Calgary Herald from Calgary, Alberta, Canada • 59

THE CALGARY HLRALD Sal March 4, 1972 b9 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i PEOPLE Johnny Hopkin Jacques Dextrase, non's victory is a pvrrhic one, for the child and her father, Anthony D. Cox, have vanished. A civil court judge, granted the custody order after Mrs. Lennou assured him she was not a drug user and that she and Lenuon will provide the 8-year-old girl a home and an education. Lt.

-Governor Lester Maddox of Georgia, who has been wearing a toupee for less than a week, says the only negative reaction to it has come from his wife, who "thinks it's a little too long." The toupee, which covers almost all of his bald head and which Maddox unabashedly calls "my wig," has created a bit of an identity problem. When he drove up to his reserved parking place near the state capitol in Atlanta, a police officer stationed there didn't recognize the former governor and refused to let him park until his identity was established. The other night David Frost turned liis late-night television offerings In Gloria Steinem, among otlicrs, for a discussion about women's lib. To keep things in their proper perspective, Gloria is far too attrac- five a girl to go around denouncing' the male of the species. Very simply, she's a doll.

She's also an incredibly intelligent and' articulate one. There isn't a man in the world who wouldn't benefit from dating her. But 1 i a 's obvious attributes aren't the point of this discussion. What oame during the evening was that wives should be paid something like $9,000 a year for the duties they perform in other words putting them on a salary basis commensurate with their chores. First of all, I don't think any male ever entered into a marriage contract with the idea that he was going to have to 'pay' the blushing bride.

Con-fort her. Love her. her. Fine. But a is a little too commercial for most.

Still, IJie wives do perform endless chores and it's conceivable, just barely, that they should receive a salary. But 1 feel that it has to work linlh ways. Most husbands are happy to bring home the pay cheque and let the wives disperse it in whatever fashion they see fit. That's las contribution, that's what he was put on the world for, and most do it without a murmur. But most husbands can reasonably claim fees for duties over and above the call of duty.

He can reasonably expect some compensation for the demands, other than those at the office, made upon him. I have drawn up a rough schedule of what a husband might expect in the way of overtime. What should I wear tonight? (150 queries at $50 $7,500) Grocery shopping for things the wife forgot. (200 hours at Going without buttons that should have been sewn on. (1000 hours at 1,000) Drinking warm martinis (200 hours at $1 $200) Sweeping wife's car clear of snow looking at $10 $750) Breakfast in bed (Km leisurely mornings at $2 $200) Drawing creamy baths (250 baths at $1 $250) Mowing lawns (50 mowings at $5 $250) Spontaneous kisses on cheek (2,500 busses at $2 $5,000) Heavy necking (11,000 lustful embraces at $100 $800,000) Changing light bulbs (5(H) replacements at 50 cents $250) Obviously, the man of the house has a little extra change coming his way, too.

I admit that not all the figures are precise, but they are at least indicated. My wife, I must point out, has agreed with the assessment. And, she says, she'll pay me out of the $10 a week 1 give her to run the household. Today's bouquets to Jennifer Lowthcr, Calgary's entry in the Miss Teen Canada pageant Today's brickbats to any hamburger served without raw onions. sweeps at Opening car door for wife doors at 50 cents $150) Loading dishwasher (100 loadings at Darning socks (500 socks at 25 cents Compliments on hairdo (50 compliments at $1 $50) Avoiding in-laws (100 evasions at $2 Filling ice-cube trays (100 fillings at 25 cents $25) Starting wife's car in cold weather (50 starts at $2 $100) Explaining Vietnam situation (50 explanations at $3 $150) Singing old songs on way home from parties (150 songs at $1 $150) Correcting spelling (40 corrections at St $40) Standing up when wife leaves or enters rooms (1000 ups-downs at 50 cents $500) Making lunches (150 lunches at $1 Deflating old boyfriends (25 deflations at Overlooking trumped sees (75 over Bob Shiels on TV 8 52.

of Montreal loday was appointed chief of defence staff to succeed General Frederick Sharp who is retiring. The new chief will bo promoted to general on taking his appointment Sept. J5. The defence department also announced that Michael Dare, 54, of Montreal, vice-chief of defence staff, is being sent to the Privy Council Office May 1. His job will he to "assist in developing and strengthening plans for the response of the federal government in natural disasters and other emergencies." Gen.

