\o teach science,

letter from ae friend who
had been deadi¥or 20 years.

“The guy manght he was

getting: ~o. from.
feaven,”” ayn. Hloworls a
jovial. ‘media-relations
officer with’ Canada Post
Corp. Lid. —~

But Roworth doesn't
chuckle too much at the
anecdote.

“There'll: alwaya he
horror ‘stories about the
postal -service,” he says.
“And becduse we've grown
so big and have such a high
profile, we're an easy
target to kick.

“But our performance is
showing vast improvement
despite the occasional
falldown. "

TORONTO (CP) — Ed
Roworth tells the -etory .
about the fellow who got a°

_ program.

Rowarth in “emphatic

_ when he says Canada Post,
the country’s fifth latgest ,

employer and 19th largest
corporation, ls steering in

the right direction with a
massive. -

He cites a recent is-per-
cent overall improvement
in on-time delivery of first-
class mail (to 91 from 78
per cent) and even better
between central points;
extension of: delivery -to
many. thousands. more
homes; a maze of elec-
tronic mail devices; and a
happler © employer-emp-
loyee relationship.

So how come that letter
Auntie Louise. mailed you
from the next town over
took several days to arrive
while your oil bill made the_

trip right on target? -,
‘Big business customers,,
minimum of handling , at

_ turnaround a

even though. they get

“incentive” postal. rates
varying down to 2] cents. —
‘from the regular 32 cents, -
| ‘don’t, ‘get any. delivery
' preferences ‘on first-class.

mail, Rowarth. insists.
Greater efilclency in ‘the
delivery is a result of big
businesses’ . efforts, not
Canada Post's.
wmall organized .

For example, he says,
the addresses on their mail

“are usually perfectly coded

for electronic scanriing and
their self-sorted ~ mall,
postage prepaid, is usually

bulk-delivered to the post °

office, often by thelr own

‘vehicles, during specially

scheduled mailing hours.
In, short,’ mail from big

nN Do t ao
« (a
x, "
i

\ 5 "better.
organized and. requires a

the postal station. °
-On the’ other hand,
Roworth says; personal

- mail often géts‘delayed”
because. of-. an’ illegible. .

postal code‘or address and
1as to be sorted manually.-

Leas than 60 per’ cent of
personal mail is coded
properly by the pender-and

- that slows ita delivery time
-to four or flye days rather _

than one or two days, he
Bays.

Companies that depend
most on the mail tend to
agree that Canada Post's
delivery efficiency has
improved, but someone
obviously forgot to tell-
rank-and-file . - postal
workers. about “the: im-

“STILL STRAINED

 pooted

" proved labor management

harmony.

Bill’ Chedore, ‘national
vice-president . of . the

‘ Canadian Union of Postal
“Workers, ‘aaya’ relations’
“are atill very strained at. -

the plant-floor level.
“There's still the deep-
distrust,
harassment . and in-
tlmidation on the plant:
floor by supervisors. 1 I
don’t think _ they.
convince those 9 arkers
that there’s a harmonious
relationship, that it’s all
wine and roses."
But. Chedore ~
acknowledges. there have
been some — two-way
discussions at top levels of
labor and management,
“and they are making

OTTAWA (CP)

five years.

hard liquor and wine.

everywhere.

— Canadiana seem to be
holding the line on the amount of alcohol they
drink, but overindulgence remains a big
problem, says a report commissioned by the
federal Health Department.

- The repor! shows average intakes stayed
‘fairly constant between 1975 and 1980 after an
_ dnerease of 25 per cent during the previous

Consumption in 1980 worked out to the

; equivalent of 11.27 litres of pure alcohol for
every person 15 or older, Beer remained the
moet popular alcoholic beverage, followed by

The report says it’s too early to say whether
the :levelling-off trend will continue, but it
echoes. the warnings of other studies that
alcohol plays havoe with the lives of people

“Almost 10 per cent of those who drink
experience some ferm. of alcohol-related
problem within the spaceof a year --- whether
in relation to their familles, their health, the
safety of self.and others, the law, or thelr
performance at work or school.”

“And their problems correlate with levels
of alcohol consumption: the higher the rate of
consumption,
problems.””
NUMBER DROPPED ;

The numberof people considered to be drinking
alcoholics was estimated at roughly 600,000 in

1990, based on calculations that started with
data on deathe from cirrhosis on the liver.
The number of alcoholics dropped by three
per cent between 1978 and 1980.

