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‘Second =

‘Surgery helps eyesight

WARWICK, Fl. (Reuter)
— The patient lies awake on
the operating table as the
surgeon brings a diamond-

because it is not ‘completely

reliable and the long-term

effects are not known.

Some ‘eye. specialists —

Advocates take a dif-

‘ ferent view. Eliis's surgeon,

Dr. Paul Koch, argues that
surgeons-can.rebulld knees

wey tides

Practicing for the Pacific Northwest Music Festival, Is Cook, Kulwinder Suparsha Sharda, Kathy problems.:. -** | interest
thls grade five class from Nechako Elementary School in Brisebois. In the front row.from left to right Is, Burton © CUT CORNEA é year't ™
Kitimat. Under the direction of Ms. Ingrun Hagemann, Starr, Janet Kohoko. Bob Gonzalez, Paul Cabral, Ryan “The “operation, radial . eer

these young people wi

ever to be held. ‘In the back row, from left to right is,.,

Elaine Maitland, Pau

tipped sealpel.- to .his ‘including those who have and other damaged body
anaesthelized left eye, ‘gent patients to surgeons to paris. “‘Now we can rebuild
Working . with .a have the operation done — the eye to reduce the need.
microscope, the surgeon remain uneasy about slicing for glasses,”
spends about five minutes ~ a healthy cornea to improve The, operation was
making thin, radial cuts vision. developed in the early 1970s.
‘outward from the centre of = “I. don't think wearing The process was discovered ..
- the eyeball, as a special set glasses is a terrible thing,” by’ accident 14 years ago
of tweezers holds the eye said Dr. Jacob’ Schinazi, when a Soviet boy smashed
steady. ° president’ of the Rhode his glasses in a fall and cut
The next day, Richard Island § Opthalmological :
Ellis, who has spent meeith Society. “And to take See
his life wearing glasses with healthy tissue and cul it like ‘ .
lenses as thick as ‘bottles, an orange gives me the Surgery’
‘fearned what itis liketobe creeps." ~
able to see the large letter E , page 12
at the top of an eye chart. —
His sight is still far from Ee: - Qnenoun
rfect but he said: “t 8 5
Banas rsa Bolg OR CLEANING
tores

Ellis . is one of many
thousands: of people who
have gone intothe operating
roam inthe United States to
rid” ~ themselves of thick’
glasses or ‘contact Fenses or
to correct ‘minor vision

Kallu, P 10. 13% 0.
‘abotomy. . attempis to -

‘cure near-sightedness and’
astigmatism with up to 16

Superflex, a multiple account ©
, annuity plan with interest rates
} guaranveed from 1 day to 5

Letourneau, Collen Johnson, -‘The.group that will be going
- tothe festival is made up of % children.

li take part in the largest festival

la Fonseca, Marlene Scott, Scott. .

- :, oo Se oe a - oo -- +s" the tough, transparent -
: on eee that covers the Willy ‘Schnelder, CLCA
- Moonshiners- still ‘busy in “Can ada (ites te as beth be asin

EDMONTON (CP) _
Prohibition is long dead and
liquor isn't hard to get, but
-moonshining continues,
even in some cities.

Far from the
stereotypical hillbilly with a
large kettle in the. woods,
the modern moonshiner can
be an urban businessman
using. stainless-steel
equipment and computers.

Home-brewed | liquor
we oy retalng 5, «:
largely because it's cheap.
andsome observers feelhone -

reason for the increasing .
problem is. the economic
malaise. .

' Sgt. David Palmer of the
RCMP customs and excise
office in Edmonton said
legal liquor can ‘cost about

- three ‘times as much as
home-brewed hooch.

“It’s difficull to say most ©
people are in it for the

_ money, - but in today's
economy, money’s money,”
said Palmer's colleague,
‘Cpl. Bruce Litowitz.

Ralph Nutter, a
psychologis* with the
University of Alberta, said
home production of alcohol
usually increases with the
number of people who find
themselves with time on
their hands and _ little
money.

It isn’t hard to make
moonshine: Nutter: said a

high schéol .. chemistry
student has all: the
theoretical _". knowledge

needed to. produce alcohol
_and the health food fad of
recent years means stills —

ostensibly :for distilling
waler — can be- easily
bought.

* While home brewing of

i i aa
porate

ena See

+

Ray’ s

eh eel

a

om

limited quantities of beer or
wine is within the: law,
distilling spirits al home is

illegal. after pleading gullty to don’t even drink.” “ charges’ are about double some major ~ medical
Federal statistics show ownihg the equipment. Moonshining | isn'ta areal the number daid w years: “ BTOUpS, the’ — operation
five seizures of moonshining In. an. interview, he. suid _ Problem at the moie t But ag, remains controversial

‘insurance -

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—Aate in effect Feb. 14, 1964 sublect fo
change without notice. There is a $25
annual administration charge on the
plan

easier for near-sighted
people to bring distant
objects into focus. .

". Although -aceepted by

- and money. - ; «police are’ cancertied about
“It was strictly. something -the potential:
to do,” Letourneau said: "I —_Litowitz said the ‘Alberta

tows recently ‘caught’ in’
possession, of a still, Last
month he was fined” $300

the charge was, “‘stupid,‘
becayse he brews the liquor:
‘as a hobby. He said he was
confident, he: could have.
bul:

equipment last year in.
Alberta and 98 seizures
nationally.

Hubert ‘Letourneau, an
salesman in
central Alberta,, was one cof

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