Dextrase will perform the duties of vice-chief of defence staff (rum May 1 to Sept. 15. The president of the International Chess Federation said Friday that world champion Boris Spassky must forfeit his title it lie refuses to accept the venue set for his match with Bobby Fischer. The statement by Dr. Max Euwe was from Moscow by the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug.

The Soviet world champion and the U.S. challenger were unable to agree earlier on a match site and Euwe ruled that the 24 games would be divided equally between Belgrade and Reykjavik, Iceland. A former convict has won a $000,000 judgment for blindness he says was caused by tear-gas used during a prison disturbance. A federal jury in Charleston, S.C. made The award late Thursday night to Artie Cur-tis Ussery, 27, against the Federal Laboratory o.

of Saltzberg, Pa. Ussery said a blast of tear-gas from a prison guard led to total blindness. Alger Hiss, a central figure in the 1948 congressional investigation of the state department, won a court decision Friday ordering the government to pay him pension benefits. A three-judge federal court in Washington ruled that the so-called Hiss Act was applied in an unconstitutional manner to deny Hiss a $fil-a-month annuity for his years of government service. The court ordered the government to pay the annuity plus interest retroactively to Nov.

12, IDfifi, Hiss' 62nd birthday and the date he became eligible for retirement benefits. The judges also ordered that monthly payments continue. Hiss, now 1)7 and residing in New York, was convicted of perjury after denying before a federal grand jury thai be gave stale secrets to Communist spies. He served years in a federal prison and was released in 1954. A silver-haired far struck a few verbal blows Friday for old-age pensioners, Hie blind and welfare recipi- GENERAL DEXTRASE chief of staff cuts during a hearing into a rale increase application by Bell Canada.

Carlyle Gilmour, a Montreal-area farmer, suggested only the affluent can afford the basic monthly charge for telephone service, and asked whether it is fair to charge a blind person the same fee as a family with several teen-agers. Bell Vice-President Jean-Paul Gagnon replied that, under federal legislation, the company cannot discriminate in applying rates to its customers. The exchange came during the third day of Canadian transport commission a r-ings in Ottawa into a Bell request to increase basic monthly services charges by 9.5 per cent. Dick Craft gave up riding his bicycle at the age of 98. At his 100th birthday parly in Atlin, B.C.

Friday night, he announced he's just taken out a five-year renewal of his driver's licence. And as soon as the weather clears up in the remote mining community in the northwest corner of British Columbia, he says he'll be out in his old pickup truck again, bunting for gold. A heavy-set man. Craft hasn't lost his sense humor over the years. Asked if his teeth were real or store-bought, he replied: "I couldn't find any in (he second-hand store, so I haven't bought any yet." Bob Bell of The Edmonton Journal was elected.

to a second term as president of the Alberta Legislative press gallery association at the group's annual meeting Friday. Mr. Bell, known to his colleagues as "the dean," has covered Ihc Alberta Legislature for the past six years. In Houston, Yoko Ono, wife of former Beatlc John Lcnnon, was awarded, after a two-year-long battle, temporary custody of Kyoko, her daughter by a former marriage. So far, however, Mrs.

Len- Fire inspector saves frightened three-year-old EDMONTON (CP) An inspector looking for fire hazards discovered a burning house, ran inside, and rescued a three-year-old boy who was hiding under the bed, the fire department reported Wednesday. Merv Bruce, 50, a former fireman who underwent heart surgery a year ago, was in-spec ting homes Tuesday when he saw smoke coming from a two-storey house. He turned in a fire alarm and ran into the house to alert the residents. He awakened Mrs. Samai Ahmad but her three-year-old son, Najetti, would not come out from under a bed where he was hiding.

