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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