Only 2,682 deaths from cirrhosis were

recorded in 1960, but the report says alcohol

the higher the

risk of

The. facts on our drinking habits.

was a direct or indirect factor in 17,074 deaths
that year or one of every 10 deaths from all

Catses.

cidents, drownings,

are” more

Indirect deaths include motor vehicle ac-

The report suggests that drinking and in-
eome are related in two ways.

On the one hand, people with higher in-_
comes are more likely to be regular drinkers.
On the other hand, problems associated with:

poor and the unemployed.

- Theréport, released in Ottawa and Halifax,
was prepared by a working group of federal
officials, representatives of provincial
agencies and university experts. It- was

planned as a guide for federal and provincial
programs on alcohol-related problems.

fires and homicides.

widespread atnong the

Stops on Duddy tour cancelled

EDMONTON (CP) .—.
The ‘Citadel Theatre's
production of Duddy, the
musical version of Mor-
decai Richler’s book The
Apprenticeship of Duddy
Kravitz, is still being
rewritten and revised after
nearly a month of per-
formances, co-producer
Sam Gesser sald Tuesday.

Two stops on the play’s
cross-Canada. tour
Regina and Saskatoon —
have been cancelled and

' also be scratched,’ Gesser:
. said in’ a telephone in-
4 terview from Montreal.

“There’s too much to be
done to do it on the road,’
he said, “We've got to have
a good show when we start

the tour. Otherwise we’re
just asking for trouble.”

Duddy has played - to
record audiences at the
Citadel, thanks largely to
an 85-per-cent subscription
base, although Gesser
pointed out that a one-week
extension sold out without
the benefit of season-ticket
holders. -

He also said New York
prodticers who visited
‘Edmonton have expressed

way “but there’s nothing
definite yet. They think it
hes great potential to be 2
big hit.”

The play, written by
Richler, _ originally |

Trade Fair winners

TERRACE— Here are
the results of the recent
Jaycee’s annual Trade
Fair contest, held at the
Terrace arena over the
wetkend.

In. the industrial
category, .Lakelse Com-
puters took first place, All-
West Glass ran second and
CJFW FM Radio placed

In the Iocal retail
category, Omineca
Building Supplies took firat
place, followed by Kalum
Tire Service, second, and
Ken's Marine third.

In the institutional
category, B.C. Tel came up
the big winner, while.
Kalum Tire Service placed
second, and Century 21

Wightman and Smith
Realty was third.

In the next category,
artistic excellence, the
Terrace Co-op was
awarded first place, Pro-
Tech Electronic
Engineering second place,
andGemma Bath Boutique
third.

In the final category,
where the merchants voted
for each other, first place

" went to the Terrace Co-op.

Pro-Tech «Electronic
Engineering received
another second finish place
and Gemma Bath Boutique
took third.

The first four categories
were judged by a panel of
five individuals from the
community.

Science teachers
‘found unqualified

OTTAWA (CP) — Most
elementary achool
teachers are not qualified

e
Science Council .of Canada
says in a report that calls
for improved science
education in all grades.

‘The 6@page report
released Wednesday points
to a wide range of other
problems which must be
addressed in a “renewal”
of. science education.

And it urges provincial
education ministries and
schoo! boards to act on its
47 -
immediately. “Any. delay

in renewing our scleyice-
systems...

Canada's“ “answering the questions

education
threatens

capacity to participate ina
changing world.”

. “If we as a society fail to
understand the interaction
of science, technplegy and
sociely, we surrender
control of the most polent
forces shaping our world to
8 technocratle elite,” says
the ‘council, a federal
advisiiry body.
The stuay, called
Scidnct for Every Student,

found that three-quarters

“recommendations ©

of primary school teachers
have not taken ecience
courses since high school
and only three of five ol

‘them want to continue

teaching the subject.

Few elementary schools
“offer science teaching
during a prescribed
period, by a confident
teacher and with the
support of adequate
facilities.”

In junior high school,
science teachers complain
of inadquate time to teach
their, ‘subjects, forcing

: them _ often’: to present
sclence aaa. “eatalogue of

facts.“
“MEANING ‘GETS LOST

Addin the sénior years,

in the ‘right’ way takes
precedence over Inquiries
into the real meaning of
problems,” notes the
study, based on surveys of
more than 7,000 teachers.
The’ report also says
girls drop out of science
courses as early as
possible and students with
particular interest in
peience complain they are
not given enough

challenges.

er oe

featured 20 songs by the
team of Mike Stoller and
Jerry Leiber, composers of
such classics. as Elvis
Presley’s Hound Dog and
Kansas City.

