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THE CALGARY HERALD Friday, May 21, 1971 25 Johnny Hopkins PEOPLE i os in Refuse 4 cials who make sure that the proper landfill practices are carried out. I'm not complaining. It's just that I'd like people who complain about landfill to see how clean and inoffensive an operation it can be. For one thing, our landfill begins about 50 feet below the surface and a giant Caterpillar covers each layer of garbage with a layer of earth. I don't suppose that any garbage lies uncovered for more than a few hours, really." For some years now, the company has assisted with the city's spring clean-up by spotting containers for any community association that requests them and making no charge for the service.

Many community associations have taken advantage of the opportunity to dispose of tons of litter in this fashion. And as a result of recent negotiations, Hall's refuse warriors now will be charged with keeping the Stampede grounds clean. "Considering they have horses down there," laughs Hall, "you might say that a whole new olfactory world has opened up for us." TODAY'S BOUQUETS (suggested) to anyone who still uses a nib pen. (Maybe that's another breed that has become extinct) TODAY'S BRICKBATS to motorists who dawdle on express ways built for the purpose of moving traffic quickly. truck to about $40,000) as do mapy of the buildings the trucks service.

At Mount Royal House, for example, all refuse drops into a stationary packer which reduces the bulk by about 400 per cent. The compaction equipment on the trucks is needed because most of the time, as on construction sites, they are dealing with bulk garbage. By compacting, the trucks can carry something resembling payloads. Even more efficient equipment is on the way and the first one in Calgary will go into The Bay warehouse. It's called the Rabco Shredder-Compacter and its compaction powers are in the 15 to 1 area.

This incredible, $6,000 unit shreds everything (everything) and this means more efficient landfill-ing. AS FOR LANDFILL, a matter that can cause tempers to flare, Hall agrees that it might not be the perfect solution. Yet, as he points out, it's preferably to burning from the pollution standpoint and, at the moment, there is no And Hall will defend to the death the argument that sanitary landfill, at least as practised in these parts, is truly sanitary. "We control some land for our own use because we work on a 24-hour basis and the city landfill sites are open only during the day. We almost live with health and government offi- field in which they wage the endless, and increasingly-difficult, war on garbage.

They empty, so to speak, such buildings, as the Husky Tower, International Inn, Mount Royal House and Place Concorde. And their containers (the key to the whole operation) are seen spotted at just about" every construction site in the city. And many schools. HALL HAS BEEN in the business only a few years (after a lengthy and successful run at insurance) but he need look no further, than his files to see that the garbage problem is growing inexorably. "The reason," he says, "is very simple.

It's the disposables. Everything is disposable, it seems. Look at what you come home with from the supermarket bags inside bags inside- plus the packages, the wrapping paper, the cans and the bottles. The hospitals, for example, are moving as quickly and as realistically as they can to a complete disposable concept even to the eating utensils." The bulk, probably 80 per cent, of garbage is paper, so the sheer volume could become overwhelming. So far it hasn't, simply because someone invented (and the world can its lucky stars) the hydraulic system.

AH of Hall's radio-dispatched trucks have hydraulically operated compaction equipment (which brings the cost per DURING THE time he grew up in Calgary and, for that matter, until only a very few years ago, Don Hall had no idea that he would become one of the. city's leading authorities on garbage. Luckily, he has also become one of the city's leading authorities on garbage disposal. He's general manager of Dispose-All Services (Calgary) Kleen-Pak Giant-Haul and Hercules Equipment Handling Co. Ltd.

(operating in Edmonton and Lethbrid-ge as well) and the compacted-containerized method of garbage disposal lifts a load from civic sanitation departments that they just might not be able to shoulder. President (of all the above-named companies) Sid Shaw pioneered the containerized-concept here and the practice later was adopted by the city. Very simply, huge metal containers (thousands of them) are spotted about the city and Dispose-All, Kleen-Pak and Giant-Haul trucks (about 15 in Calgary) empty them regularly and take the refuse to one of four city landfill sites or the company landfill site near Midnapore. (Hercules Equipment is a company set to handle compacting and shredding machinery designed to make garbage disposal more efficient.) Hall's employees and equipment aren't geared to the residential garbage problem. It's the commercial Bill Cosby's exit from television will be short-lived he signed Wednesday with CBS for a one-hour comedy series beginning in September, 1972.

