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62 THE CALGARY HERALD Tues, May 20, 1975 Out Of My Tree Mary Wynne ASHFORD they are beautiful, those little cougars." Helge Nielsen grinned. "You know, they were a gift from the Copenhagen Zoo, last February. That male is so darn big for his age. I wonder if his father was one of those huge males that turns up every so often. You know, there, "and an used to what he wanted most of all was one of those animal dealer, I knew in Copenhagen.

good he big males. But they are very rare. "Well. I wonder if he got one, and it was the cat's father, Maybe he got his wish before he died. I hope so." The zoo foreman was quiet for a moment.

"I've handled some cougars that were so spooky, fall went near the cage, they jumped at the door with four feet sticking out. trying to grab you. Not these cats. That little female, she'll just lie there quiet and listen to you talk." The cats had to be quarantined for 28 days. Their room had a large tree and a sleeping box with a drop door.

After weeks, the male became acutely bored with the weeks, the male became acutely bored with the furnishings, and decided to renovate. Harold Walkden arrived to clean the cage, and found the cat had torn the pulley system from the ceiling; dropping the door and locking all the cats out of their sleeping box. Not only could Harold not get in to clean, but no one could get in to fix the pulley either. Harold got a large hose and cleaned the cage from outside the bars. The cats were furious! If they found the room less than perfect before, the cats certainly didn't find it improved by the addition of cold running water! They went up the tree and roared for the manager, growling complaints from the moment the hose starter, until the last drop of water evaporated and the floor was paw-test dry.

Helge worked out an ingenious plan to fix the pulley. He rigged a metal cage about three feet, high, on a set of wheels, and climbed inside. Helge was a truck driver 20 years ago, and he is built like a semi-trailer, but somehow he scrunched himself in, with his hands free to work through the bars. The keepers, rolled him up to the cougars' cage. What if they the door to push Helge in, and the cougars leaped out? "OK.

You guys open the other two empty cages," Helge ordered. "If the cougars jump out, you jump in lock the doors. They can't get out of the corridor, so I'll get them back in and then let you No one asked how. They opened the door and hurled Helge across the room. The cats were too surprised to notice the open door before it slammed again.

Helge fixed a temporary block, hoping he could trap the cats inside the sleeping box. While Helge got out, the male cat checked out his handiwork. The cat was delighted a new challenge! He pulled and jerked on the rope Helge had left to spring his trap. door banged down with the cats still on the outside. The plan had almost worked, though.

Surely it was worth another try. The second time. McConnell got to ride in the wagon cage, and when ne was finished, the male didn't touch the rope. In fact, all three cats were so suspicious, they refused to go into the box at all. No one could call them slow learners.

Helge had the last word, though, because the quarantine period was over, and finally, the cats could be moved to the main zoo. Their cage, marked 'puma' (one of their aliases), may look empty, because the cats spend most of their time in their back room. If you want to see them, go at 2:30 feeding time. And speak to them in Danish. Birth research dollar desperate By Barbara Crossette York Times, copyright 1975) SAN JUAN, P.R.

Stored in a corner of the University of Puerto Rico's medical sciences centre are case histories in birth control, including the medical records of women who pioneered the use of the pill nearly 20 years ago. Many of these women are now of menopausal age. Some have children and even grandchildren 011 whom the long-range effects of oral contraception can be studied. But money for research is fast running out. "We want to study menopause," said Dr.

Abelardo Fuertes de la Haba, director of the maternal health program. "There is a lot of speculation on how the pill affects those years. It would be a very expensive study. We have the ideas, but 110 money. There is also no money for other important work.

"We want to do more research on the children of these said Dr. Fuertes, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Puerto Rico. "The children we are studying now are about 10 years old. We want to follow them through puberty, into adulthood, to see whether their reproductive patterns are changing." Dr. Fuertes was the first to publish a study on the intelligence of children born to mothers who had taken the pill.

