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The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 28

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names im 1 28 THE VANCOUVER SUN: JUNE 10. 1977 Number of local TV stations secret, 99 Maxwell's got a bride i expected to triple by 200 She suffered head and neck injuries and cuts, but was reported in hospital in good condition. Police later nabbed the youths. Actor Don Adams' wedding announcement may have gone like this: Dear 99: I couldn't mix our professional careers with our personal lives, so have decided on Michelle Judy Luciano, a 26-year-old actress from Montana. Love, Max.

Adams, who plays bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart on the television series, Get Smart, tied the knot with Luciano in a Los Angeles ceremony. In the TV series, he's married to Agent 99, played by actress Barbara Feldon. The real-life bride wore a pear-encrusted wedding dress modelled after an 18th-century gown worn in the movie, The Prisoner of Zenda. It was her first marriage and the third for Adams, who can be seen these days in advertising commercials for Japanese cars. U.S.

President Jimmy Carter's roots may be traced back to a long line of smugglers. His son, Chip, went looking for his ancestors in Christchurch, England, and was told by a local historian that research had turned up 14 possible ancestors dating back to 1578. "Some of these Carters are recorded as merchants, shopkeepers, fishermen and smugglers," said historian Allen White. President Carter has been sent a genealogical chart showing he was a direct descendant of Christchurch merchant John Carter's son, Thomas, who sailed to Virginia in 1635 and landed in Isle of Wight county, on the James River. White said tracing the president's lineage is difficult because John Carter was a common name at the time.

Sun Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA The number of Vancouver-based television channels will nearly triple by the year 2001, says the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. The government agency predicts the number of stations in Vancouver will jump to 11. There now are four. Two of the seven new stations would broeadcast in French. The CRTC bases the channel growth on projections that the population of Greater Vancouver will exceed 2.2 million by 2001.

Only Montreal, which will need nine additional channels because of the need to duplicate broadcasting for English and French, will require more new stations. The projections say Toronto needs five, Ottawa-Hull, five, and Calgary four. At the moment Vancouver has English and French CBC stations and two private English outlets. According to the study, Vancouver's seven new channels will consist of English and French educational channels, a commercial French station, three new commercial English outlets and an ethnic station that would be multilingual. While the number of Vancouver residents whose mother tongue is French is expected nearly to double to about 38,000 by 2001, the ratio is expected to remain unchanged at 1.7 per cent.

The number of people whose mother tongue is neither English or French is also expected to double but remain constant at 16.8 per cent. The population of Victoria is expected to rise somewhat more slowly than Vancouver and reach about 371,000, up from the current 216,000. The CRTC sees Victoria, which now has two stations of its own, requiring four new channels a French CBC outlet, an English educational channel and two new commercial English stations. Kelowna is expected to need five channels -one in French and Nanaimo four, also with one in French. The CRTC bases the projected high-growth need for additional television stations on various factors, including: The population of Canada will grow by 42 per cent and B.C.

will expand even more rapidly. More leisure time is being made available to Canadians who will want to watch more television. Canada will need more French-language stations to meet the government's policy of bilingualism. GERALDINE CHAPLIN shopping for her son Comedian George Kirby will not play at the Calgary Stampede July 8 to 17. Kirby, 52, arraigned recently on drug charges in Las Vegas, had been signed as a headliner act for the grandstand show.

A replacement is being sought. Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed left the Soviet Union today, following a "very successful" 10-day visit in which he toured major oil fields and agricultural regions. Lougheed flew to Athens for a rest before embarking on the Middle East leg of his tour, which will take him to Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel. PADDY'S PATTER Al Bowen by If you like friendly service there's no place tike the past. The "mountain" came to actress Elizabeth Taylor in New York.

She was awarded a gold replica of the Ten Commandments, mounted in amethyst, by the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League women's division for her "identification with all peoples and their struggles." "I care about people," said Taylor, in accepting the Rita V. Tishman human relations award at a star-studded luncheon. "When you do care, you do something about it. That's what makes life worth living." Also in New York, Geraldine Chaplin, daughter of silent-film star Charlie Chaplin, bought a flock of fluffy animals for her two-year-old son, Shane, at a toy store. In Los Angeles, Charles Manson disciple Leslie Van Houten testified at her second murder trial that LSD moved her further out of society's bounds.

