style awards
1 -year
old
ski enthusiast
is one of
nrst
recipients
of
the
Lifestyle
:d
given
for
the promotion of posi-
liealth
lifestyle
in Canadian commit-
's.
lerman
Smith-Johannsen,
Piedmont,
bee, a retired engineer, has been acti-
involved
for many years in develop-
rross-country skiing as a mass sport in
jda
and
die
United
States,
lie
has
out cross-country ski trails in Quebec
consulted
in setting up trails in other
ms of Canada.
he
Lifestyle Award
program
is part
Deration Lifestyle, a public education
puign
developed
by
the Department
ational Health and Welfare to encour-
.anadians to assume greater responsi-
y for their own health.
:nce the program was first announced
January, Canadians have been encour-
to nominate
individuals who have
ced to raise the level of health aware-
in their community.
an-Marie
Mouchet,
a
priest
and
er
from
Whitehorse, Yukon
Terri-
is the initiator of a ski program for
; children
in Old Crow. Father Mou-
s Territorial Experimental SkiTrain-
Yogram (TEST) has gained national
international recognition,
la Rose Dickey, of West Vancouver,
h Columbia, has been recognized for
eadership in programs of community
ences
for
retarded
children
and
s,
and
in
programs
of
volunteer
ng and development,
rt Knibbs, or “Mr. Sport", of Bow
d,
Alberta,
has
been
coaching and
oting
sports
and
recreation
in
his
lunity from
the “peewee” stage
to
rs for 30 years. He was actively in-
d in the 1975 Canada Winter Games
has
been
elected
to
the
Alberta
s
Hall
of Fame
for
outstanding
e and achievement in amateur sport,
uben
Bums,
a
treaty
Indian
from
:e Albert, Saskatchewan, has worked
good
health
lifestyles
among
his
e
for
the
past
years, and has
i
the
respect
and
confidence
of
leaders
and
health
professionals
> honesty and forthright concern,
rie Salway, of Neepawa, Manitoba,
ed
in
the
development
of family
iucation
in
schools
and women’s
tes,
led
in
the establishment of a
unity
association
mm
WMt
Vackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen, 101 years old, is congratulated on receiving his Lifestyle
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iiandicapped as well as
the development
of a sheltered workshop.
Charles Rheaume, a polio victim from
Ottawa, Ontario has been
active
in
the
rehabilitation of alcoholics and the estab-
lishment of a halfway house. He has also
been involved in promoting the visual arts
for handicapped
artists and has founded
an association for French-speaking handi-
capped people in Ontario.
Rosanne
Laflamme
of Quebec
City,
Quebec, lost both legs and an arm as the
result of a childhood accident. In 1975
she won gold, silver and bronze medals at
the
Olympics
for
the
Handicapped
in
St. Etienne, France. She has also written
an
autobiography
to
encourage
other
handicapped
people
and
is
actively
in-
volved
in promoting
the
cause
of
the
disabled.
Kathryn
Barnes
of
Moncton,
New
Brunswick, is a founding member of the
Moncton Non-Smokers
Association and
active on
the New Brunswick Council of
Smoking
and
Health.
Working
closely
with
city
police and volunteer agencies,
she has recently helped organize a “Block
Parent” program for the Moncton area.
Adrian Pearson, a resident of Stellar-
ion, Nova Scotia, was nominated by
St..
John Ambulance for outstanding service
in
instructing
first
aid.
Mr. Pearson has
also rendered long service to the commu-
nity
as a scoutmaster and as an air cadet
leader and instructor.
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, has
given
outstanding
leadership
to
scouts
and
other youth
organizations
in P.E.I.
for 40 years. He has given valuable sup-
port
to the Canadian and World Jambo-
rees of Scouting, devoting two years to
planning the 1977 Jamboree in P.E.I.
Charles Andrew
of
Northwest
River
(Labrador),
Newfoundland,
after
over-
coming a personal battle with alcoholism,
has spent the last four years working with
young
people,
initiating
an
innovative
program
to
combat
alcoholism
in
his
community.
The secret of Entebbe
The
following
item
is
reprinted from
Ettteign Report, August 24, 1977, a pub-
lication of the Economist NewspaperLtd. .
London.
"
A comer of the veil of secrecy that has
obscured one of Israel’s most valued mili-
tary
assets was lifted
this week when an
electronics
engineer
living
quietly
in
Toronto was honoured
by
the State of
Israel.
His name
is Sidney Hurwich.
All
that could be learned
officially was that
his invention had been used in the Israeli
raid at Entebbe last year.
Foreign Report
can now
reveal
that
Hurwich’s
brainchild may
have
led
the
Israelis to carry out the rescue mission in
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not only Ugandan radar, but the radar of
countries
that
Israeli plane^crossed en
route
This
explains why
Israeli
planes
"werTable to reach Entebbe undetected.
The Hevice sends out electronic rays to
alte r
the
natural
composition
o f
the
magnet ic
fields and centres of'gravity of
"“weapons, instrument dials and mechanical
devices.
It sounds impossible, but Hurwich
himself says that this
is less an invention
than “a
different
application
o f an old
an d basic principle of electronics”.
Canadian beginnings
His invention appears to have grown out
of a modest battery-run instrument that
he developed eight years ago to help the
Canadian
police
to
foil bank
robberies.
