PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Monday, December 19,

B.C. dog saves two men in
boat-fire accident |

BURNABY, B.C. (CP)
' — Ron Thompson, of
North Vancouver, B.C.,
one of two men who
jumped from a 23-foot
pleasure boat Friday
when the engine caught
fire and the gas tanks
exploded, credits his dog
with saving his life.

“If it wasn’t for Luke
we'd be on the bottom,”
Thompson said.

Not fair

WASHINGTON (AP) —
The U.S. Supreme Court
says a Chicago man
convicted of rape was
deprived of his right to a
fair trial, but one of the
justices says the court
was insensitive toward
rape victims.

Justice Harry Black-
mun, although  con-
curring with the other
justices, took issue Mon-
day with his colleagues.
inference that the brief-
time the rape victim said
she saw her attacker's
face was not enough to
make her identification of
the defenddnt reliable.

The court did not
overturn the conviction of
the defendant, James
Moore. But it found find
impropriety in the ab-
sence of a lawyer for
Moore when he was
identified by his alleged
victim at a preliminary
hearing.

Thompson, 29, and
Mike Cromien, 34, of Port
Coquitlam, B.C. were
returning from a trip
when the engine caught
fire while they were in the
middle of Burrard Inlet.

“We tried to extinguish
it but some vinyl caught
fire and we had two extra
gasoline tanks on board,”

ohnson said. ‘It was all
wae could do to get off in
time.”

to rapist

The court returned the

case to the 7th US.
Circuit Court of Appeals
for review.

Moore was convicted in

1967,
Blackmun took issue
with the court’s reference
to the “only 10 to 15
seconds” that the woman
saw the rapist’s face.

“Time, of course, is
always a comparative
matter,” Blackmun said.
“But 10 to 15 seconds of
observation of the face of
a rapist at mid-day by his
female victim during the
commission of the crime
by no means is insufficent
to leave an accurate and
indelible impression on
the victim.”

“To the resisting
woman, the 10 to 15
seconds would seem
endless,’’ he said. ‘“‘No
female victim of a rape,
‘given that period of

ylight observation, will
ever believe otherwise.”

BOWIE INTRODUCED
BAND

David Bowie showed up
at Max’s Kansas City in
New York recently to
introduce a new band.

Bette Midler says she
has turned down §3
million in large concert-
hall bookings, preferring
to perform in small clubs
instead.

The two men jumped
from the boat and clut-
ched the dog's hair as the
two-year-old Alaskan
malemute swam to shore,
400 metres away.

They were picked up in
a boat halfway to shore
by two men who had been
working in the shore area
at the time of the mishap.

“Even after the boat

had picked us up, he

(Luke) went on to shore.

under his own steam,”
Thompson said.
Both men were taken to
hospital, and were later
released. Luke suffered

singed hair.
“Luke will be fine
though, his down fur is

still okay,” Thompson
said.

Legal battle over
supertanker salvage

PORT ELIZABETH,
South Africa (Reuter) —
A long legal battle over
salvage rights and other
claims may follow Fri-
day’s collision of two
supertankers off the
South African coast, a
spokesman for the owner

of one of the ships said
Sunday. .
John Kerr, _ vice-

president of Venoil, Inc.,
met with representatives
of concerns involved in
rescue and salvage at-

tempts.

“With the number of
people interested in the
incident it will obviously
take considerable time,’
he said later, adding that
claims made against his
company will involve
complicated legal
procedures and he would
not be surprised if it took
two years to resolve the
matter.

The collision between
the 330,-000-ton sister
ships Venoil and Venpet

caused fires in both ships,
now extinguished.
Rescue ships and

helicopters, which defied
flames and smoke, took

~ Venoil

off 84 men.

The company which
owns the helicopters, and
the South African
government-owned firm
of Soekor, which owns the
tug which has taken the
in tow, were
represented at Sunday’s
meeting with Kerr at a
Port Elizabeth hotel.

Representatives of both
companies denied there
is any intention of
“snatching” the Venoil as
salvage. Venoil has 250,-
000 tons of oil aboard,
while Venpet’s tanks are
in ballast.

Kerr also said that,
apart from an _  in-
vestigation being carried
out by his company, in-
quiries will be ordered by
the governments of Sout
Africa and Liberia,
where the tankers are
registered.

Both tankers are under
tow by tugs. Port officials
here said the Venpet was
leaking very slightly and
the Venoil was not
leaking at all.

