4 - Wednesday, November 26, 1986 - North Shore BY POPULAR demand, here is a tale from the golden olden days when saving whales was an easier judgment call than today. It is also the story of how the word ‘‘bow-case"’ was coined. Are you ready? It was the mid-70s. Yes, THAT far back! T was on a boat that had been chartered by a certain well- known, if not completely loved, local ecology group to head out into the Pacific and ‘‘save"’ ceta- ceans. That is, by attracting public at- tention to the issue, the issue itself might dry up and go away. A good theory, up to a point. As it turned out, the first pro- blem wasn’t so much _ political philosophy or weather or the forces of environmental doom, it was one’s crew. We had headed out from Van- couver, rounded the southern end of Vancouver Island, and were headed up the West Coast of Vancouver Island — in April, of all godawful times —- when our shipboard doctor, Myron Mac- Donald of West Vancouver, whispered to me that we had a problem. It was that one of our crew- members, whom we shall identify henceforth as ‘'H.,’’ had ap- parently flipped ouz. He had been standing at the bow, face into icy late winter winds, for more than seven hours, which brings the human body perilousty close to death from exposure. icicles dripped from H.’s moustache «nd beard. His face was blue. Fis eyes, when he fi- nally tured them on me, after several minutes of coaxing him to say something, blazed with Heritage Fund starts to build NORTH VANCOUVER District’s newly created Heritage Fund is off to arunning start with $225,000 in proceeds generated from district long-term leases in 1986. The fund, commencing this year, is expected to top $20 million by the year 2000. The money taken in by the district in the form of long-term leases and interest ac- crued, is expected to be used for ‘ capital replacement expenditures after 2000. “It’s a long-terrm commitment to the community. Hopefully we won’t get caught with bills like the : past year’s $1 million spent on road replacement. With the fund in place we can now plan for the future,’’ said Ald. Craig Clark, the program’s originator. Clark said the City of North Vancouver has a similar fund. He said’ many of the older municipalities in Eastern Canada have taken a similar approach to deal with the high cost of in- frastructure replacement. Mews Bob Hunter strictly personal ® awesome intensity, as though he was seeing much, much more than | was. When I asked him if he was okay, a vastly superior smile played upon his frozen lips. A slow nod was his only response. Then he went back to staring straight ahead into the advancing oceanic swells. He hardly said anything. You could tell it was stupendous ef- fort just to bring himself down into the normal world enough to bother forming words in a rec- ognizable language. He looked at us, one by one, piercingly, with a mixture of con- tempt and pity. He had acquired psychic X-ray vision. We felt like primitive animals being examined by a great, detached scientific consciousness that had descended from another plane entirely. For the first time, | understand why, in the really old days, peo- ple who had gone ‘‘mad"’ were considered to be ‘‘possessed."’ It was, indeed, as-though H.’s per- sonality had been swallowed up by ... what would you call it? Another entity. It was chilling stuff, no doubt. Our friend got so out of touch that he was a menace to himself, not being able to distinguish be- tween water and lighter fluid. Obviously, he had to be sent away. ° Aided by another North Shore doctor, Lyle Thurston of Deep Cove, Dr. MacDonald closed in on H. with a hypodermic, but the flipped-out ‘‘bow-case’’ lept into the hold of our ship. When two burly seadogs tried to thrust a ladder made of two- by-fours down after him, he snapped the ladder — literally twisted it in half — with his bare LIT Estimates 987-3055 Poinsettias 4” pot formerly ¢ Luxury Marble I swung down on a rope after him, followed by a powerfully- built fellow named George Korotva., We spent at least an hour try- ing every psychological trick in the book to make H. understand that he had to submit to treat- ment. It was actually Dr. MacDonald who coined the term ‘‘bow- case."’ By that, he meant that H. was demonstrating classic symp- toms of schizophrenia, except that he was doing it at the front pointy end of a boat. While George and | were down in the hold, trying to browbeat H. into submission, the two doc- tors were up in the galley, crushing tranquilizers into a thick powder and mixing it up with mayonnaise and pickles and cheese, putting it all into a sand- wich which they Jowered into the hold with instructions to pass to H., who hadn’t eaten for two days. H., however, rejected the food with an imperial and totally mad wave of his hand. George and I, as it happened, were both starved. Unaware that the sandwich had been spiked, we wolfed down each a haif. 1 don’t remember anything much after that, except a scat- tered recollection of being hoisted out of the hold and car- | tied to my bunk by giggling peo- | ple. George apparently made it as far as the deck before he collaps- | ed. After our ‘‘defeat,’? H. — I’m ] told — became docile, even coo- perating to the point of lowering | his trousers so Dr. MacDonald could give him a sedative injec- tion. The early days, as J say .... 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