rey

Who’ sthe pretitest baby if Terrace? if there was a contest six-monthold ‘Allison Kar-

pyshyn would certainty be a finalist, '

Fhoto by Carla Wilson

‘véhicle, and with style. :
The 23-year-old super-. |
. market employes. has sunk ~

com

‘instead ofa vai.”

“OTTAWA (CP)... — -AB
customized vans ‘pass from

‘fad lo family campers, the

true practitioners of exterior

and interlor van design are 4
- fharder to finds. . -

Mike Drouin maintains the
iradition. ©.

Despite -. crushing:

stubbornly hangs on to his

mare than $20,000 ‘into his

1978: Ford, appropriately .

named Space Vislon, .
Inside, « Drouin
managed to fit a $3,000
stereo,

ver, a mirrored bedroom, .a
mirror ball above the. dance
Moor. and. a. flashing ‘arrow
of 210: colored
lights in the ceiling, ..

To complete the effect; the

: captain's. chairs and: dash-—
board: are in matching
crushed-velvet, :
' “You get some people who :
‘say funny things," says
. Drouin.

“One lady. in ‘Montreal

a asked me why I didn't spend .

the money on the boat people

eo

2 + : a

in-
surance rates and steadily...
increasing” fas costs; he ;

has”

a dance floor .
modelled after the one in the -”
movie Saturday Night Fe-~

Customized van

¥.

the. penple.whe iarind

_the vans police a‘ shift' “thin
. their “clientele * in recent

years, ao.
Wayne: Youre, ‘dane ae an
Ottawa auta shop, Rays ecan-

omy-ininded famitied are the”.
biggest customers for eusto-

mized. vans."

mira

man for: the “weokend* fe

~ | Young says... *
‘if you compare thie coat af fe.

the vai to the -cést of a:® |"

mobile home, the van ip still |: :

“quite a .bit cheaper. “You

fion't have to’ worry about

hotel of motel costs eo you’ re
actually. saving money.

~ “Tt was once strictly a ‘fad

but the buyers, the weekend

‘campers, are more serious.
about, vans. now." ©.
‘Bill Potnfret; who recently

left ‘the _Banking — business

alter 24 yeiirs io takeover a”
. customizing * shop, : ‘agrees.

‘Before, I used to “think

, you'd find the: igor: 19-year-
old = coming |

‘ins for a
customizing - job, - bul since
I've been here. Tve. been

amazed at’. the. number’ i

older people goming, Ins”

if families are the biggest
Brqup. of customers, they.
"Can't; challenge’

the: |

_ owmanehip. of old-style

“vainers. a: And they probably
~<woutdn't -' ‘wari -te. Young:
gays hb: can spend up ta.
* $35,000: customizing” an in
lesioe, while a “falrly ‘nice” *

+

“ The Herald. ‘Wednesday, August 27, ,1980, Page 5 een

pbk is $2,-000 to $3,000

‘Popular options include

‘sun porches, bay windows, —
radial tires and”. exterior. :

murals.

635-6181

SKEENA MALL:

‘Women

forced marriage

NEW DELHI (cP) = The prepared to wed a airt fn
1 year-old bride, acity-bred without asking for a single .
~“girl,, and ‘thie:.$6-year-old cent.”

‘“bridgegroom were walling

* around. the sacred fire. An concede that the problem. of:
“invited gathering of 200 old men “grabbing”. young:
ople was witnessing the ‘trides. by exptolting their
__ traditional Hindu: marital. poverty has been pveéf:.
, ceremony.in a village 100 dramatized. In many bb
. kilometres from the, Indian Frepinteldelir Ny preferred

th *” capital.

Three times a around. and. themselves: and, - what's

. they would have become —

ss indian keto pat — ie happy, tives, es
- “With. thie cost of ivi

partners,

‘Suddenly: a group ‘ot. 10
#evoung women barat into the.
_ decorated. - house " ehouting,:
" “Down ' with - forced
_ marriages" and “Women
are not for buying.*”’ *

They threw leaflets around

and someone switched ..uff.
“the power, plunging’ the

house inte darkness.
‘bride ran away. ;

The “eqn” rags”
. was foited,

i Several feminist groupe in ,

‘India are. ‘campaigning 4
j i against older men mone

‘apparently happy. to. be
liberated, -

Kasum Deshpande, 4

:social worker in
‘Maharashtra ‘State

“Western India; said she and -
her co-workers stopped a 76-.

iyearold man froma martying

a 18-year-old girl. Later,
‘they found her a. wysarad
husband, ©. -
Mrs. Deshpande | said,
‘almost all. -unequial -
‘marriages ‘take place
‘because the parents of the
girl are too poor te. give
dowry money fo ‘tle
‘husband, “The older the man
‘the less he will: demand by
way’ of dowry: For instance,
‘a 70-year-old man may be

- some wianen
IR” to ban siprriages between

thwart.

“Bul some social workers .

to marry men tard
pare sipltcant, are fading

going up, many women thiok
it is mare important. to
marry a well-settled man
than to risk throwing one's
“Joh with man. “without ; ‘a
-uteady job’ “on enough
_ money," *aald Janaki Gop .

& Madras social worker.

. Mira. Gopal; ‘mother, t
‘three daughters,” said she
knows of a. woman . who
_ marrieda S5-Yeanild man | i

years ago when she was
vd describes. -her. husbaal
wa “God's alte me." a

The iden sof outsider’
; “wvarris ge:

legislators. ' y

The Indign grverment
has. turned. down pleas by
winan’s enganizalion

men gad women with an age
difference -of over 20 years,

Several -mombera ° of
Partigment belonging to
Prime Minister Indira .
Gandhi's ruling Congress’
Party. say [tis more. im-
portant to ban the giving and.
taking of dowry. : :

cider men imarryiig young

sramonare very consorats!
it. is the so-called modert:
young man, whe turns ou!

he greedy.” a

stated.

aT) CORRECTION

On page 12 ot Sears Catalogue Stores:
‘Home Value Days’ circular. there
are two pricing errors:

the 20° color TV, 577 214 967 OL, is
incorrectly priced at $469.99, Reg.
$529.90..,1¢. should be $440.06; the 14”
color TV, 577 214944 DL, should read
$439.98, Reg. $497.98, no! sig. 1a

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