Mr. Bruce pulled the frightened child out and led the mother and son out of the smoke-filled house. Mr. Bruce was formerly a captain with the fire department and was transferred lo the fire inspection branch following a coronary artery bypass operation. Albertan ejects safely from plane OTTAWA (CP) The pilot and navigator of a Canadian forces CF-100 jet ejected safely Friday before the plane crashed into the Laur-cntian Mountains 100 miles northeast of here.

The defence department said the pilot, Capt. R. V. Wcldon, 35, of Thunder Bay and the navigator, Capt. R.

H. A. Willhawk, 36, of Bashaw, were picked up later unharmed. A board of inquiry will lie called to investigate the crash. cus nabbed some bank robbers; was the last as CFCN changes gears for its "new season." On Thursdays, starling next week, we'll be getting Hawaii Five-0 and Medical Centre.

Longstreet doesn't figure as a great loss for two reasons. The blind-eye gimmick obviously has been wearing thin lately. And we've still got lots of other law-and-order shows. Dean Martin isn't among the new-season casualties but, as usual, he wasn't accomplishing much again this week. It was a sluggish hour that even Jonathan Winters couldn't salvage.

The old, easy informality of this show seems to have got lost somewhere. Many beefs were received about this week's episode of Man at The Top. Joe Lampion, I gather, was talking and acting even earthier than usual. I think I'll stay out of this argument about Joe's language and love life. It's a short-run series that soon will run out of episodes anyway and be seen no more It's suggested that you tune in Wide World of Spoils today.

Items of local interest include a feature about skater Karen Magnussen and highlights of the Snowmobile Championships from Wetaskiwin. these characters do their flung separately, then the bits and pieces are edited together to fill out the hour. Price and the others wouldn't have to live in Hamilton, just drop in there periodically. The product that emerges after the editing is impressive for its props, costumes, make-up, special effects and its sights and sounds generally. The over-all atmosphere is that of a merry madhouse.

If CHCH can put together a quality production like this a total of 130 shows over a 26-wcek season it isn't hard to see how it stays competitive in Ontario. The credits a. the end list a huge production crew. There's even a credit for "fangs by Not being blessed with children under foot, I really don't know how Frightenstein would compare with Sesame Street as an education show. They sort of slip the educational items into it unobtrusively.

Either way it's -a fun show and for a home-brew it rates as quite an achievement. If I didn't, preler days that start closer to noon, I think I'd start my own day with this one. WRAP-UP: This week's edition of Longslrcet, in which James Francis- One of the more remarkable phenomena this season has turned out to be an elaborate oddity called The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. If you've never heard of it, that's because this kidvid series runs on CFCN from 8 to 9 a.m. week days.

Despite the hour, however, chances are you may have heard of it. Frightenstein has been racking up some surprising ratings. The 8 to 8:30 a.m. portion of the hour-long show has been attracting a a -w i audiences ranging from 25,300 to 34.400. Most (but not all)' of them are youngsters, so the totals tail off when the time comes for them to head for school.

Regardless of the composition of the audience, its size is incredible. It rivals Sesame Street at a time of day when you'd hardly expect anybody at all to be watching television. I finally managed to catch an entire hour Friday morning. I'm definitely less alert than usual (which isn't very alert) at 8 a.m. but the quality of the show was unmistakable.

Frightenstein is produced at CHCH in Hamilton. And CHCH is quite a station. Situated in the corridor between Toronto and the U.S. but not affiliated with cither Canadian tv net work, the station manages to more than hold its own in a highly competitive situation. The first impression of Frightenstein is to wonder what they're trying to do.

Scare the children half to death early in the morning? Wally Kirk, program manager at CFCN, confirms that he got one of two complaints along that line when the scries began. But viewers came to realize it wasn't really a horror show. It's entertainment with some incidental education values. THE SETTING is spooky enough an old castle, thunder and lightning and all like that. But, if the opening doesn't scare you off, you discover it's a friendly sort of place.