The report, released last year, found no significant differences between those children and others born to mothers using other means of birth control. He has recently published a study on the relation of 50- cio economic factors to the incidence of cancer or a precancerous cytology in oral and Bernadette now with anti- anti-imperialists By Colin Frost BELFAST (AP) Bernadette McAliseky is back in politics with a new set of beliefs. Six ago, as Bernadette Devlin, she became the youngest woman ever to sit in the British Parliament, elected after leading Roman Catholic civil rights marchers to the barricades against the Ulster government. She lost her seat in 1974. Since then she has been reorganizing her political beliefs and raising her threeyear-old daughter, born beher marriage to schoolteacher Michael McAliskey.

Last December she formed the Irish Republican Socialist party with Seamus Costello, who had been expelled from the "Official," Marxist Irish Republican Army. Now Mrs. McAliskey's new party and the Officials are in hot dispute over the future course of troubled Northern Ireland. Mrs. McAliskey said she fears that she might be harmed, but not by the Officials.

PHYSICALLY UNCHANGED Despite these fears, she cheerfully brewed coffee during an interview in the kitchen cottage home at Derryloughan, a sprawling County Tyrone village of the kind the Irish call a townland. Mrs. McAliskey is 26 nOW but physically the same pocket dynamo who emerged from student politics to international headlines. Only her ideas have changed. BERNADETTE McALISKEY active at 26 The blazing row with the Officials is basically a row between Stalinism and Trotskyism, she said.

Her Irish Republican Socialist party is on the Trotskyite side. This is the first time she has identified herself with one political group. Previously she was a political free-lance, speaking on the political platforms of both the leftist Official and the nationalist Provisional versions of the IRA. She ran for Parliament as an independent. She said she supports the "anti-imperialist" struggle of the Provisionals against the British Army--a struggle in abeyance since the Feb.

10 ceasefire. But the Provos, she insisted, are devoid of ideas as to what to do once the British leave Northern Ireland. The Officials she accused of abandoning all struggle. They have observed a ceasefire since May, 1972, believing that armed anti-British action is counterproductive. Her analysis is that 800 years of Ireland's national struggle have ended in failure and that something therefore must be wrong in nationalist thinking.

Nor 'is the more recent struggle for socialism any nearer success. Therefore, she argues, the answer is to combine nationalist fervor with a fight for leftism. "The Republican tradition has always embraced different philosophies and thus different tactics," she said. "As a result, it has always split and it always will split until we get our organization and principles clear from the outset, combining the anti-imperialist and socialist struggles from the start." REJECTS MARX Four years ago she was calling herself a Marxist while admitting she had never read Marx. The deficiency has been remedied with surprising results.

"Karl Marx as an individual was a bad I can't stand self -styled Marxists who think they have to accept not just his ideas but imitate his arrogance and lack of patience. "Marx is not God. Intellectuals who preach his theses Feminists, churches join in fair employment ent fight By Judy Klemesrud York Times, copyright NEW YORK Women wanting to improve their status and increase their numbers within a corporation have used a variety of methods over the years. The latest method, which is growing rapidly in popularity, is the shareholder proposal, and its advocates regard it as the most "sophisticated" device of all a method that challenges the power structure right in its executive suite, so to speak. The method was begun in earnest last year as far as equal employment of women is concerned and its advocates already list among their "victories" the appointment of women to the boards to directors of several major corporations, including Gulf Oil and Celanese; and an agreement by Sears, Roebuck and Co.

to make public the company's, equal Chicago opportunity area. In addition, almost two dozen major corporations have agreed to disclose cart a in employment statistics about their female and minority group employees after shareholder proposals to that effect were submitted. These shareholder proposals for equal employment, submitted at the annual meetings of corporations, generally call for such things as on the board of direcwomen. disclosure of employment statistics according to race and sex; or a summary and status of all sex discrimination complaints filed with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other agencies in recent years. of Spearheading this movement are two groups that have joined forces to produce what some observers have called a strange coalition" -feminists and church groups, allied through their commitment to fari employment opportunities for women.

