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Om the examiner Friday Dec 1979 Hostage exercises Unidentified American hostage held by Iranian students in US embassy keeping fit with exercises in embassy grounds this week AP Photo Entertainment for blind New radio service launched AKVIIJJZ nt new radio service which is thought to be the first of its kind in anada has been launched here to help provide the blind with the kind of information and entertainment not usually available on radio Radio Reading Services styled after similar operation In the United States prOVIdes full range of material read by 100 volunteers working with materials ranging from news magazines to Playboy Besides providing topical and diverse content the only two rules used in the programming are that it be free of censorship and contain no bias Volunteers are forbidden to air their own views We dont attempt to alter the material in any way and weve had no complaints from listeners said station director Gordon Norman We want to provide wide spectrum because were ap pealing to so many tastes Part of that spectrum is ad on good food buys plus sto ries on pop culture science fic tion sports and business from variety of North American pub lications ffi USES FEATURES Newspaper editorials front page news stories and maga zine feature stories are used during the day and stories from such magazines as Playboy and Playgirl are reserved for the latenight listening audience The service is attempting to provide programs unavailable on commercial radio or in Braille For example program staff at the station recently spent five hours and 20 minutes read ing from the novel Chesapeake New dictionary interprets sayings peculiar to Australia SYDNEY Renter If you are baffled when an Australian tells you its OK to eat tinned dog as long as you dont try to come the raw prawn relief is at hand The first dictionary to ex plain the meaning of wide range of Australian words and expressions that have always mystified outsiders has just gone on sale Nearly 4000 words which roll easily off the tongue of an Aus tralian and are meaningless to visitor are included in the three millionword volume published by Collins The dictionary gives the stamp of acceptance to ex pressions like sheila girl galah fool tinned dog can ned meat woop woop back ward district doing melba making repeated farewell ap pearances and waving ticket on oneself being conceited The work explains the deriva tions of many Australianisms But some such as coming the raw prawn meaning to try to deceive have perplexed even the compilers LANGUAGED CHANGED Gerry Wilkes English liter ature professor at Sydney Uni Aviation village dream come true EDMONTON CP Ron Senger is the type of person who can afford to see his dreams come true even if those are as futuristic as the let century Pulling his Beechcraft Bo nanza light aircraft into tight circle he points to small com munity of tidy homes on the ground thousands of feet below Thats my village he says Just the way used to dream wheanasakid Each of the 10 homes below near the Edmonton suburb of Sherwood Park has immediate access to lighted airstrip or small lake for floatequipped planes Many of the homes have small airplanes parked in the driveway Seven years ago Senger bought the 160acre parcel of land for $25000 built its grass airstrip for another $10000 named it Twin Island Air Park and began promoting the idea of an aviation village He sold $8000 lots to people with one passion in common flying Senger carefully con trolled development in the air JOHN DUPAIN ONE CAll WILL TAKE CARE OE All 728476 Machine Rental Available park and the average house val ues have risen from $30000 in 1973 to to between $125000 and $200000 today FLIES TO WORK Neighbor George Chivers is PWA captain who flies to work in his Tiger Moth Another resi dent Bob Brennan builds planes in the back of his house Senger charges the pilots $100 year for the lease of the strip with rebate if they help cut the grass during the summer Senger 39yearold realtor created the village out of childhood fantasy Its my idea of the good life he says Senger has always been bit of an entrepreneur When he was young he found trapping preferable to the daily drudgery of school work He sold the fur from the rabbits he snared left his fathers farm in Saskatchewan and moved to Alberta Over the last 12 years he has built up series of marine and sporting businesses in Edmon ton and has been successful in real estate SIMCOE CARPET UPHOLSTERY CLEANERS ElonSt Ian Est Im versity says in an introduction that most of the Australian vo cabulary in the book is collo quial and shows the in ventiveness of everyday infor mal speech The English of the first set tlers from the British isles 200 years ago took on new flavor as it was garnished with the language of the aborigine con victs slang expressions from two world wars and terms coined to describe the newly discovered Outback The aborigines gave Austral ians host of words such as dingo dog or coward billa bong pool and pointing the bone placing jinx They also gave thw world the kangaroo and boomerang The convicts brought some of the jargon of Britains 19th cen tury underworld Some Austral ians still say to shake meaning to steal or to scale in the sense of to defraud quickly Some words such as cobber and digger which have long been regarded as distinctly Australian in origin were in fact poached from outside says Wilkes CAME FROM SUFFOLK Cobber friend comes from Annuity Quotatlons AND INSURANCE AGENCIES LTD The Annuity Specialists All types of annuities arranged with the issuer trust life insurance companies etc offering the highest rate or the best contract Brochure explaining all annuities or comparison of old and new RRSP options free on request 50 BRANCH OFFICES COAST TO COAST lOCAl ASSOCIATE REG IACHANCE Box 39 I36 Bayfield St Barrie 7285986 Licensed through North American Me the British county of Suffolk where cob means to take lik ing to someone Digger was coined by North 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