The east includes Vincent Price, whose stock in trade is the macabre and occult: Billy Van, who plays an assortment of roles; Count Frightenstein (a vampire, I assume), a large blue lump called Igor, a Wolf Man and a couple of Muppet-like puppets. Wc might wonder how someone like Vincent Price, who turns up intermittently reading poems with characteristic gusto, got involved in a show out of Hamilton. The answer evidently is that all Art Buchwald 4 litiTJFiiTMiMriiMtiriitirFiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiirfrftiPfiiiiiiriiiiiriiiiiiifitMMftfiiiifiiiiiiirEirrriiiitiitfiiiiiriifiittittiiwf The world of animals By Frank Miller, DVM anywhere in the world without being recognized. The president can assign him missions that would be impossible for someone as well known as Henry Kissinger to take. The state department, because of its anonymity, has been able to perform a great service to the nation." "Do you believe the gamble of taking Mr.

Rogers to Peking was worth all the trouble that the state department is now in?" "That's Monday morning quarter-backing. From the beginning we were aware that it was a calculated risk to allow Mr. Rogers to be seen in such close proximity to the president. But at the time the decision was made, wc had no idea that the president would meet Mao -t and Rogers wouldn't." "Will the state department be dismantled, now that its role is out in the "Docs the revelation of a stale department mean that Henry Kissinger is not running the entire foreign policy of the United Stales?" "It means no such thing. All policies on foreign affairs arc still made by the 'department of Kissinger' or, as we call it here, the DOK.

The slate department, and I'm not confirming there is one, mind you, is sort of a back-up organization which provides the president with information he might miss from his usual sources." "If this is true, why all the mystery a 1 the organization? Why hasn't the country heard about the state department before? And why has the identity of William Rogers, as head of it, been kept a secret?" "The president believes that there are certain agencies that can operate belter if they arc not publicized. If people knew what Mr. Rogers did, he would not have the freedom of movement that, he has now. He can go person was doing on the trip, Ron Zicgler reluctantly admitted that the man's name was William Rogers and he held the title of secretary of state, and he had something to do with foreign affairs, though Ziegler refused to go into it any further. Meanwhile, back in Washington, reporters were trying to find out more about the state department and where it fitted into the diplomatic picture.

The White House seemed very dis -turbed about the leak, and J. Edgar Hoover has been ordered to find out who blew Mr. Rogers' cover. A White House spokesman told inc. "It does no good for security of the nation to talk about the role of the stale department in foreign affairs.

The people who revealed the existence of Mr. Rogers and the agency he represents may believe they were reporting news, but in effect they are only giving aid and comfort to the enemy." WASHINGTON -One of the best-kept secrets of the Nixon administration was' blown during the president's trip to China last week. The American people discovered that there is a highly confidential organization advising the president on foreign affairs which is called the state department. The head of this secret apparat is a lawyer named William Rogers, an old friend of President Nixon. This is how the existence of this undercover agency was revealed.

When President Nixon went to China, he was seen in the company of a sandy-haired man who rarely left the president's side. Most reporters on the trip assumed he was a secret service man and paid no attention to him. But then the president went to visit Chairman Mao Tse-tung, and the newspaper men discovered that the sandy-haired man did not accompany Mr. Nixon. This knocked out the theory that the mysterious person was a secret service agent.

When questioned about what the DEAR M. The easiest way to find out which seeds will sprout is to try tlicm. The easiest way to try them is to put the seeds between two blotters and keep the blotters moist. (You can peck once in a while.) DEAR DR. MILLER: I'd like lo sprout some of my bird's seed mix.

How do you know which kind of seed will sprout and what's the easiest way to get them to do it? M. D. open decision is up to Dr. Kissin Goren on bridge ger." C. Thosteson, MD George DEAR DR.

MILLER: I have two male, Peruvian guinea pigs. They live in an eight foot by two foot tent. It I were io get two female guinea pigs would the males fight? M. H. DEAR M.

You have enough space for four guinea pigs (as far as actual square feet are concerned') unless problems of passion intervene and it's likely. It might seem reasonable that the four would pair olf and live happily ever after, but in prac-licc it often doesn't work out this way. When two couples live loo close together all sorts of complications can occur and, as indicated, it is entirely possible they wouldn't get to the pairing-off stage anyway. The two males might, indeed, become mortal enemies. DEAR DR.