Cosby, who quit his NBC situation comedy series to return to college, is the first major figure to sign with CBS for the 1972-73 season. The network said Cosby would continue his studies toward his doctoral degree in education at the University of Massachusetts. The show will be produced in New York. Louis Bunda of Toronto removed the two rented privies from his front lawn Thursday after the Borough of York agreed to install a new sewer system on the street. Mr.

Bunda put the portable toilets in front of his $50,000 home Tuesday after he found that the sewer line in front of his house was higher than the house's sewage outlet. The Bundas moved into their home at the end of October and discovered about three months later that sewage had been emptying into the ravine and park behind their home. The house apparently had a septic tank when it was built, but the tank had been removed to make room for a backyard swimming pool. Mr. Bunda wanted to install a new septic tank but the wanted the house connected to the sewer American actress Viva, who breast-fed her baby in the restaurant of an exclusive London hotel, said she was told to leave the hotel Thursday because the management objected to the clothes she wore.

The 29 year old actress, who has appeared in several of Andy or hoi's underground films, sat on the steps of Durrants Hotel in London's posh Mayfair district and talked to reporters. Police were called after a heated xchange between publisher Anthony Blond, hotel manager Richard Miller and the actress's French husband, Michael Auder. Viva told reporters: "I breast-fed my baby in the restaurant two days ago and when I was asked to stop, I did. I was told that I would have to leave because the management didn't like the clothes I wore." Viva, who sat cradling her three-months-old baby, Alexandra, was wearing an Indian-style black shirt and velvet trousers. SPACE MAN? Clothed in goggles, helmet, ear protectors, gloves, fatigues and life preserver, this American seaman stands ready to park aircraft aboard the carrier USS Ranger.

The sailor holds a wheel chock used to hold plane in place. The Ranger is on station in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam. (AP Wirephoto) Jack Smith My visit to toyland mm ft Judge Jean-Paul Bergeron of Quebec Superior Court has ruled that Pierre i former associate defence minister in the Diefenbaker cabinet, must be responsible for his debts until Nov. 14. Mr.

Sevigny, currently a candidate for the leadership of the Union Nationale party, filed a bankruptcy petition in Montreal Oct. 13, 1970. He listed $191,188 in debts and assets of $200. He gave his occupation as "administrative and financial promotion consultant." Official receiver Paul Rain-ville said in a report that "the actions and judgments against Mr. Sevigny, following his financial disappointments, have gravely impaired his health." Mr.

Justice Bergeron ruled, however, that Mr. Sevigny will eventually be freed of his debts under Article 135 of the Bankruptcy Act. The third chess game between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union, a quarter-final elimination round to determine a challenger for the world chess championship, was adjourned Thursday in Vancouver. It was scheduled to be continued today, along with the second game adjourned Wednesday in the 73rd move. At Thursday's adjournment, on the 42nd move, Taimanov was in a hopeless position.

His king was in check by Fischer's queen, which simultaneously was attacking a bishop. Taimanov seemed certain to lose more material and suffer his second loss of the match against no victories. Despite losing the opening game as white to Fischer's king Indian defence, Taimanov ventured into an almost identical variation Thursday night. in the basement of a church. They'd just used it as a piano.

They wanted 100 dollars." Kastner has now opened, his collection free to the public as the Heritage Museum. He has spread his search out over the nation, looking for the machines that Americans invented to bring music to their raw land. He sells only what he has more than one of. "A man phoned me from Hawaii and asked about a Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon's are the hardest things to find.