Twenty minutes has
been cut from the
production (which ran
three hours opening night),
some songs have been
restaged or eliminated and
an epilogue telling of
Duddy’s fate 25 years after

the story ‘endg, has been.
the, Vancouver dates may:ie.grent Antenestulp bringing: cpemoved..
“ithe ‘production ‘to: Broad:

add ad ape
ade 1a he af
DIRECTOR SOUGHT
Gesser said another
director is being sought to
augment the work done by
director Brian Macdonald,

who had to leave

websate des

Edmonton a week ago to
begin rehearsals for’ the
Stratford Festival
production of Gilbert and
Sullivan's Iolanthe.
“We're looking to bring

‘in additional people to

revamp the show,
somebody else to write
some songs,” he sald.
“Afier we close in
Edmonton (Saturday)
we're shutting down and
gore, back into réhear-—
gals.” ‘gg STR

ates we

: ‘Meanwhile,
has left ‘instructions for
changes with a member of
the cast who has‘ been
filling in as interim
director.

* Richler, who is also

1993-34 season.

Lansbury.”

Tuesday. He was 71.

Tuesday.

murder.

Entertainment Shorts

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
show as ABC triumphed in the Nielsen ratings for
the second straight. week following the end of the

’ Dynasty came in first as its archrival for most
popular prime-time soap opera, CBS's Dallas, was
. pre-empted by the movie Borderline. -

In the just-ended season, Dallas was first, ‘60
Minutes second and Dynasty third. :

ABC won the week ended April 29;.CBS was
second and NBC third. ABC had a network average
of 14.9 in the A.C. Nielsen Co, survey, CBS had 13.8 ©
and NBC had 12.4. The networks say this means that
in an average prime-time minute 14.9 per cent of the
TV homes were tuned to ABC.

In a week of mostly reruns, CBS's Simon and
Simon and NBC's The A-Team were tied for second
place for the week. Others in the Top 10: ABC's
Hotel, fourth; the ABC movie Chapter Two, fifth;
CBS's 60 Minutes, sixth; CBS's Kate and Allie,
Magnum, P.1., and Alice, tied for seventh, and
NBC's TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes, 10th,

NEW YORK (AP) — Programming from
strength as the runaway ratings winner this season,
CBS announced Tuesday that it will have only five
new: programs in its 1994-85 fall lineup.

The network's most signficant casualty from the
current schedule is The Four Seagons, Alan Alda's
first project since MASH, . ~

CBS, the prime-time leader the past five BeAEONS,
announced its lineup two days ahead of its
scheduled formal presentation. ABC, runner-up the
past five years, said Monday that its fall lineup
would have nine new shows. NBC is scheduled to
unvell its 1984-05 schedule May 10.

Of CBS's new series, two'are one-hour dramas
and-three are half-hour. comedies. The 2% hours

_marks the smallest adjustment in ime that CBS has
ever made for a new season. Stars of the new
programs will include Elliott Gould, Scott Baio,
| Jon-Erik Hexum, Jennifer O'Neill and Angela

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — John Barrett, who
played the Lone Ranger when that radio drama
began in Buffalo in the early 19908, died at his home

Barrett played the role of the musked crime -
fighter when the series began in Buffalo as Covered
Wagon Days and was broadcast by WEBR. —

He graduated fram the University of Buffalo Law
School in 1847 and went on to become a trial lawyer.

"LOS ANGELES (Reuter) —
Gaye probably took cocaine four to eight hours
before he was killed, a coroner’s spokeaman said

“A amell amount of cocaine residue was found in
Gaye's blood,” the spokeaman, Bill Geld, said in
reporting on toxicological tests on the singer.

Gaye, 44, died of two gunshot wounds to the chest
in Los Angeles on April 1 after what police alleged
was an argument with his father. The father, also
named Marvin, hag been charged with his son's

Dynasty was the top

Soul singer Marvin

Maeionald

writing the script for tie
movie version of his book
Joshua Then and Now, will
return to Edmonton as
needed, Gesser added.

On reflection, Gesser
said the production's
extensive publicity

campaign and splashy
opening were
“premature.”

“Nobody questions that
work has to be done,"’ he
said. “But I don’t think the

.¢ BOW is as bad as people .

ke malktieegut to be, Tete

ea

t that the. expectations
vere too grand."

