Vva at Luckily no one was at home family living in the basement apartment of this house in south Edmonton was away Thursday when car crashed through their wall Police said Woman whose name was Seven to get Medal of Bravery Three awarded Star of Courage OTTAWA MP An ntario man who died helping others es cape fire and two British or lumbia women have been awar ded the Star of Yourage Canadas second highest award for heroism Government House announced Friday The women will receive their decorations along with seven recipients of the Medal of Bravery from ltivieii Iules Leger at an investiturc cere mony later this year Patrick llaiTington 77 of South Porcupine Ont was as phyxtated alter arousing ten ants of rooming house during an early morning fire March ti 1970 After knocking on doors to awaken them he activated manual fire alarm to ensure that eVeryone was alerted llll he was overcome by the heat and smoke Whatever next hris Ann Bishop 13 of South Halelton has been awar ded the Star of Courage for rescuing three younger brothers from fire that de stroyed their home Sept 16 1970 After being awakened by her mother who could not reach the childrens room she woke three of her brothers and pushed them down the stairs before it was sealed off by flames URIC ILMI Although she found blankets to shield the other two children from the fire she could not en ter their room which was al ready in flames and was forced to jump from second storey window The two children died Gail Flynn of Nitinat Camp Bt has been awarded the Star of Courage for rescuing three children Loretta Ericks not released was driving the vehicle when she lost control jumped sidewalk and hit the house She suffered head and neck injuries in the crash Photo Lawrence Riggs and Lainey Thornington all aged three who had fallen through the ice of Kissinger Lake near her home on March 1976 The children had tried to reach swimming float 50 feet frni shore Mrs Flynn made her way cross the ice and lifted Law rence to the float Then she seized Loretta who lay uncon scious in the water She revived the child and then entered the water breaking the ice with her arms to reScuc Lainey whom she saw under the ice about feet away She brought the girl to the surfaCe and ap plied artificial respiration Gary Rowe 19 of Winterton Nfld has been awarded the Medal of Bravery for saving his swimming partner George White from drowning at Out Newspaper university By DOUGLAS QREFNIHHH Science and Technology Correspondent If all you know is what you read in the newspaper you may be smarter than you realise You might even be university student without even knowing it Since 1973 the University of alifornia San Diego has been running free courses by news paper throughout the and anada Its something that had It happen Why lollege courses have been available on TV and radio in many countries So what better medium than newspawr to provide such service lniversny extension courses prepared by to scholars have been arranged to be made part of credit courses offered by universities In newspaper circulation areas The service is free to news papers All the student has to do is read weekly article about the subject matter of his course Then coupled with sup plcmentary materials and only two meetings Willi professors an examination is taken at éll ticipating universities About 30000 persons have so far received credit for the courses they took in thc newspaper What courses are offered They range from science to the humanities Last fall tor ex ample course entitled ceans ur ontinuing Fron tier appeared lll over ittt newspapers with approximate ly 14 million circulation in It states anada Australia luam and the Pacific area Two hundred colleges and universities ooperated ur rently loral hoices in on temporary Society is the coursc being presented Not only are college credits to be gained the articles are writ ten to be highly interesting too One for example explains how scientists have finally got proof Fiberglass Concrete Vinyl Llner Pools Kits All Shapes and Slzes Never needs palntlng 20year written guarantee that the continents are actually moving apart CONTINENTAL DRIFT If you look at map of America and Africa these great land masses look as if they once could have fitted together with jigrsawrpuulc precision Also America and Europe go together Ill such way that Newfoundland Nova Scotia and part of Quebec could 200 million years ago or more have been where the Mediterranean Sea is now In other words Newfoundland and Labrador could have been part of what is now Syria and the Middle East In like way other land masses such as Australia India and Asia have drifted away from what used to be one big land mass or perhaps two known as langca and Laur asia ontinental drift used to be just theory now its an accepted scientific fact How do these vast continents dritt Simple They are all sit ting on five huge slabs of rock These plates are riding on newformed rock that is being squeezed out from crack under the midAtlantic This new rock is actually lava from the constant volcanic activny going on along the line of the crack The new rock so formed is only about 200 million years old much younger by 1000 million years than continental ltitks And as would be ex Cigarettes Arcade lindys Bargain Centre Soft Ice Cream Cones Laundromat Dry Cleaning ANNE AND DUNLOP STS AM PM 7DAYSA WEEK pected the freshest undersea rock is that in the midAtlantic range where the crack is Radioactive dating reveals rock ages magnetism reveals how fast continental dllll has occurred livery to million years the earths polari ty flips north and south poles reverse their attraction Rocks formed during time of such magnetic reversals retain their polarity So by checking out wards from the midoceanic ridge we can tell from the spac ings of the different polarities how fast the rock is being form ed and thus the speed that con tinents are moving apart Now since the world isnt ex panding like balloon when the land masses move away on the