I said, 'Hold the phone," and played it for him over the phone. He said, 'I'll take and sent me a check for $5,000." "What did he want it for?" I asked. "Why, he wanted it for himself." It made sense. I wouldn't mind having a machine with 15 trumpets, three trombones, six clarinets, 15 piccolos, a snare drum and a bass drum that could play Tales of the Vienna Woods, and you could feel the wind coming out. cranked it up.

A tenor voice, tinny and tremulous, announced that we would now hear The Chimes Of Nor-mandie. And so we did; blaring out of the past, its brass untarnished. "This is what got me started," Kastner said, looking with affection at a Mills Violano Virtuoso, inside which we could see the violin itself and watch as the mechanical arm drew the bow across its strings. It played Listen To The Mockingbird the way my mother used to sing it, including the vibrato. We went down to the basement in the old auto It was just the right size for a Maxwell.

In the basement you can still see the turntable they used to turn the cars around. It looked like Santa's workshop down there. Kastner buys things in any kind of condition. If parts are missing they can be made. "Here's an old Nickelodeon." It appeared to be a piano with a stained glass window.

"I found it in Wisconsin whole machine burst into something loud and exuberant in three-four time. It made me want to skate. "You can feel the air," Kastner said, holding a palm in front of a horn. I tried it. The air blew out in bursts, as if John Philip Sousa himself were inside the thing, puffing his stout old heart out.

A more solemn sound issued from an 1875 Roller organ, a portable ma-chine, hand-cranked, which plays sound from a cylinder called a "cob," because it looks like one. Kastner cranked. Out came a hymn, I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, or something equally exultant. The sound was amazingly full and vibrant. "They took these across the country in covered wagons," he said.

I could imagine the pioneer woman holding her infant in one arm and cranking out some triumphant Protestant hymn as the wagons formed a circle to meet the heathen onslaught. I put my ear to the gleaming brass horn of an early Edison. Kastner LOS ANGELES Sydney Kastner runs an office furniture and decorating company, United Business Interiors, in the old Maxwell dealer's headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. That's his front, anyway. More and more of the space in the old three-storey red brick building is taken up with Kastner's hobby, his collection of old American music Three or four big rooms at the back are full of antique music makers from one of Tom Edison's gramophones with a Morning Glory speaker to a 1928 Wurlitzer skating rink organ with 15 trumpets, three trombones, 15 piccolos, half a dozen clarinets and two drums.

"I'd like to hear that," I said to Kastner the other day as we wandered through his toyland. The horns pointed straight out of the machine, polished like brass spittoons. He went around to one side. "Are you ready?" He turned it on. There was a fanfare of trumpets.

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O. what's kept the air lines in business the past five years. It was great for Leg Men. Unfortunately, the majority of Air Canada stewardesses (all of them on this flight) have converted to pant-suits. And asking them for a pillow now provides about as much sightseeing as a centrefold of Robert Stanfield.

It's more than coincidence that air line profits, and hemlines, have both dropped in recent months. A passenger can put up with his ears popping, providing this eyes do the same. Ordinarily, I consider the Toronto-to-Winnipeg trip a five-pillow flight. And the time passes very quickly. However, on this jaunt, I cancelled my pillow order after the first.

Cuffs just don't turn me on. If Air Canada is smart, it will ban the pantsuit immediately. Otherwise, passengers are going to notice the food for want of anything better to do. I even realized for the first time that Air Canada doesn't have in-flight movies on domestic runs. That never happened under the old pillow-service system.

jet for the elegant cuisine or to get some place fast. Even the barf bags hold little charm for travellers like myself. But there was nothing to compare with the luxury of settling into your seat and asking the stewardess for a pillow. Air line pillows, of course, are a skimpy zero; in fact, they make a decent rest almost impossible. However, they're kept on a shelf above the seats and the only way a stewardess can fetch them is by stretching.

That stretch, plus the mini-skirt, is has gone too far. I didn't mind when they upped the price of booze. (I don't drink.) I didn't complain when they cut out complimentary gum (I don't chew.) And I didn't say a word when they asked passengers to share magazines (I don't read.) But I'll be damned if I'll let them ruin the pillow service without a protest. For years the best part of travel by 1 air has been the pillow service. Heaven knows you don't travel by Goren on bridge George C.

