A A sizzling heat wave that has claimed 1 B lives and just ; jeeps. ‘getting. ‘hotter? * marked “time: in. the “South today, : locked in- by: a powerful front along:the: Mason-Dixon ling, | ; "with (eraperateres | in the: high 303’ ‘expected through the” : "Weekend, | ¢tape withered, and thowstinds of chickens died in the heat. “The culprit! right now Is 4 front that’s wandering almost. 7 along. ‘the Magoh-Dixon line; a barrier- dhiat won't alfow © " eooler air in from. .the, west,” said Harry_ Gordon, a meteorologist for:.the ‘National. ‘Weather: Service. Severe ; Storms: Centre in Kansas City, Mo, =... tt just keeps getting hotter all the time, Gordon said VANCOUVER (CP) = - Selgiried Stiemer sounds a lot like . a Jedi knight from Star Wars when he talks about “trying to escape the force,’ classic: - He's a “civil engineer . at the University of British _ Colpmbla‘and the force he talks about. isearthquake force., '. The abject of the game is to design an earthquake-proof ". eaistant: structures.” “In a-recent test, the “ground” in aun versity lab jerked violently from side to side- while a massivé steel structure, as should have been: whipping wildly about, rocked gently. Maren it: was ‘over, Stlemer clivibed down from the - Future bleak. . - ‘problems, the founder of the Club.of Rome sald Tuesday. |; ‘The futuire of the world is dim if humanity continues along ~ work. to solve commion problems, ° ‘Aurelio. Peccej told a convention’ of: the International Federation of Roman a Catholic. Universities. . ” Peecel, 75, isthe founder and president of the club, a problems. :~ optimistic view of the future — if a stern program of land , happens, he sald, humanity faces “a life. of modest well- being ‘and dignity.” ; planetary: future, ‘‘the common future of mankind.” CP en OR ese trraie a ier fer ne” ie: rite ‘because of new situations in the world, such as expanding technology andthe’ pressure a rapidly . increasing population —expected to reach six ‘billion by the end oi the century - - Puts of on natural | resources. . eee All About PEOPLE < - The-ghost of Ambrose Small, a wealthy theatre im- presario who disappeared In Toronto in 1919 in one of Canada’s great mysteries, may have returned to the London, Ont., Grand Theatre i ina new guise — a Monarch ; butterfly. ; The theatre, built in 1901, ‘was considered Small’s | favorite. It had a secret stairway leading fram the owner’s + box seat down to thie leading lady’s private dressing room. : The building, now the home of Robin Phillips’ new Grand Theatre Company, is said-to haunted by Small’s. ghost,’ -. either in the form of a man in Edwardian dress who appears - in the balcony oi or es a bat which files about the auditorium - on opening nights. flew around the theatre and settled on Pafllips’ shoulder 4 i. Gang. a rehearsal. } ‘has taken on a new persona,” Smyth i said. "Whether it was a ghost or not, we're taking it as a good omen.’ " "For almost 70 years, the Little Mermaid at the mouth of Copenhagen harbor in Denmark has sat fecing the sea, ‘walting for her prince, to come back: _-¥et even on the bronze lady's 70th birthday this week, _ ‘there: was no prince. Prince Henrik, Queen Margrethe’ a, “consort and the mermaid’ 's official patron, was. vacationing “ in’ France, : ‘The mermaid was the heroine of an 1837 Hang Christian . “Andersen fairy tale, who waited for her prince to return. - But’ the bronze statue-was' erected less as a tribute to ~ Alidersen than to commemorate the love of a brewer for the “prima ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet. - Carl Jacobsen, ‘Carlaberg Brewerles’s founder, com-- -amisstoned a sculpturéof a Miss Price as the Little Mermaid “in 1913, It was agréed the sculplure would have both legs. * and # tail: “She probably is the only mermald in the world you. can - slap on the thigh,” sald Public ‘Works Minister Ame _ Melehior. at the birthday party.” —— Quarterback Joe (747) Adams is on his way to 0 Toronto. Adams, a -atrongearmed but inconsistent ‘pivot, was ob- . tained : “Tuesday: by the Argonauts from Saskatchewan. - _ Rolighriders in a Canadian Football League trade for future.’ conblderations,. °* ‘Adams was placed on walvers saturday, houts after the Roughriders fired Joe Faragalli and replaced: ‘him with ‘ Reuben Berry. The move might be the best thing for’ the quarterback, ‘who. has recently.had to put: up with. ‘varlations on hia nickname front dlagruntled fans and cyniéal reporters, Bob Hayhes; the Regina Leader-Post's sports editor, had - _ taken-io‘cailing Adame 7-11 “because when he throws the. ball everybody takes a Big Gulp.” - {Adame also was referred to as 767 because he has hada . petent tendency, the wags said, to run out of gas. vs: Tennessee, but the hot spot in the-U:5: was Gila Bend, Ariz, . aweltering’. ‘schools early Tuesday, ” the’. “elderly stayed at alr-Conditioned shelters, soybean and hay But Stlemer has nothing to. do with the George Lucas . _; building