a ALA SCREEN ee TUTEMAS PS ASE SYLVESTER PUG he PTET DREN OTT ae es Weather: - Friday, cloudy with sunny iim periods and a chance of © showers. Saturday, - mostly cloudy. Highs near i 10°C. INDEX Classified Ads.......26 Doug Collins.........9 Editorial Page........6 Entertainment ....... 14 Home & Garden.....17 Horoscopes......... 15 Bob Hunter..........4 Lifestyles...........43 Mailbox.............7 Movie Listings. ...... 15 TV Listings.........24 What's Going On.....25 3 - Friday, April 17, 1987 - North Shore News 911 emergency number for N. Shore reviewed “IT HEARD my wife scream, ‘My God, I’m on fire!’ | dashed out and here she was a solid mass of flames. “T poured cold water on her and when the fire was out, | had to look for the emergency number.”’ Six months after the tragedy, Harry Jowett, 76, still finds it dif- ficult to talk about the fire, that resulted in his wife Dorothy's death. But the West Vancouver man wanted to warn others about the difficulty he encountered trying to reach emergency assistance. On the North Shore a caller must dial 872-5151 for Provincial Emergency Services to have an ambulance dispatched, or the local police or fire departments’ indi- vidual emergency numbers. In the Lower Mainland only Vancouver and Richmond have the 911 emergency system, which uses the three-digit number to alert a dispatch centre. “T was in a state of shock,” said Jowett, after seeing his wife MP Cook would lose, says poll WITH THE Mulroney government at an all-time low in ria- tional opinion polls, less than one-third of North Van voters in the North Van-Burnaby constituency would definitely re-elect their Tory MP if an election were held tomorrow. That’s the reading of a poll conducted April 8 by the Survey Division of the North Shore News. Respondents in a balanced sam- ple of 304 households throughout the predominant North Van por- tion of the constitutency were ask- ed: Q) “Do you think your MP Chuck Cook is doing'a good, .average or poor job of repre- senting you?”’ (2) “If an election were held tomorrow, would you vote for Chuck Cook?” * To the first question, 17 per cent of the respondents said ‘‘a. good job’’,. 43. per cent ‘‘an average job’’; 16 per cent ‘‘a poor job’’. The remaining 24 per cent said they “didn’t know”’. By NOEL WRIGHT Editor-in-Chief Those who said Cook was doing ‘a good job’’ were in a minority in all eight of, the separate neighborhoods polled. To the second question, 30 per cent said yes, they would re-elect ~ -Cook; 35 per cent said no, they would not re-elect him; 35. per cent were undecided. Among decided voters these fig- ures become 46 per cent ‘‘yes’’ and 54 per cent ‘‘no’’. Only two of the eight neighborhoods Lower. Lynn Valley and Deep Cove — showed a majority in favor of re-electing Cook. LGH MEDICAL FORUM 3aldness more than say experts : rd] vanity, YOUTH, SEX and economic power — those are three of the reasons why men seek cures to baldness. By PAUL HOULE Contributing Writer According to Lower Mainland Dr.. J. Allastair Carruthers, baldness is a problem for men ‘because it ages you.” Carruthers was one of five specialists who spoke Monday at the third forum in Lions Gate Hospital’s New Frontiers in Medi- cine series. ‘The forum — attended by 150 people — dealt with the question of baldness and what can and can- not be done about it. According to LGH der- matologist Dr. Tom Taylor baldness can be traumatic for the “the young man who has cither left school or university and he’s still very much in the dating game — his image is vitally important.”’ “I think there is a perception among a number of young men that it will create a problem in terms of their attractiveness and relationships with the opposite sex,’’ said: Dr. Michael O’Neil, who said that can be overcome. For Dr. Stuart Maddin a big factor is economics — the fact that men who are youthful in ap- pearance and have a full head of hair, have a greater range of pro- fessional opportunities. But, baldness is more than just vanity. Guest speaker Dr. Terry Headington of Ann Arbor,’ Michigan said, ‘‘I kind of don’t like the term vanity, this strikes me as suggesting it’s trivial and I think that some of the psychological overload that many people suffer who are going bald is anything but trivial.”” All doctors participating in the By KIM PEMBERTON News Reporter engulfed in flames. Her synthetic robe had caught on fire as she was cooking. “It took me unnecessary minutes to find that number and then | had to dial it...my hands were all burnt from trying to pull her burning clothes off. “To dial seven numbers is ridi- culous in an emergency. People don’t realize elderly people and young children can get confused in a stressful situation.’’ A committee made up. of emergency personnel was struck last year to study the feasibility of implementing the 911 system for the Greater Vancouver Regional District. | Committee chairman Gerry Brewer, of North Vancouver City, said the committee’s report will be available sometime this year. Brewer recently met with a con- sultant hired by the GVRD to research the various aspects of im- plementing the system locally. “We are looking at an enhanced 911 system. It enables you to come back on the calling party even if they disconnected their number — their number and address would still have been captured by the system,’’ he said. Brewer said the exact costs to implement and operate the system are not known. Bud Elsie, of the GVRD, said once the report is made the GVRD would contact the participating municipalities, which includes North and West Vancouver, to seek final approval and funding. Elsie said if the committee recommends a 911 number for the region, funding would likely be on a property assessment basis. He added it is not known who would oversee the regional system, and whether Vancouver and Richmond would switch to the enhanced 9! system. “They wouldn't have to come under the new system, but it would be practical. Otherwise they’re on- ly alerting the emergency systems in their own community,"* he said. The idea for the North Shore to get a 911 number was first discuss- ed five years ago, said Elsie. But it was deemed too costly at that time. He noted that the cost has been lowered since then and the system has been improved, but did not give any figures. In Toronto the 911 system was installed at a cost of $1.5 million. Its annual operating cost is $600,000, In Seattle’s King County the system was installed at a cost of $4 million, with an annual operating cost of $2 million. Nearly 2.5 million residents are served in Toronto and in King County the system serves 1.4 mil- lion residents. In the Lower Mainland the system would benefit an estimated 1.3 million. NEWS photo Mike Wakefield ARCHERY STUDENTS take aim at their first archery lesson Monday evening at Seylynn Hall. Children nine and up are welcome to sign up for the session. For more information contact Karen Magnussen Arena at 984-9341, forum agreed that baldness is not just a male problem ~—- women also suffer from baldness, but in a dif- ferent way than men. Women ‘don’t usually lose hair at the front — so it is less obvious than male hair loss. Baldness in men and women is caused by a particular combination of genetic makeup and the number of male hormones. The presence of male hormones in a woman helps determine whether she will be pro- ne to baldness. The only effective treatments for baldness so far are a drug called minoxidil —- which goes by the trade name Rogaine — and various hair transplant techniques. Minox- idil has proven effective in stopp- ing hair loss and growing back hair when the balding process is caught in its early stages. All doctors discounted so-called ‘miracle cures’’ for baldness. Car- ruthers said the ‘‘facts are not in” NEWS oholo Tom Burley PANELISTS (left to right) Dr. Terry Headington, Dr. Michael O'Neil, Dr. J. Allastair Carruthers, Dr. Tom Taylor and Dr. Stuart Maddin speak about balding at a Lions Gate Hospital forum. on such cures. “They are generally marketed on before and after pic- tures and a claim, but this claim has never been substantiated. It has never been subjected to valid scientific criticism.’’ As a treatment for baldness, minoxidil is applied as a lotion. The treatment is not cheap though. It costs about $55 a month and must be used for at least seven months before there are any ob- vious results, if any. Usually there will be no hair growth for at least eight weeks when using the lotion. There are basically two types of hair transplant techniques. One involves transplanting active hair follicles from the side of the head to the front and top. The other method involves more . drastic surgery and consists of removing sections of bald scalp and ‘stret- ching the remaining scalp with ac- tive hair follicles over the skull. Minoxidil has been in, use in Canada for three years. However, it has yet to be approved for use in the United States. Recently, though, a panel of experts from the Federal Food and’ Drug Ad- ministration in the; U.S. has recommended that the drug be ap- proved for use. , Treatments for baldness are considered cosmetic and therefore not covered by the B.C. medical plan.