an
intersiew from ne’ hawne
Lindsay, Ont., sald he

considered a “church
book,’’

“It is a book for all
Canadians interested in

. . Oddities in
" the news

SAN FRANCISCO
(AP) — Like _ the
swallows’ return to Ca-
pistrano, the elephant
Seals—giant sea ;
creatures once thought to
be extinct—are coming
back to Point Ano Nueve.

The Ano Nuervo State
Reserve, 67 kilometres
south of San Francisco, is
the only place in the
world where the seals,
protected as an en-
dangered ispecies, move
to the m inland to mate
and give birth to their
young, said chief ranger
Mike Bradeen,,. terete

‘But when:. the: :

arrive, so .do. tourists,
- Bradeen

said human
crowds numbered about
“200,000 last year, which
was impossible to con:

LONDON (Reuter) —
Noel Haynes and his wife
arrived home to find that
garb + gemen had
mistakenly taken away
and destroyed all their
furniture and clothes.

“Tt was all a ghastly
mistake,” a spokesman
for the sanitation
department said Tues-

¥y:
It was not known
whether the couple will
get compensation for
their lost television,

chairs, tables and other —

items.
The workmen should

have removed garbage

from a nearby shed,

BERLIN (AP) — The
East German newspaper

Neue Zeit says it's. sen- -

ding a reporter to see
what life is like in Dog
Air. While he’s at it, he
may check into things ¢
Bull Crack and maybe
even Cow Beer. _
Huhdeluft, Bulleritz
and Kuhbier are among
300 East German com:
munities whose names
have something to do
with animals. ,
Neue Zeit, of New
Time, is planning to
publish a series of stories
on the more oddly named
towns when its reporters
returns. .
TAYLORSVILLE, Ga.
(AP) — The incumbents
strolled to victory again
in this town where the
election ballot has blanks
for mayor and aldermen,
“and People just write in
who they want.”
Mayor Edwin Rhodes

got 33 of the 56 votes cast, -

which included three for
his brother, Mell.
Alderman: Robert Harris
topped the vote-gatherers
with 40 and Alderman
Harvey Woods received
37 votes.

‘We don’t run for of-
fice," explained Woods:
“In the town, everybody
knows everybody..and
everyone seems to know
who might accept the job
and who they want to do.
i

All three incumbents
have served _ several

- unsuccessfull

unpaid terms in office in
this north ia town
of about 180 residents.

PRINCE. GEORGE,
B.C, (CP) — Bruce
Strachan is watching the

dropping price of the

Ltd., now in receivership.
Since the facility came
on the ‘market in June,
the asking price has
dropped to less than $1
ilion from $3 million.
Strachan is executive
director of the- Prince

“George * and: District

"Association for the” Re-
tarded, . which _ has”
received a federal

overnment promise to

und a study on the merits.

ofr the brewery

and i pechaey and
ca sons.

_A brewery 18 8 labor-

] . : .

Strachan said Sunday,
and his assoctation hopes
to rehire the core of the
old work force,.and add
about 40 jobs, some of

‘them’ created ‘jobs that

mentally handicapped
persons could handle.
Pay would be based on
productivity, he said,
which t mean
minimum wage or per-

haps lower.
e -federal com-
mitment to help the

association study the
scheme was based on av
ability of the books and
audited statements of the
brewery, now under
receiver-manager Harold
Sigurdsen of Vancouver.

. far, said Strachan,

the association has tried
to get
financial -' statements
from the receiver.
Strachan said jobs,
including inspection of
packaging operations and
mgesauo her
operations, could be
successfully rformed
by handicapped persons.

‘A Gutter Wallah

adventure without
“mayhem,” he said. ‘‘k
‘found his whole career
incredibly fascinating. |
hope ihat some of my
excitement comes
across,”’
Jt does, right from the

start.
Scott found enough for
an entertaining ‘‘thriller”’

. in telling the story of

McClure’s China service,
from his birth to 1948
when he left China for the
last lime. .
Woven throughout the
engrossing narrative is
the outline of the history
of a China making the
great leag: forward from
lomination by the
Western powers through
revolution, war and
social change to the final
Communist victory in
1949. .
McClure not only saw it
all but was a par; ficipant
in much of it,
After leaving China and
a furlough in Canada,
McClure went to India
where his mission
hospital became famous,
served in the Gaza strip
and for two years (1968-
70) was moderator of the
United Church, the only
layman ever elected to
that position. Then he
treated lepers in
Malaysia and worked in
the upper Amazon and in

eru.

He has said he has no
intention of giving up ‘“‘as
long as there is any tread
left.”

Scott khopes some. day
to tell that part of the
McClure _ story. fie
figures that may be even
a bigger job than the
China Years whieh tock
home more than a year to
write,

McClure, conceived in

China, where his father, —

Dr. William MeClure,

was medical-rnissionary
at a Canadian
. Presbyterian  Winiri

mission in north foes,
was born in Portlanc,
Ore, Nov. 23, 1900, Hig
mother and two sisters
had been forced out. of
- China. .by the: -- Boxer
» Rebellion-of 1900a¢7>--*
The —_farnily was
reunited in China in 1901
and the hoy grew up with
his first language Chinese
and a determination thet

he, too, would becume a ,

medical missionary.

How he achieved it and
what he built is the saga
of the China Years.

Seott, writer-director
for such _ television

oductions as the CBC’s

earson Memoirs and
Diefenbaker Memoirs,
found Dr. McClure easy
to work with diruign the
writing ot the China
Years.

“I found him a very
disciplined person,” said
Scott. “Once he agrees to
something, he does it. He
co-operated all the way.”'

At one time or another,
for different reasons, the
Chinese Communists, the
Nationalists and the
Japanese put a price on
the head of Bob McClure.

He also was in the bad
books of the lale prime
minister W.L. Mackenaie
King for criticizing
Canada's export of nicke!
to Japan in 1940, a kpolicy
he said Canada would
regret. He was
threatened with jail if he

, did not make a public

- apoligy — which he did,
grudgingly, under
pressure.

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