Thosteson, AAD To your good health DEAR DR. MILLER: The other night, for the first time, we turned off our electric blanket. Buster our cat, aged 15, (weight 15) was very put out about this, for he really enjoys that electric banket. -The question: with warm weather coming on, how are we going to handle the situation? We don't want to roast, yet with advancing years, Buster seems to require more heat. F.

S. DEAR F.S.: Will Buster settle for a hot water bottle? That way you wouldn't have to heat the whole bed, just his area. Of course it might involve getting up once during the night to change it, possibly a slight inconvenience. Another alternative; a heating pad judiciously placed could again confine the heat to a comparatively small area. For other readers contemplating accessory heat for their animals, be very sure your cat or dog is not prone to claw or chew, particularly if the heat is electric.

The shock from electric wiring that has been exposed by fang or claw can prove fatal. DEAR DR. MILLER: My son is keeping two very unsavory pets, one a black widow and the other a brown recluse spider. He has them separate of course. If he puts them together, will they be prejudiced and fight each other? We all suspect so.

If they did, who would win? By the way, the brown recluse almost bit our dog the other night. If he had, would it have killed him, or what should we have done for him? L. O. DEAR L. Chances are the black and the brown would have trouble integrating, except in the sense that a worm integrates with a robin.

In a battle of more than words, and undoubtedly it would be, I'd estimate the black widow would come out on top. About your dog. The bite of the brown recluse is at its least exceedingly painful and would cause severe tissue destruction in the bite area. However, treating the bite area, and the rest of the dog, -with injections of cortisone soon after the bite would greatly reduce its consequences. But if untreated in time, the bite of the brown recluse can actually prove fa There is such a thine as "reeanaliz- tion," meaning that nature recreates a passageway, so what you suggest is possible.

As the operation is done these days, a sufficient gap is made, and the ends of the duct are tied off, so the prospects of recanalization are mighty slim indeed, however. When I wrote that the operation should be "regarded as permanent," I meant that people shouldn't have this surgery with the expectation that they can have it "undone" later. At times this can be done, but since in so many instances the duct cannot be reconstructed, nobody should have the surgery unless he is thoroughly willing to accept it as permanent. West opened the jack of diamonds against four spades and South won the trick in his hand with the queen. The ten of spades was led at trick two on which West discarded a small heart.

The three of spades was played from dummy and East was in with the queen. East wanted to get a diamond ruff. It appeared that West held the ace of hearts as an essential ingredient to warrant his takeout double. A diamond ruff along with two natural trump tricks and the ace of hearts would sink the contract. In his eagerness to obtain the ruff, East shifted to the seven of hearts.

West put up the ace, however, he had no way of determining that East was void in diamonds. It appeared more likely, in fact, that if East were void it was apt to be in hearts where only two outstanding cards were missing. West accordingly continued with a small heart. South was in again and after dislodging the ace of spades, he could not be prevented from regaining the lead and drawing the last trump to fulfill his contact. East should have returned a club when he was in at trick two, despite dummy's void.

When he regains the lead with the ace of spades, he still has time to make the heart shift. It should now become, clear to West that his partner does not have a singleton heart or else he would have led that suit earlier. West, accordingly, has no other play but to lead another diamond which East can ruff with the six of spades for the setting trick. Neither vulnerable. South deals.

NORTH 4.KJJ4J VKQIS 0MJ Void WEST EAST A Void AQI VAJ1MJ 7 A 10 6 4 1 8 7 5 3 1 SOUTH 4 10 1 1 7 2 oakqs: Th bidding: Sooth West North Eait 1 Dble. 4 Dble. Pan Pais Opening lead: Jack of In his eagerness to obtain a ruff against South's four spade contract, East inadvertently created a false picture of the distribution in his partner's mind and the result was fatal to the defence. West made a takeout double after South's one spade opening. Although North held the values to redouble, he chose to leap to four spades as a strategic measure to jam up the opponents' communications.