In
1969, he invited Canadian policemen
to
a viewing. With
the instrument con-
cealed in the same room, he invited them
to try to lift bags of money. The bags ap-
peared to be
riveted to the ground, and
moreover, the police gun triggers jammed
and
their watches stopped. A year later.
Hurwich got
the
idea
that
his ray could
save
lives by stopping the timing mecha-
nisms. He offered
it to Israel.
When
Israeli
representatives came
to
see him, he told them that he was unable
to
press
ahead with the research to de-
velop his invention himself, since he had
just
received open-heart surgery. But he
was convinced that his invention could be
advanced and made powerful enough
to
neutralise complete weapons systems over
large
areas. On
the
Hurwich
principle,
there was no reason why the new beams
could not reach and disable tanks, ground-
to-ground
missiles
and
complete
radar
systems, or even objects in the atmosphere.
The beams could also be tacked together
to form a screen that would make whole
zones safe from bombs or missiles.
The
Israelis will not divulge what tests
have been
run, or how the Hurwich ray
has been developed. The
first
inkling of
its
existence
was
obtained
after
the
Entebbe
operation,
by
military
experts
curious to find out how the Israeli planes
were able to fly to their destination with-
out
a
single
radar
instrument
in
the
Middle East and Africa being alerted, and
why, as they approached Entebbe airfield,
electricity was mysteriously cut and
the
control
tower
stopped
functioning.
In-
deed,
the
operators of Entebbe control
tower were
the
first
to be punished by
Idi
Amin
after
the
Israeli
mission
suc-
ceeded: he had them executed after they
defied
belief by
pleading
that
all
their
detection,
reception
and
transmission
instruments
had
locked
“as though by
magic”.
Gabonese President visits
The President of the Gabonese Republic,
El Hadj Omar Bongo, visited Canada from
October 20
to
23, accompanied by his
wife.
On October 2 1
, the President signed an
agreement
in
principle with Export De-
velopment Corporation chairman and pre-
sident John A. MacDonald to establish a
'5150-million
line-of-credit
with Gabon.
Further discussions will be held soon be-
tween officials of both countries to deter-
mine the type of goods and services that
can be transacted under the line-of-credit
pact, which
first must be ratified by the
EDC board of directors.
During his stay
in Ottawa, the Gabo-
nese head of state, who is also the Presi-
dent
of
the
Organization
for
African
unity, held discussions with various Can-
adian authorities, on the subject of Can-
ada-Gabon
relations,
stressing
the com-
mercial and the francophone aspects, and
the broader questions of economics and
international politics.
Paddle your own canoe
The
estimated
travelling
time
between
Vancouver and Montreal
is two years -
by canoe, that
is. Jerry LaChappelle, 34,
of Montreal, and his cousin, Denis Bilo-
deau,
22, of Quebec
City, have
under-
taken
a
24,100-mile
Odyssey, paddling
along
the
Pacific
coast,
circling
Cape
Horn and returning via the Atlantic and
the St. Lawrence River. The pair set out
from Vancouver
in July and, by the end
of September, had
travelled 2,100 miles
to
Long
Beach,
California.
"Everybody says it’s impossible," said
LaChappelle, “nothing’s impossible." Al-
though the canoeists will be entering the
territorial waters of 11 South American
countries
during the
trip, they
are not
concerned
about
possible
attempts by
these countries to halt their voyage. They
plan to get by with a “grass-roots" diplo-
r.'ii,,.
,
or
rather,,
with
sausmanship.
“I
don t cany arms,
1 don’t care about poli-
tics and
I
don’t
discus« rcliEmn,” states
LaChappelle, "I'm Canadian."
International energy re:
ments signed
Canada
signed three new e
agreements
with
member
Energy
Agency (IEA) cot
on October 6.(SecCanada
\
No. 38, September 21.)
Energy Minister Alastair
chaired
a ministerial IEA r
the
agreements, on
hydro;
fusion research. This will
number
of agreements
in
participates.
The
co-operative
resea:
on
hydrogen,
carried
o.
auspices, will assess the ro
as an energy
source
and
The agreement was also
s
sentatives of Noranda Min
the Electrolyser Corporate
nies
active
in
research
in
extracting hydrogen from
trolytic procedures, and
tl
vate companies to particij
research and development
thcr joint studies arc exp<
tiated in the coming montl
NRC wind turbine
The National Research Cc
cipate in the other two ag
by Mr.
Gillespie, by inves
vironmental
and
meteorc
of converting wind energ
and evaluating computer
selection of wind turbine s
NRC’s
vertical
axis
erected
in the Magdalen
co-operation of Hydro Qu
nion
Aluminum
Fabrica
has
been
operating
sin
Canada Weekly, VolS.Ne
With a capacity, of 230 kil
largest vertical axis wind t
NRC
will
also co-ordii
pation of Canadian scienti
of
and
access
to
a
lar
tested
device
which
wi
EURATOM
and
the We
vemment
near Aachen,
volves
the
study
of
pla
actions
and
is expected
formation on the develop
ials capable of withstandi
forces and very high
tern
ring in future fusion powc
Canada recently joine
jects on
coal
research
a
conservation, nuclear safe
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