Van Houten, 27, a former school homecoming queen, said she and other Manson followers took LSD about once a week to gain insights into music and the Bible. "I found the more I took acid, the more removed I became of society," she told the consented to a divorce. Neither Harrison nor his wife, Patti Boyd appeared in a London court when Judge Albert Holdsworth ruled the marriage had broken down irretrievably because the couple had lived apart for at least two years, Harrison and the former model married in January, 1966. They now live in separate London suburbs. A beautiful little Colleen from East Vancouver stood right out and won the shirt contest Tuesday night, narrowly edging out runners up Panleen and Marlena.

The shirt contest was almost upstaged when some fellow in the audience took one of the boys in the band up on a bet, and caught him with his drawers jury. "It's like once you take it, you never know where you're going to end up the day in your mind." Van Houten is being retried for the deaths of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Meanwhile, Wendy Yoshimura is having trouble raising $25,000 to stay free on bail pending her appeal on an explosives conviction. The former underground travelling companion of Patricia Hearst has until June 23 to come up with the cash. Yoshimura, 34, was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison after a cache of arms and explosives were discovered in Berkeley.

Former Beatle George Harrison has University of B.C. professor Harry Warren was honored in London for his outstanding contribution to the game of field hockey. Warren, on a lecture tour, is one of Canada's most-honored geologists and once a running mate of world. champion sprinter, Percy Williams. Warren was presented the Award of Merit from the International Hockey Federation by Robert Strachan, B.C.'s agent-general in London.

down. The wife of actor Dennis Weaver, who often takes part in police chases as star of the McCloud television series, was injured in a police chase in North Hollywood. Mae Weaver was caught in the middle of a high-speed chase when her car was hit by a vehicle carrying two youths fleeing from police following an alleged traffic violation. To top it all off a groovy older couple visiting from Cardiac Canyon showed up all comers in the Polka contest including Scott Phemister who was going around offering pretty girls candy if they would dance with him. This in not unusual for Scott, he owns Fat Phege's Tiny Tim quietly tiptoed his way from Hawaii to Florida Fudge Factory in Blood Alley! Enough is not enough, shirt contests, Jock contests, Beauty Pageants, and dance contests.

Why not have a Contest Contest? See who can come up with the best idea for a contest at Paddy'a Cabaret, 315 Carrall Street, Gas town. lice had been searching for him, he said: "Oh, my Lord. I don't know how these things happen. This is terrible. It's nice that everyone is eonerned." had to leave quick," Tiny Tim told The Orlando Sentinel.

"I couldn't take all my stuff with me, so I packed everything in one shopping bag and got out." When told Honolulu po ding of Valerie Mosley, a business acquaintance. Tiny Tim says it was merely a discreet exit. "They (his hosts) w-ere on their honeymoon and I ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -Tiny Tim admits he did "tiptoe out of Honolulu fast" but says he wasn't missing just trying to allow privacy for some honeymooners. and preparing for a night club appearance in nearby Sanford.

Last weekend in Honolulu, friends reported him missing when he vanished after attending the wed The singer, known for his falsetto rendition of Tiptoe Through The Tulips, apparently was relaxing in Orlando today. He was reported to be studying a movie script Humphrey's Resfaurant. Atop Denman Place Inn. 1 733 Comox Street, Vancouver. Phone 688-771 1 Our parking off Comox or Nelson Just Open.

tlcKenzie PORTER logical resemblances of relatives and races indicate the run of broad streams of similar types and so give promise of selection and manipulation for the improvement of man's health and the limitation of his numbers. Although arguments about the relative genetic merits of the major races are painful their genetic differences are indisputable. The differences are most apparent in the genetically determined common blood types AB, and O. These blood types occur in different frequencies in Africans, Caucasians and Mongols. Herein, said Bodmer.

"lies the only valid approach to the definition of races." Other, less common genetically determined blood types include Rhesus negative which occurs most frequently in Caucasians and is responsible for haemolytic disease of the new born. The genetic uniqueness of individuals is underlined when a hospital patient "rejects" organs transplanted from donors. Only appropriate medical treatment enables recipients to overcome their genetic objections to the graft. In recent genetic experiments scientists have inciden-taUy discovered phenomena of immense value to medicine. Blumberg, one of last year's Nobel prize winners, found, during his search for genetic variations in Australian aborigines, an antigen that led to a cure for the liver disease hepatitis.

