4- Friday,

A RECENT consumer
report suggests that Cana-
dian males are turning into
wimps.

Apparently we smoke less,
drink less, are more conser-
vative and less inclined to buy
stuff.

That's amazing. | thought it
was just happening to me.

1 frankly admit to being a
wimp compared to the animal |
USED to be.

Ata certain point in time and
space I was a teenager, you sec.

You know how it was, men:
prowling around the dance
floor at the teen canteen, with
the collar of your James Dean
jacket’ pulled up over your
Duck Tail and a smoke dangl-
ing dangerously out of the cor-
ner of your mouth, popping
your knuckles.

1 often borrowed my _ big
cousin’s motorcycle koots to
wear to school. The heavy
metal cleats made mérvellous,
echoing sounds in the stairwells,
and as I clumped across the
classroom it sounded like a
1,500-pound monster shambling
toward Golgotha.

One didn’t need to know the
word ‘‘atavism’’ to understand
that the jungle was alive in your
very nervous system. All you
had to do was 29 to football or
hockey practice.

September 12, 1986 - North Shore News

Bob Hunter

@ strictly personal ®

When the fizhts broke out on
Friday night games — and they
always did —~ there was the
wholesome Canadian spectacle
of some kid gouging another
with has skates and all that
Mood on the ice, or some guy
writhing in knots at the 20-yard
line, his groin pretty well
demolished.

Getting a car, of course, was
the big power move of one’s
entire lifetime to date. It put
you into a new class of disaster
waiting to happen.

As soon as I could, } natural-
ly took my "49 Chev out to an
unpaved highway to drag the
other guys with hot cars on
weekends.

This was no ordinary Chev,
you understand. It had a ‘51
Ford grill and dual exhausts!
Well, one of them was phoney,
but vou get the idea.

The Chev didn't start as fast
as a Ford, but if 1 could over-
take them, they’d eat my ex-
haust forever. The trick was
overtaking.

There’d usuatly be a half
dozen other kids in my car.
Ditto for whoever we were
dragging.

If they got ahead, the opposi-
tion would swerve back and
forth, Spitting gravel into my
precious grill in an effort to
prevent ise from coming up on
the side and getting the lead.

Of course, once | got in
front, 1’'d do the same thing,

skidding wildly and happily in
the Joose gravel.

We'd get up to 80, nearly 90
miles an hour. Whatoa lot of
tuat

To remember puberty —- the
gonads doing their Jekyll and
Hyde routine, changing ome
from a sweet, reasonable lad in-
to a pulsating hormonal nuclear
reactor run amok,

Ah yes. Youth.

Nat that young manhood saw
all that much improvement.

There were still all) chose
spasms of cestasy, jealousy, ex-
uberance, rage, indignance,
misery, outbursts of passion
and poetry, the full catastro-
phe.

There was always) one
domestic dramaoor another
playing, an excuse to get fever-
ish again. Rush off to a beer
parlor and denounce capitalism.
Annxiety-rush about The Bomb.
Argue with your wife.

Compared to the speedy jerk
} was as a youth, | freely con-
fess to being a vegetable nowa-
days. My idea of a great time
is to not experience any pain.
Let’s everyone be happy-happy
and leave each other alone as
much as possible. Is that con-
servative or what?

Canadian males aren't really
becoming. wimps. Look at the
demographic curves. We're
just getting older.

I think it’s called growing up.
1 should hope.

Pryce remembered
as an ‘eccentric’

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ple, especially his own children. He
was it kind. gentle persan — very
clever with his hands. who could
fix just about anyehing.

But next-door neighbor
Small said) Pryce was a
welfare case.”

“He haso't had a job in years.
His big exeuse was he had a bad
back."

Small said Pryce told bim he last
worked as a mechanic for Rent
a-Wreeas, and Small often saw him
fixing automobiles in his yard.

Small, who works at B.C. Rail
as oa warechouseman, said
unemployment had a oegative ef-
fect on Pryce.

“He'd say he was going to
work, but when I came back from
work myself he would still be here.
He seemed to be quite stressed that
he wasn't working,’’ he said.

“He wasn’t an alcoholic,
though. [ can say that for the guy.
And I never saw him mistreat his
children, He was close to them and

Greg
“total

did a lot for them.”

On one occasion, Small said
Pryce complained to him about
grass clippings at the side of
Smalt’s apartment building.

“(Pryee) said he was concerned
the clippings could start a fire, and
said he had been through a fire at
his previous residence.

“But his own yard bad so much
junk on it that he would quite
often sit on our front yard," he
said.

Smali said Pryce's son Drew liv-
ed in the back yard in a greenhouse
converted to a bedroom,

Roxanne McNeil, who knows
the family, described Pryce as an
“eceentric’’ who had a ‘funny
outlook on life.”

McNeil said Pryce had many
collections, including an extensive
gun collection.

“He would buy things and never
use them. His basement was full of
tires. If he sold everything he bad
he would have had quite a bit of
moncy,"’ she said.

Contact:
Nicholas Davies

984-9528

Crime prevention conference slated

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Fee for the three-day conference is $55, or if you
register before Sept. 15, $45.

The three-day fee includes all workshops, a banquet
and a luncheon dinner.

The cost to attend one day of the workshop, plus
the banquet is $35, and $25 for one day of workshops
only.

To register or for mere information write Crime
Prevention Conference, care of Consultation Centre,
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Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 255, or call 666-5307.

THE 4th annual Crime Prevention Conference will be
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The conference, organized by the B.C. Crime
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The purpose of the conference is to provide training
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