Page 10, The Herald, Wednesday, May 2, 1984

‘All
About

PEOPLE

Wolf spider and
whiskey cocktail

Seattle radio station KZOK sponsored a costume
show with the theme, “What would you do for two
Van Halen tickets?” -

The answer appears to be, for fans of the popular
heavy metal band, anything! -

Prior’ ta the band’s concert Monday, Stephanie
Butcher, 15, showed up at KZOK dressed in leather
from head to toe, with a bullwhip in one hand and a
dog leash in the other. The leash was fastened
around the neck of her stepmother, Mickey Brock,
28, likewise clad in leather. oo

William Jensen, 41, swallawed several dozen baby
wolf spiders, washing them down with whisky.

Al least 22 people were injured and 45 citations
were issued during the band’s performance to a
sellout crowd of 15,000.

In addition, police Lieut. Roy Wedlund said six
people were arrested on charges that included
assaults on four policemen,

Throwing wizard
old enough now -

In a classic case of better-late-than-never,
Ferguson Jenkins has signed to pitch , sandlot
baseball with London Majors of the Inter-Caunty
Major Baseball League. ;

The Majors first tried to sign Jenkins, a native of

Chatham, Ont., 24 years ago when he was a 16-year-
old throwing phenomenon in his home town. But the
Ontario Baseball Association said he was to young
to be travelling to play baseball and ruled against
the signing. : ;
’ Fergie, 40, went on to do a lot of travelling ina 22-
year career that saw two stops each in Chicago and
Texas as well as Philadelphia and Boston, with 234
major league pitching victories under his belt
before calling it quits this spring.

Now he says he will play for fun in the southern
Ontario circuit — but “I'm going to pitch to win and
I want to win.”’

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VIRDEN, Man, (CP) — |
Robert Heath is a‘. busy -
days, .
keeping track of scattered”.
bee colonies and watching:

beekeeper these

out for hungry bears and
other menaces,
__ Adairy farmer when he
lived in. Britain, Heath
switched to bees when he
arrived in Canada three
years ago. ae
‘“T had kept bees as a
hobby and I knew
something about them,” he

Journey on planet Arde

said: Mee
“The interest rates were -

‘80 High It was difficult to

gét into a dairy operation;”

‘sald Heath, who lives on a

‘two-hectare farm with his
wife and three children in
this southwestern
Maniteba community, *
Only about 70 of Heath's
400 hives are dn ‘his
property. The rest are
scattered on 20 neighboring
farms. .
‘“Most farmers are glad

to ‘accept the ‘colonies-in’.’
return for a pail‘of honey
and help with the
pollination,’ Heath said.
The main problem,

however, is trying to kee

the bees alive; © =.
Don Dixon, apiarist for

the Manitoba Department
of Agriculture, says bears
can smash a wooden hive’
within minutes for a taste
of the honey and the grub-
like larval bees, ,

“It’s a _ perfectly

‘in just two dimensions

Alexander

typical member of faculty
in a fairly typical Canadian
university.”

But his novel, The
Planiverse, is anything but
typical, presenting a in-
tricately imagined world in
which every element —
from its flora and fauna to
its civilization of intelligent
beings — exists in just two
dimensions. '

“It's sort of weird, isn't
it,” says the University of
Western Ontario computer
science. -professor,
inadequately describing a
book that resists being
classified as science fiction
or put into any ather
literary pigeon-hole,

It.is the story of a group
of students at a university
who suddenly find their
computer project taking on

- Courts wrangle while

_ baseball pool on

MONTREAL (CP} — The federal
government has no right to put its betting
pool tickets on sale while the courts are
deciding on their legality, lawyers for the
provincial governments and the baseball
major leagues said Tuesday.

Federal officials would have to stop
selling the tickets and “unscramble the
serambled eggs" if the courts rule against
' tem, lawyer Robert Mongeon told Quebec
Superior Court.

Mongeon, who represents 15 baseball
clubs of the American and National
leagues, expressed surprise that the pool
tickets went on sale Tuesday while the -
court met,

He told Mr. Justice Charles Gonthier.
that Ottawa's decison represented a “lack

scores.

Sale

of courtesy.” .