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Training urged for teenage mothers

NEW YORK (AP) —
Teenage girls are often so
poor at mothering that
their children become
angry, destructive people
at great cost to society,

sychoanalysts said

unday.
They called for more
funds for research and

Dressing up your home for Christmas

THE Christmas tree is
the focal point of holiday
activity, and long after
the present;s are un-
wrapped.

The most popular
symbol of the Christmas
season is the tree and
uests will sit around
ooking at it. Make it
worthy of all that at-
tention.

With all the different
kinds of trees available
on the market today,
selecting one to suit your
particular needs may
take some time.

Because of the in-
creasing cost of real trees
and also because of a
potential fire hazard, the
number of artificial trees
on the market has in-
creased, Such trees can
be quite handsome and
effective in their way.

But some people will
settle for nothing less
than real trees. They may
cut their own or buy them
from a corner dot,
manned by Scouts,
Guides or church groups.

Some favorite varieties
are cedar, pine, balsam
_and spruce. Your per-
sonal preference and
price range will be the
majoring factors
governing your final
choice.

The evergreen trees
sold in shopping malls
often have been cut
several weeks in ad-
vance, so they should be
properly cared for after
purchase to keep them
resh and green.

Some
smaller trees
talbes or stan
of limited

people prefer
laced on
because
space.

Carefully select an indoor
location for the tree —
away from any sources of
heat radiators,
registers and even T.V.
sets. A fresh cut at the
bottom will help the tree
to absorb water more
easily, Place the tree in a
holder and keep it
watered while indoors to
prevent the drying out of
ranches and shedding of
needles. Plant food can
be added to the water to
help pralong its life.

You could also pot the
tree with earth in a
ceramic container and
try to keep it alive in yoru
garden after Christmas is
over.

If the tree protrudes
into the room to far, trim
the branches so that it
will fit closer to the wall.
These clippings can be

used to make wreaths or
swags or may be
atranged in bowls or
vases.

If the tree is to sit in a
bay window and be ob-
served from the street,
remember to decorate it
uniformly all around so
the sparkle of colored
lights can be observed
from the street as weell
as from inside the room.

Rather than buying up
ornaments in-
diseriminatel and
throwing red and green in
with gold and silver and
touches of blue, you coudl
narrow your color
scheme to two colors. The
lights and baubles could
be all green and blue or
all red and green. Or the
tree could be limited to
silver.

Hang little treats on the
branches but be sure

young children in the
family won't be tempted
to reach for them and pull
the whole tree on top of
them.

There's also a style of
decorating that- employs
plaid and gingham bows,
Just take the ribbon,
usually red, and tie it
around the branches.
Velvet bows often come
with clips.

Graduate the size of the
baubles, from small at
the top of the tree to
larger down at the bot-
tom. Handcraft an angel.
for the tip. Cut a cone
shape of cardboard,
cover it with gingham or
silver fabric, applyt
angel hair to the wings
and a styrofoam ball that
forms the head.

A star remains a
classic, popular trim:
ming for the ytop of the

22.

Bethune,

community facilities
designed to help teen-
agers become better
mothers and rear better
adjusted children.

Too often, those
children are unable to
form human attachments
and show early aggres-
sive behavior, said
doctors Jeann Fineman

_and Marguarite Smith, .

reporting on a five-year

- study by the Dr. Solomon

Carter Fuller Community

-Mental Health Centre in

Boston.

“Bethune”

Bethune, the widely-
acclaimed CBC-TV
drama will be retelecast
on Wednesday, January
11 at 8:30 p.m.

Donald © Sutherland
stars as Norman
the Canadian
surgeon-inventor who
was one of the folk heroes
to emerge from Mao Tse-
Tang's struggle to control
modern China.

“Now we are all
commemorating him,
which shows how
profoundly his ppirit

‘inspires everyone. We

must all learn the spirit of
absolute _ selflessness
from him.”

-from In Memory of
Norman Bethune written
by Mao Tse-Tung, 1939.

‘Dr. Norman Bethune .

was a brilliant surgeon, a
scientist, a great
humanitarian and, for
some, aan impossible
egotist, It was Norman
Bethune who, while in
Spain ministering to the
Republican Army,

devised a method of
refrigerating blood so
that it could not only be
stored but also be tran-
sported into the battle
flelds, thereby saving
thousands of lives. It was
Dr, Bethune who, himself
tubercular, set about
revolutioninzing th
practice of thoracic
surgery at Montreal's
Sacre ur Hospital, It
was Norman Bethune
who, in China during the
battle of Chi'Hui,
operated for 69 con-
secutive hours on 115
cases, But it was this
same man who said to his
ex-wife’s third husband
(Bethune having been her
first and her second) “I
don’t give away my wife,
I only tend her.”