East doubled and there is some question as to whether West should have bailed out inasmuch as his values are highly He could either bid four no trump requesting partner to pick a suit, or he could try five clubs himself as the beginning of a rescue operation. If a spade is opened against five clubs and West guesses the trump situation, he can take 11 tricks by stripping out the hand and end-playing North in hearts. can be pain elsewhere sometimes. In that event, medications to relieve the pain are very helpful. DEAR DOCTOR: Our supermarket puts bent and battered canned goods in a special bin at a fraction of the cost.

Is there danger of food poisoning from such goods? If so, I would think stores would be prohibited from selling them. If not, I would think the demand would be greater than it is. R. V. A.

No danger provided the cans are not perforated or leaky. Apparently it's a matter of aesthetics; lots of folks don't like the battered cans even though -that doesn't indicate anything wrong with the contents. So stores cut prices to get rid of them. NOTE TO "FOOLISH IN B.C.": Having had a hysterectomy and removal of one ovary does not prevent you from contracting venereal disease. A blood test will tell whether you have syphilis; a culture whether gonorrhoea.

Penicillin treatment is required for either. DEAR DOCTOR: You said a vasectomy operation is regarded as permanent. Would it be possible for this tube or duct to grow back again in a few years? In other words, would it be possible to have this operation, then 10 years later father a child? R. L. DEAR DOCTOR: Please tell me what osteoporosis is, and if there are any injections or vitamins that would help.

Is there any cure for it? MRS. R. H. L. We think of our bones as being fixed and permanent, but that isn't the way it is.

Our flesh and our blood are constantly being replaced, a cell at a time. The same is true of our bones. The shape of the bones is preserved by a matrix, or sort of pattern, with the strength and density of the bones provided by large amounts of calcium. The same particles of calcium don't stay there indefinitely. The body is constantly taking some away and replacing them with others.

Unfortunately as the body ages, the balance of removal and replacement sometimes gets out of kilter. Calcium is withdrawn more rapidly than it is replaced. The result is a "thinning" of the bones, a gradual loss of density, and hence of strength. This loss of density is apparent in X-rays. In time, more apparent consequences can occur weight-bearing bones (the legs, for i-n stance) may become somewhat bowed.

If the spine is affected, there can be pain and stooping. If the hip bones are thinned, there is more risk of a fracture. Keep in mind, however, that in other individuals there may be osteoporosis, but not to a degree that causes any real trouble. The exact process of osteoporosis has been studied in depth, and' it is still being studied because, frankly, we haven't yet learned enough about it. I can't in good conscience say that there is a "cure" for osteoporosis, but at the same time I won't say that nothing can be done for it, because usually: something can.

It occurs in both sexes, but is more often noticeable in women who have passed menopause, suggesting that the change in hormone level in the body probably has a good deal to do' with the situation. Therefore treatment with hormones, plus attention to a good diet plenty of protein, and of calcium, especially from milk and milk products is called for. Recently sodium fluoride has been found to increase density in osteoporosis. Since bones (as well as other tissues) thrive best by being used, the patient with osteoporosis is urged to remain as active as possible. Naturally if there is any appreciable brittle-ness of the bones, as occurs with osteoporosis, the patient is warned not to be foolhardy about things.

Stay active but guard against falling. Osteoporosis doesn't come on quickly; it isn't going to yield to treatment in a hurry, either, so don't expect it to. When the spine is involved, the pain generally is the most severe, but there Arthritis sufferers can be helped. Dr. Thosteson's booklet discusses many types of arthritis and related joint diseases as well as outlining ffective treatments and medications.

For a copy of How You Can Control rthritis write to Dr. Thosteson in care of The Heraid enclosing 35 cents a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope. Dr. Thosteson welcomes all reader mail, but regrets that, due to the tremendous volume received daily, he is unable to answer individual letters. Readers' questions are incorporated in his column whenever possible..