Another 1976 Nobel prize winner, Gajdu-sek, in his study of a congenital neurological disorder of the Kuru tribe in New Guinea, isolated slow virus infections that may be the cause of multiple sclerosis and senile dementia. Today geneticists and other medical scientists are harrowed by the thought that in finding cures for disease they have brought about the population explosion. To pinpoint their dilemma Bodmer quoted the words of one A. V. Hill to the British Association For the Advancement Of Science in 1952: "If ethical principles deny our right to do evil in order that good may come are we justified in doing good when the foreseeable consequence is evil?" The only way out of the puzzle lies in a repudiation of the conventional concepts of love, marriage and parenthood and endorsement in principle of the doctrines of eugenics.

There never has been and there never will be anybody quite like you. You share with every other person in the world only one distinction: You are unique. So enormous is the variety of genes of the human male that the chances of male and the sperm of the human male that the chances of a mating couple raising two identical children are trillions to one against. Identical twins, of course, are in some degree exceptions to the rule. But even they, from the moment of their separate departure from the womb, go through different environmental experiences that transform them into different personalities.

And each is left capable of procreating in turn children utterly unlike either of them. Although it is highly unlikely two geniuses could become parents of a moron and vice versa, genes alone do not produce character. They simply determine the mode of response to the environment. W.F. Bodmer, Professor of Genetics, Oxford University, reminded Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts, at a recent meeting in London, of these sobering facts.

One of Bod-mer's aims was to dampen excessive optimism on the part of eugenicists, the people who advocate the improvement of the human race by selective breeding. Nevertheless, without once mentioning the controversial science of eugenics, Bodmer implied that mankind eventually will be compelled by population problems to practise it. "We shaH solve the population growth dilemma," he said, "only when the passion of the sexes has been disassociated from procreation by effective birth In other words, the day wUI come when some persons will be required to abstain from parenthood because their risk of producing defective children is too high. Despite the diversity of genes in any population pool bio The Super Continental. The Scotian.

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When he saw I was a reporter he explained his theory. "All life-giving energy starts in the fingernails. Most people have pent-up energy, really electric charges, that has to be released before they explode. By biting your fingernails you make it possible for the energy to escape out through your hands, which relaxes the joints in your knuckles and gets you through the day." He gave me an autographed copy, which I read on the plane and much to my amazement it worked. Christmas shoppers can expect many supernatural books this fall.

One that caught my eye was entitled Anita's Baby. The plot concerned a child who drank nothing but Florida orange juice and found himself wanting to be a woman. He has a transsexual operation and winds up winning the women's tennis singles at Wimbledon. The success of Roots has forced many publishers to come out with their own versions. One was entitled Leaves and told of a WASP's search for his roots over a period of 12 years.

He remembered his grandmother sitting on the porch in Southhampton repeating a story about her great-grandfather who founded the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Taking a $50,000 advance from his publisher, he went to New Jersey, and there in a small village called South Orange he found the very place his great-great-great-grandfather had come from. The people of South Orange were so happy to meet one of their own that they made him a member of their country club for life. The author is now suing his publisher for $5 million because he couldn't find Leaves in any New Jersey book store. I went out to San Francisco from Washington last week to the American Bookseller's Convention to flog a new book I have coming out in the fall.

(Modesty prevents me from telling the title.) At least 15,000 book buyers, bookstore owners, publishers, editors and promotion people were there, and I would estimate at least 10,000 new titles were being pushed. I can't remember all of the titles, but as I went from booth to booth I got some idea of what awaits the book reader this fall. The first booth I stopped at, the salesman said: "Here is a free copy of the book of the year, How to Perform Your Own Heart Transplant Operation. You save $3,000 by cutting out the middleman." "You mean the doctor?" "Doctor, heart surgeon whatever you call him. The book tells you everything from where to find a donor to how to deal with vascular rejection." I went to the next booth and was handed a book entitled, How to Make a Million Dollars in Real Estate and Have Sex at the Same Time.

"This is a racey title," I said. "It's a self-help book. Many real estate agents make a lot of money, but they're very' shy about sex. "This book helps them overcome their inhibitions, particularly when they're showing an unfurnished house. As you notice it's chock-full of illustrations.

The author feels real estate people have to come out of the closet." Book now for summer travel!.

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