Compiled by A.P. McCredie _ SCIENTISTS AT the Japan Atomic Power Co. in Takasaki ‘report that bom- barding ‘cheap wine and whiskey: with a deadly (for ~" humans) dose of gamma rays “actually improved the taste. According to researcher Hiroshi Watanabe, . irradia- Gon supplies a blending that poorly. made. wine and whiskey lack, and in fact; he _ predicts that irradiation will ‘be-used by. the year 2000 to _improve ‘the taste of .many common .foods. (However, : Watanabe ‘admits that irradi-_ ‘ating good wine and whiskey ‘makes them taste worse.) ay. pocae of ofa continuing - that 47-year-old sterile parish priest from Tuscany who wanted Dr. Antinori to bypass the man’s blocked sperm duct and extract sperm directly from the testi- cles so that he could father a child with his 34-year-old lover. A Vatican spokesman called the priest “mad.” Loresa Goodly filed a lawsuit in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, for injuries she incurred just after she had received the Holy Spirit at a tent revival meeting and passed out on the floor. Moments fater, another woman received the Holy Spirit. and fell on top of Goodly before ushers could catch her, breaking three of Goodly’s ribs. San Mateo, California — Postal worker Douglas C. Yee, 50, has been indicted for. pulling. off bulk-mail scanis totaling $800,000. Found in Yee's gurbage were notes he had written to ‘God expressing gratitude for his continued help in .evad- - ‘ing .police - detection. | Read one, “Lord, .£ am having a | difficult time. myself seeing in“. you’ as ‘a .God'.who hides e former Soviet repatiie ‘of Georgia ‘have: closed down. ‘an ‘illegal bakery whose spe-" -cialty., was _ Giichapurt the: crime,’ yet. your Word says vthat its your privilege (or . glory) to do Just that.” Restaurant grease in the News: in January, after an $85,000 ‘study, officials in Corpus Christi, Texas, attrib- uted a lingering, foul, down- town odor.to years of accu- mulations of grease from 35 ~ nearby restaurants. And in December, thieves a stole 8,000 ibs, (3,600 kg) of grease. from cight Arkansas restaurants, 2 Hominy. ‘Oklahoma _— “Inmate ‘Bernard Crawford “escaped in December by div: : ing into the back of the truck _ of a farmer who had come to the prison to collect. food Scraps for pig slop. ‘He covered himself in the wet garbage ‘and rode unde- . OF WEST VANCOUVER © 750-1 7th Street; West Vancouver, B.C. V7V 3T3 Telephone: 925-7101 _ FLUSHING OF WATER MAINS oe NOTICE The Municipal water works section will com- ’. mence its: annual program of flushing of water mains’ April 8/96 through May 31/96. -cThis. may result in some turbidity in the *'water supply. The sediment is bacterially . fharmiess. The water may show some dis- ~ eoloration that could affect certain cornmer- ciat undertakings. BA. Lambert [. REng. — ‘. Director of Operations probably. for. resale ‘in ‘pet.food and live-” ‘Stock | feed. tected for about an haif-hour, when the combination of the smell and the cold tempera- ture got to him, forcing him to jump out, where he was spotted by a motorist, who notified potice. e#eo8 Workers at Bayanghe coalfield in Xinjiang region — extin- guished a fire that had been burning over a five-square- kilometre area for an esti- mated 100 years, About 300,000 tons of coul a year was consumed China's. by the fire, and authorities estimate 55 million tons remain. Hit man Chanh Thong Vo, 24, was killed in what was most likely a contract mur- This Faster, ~ Get A Taste der in Toronto — fust December. Vo was known in the community for favoring the front waistband of his Jeans to hold his .45-calibre handgun, and because of an earlier accident in holstering his gun, he was known as No Wang Vo. 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