Gesser said he was
amazed at how bad the
reviews of the play were.
“Talk to the people in the:

- lobby — they just love it,”

he said. “We're all very
excited.”

some headway there.”
Frank Ferguson,

president of the Canadian

Direct Marketing .
Association, says his group
has seen a marked im-

“provement in mail’ ef-
ficiency during the last .

year.

The association is an
umbrella - group
representing about 300

H1@ Meraig, Wweultesuay, wvwey a7 teen

ill som e postal foulups

"Hundreds ‘of ‘millions of

dollars in cash flow are
moved constantly by mail
and a prolonged strike
could devastate a business.

Any decline in pergonal
mail when first-class rates
increased by 88 per cent in
two stages over the last
couple of years was short-
lived, he says. Stamps are
still cheaper than long-

companies that depend on distance phone cails.
the mail for their Reborn as a Crown
livelihood, and Ferguson corporation from a

Said some of the com-

panies have been working
with Canada Post. to
monitor its efficiency.

CYCLE IMPROVES
“It has improved quite

fragmented agency of the
federal government in
October 1981, Ganada Post
inherited an unenviable
legacy — a deficit of
almost $1 billion, a history
of bitter strikes, public

considerably,” sayS contempt and growing
Ferguson, “It's been competition from private
especially noticeable since — eourier services,

a@ year ago — a definite
improvement in the mail-
out, mail-back cycle.

“We keep a very Aight
watch on it; it's the
lifeblood of our industry.
And mind you, when there
is a disruption, such as a
strike, we are the loudest
to stream — and that’s
from pain rather than
anger.””

Roworth says the "whole
vista of mall volume” has

‘changed during the last

few years — from a highly
personalized system, to a
highly business-oriented
system.

’ 4A few years ago, $0 per

. cent of all mail was per-

sonal mail and now nearly
8 per cent of first-class

- mail is business mail."

The proliferation of
credit cards and com-
puterized accounting has
resulted in mounting
yolumes of business mail.

To date, it has trimmed

«=a

its deficit. to $300 million, is
‘aiming: at a balanced
budget by 1987, committed
itself to’ no poatal rate
increases. this year,
diversified iis . market,
moved farther “into the
electronic field and em-
barked this month on a
five-year business plan.

But, mindful of past
labor troubles, it will
breathe easier if it
emerges unscathed from
contract talks starting this
fall with its eight different
unions. So far, layoffs have
been avoided by reducing
staff through attrition.

Effciency, productivity
and cost-cutting are a must
in the new plan,, Roworth
says. People need the
service, as indicated by its
average daily delivery of
25 million pleces of mall. :

.
|

Police News

,

TERRACE— A single
vehicle accident occurred
early this morning, in
which a car collided with
the south end of the old
Skeena bridge, causing
extensive damage to the
car and the bridge rail,

Another accident in-
volving one car occurred
at 2a.m. at the intersection
of Emerson Street and
Greig Avenue. An Alberta
resident has been charged
under the Motor Vehicle
Act. The vehicle struck the
traffic island, located by
the entrance to the Terrace.
Co-op, and overturned.

The Terrace fire depart-
ment was called to the:
scene to spray down the
vehicle and the road.

because of leaking «
gasoline. The vehicle
suffered extensive damage

but no injuries were

At about 9 p.m., May 1, a
two-car collisjon occurred
at the intersection of
Emerson Street and
Lazelle. Avenue causing
extensive damage to both
vehicles, There were no

injuries reported from the
accident but one juvenile |
has been charged. :

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‘The- WBE re
World Exposition —
Vancouver

British Columbia, Canada:
~ May 2 - October 13, 1986

' “denotes a protactad tradamark of tha Expo 86 Corporation.
A Provincial Government Corporation

EXPO. 86 IS LOOKING. FOR...

From May 2 to October 13, 1986, Vancouver will welcome
millions of visitors to the 1986 World Exposition. We'll need
experienced concession operators for a wide range of
merchandise facilities. For an information kit outlining our
criteria for participation, and a more detailed list of our product
requirements and opportunities, please reply in writing,
specifying the type of merchandise your outlet might provide:

MICHAEL JOSS
“Direele. Retail Operations... ,

PO 86.
BO. Box 1986, Station A
Vancouver, B.C, V6C 2x5

Hon. Claude Richmond, Minister

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