Most of the feminists belong to the National Organization for Women. Most of the church groups are co-ordinated by the Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility, Breast cancer test developed TORONTO (CP) A United States medical researcher says a test has been devised to determine whether a woman with breast cancer may be aided by hormone treatments. Dr. Marc Lippman of the U.S. National Institute of Health in Bethesda, said in an interview that while the new test is not yet available in many centres, it is performed in Toronto.

He told a meeting at Women's College Hospital that about half of all cer patients have tumors that may be affected by increasing or decreasing hormones in the body. The researcher said tumors affected by hormones have retained proteins, or "receptors" in tissue cells. A study of 1,500 patients revealed that women with tumors lacking receptors for the hormone estrogen rarely were helped by hormone manipulation. which represents 20 Protestant denominations and Roman Catholic religious orders. The centre is affiliated with the National Council of Churches.

Most of these activists really don't expect their resolutions, which are almost always opposed by management, to receive a majority vote. But they see a major advantage in high visibility for an issue that might not otherwise be put before the company's shareholders and the general public. is an inexpensive method, and does not involve legal fees and long hours 1: court filing affidavits. They believe that a shareholder proposal, even if it is badly beaten, creates pressure on management to do what the proposal seeks. Privately, many corporation executives regard shareholder resolutions as a nuisance especially in view of their potential to disrupt the annual meeting, and the fact that employment studies and reports can be very costly.

But publicly, the executives tend to temper their feelings. Any person may submit a proposal to be voted on at the annual meeting to any corporation in which he or she owns stock. However, there are a cumber of stringent rules relating to the content and form of the proposal, the deadline, and how much of the vote cast at the annual meeting it must receive in order to be resubmitted. The drawn-out process is probably the major complaint among the advocates of the shareholder proposal method. "PLEASE LISTEN TO ME, SO I MAY HEAR!" Do YOU have a hearing loss? Do YOU know someone with a hearing problem? Are YOU interested in the problem? DID YOU KNOW 17 6 percent of our local school population have a hearing loss? 95 percent of hearing losses are detected by relatives? It is important that you are aware of things to look for, what to do and where to go for help.

THE SOCIETY FOR HEARING HANDICAPPED PRESENTS "A PUBLIC "TIME TO HEAR" Date Wednesday, May 21 Place The Theatre, 2nd Floor, Time 7:30 p.m. Central Library Building, 616 Macleod Trail S.E. The Speakers Will Be: "SPEECH THEIR ROLE WITH THE HEARING IMPAIRED" C. Dunsmore, M.A., C.C.C. Director, Speech and Hearing, Alberta Children's Hospital.

"AN EDUCATIONAL OVER- VIEW" H. Finnestad, B.A., M.S.Ed. Educational Consultant, Hearing Impaired, Alberta Department of Education. "PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF A HEARING LOSS" O. C.

Gironelia, Ph.D. Psychological Consultant, Alberta School for the Deaf. "GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL" A. J. Jeal Social Worker, Alberta Department of Health and Welfare.

"HEARING AIDS WHAT TO EXPECT AND WHAT NOT TO EXPECT" S. A. Holberton Vice- President, Alberta Hearing Aid Dealers' Association. "THE AUDIOLOGIST DIAGNOSIS AND FOLLOWR. Van Wagoner, M.S.

Audiologist, Foothills Hospital. The speakers will address themselves to the role their particular profession plays with the hearing handicapped. The program will be concerned with ALL age groups and will cover ALL degrees of hearing loss from mild to profound. The Only request is that you become more informed. The hearing impaired need not your sympathy, but rather your interest and understanding.

MAY IS BETTER HEARING MONTH have never tried them out on the ground or at the factory gate. The task is to relate his analysis to what's happening now. Flexibility is her new watchword. "I started out from a liberal position, demonstrating and agitating for reform. "But I discovered the system was incapable of reform.