Atlantic side they must be moving together on the Pacific side They are And whats more the oceanfloor rock is be ing pushed under the continen tal plates After all its got to go somewhere And as it is forc ed under the land it causes tremendous stresses Thus where geologic faults exist as on the China coast and the west coast of America and other areas in the world severe ear thquakes occur lL SIIIIIKS What good is all this knowledge One major result is that we can better know where to look for oil Such tremendous movements of the eaiths crust I5 74 FREESOAP l0 Off coo Call John Campbell BARBIE 7280492 Ridge Road Shanty Bay Side Iond near Winterton on July 1975 He had to go beneath the surface twice and then restrain his friend before bringing him to shore William Neill of rangtL ville Ont has been awarded the Medal of Bravery for res cuing truck driver lohii McKee from truck that had caught fire He found McKee uncon scious on the floor of the cab and despite an explosion man agedtopullhimtosafely pl Kenneth Caswell of the Third Canadian Mechanized Commando in Baden West lcrmany and Ronald Dundas of Edmonton have been awar ded the Medal of Bravery for rescuing Norman Harrison and Ronald Melick from the cockpit of singleengine plane that crashed at Edmonton May I970 tend to squeeze any under ground gas or oil into pockets ready for tapping Since for ex ample theres lots of oil in the Arab lands and Newfoundland was once part of that land it would be logical to look for oil anywhere in that area Maybe Newfoundland oil will eventual ly make our Newfie friends wealthier than the Arabs they might have been if only the darn land hadnt drifted away with them before they were even born What lovely joke on the rest of us poor Canadians theyd have then HELPS IN WASHING UP When washing up put piece of lemon peel into the dishpan for it softens the wa ter removes all traces of the smell of fish onions etc and puts fine gloss on china TORONTO CP Scientists who specialize in insects say mere are Perfect methods of insect control for backyards or cottages although insect repellents are the best protection against lack flies and mosquitoes Since physical exercise makes repellents evaporate off the skins surface Agriculture Canada is asking all insect repel lent manufacturers to guarantee that their products for next year will provide minimum of four hours protection against insect bites Dr Allan West professor emeritus in biology at Queens University in Kingston Ont said the best product is repel lentimpregnated jacket which comes in small plastic pouch with repellent in vial Black flies will hover but will not bite Dr West said Last year several manufacturers attempted to market batteryoperated and pocketsized devices which emit high frequency sound waves repellent to mosquitoes RE Wright associate professor of entomology at the Uni versity of Guelph said in brief to Agriculture Canada that scientific evaluation conducted on some of the devices had totally negative results MUST PROVE TRAPS Agriculture Canada is also telling manufacturers of elec tronic insect killers that by Jan 1978 they have to prove their insect traps can control flies and mosquitoes These bug killers have an ultraviolet lamp which attract insects which fly through protective screen of an elec trostaticallycharged grid where they are electrocuted Wright said electrocuting traps work well indoors Altho uin wellconstructed electric grid light traps kill thousands of bugs there is no evidence that they significan tly reduce the bug population in the backyard garden or farm Harold Briggs who owns threeacre lot surrounded by bush in nearby Unionville has $169 bugtrap hanging from an apple tree He said it seems to be working but it goes spat really loudly Metropolitan Toronto policeman said he bought bug trap for farm he owns outside of the city and the noise of it drives you nuts He said he is disappointed with the device because it does not catch flies during the day They dont want prison there OIIAWA CP Federal So licitorGeneral Francis Fox said Friday he has instructed the Canadian Penitentiary Ser vice not to exercise options on two sites in northeast London Ont as possible locations for mediumsecurity prison Strong opposition to the prison site had been expressed by residents of London two members of London city Coun cil and two members of Parlia ment Fox said in an interview that he has notified city officials in London of his instructions He said other communities in southwestern ntario are inter ested in having penitentiary built near them Reeve Murray Fearry of Dy sart Township near Lindsay Ont said Friday letter has been sent to Fox saying the township is interested in having penitentiary built in the area Lindsay Mayor David Logan said he did not see anything wrong with prison in the area Bill Scott Progressive on Servative II for Victoriarllalir burton had suggested in the Commons that the federal gov ernment consider Victoria and Haliburton counties as an alteiv nate location if prison pro posed for the London area as rejected because of residents opposit ion John Eakins Liberal mem ber of the Ontario legislaturc for VictoriaHaliburton said he would support any move by the federal government to build the prison Provided many people dont have objections to it think its good employment factor he said Lindsay is about 20 niIes nor thwest of letcrborough Company gets order to suspend fine WASHINGTON CP United States judge tried Fri day to force Canadianowned company to provide uranium marketing information that tawa has ordered kept in Can ada But the judges punitive action soon was suspended to allow the company time to ap peal In case certain to have strong diplomatic reperCUS sions Judge Willis Ritter of federal district court in Salt Lake City imposed $10000a day fine on Rio Algom Corp for every day it does not fulfill subpoena ordering it to produce documents and have its To rontobased president 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