MILLER: I've beard you can tell how old a dog is by how many teeth he has missing. When this dog, since named Spud, dropped in on us two months ago he had two teeth missing and, of course, still does. How old does that make him? The only other possible hint we have is that he's gray around his muzzle. Does that mean the same thing as it does in humans? Or is it misleading? DEAR R. Gray around the muzzle might be misleading in humans, too.

Generally, in most species, it indicates lile has been savored for a while. Whether Spud's gaposis at Ihc gum line is due lo aging or combat can't be determined from here, of course, but a veterinarian could give you some general idea of his age by inspecting his remaining dental equipment. This determination is made on the condition of the teeth still there, not on the incompleteness of the set. Teeth are not lost at any given age; barring puppy teeth, of course. Some lucky ilogs (and people) manage to carry must nf their own for as long as thev need them.

DEAR DOCTOR: Six months ago urine from the bladder seeps through the navel. At times the navel looks and feels as though 1 burned it. What can be done if anything? MRS. E. B.

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S-As South vulnerable, you hold: AK8S CQJ6S32 CKJ101 The bidding has proceeded: North Fast Sooli West 1 Past 1 Pass 1 A Tass What da you bid now? fLeoit for answers Mwii'j Sometimes a seepage from the navel represents only a local infection and can be cleared up rather easily. But it is true also that in some cases, there is a seepage of urine. That is because, before birth, the umbilical cord is connected, inside the baby's body, to the urinary system. Usually the connection closes off automatically. When it does not.

symptoms like yours develop. Surgery to close off the connection is the answer. sends people to the hospital and it still kills people, and I'd quarrel with the health department if it didn't make mighty sure that the known contacts of a patient with active T.B. were checked thoroughly. DEAR DOCTOR: If a man has a varicocele and wants a vasectomy, what happens? They do vasectomies in doctors'' offices; why not varicocele surgery? A.

R. Because repair of varicocele (large veins in. the scrotum) is not as simple a procedure as vasectomy. Neither is hydrocele (fluid in the scrotum). True, vasectomy is an office procedure, but trying to do it with either of those other conditions becomes more complicated and usually requires hospitalization.

The time in the hospital is brief, however. DEAR DOCTOR: I have a sore navel and, although I wa.sh il daily, there is an awful odor. I was nd (hat You're lucky to have had negative tests so far. if the girl friend was as steady as all that. The T.B.

germ isn't as contagious as, say, the flu or a lot of others, but it is a persistent, kind of germ and continued close 'contact is what spreads the disease. So 1 give the health department credit for being careful, and also give them credit for knowing what they are doing. The T.B. infection, you know, doesn't show up instantly. It takes time.

Now about those X-rays. While, yes, heavy and repeated exposure is to be avoided, with modern equipment the exposure for a chest X-ray is only a tenth of a second or less, and four of them a year less than half a second of exposure is so small as to be for all reasonable purposes entirely harmless. So don't worry about that. But do thank your stars that you have no sign of T.R. as yet.

We've learned a lot about treating T.R, but it still is a plague of major proportions. It still my very steady girl friend was found to have tuberculosis and the city sent her to a hospital. I was given a chest X-ray and a test on my arm to sec if I had gotten T.B. from her. Both tests were negative.

Three months later I had the same two tests again, both negative, and was told I'd have to take the tests every three months for a year even though the tests have been negative. I'm not extra smart, nor extra stupid either. I'm smart enough to know that too many X-rays aren't good for anyone. Arc four X-rays a year necessary to find out jf I got T.B. from my girl friend? I'm not sold on these city health department places.

Seems to mc they just want to keep in practice. I'll abide hv what you sav. N. P. C.

If you're willing to abide by what I My. then abide by what the health department says. Dr. Thosleson welcomes all reader mail, but regrets that, due to the tremendous volume received daily, he is unable to answer individual letters. Headers' questions are incorporated in his column whenever possible..