I had to look elsewhere, to read and learn. I may change again. People who never change their politics are either fools or some kind of robot." I am not an atheist. But the church propagates a lot of nonsense. like the sacred nature of property, in its acquiescence to law and order, it's opposition to the struggle of the present NUMBERS UNIMPORTANT Some estimates have put the strength of Mrs.

McAliskey's new party at around 700. She said 300 would be nearer the mark but that she's not worried by numbers. Discipline and political awareness were more importhan size. tans, looked back six years Engagements Mr. and Mrs.

Conrad Meyer are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Sandra Rosemarie to Ronald Paul Lightburn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lightburn of Vancouver. The wedding will take place at Heritage Park, June 9th, 1975, at 3:30 P.M. Mr.

and Mrs. J. R. Clachrie wish to announce the marriage of their daughter, Joanne Heather to Mr. Kenneth Borchert, son of Mr.

and Mrs. D.H. Borchert. Wedding to take place at First Baptist Church, Calgary, May 31st, 1975, at P.M. Mr.

and Mrs. D. Pauli with to announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Marlieke to Mr. Harry Heinpalu. son of Mr.

and Mrs. E. Heinpalu. The wedding will take place on July 5th, 1975, in St. Andrew's United Church at 1:00 p.m.

Mr. and Mrs J. J. Beeger wish to announce with pleasure the forthcoming marriage of their only daughter, Jolanda Monica Beeger to Mr. Roger Douglas Candy on May 24th, at Sacred Heart Church, Calgary.

Minimum charge for announce. ments $3.72 for six lines and 68 certs for each additional line. Five words count one line. Copy should be in our -office by 4 p.m. at least two days before publication date and remittance covers Engage.

ments, Weddings and Anniversaries. to the idealism of the civil rights movement and its fight against injustices against Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. With more than 1.150 dead, has it been worth it? "Yes," she said. "Some people accused the civil rights movement of moving too fast. Some said it went too slow.

"But the side effects, the shootings and bombings, been the same whichever way we played it. "The idealism is still there, too. People talk about YAMAHA MUSIC LESSONS 262-2134 war-weariness. But that's a concept I don't believe in. Some will go on fighting." Her instructions for returning by car to Belfast had an Irish flavor: "Get back to the bottom of the road and there's a signpost for Portadown.

That's the road to Belfast. The signpost points the wrong way." THE PIT LC The Adult Leighton Day Announces Centre Classes for Arts and Crafts for painting, weaving, pottery and batik Two weeks $1.00 per course commencing May 26 Childrens summer courses beginning July 14 For more information, call 271-9544 or 271-9671 271-1276 Box 38 Midnapore Would you Believe that the two genies polished their beautiful lamp and lo there was Aladdin? That's a switch, isn't it, but this is women's year! Let's go and meet him. L'AMPLAND LIMITED For The Finest In Home Lighting 124 16th N. E. CALGARY Phone 277-1941 BLACKIACK DEALERS REQUIRED FOR 1975 CALGARY STAMPEDE FRONTIER CASINO JULY 3 12 Training sessions commence May 5th 7:00 P.M.

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It costs $150,000 a year to run the maternal health program with half of this paid for by a grant from the Puerto Rican Senate. But even if the program could break even, which it is not doing, it would still be short by $10,000 of the $250,000 annual budget Dr. Fuertes feels is needed to carry out research. The program had to cut its staff back last year from 21 to 12 and this year it has been reduced to 8. Two of the program's three clinics had to suspend service last July.

At Rio Piedras, where the last clinic carries on, Dr. Fuertes has had to take on all the medical work himself. That, in addition to his teaching duties, leaves him little time for research. Early tests of the pill in Puerto Rico as elsewhere were aimed at its effectiveness. But once scientists were convinced that it worked, research moved into the area of side effects.

In Puerto Rico, these studies led to the establishment of the maternal health program in 1960. Dr. Fuertes, interviewed in his office at Rio Piedra explained how the selection process has worked since control groups were introduced in the early sixties. "We went to postpartum clinics and gave talks to patients. We told them of the service, but explained that would have to take the doctor's orders on what kind of contraceptive they would be using.

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