which costs, less than. conventional earthquake: ‘One difference bétween the UBC systen: and. others: is: : ; “TORONTO (GP) — The world facesa bleak future, even if D ‘mankind can start. working together to. solve common its present:path and is not much brighter even. if-people.. think-tank of industrial, academic and. public. service . “leaders formed in. 1968 to concentrate on solutions to world © He offered the Universiiy. of Toronto audience a slightly . . and resources use ‘and management is: énacted. If this * Pescel said the future will bea human. product, “but not a ’ Future of‘orle persoii or country. Rather; If Will be a single, He said the very character of the future’ is changing a. Theatre spokesman Niki Smyth said a Monarch butterfly ; wily pmotif had been: used ‘in our aidvertising | J ‘today, sng tat a no eli is in. sgt at’ least ‘wat the a . ‘The mereury soared over the ae degree vaark Tuesday in’ the Carolinas: Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas ' ‘and. “where the high:was near'42 degrees’ Celsius: in: the: ‘South "Athens, Ga., suffered through Avdegree heat, th highest in, ‘ : the region. * : oo, een - Rellef ‘could ‘come ‘fram. rain spawned ‘by the season’ iy. ; -gecoind: tropical: storm, Barry, now’ about: 20° kilometres; -enat of Florida’ 's Atlantic coast. But the slow Thursday or iad the’ weather service”. structure vath a. smile on his: face’ and said. he had. just’ “ridden out’ the El-Centro, Calif., earthquake ‘of April, 1940, © ‘ The quake, which registered 6.90n the Richter scale, was . faithfully reproduced by a computer program that runs the . civil engineeri department's “shaking table.’ ; The table-véighs five tonnes and — along with a: 2 5. toutie. concrete-weighted steel building madel — is being used to test a “base isolation’" earthquake-proofing system tefl med by Stiemer-and graduate student, pill Rarwig. re REST ON:ROLLERS : _ “In the UBC: system, ‘supporting pillars of the ‘biitding model rest on roller bearings; allowing the building ta move _in an. earthquake independently of the ground. . . The idea of ground isolation is not new. but the UBC ; engineers have. added some réfinements, .. that only the’ columns, ‘rather than the entire basement -. “8. C. Freestone - oo said. : Fines SPARKED eS SU ays Further: west, torrential rainsi in Arkansas and Tennessee: ob, p parched: ‘ground, but -officiais ‘said © ightning fromthe storm: sparked a’ gtass’ fire’ a Little: Rock, Ark.,'a ‘symptom of the aiithiner's. chronte: ‘dryness. oo . Little Rock;: Ark., with: instructions. to remain open | until ‘ temporarily : doused: PEACHE! | Be. Grown Canning |TOMATO S$ ‘The rains drove winds gusting to 100 kilometres an hour through the middle of Tennesse on ‘Tuesday, knocking out - power to-12,000 customers, The storm's silver lining was aN” eight-degree drop. in -temiperatures © that . -peaked at. 39: - degrees in Jackson, Tenn. However, ' more temperatures in. _ the high 40s were forecast for today. In Nashville, schools closed after only one-full day of the. New academic year when. officlals measured indoor tem-. Vancouver: architect tries to. escape the force “floor, rest on bail bearings: In addition, each column has a heavy, oval-shaped spi'ing that allows the ‘building to move but “Mamps" the movement, In the El Centro test, the shaking table 3 moves abruptly, . nearly knocking people standing on the. table off their feet. The building, however, moves slowly: ‘and with a rocking ‘mation: ., |... Barwig said earthquake damage is done.i in the: first few moments ‘of the quake: when bulldings are, accelerated quickly: in different directions. “Here we have introduced some ‘accelération. but have reduced it,” he said, “The whole building moves but within allowable limits.” -_ ~ ° ‘in Stiemer said injuries_in. modern ‘buildings during: an. : earthquake are caused by falling ceilings and “emulpeneat - “flying around.’ - . . “ Georgia: and. Texas. : Classes: were. also cut. ator or: ‘eaneeted in. ‘Alibamia, In-the stores, there’s ‘atun.on fens anda air. conditioners. lA round-the-clock heat shelter Was to open today in: North: afternoon highs dip... In Alabama, where five ‘people have died in the cuirrént go heat spell, state Civil Defence Director Dan ‘Turner open 11 rellet- centres: in Madison County ‘on ‘the “Tennesse, barder. 7 i” The heat fried s some 900, on chickens to death in Georgia and dairy.-ylelds were ‘down, Only. eight per cent: o Georgla’s:farm fields have adequate: moistire,-the Georgia: _ Stop Reporting Service said. Hay and soybean Prauction have: been decimated, . *< Besides'the five deaths in ‘Alabama, there. have been tw deaths each ini Georgia, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentuck “and one each in North Carolina and THinois since Saturda blamed on the temperature, About 200 people across: th country ‘died in the: heat. wave in July. . 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