T come from a race of
men violent, unstable, of
passionate convictgions
and wrong-headedness,
intolerant yet with it all a

visionof truth and a drive.

to carry them on even
though it leads, as it has
done in my my family, to
their destruction.”
-Norman Bethune, 1935.
In 1999, at the age of 49,
Norman Bethune died in
the village of Huan-shih
K’ou of septicaemia.

Mothers as young as 13
need to “develop the
capacity to mother, to see
themselves as the care-

yer ... to see their

bies as another human
being with needs she can
fulfill,” said Dr.-Roy Ga
Lilleskov of New Yor
City at the annual meet-
ing of the American Psy-
choanalytical
Association.

The Planned Paren-
thood. Federation of
America has said that
more than one million

i] ‘

He is revered in China.

Donald Sutherland is
brilliant as this man of
indomitable spirit whose
public - triumphs and
personal disasters are
chronicled in the CBC-TV
drama preduction,
Bethune.

Bethune follows the
doctor from his private
practice in the slums of
Detroit and his con-
finement at the Trudeau

Sanatorium for the
treatment of tuber-
eculosis, to Montreal

where his insistence on
using radical surgical
techniques and racical
rhetoric secured his
discharge from the Royal
Victoria Hospital. It was
during this period that
Bethune twice married
and twice divorced
Frances Camphell
Penney. We see Bethune
in Spain where he
organized the Servcio
Canadiense de Tran-
sfusion de Sangre; in
Canada on his speaking
tout to raise money for
Spain and finally in
China.

Bethune is bracked by
rare footage of the
Japanese invasion of
China and Norman
Bethune being greeted by
Chinese soldiers, treating
the wounded and, finally,
Dr. Bethune in his coffin.

‘Canadian actress Kate
Nelligan returned to this
country from England’s
National Theatre to play
Frances Campbell
Penney, Bethune's wife.
Etrog Award winner
David Gardner plays
John Bellamy, Bethune's
close friend. The cast also
includes: James Hong as
General Nieh, Gerard
Parkes as, Dr, Mac-
Cracken, Patrick Watson
as R.E. Coleman.

Bethune was written by
Thomas ‘Rickman and
derived from the
biography,
written by Roderick
Stewart. Music was
written and performed by
Hagood Hardy.

Bethune was directed
by Eric Till and produced
by Robert Sherrin,
Robert Allen was the
executive producer.

L2iasan din reise HE

: o

adolescent women
become pregnant each
year. Those pregnancies
result in more than
600,000 births—one-fifth
of all the births in the U.S.
Two-thirds of the
pregnancies are unin-
tended, resulting from
ignorance or misin-
formation about. birth
contro] and sexuality, the
federation has said.
Even to those teen-
agers who deliberately
get pregnant and give
birth, often “‘the baby is

incidental,” said Dr.. J...

wed Hey

xis. Burland.
are using ;‘the -baby ‘to

‘ satisfy;.some, internal

need, and cannot love the
baby adequately.”

Psychoanalytic
techniques can help such
young mothers, said Dr.
Theodore Cohen of
Narberth, Pa., adding
that research is essential.

He said “‘society seems
to be angry with these
people” and takes an
attitude that ‘they need
to be punished.” As a re-
sult, he said, funds have
been cut off for research
and facilities.

Entertainment

Minibriefettes

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PLAN LP

Although they still have
no immediate tour plans,
Led Zeppelin will soon go
back into a recording
studio in Europe to do
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in Winnieg, the Nativity

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CBC Friday, Dee. 23, at 5
p.m.

Pacemaker
Fund

BURNABY, B.C. (CP)
— A campaign has begun
to raise $2,500 in funds for
a brain acemaker
operation for Simon Fra-

ser University student —

Terry Miller, a cerebral
palsy victim. ;
Simon Fraser students

operating the campaign |

said Monday the money
would be used to pay for
the pacemaker and for
transportation costs in
getting the 29-year-old
psychology student to
Ottawa for the operation.
University staff and
students raised $4,000 in
Qctober to enable Miller
to get a medical opinion
in New York on whether a
brain pacemaker would
help him control
muscular activity.
Campaign spokesman
Dave Johnstone said it is

Bethune hoped the cost of the

operation will be covered
by the provincial medical
plan.

He said donations may
‘-be sent to: The Terr
Miller Pacer Fund,
National Trust, Brent-

wood Mall. Shoppin
Centre, Burnaby. I