AS Mongeon spoke, federal Sports
Minister Jacques Olivier was at a news
conference across town to announce
Ottawa was determined to go ahead with it-
betting scheme, which it says is not a
lottery but a game of skill. The pool is
based on accurate predictions of baseball

The provinces, led by Quebec, want an
injunction to stop the betting pool, saying it
violates a five-year-old agreement giving
them the sole right to operate lotteries.
‘TARNISHES IMAGE’ Lo

The professional clubs say Ottawa's poot
‘would tarnish baseball’s reputation as a
family-oriented game and would violate
their copyrights and trademarks.

Dewdney
calls himself “g fairly -

a strange life of its own.
Their terminal has
somehow becomea window
into another world, com-
plete with flying snakes,
underground predators and
a likeable character called
Yendred with wham they
can communicate via the
keyboard,

Intriguing in its oddity in
the’ first few pages, the
story of Yendred’s journey
across his planet Arde and
the detailed realization’ of
the 2-D concept : quickly
becomes enthralling. -

HAS THEORY

“T know this sort of thing
is entirely unlikely to
happen,’ Dewdney said’in
an interview. “But I have
this’ funny theory about
reality that says if two
things happen to coincide
in certain respects they are
the same, and there may be
a kind of communication
Boing on between them.”

Or, to paraphrase an
explanation in the book: As
a vibrating tuning fork can
cause another tuning fork
to start vibrating, the
students’ computer °
program coincided with
enough aspects of the in-
dependently existing
Pianlverse to set that world
“vibrating” and establish a
communications link
between Earth and Arde.

Obscure —_ explanations
and theories of reality
come freely from , Dewd-
ney, but perhaps that's not
surprising considering that
his mind operates in the
most arcane regions of

Dead timber was removed from more
than 105 hectares (260 acres) of the
Nechako Reservoir In 1983 as part of
Alcan’s underwater logging program.

The program began in 1978 to make the
927 square-kllometre reservoir safer for
boating. The program will continue in
1984. The trees were flooded when the
reservolr was constructed In the early

theoretical
science,
“My research is really
outin left field, It has great:
potential importance, but
only one in 100 chances of

succeeding.”

computer

balanced meal," Dixon :

said. “The grubs are ‘a
fabulous source of protein
and the honey is a good
source of carbohydrates.”
HELP INDUSTRY
. To help the beekeeping
industry, the province pays
up ‘to
damage inflicted by bears
and provides $100 for
construction of an electric
fence, Ad well, a number of
troublesome bears are shot
every year. :

OF about 1,700 ‘apiarists

. operating in Manitoba,

Heath is one of 250 with
commercial operations of.
100 or more hives.
Eventually, Heath hopes
to have 600 colonies in
operation, ;
' “That would give me a
marketable quantity’ of
honey’ and - provide a
reasonable living," he said.
“Is about as much as ane
family can handle."

Dixon says the

beekeeping industry has;

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doubled in the province
during the last decade.
Larger amounts of special
crops and oilseeds, such as
canola, which provide a
good feeding ground for
_bees, have been planted.
_ Manitoba bees produc
about 17.3 , million
kilograms of honey last
year and 108,000 kilograms
of beeswax, worth a total of
$9.9 million.

Manitoba’ Ss has
traditionally | ranked
second to Alberta in annual
output, But production was
down last year because of
hot, dry weather, putting
‘the province in third place
behind Saskatchewan.

Dixon added most of the
honey is shipped to world
markets - because the
average annual = con-
sumption in Canada is less
than one kilogram per
capita. ;

So far, he said,
promotional efforts have
been terrible.

FOR

balanced diet -- honey and grubs

ere is also ‘growing
conven that Canadian
apiarists wil be unable to
rt tres
southern suppliers. In the
past, many beekeepers
killed their stock in the fall
and imported packages of
live bees from the southern
United States each spring:

But those- imports ap-
peared to be threatened. in
the late 1970s by an. influx
of killer bees. The

‘aggressive African .bées
were imported to Brazil:in
the late 1950s and are
slowly moving north,
displacing the more docile
breeds. .

' However, the tropical
bee is not as big a threat as
once believed. - q

“Qnee they get into
colder climates, they are
less of a threat,’ Heath
said. “They are less
competitive with European
breeds." ses

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