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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-02-22, Page 17sykes 77. Inside: w ,40414 John'Grace comes back to Goderich as businessman . Page 3A CP official warns trains don't stop for snowmobiles. . Page 4A Child molesters often love children a little too much . Page 5A Goderich used to have some very interesting barbers Page 6A The 65th Mariners' Service is on Sunday at Knox Page 11A Seatbelts won't work unless they are buckled around you Page 12A Captain Comet is looking for more letters from you , page 15A Jack Riddel says there must be co-operation for success Page 16A Fred' BY JOANNE BUCHANAN Up until two and a half years ago Fred Salter of Goderich had never used any type of audio-visual A neuropsychologist claims that children should be tested at an early age to weed out potential juvenile delinquents. Dr. Lorne Yeudall insists that delinquent children discovered in Grade 1 can be helped whereas at the age of 19 or 15 it is too late to stop a juvenile delinquent because the behavior pattern is set. The doe's promulgation -makes a bit of sense and an early screening process could prevent a few wee ones from turning into habitual criminals. Naturally, your children are models who handle themselves in exemplary fashion, but there are some signs in a, --child's behaviour that indicate delinquent tendencies. You may have spotted such indicators in neigh- bourhood children or your child's playmates. A�child may have delinquent ten- dencies if he takes great delight in tying up his little sister while playing cowboys and Indians and insists she be s6alpedoF— t -lea -s -t -burned -a -t the stake. Your child may be destined for a life of crime if he or she is accustomed to prowling about the neighbourhood at night on a tricycle, wearing a black leather jacket and stealing wheels, bells and assorted handlebars from trikes belonging to playmates. You may be headed for trouble if your five-year-old asks to smoke his pipe in the den with dad after supper. You can be. sure your precious off- spring is looking for trouble if he reserves the family wagon for Friday night to go to the drive-in with that cute little number from across the street. You may foresee problems if the little darling limits his sporting ac- tivities to those that can be played with a crowbar and his or her favorite jewelrey is chains. Parents could be in for troubled times if the little nursery schooler is conversant with the latest in depth interview in Playboy. Parents should be wary if their child took a baby sister to slow and -tell in kinder garterr ---class--- --vas- ble- to explain to his classmates, in explicit detail, how the little sibling was brought into the world. Notice should be taken by parents when they visit the school on parent - teacher night and the young teacher greets you with: " Oh so you're the separated, alcoholic couple that keep their children locked in the basement for days without pop or hockey cards. Johnny has told me so much about you." You know there's potential danger when you go parent -teacher night and discover your child is the only one with his desk outdoors. Parents should take heed of a potential problem when the principal phones and asks you to negotiate with your child to release the teacher from the cloak room. Knowledgeable parents should have doubts about a youngster who smuggles dismantled playground equipment home from school in his Guy Lafleur lunch pail. Parents could—surety recognize a the derich IGNAL problem when the five-year-old refers to them as the old dude and his woman, but only when he is an affectionate mood. Parents should detect hints of their child's behaviour when the babysitter comes to the door dressed in full hockey gear and pleads with you not to be late. Parents should be suspect of a youngster who asks for a tatoo proclaiming his undying love for a lady in the second grade, for his sixth bir- thday. Parents should question the behavior of a child 'who at the slightest provocation bites a parent in the kneecap or punches in the groin, Parents could surely foresee problems with a youngster who organizes poker games with neigh- bourhood children who don't know how to play the game and lose all, their allowance to the enterprising child. Recognize any of the symptoms? I didn't -think- so . — STA 132—YEAR 8 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1979 SECOND SECTION equipment in his life. As. thestaff training officer at the. Bluewater Centre for the Developmentally Handicapped now, hey runs one of the best equipped audio-visual Fred Salter uses this half inch porta pack to film many eventsat the Bluewater Centre. As staff training officer there he does a lot of public relations work and is responsible for co- ordinating orientation activities for new staff. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) departments in 'the province according to the size of the Centre. And he recently returned from Toronto where he sat on a committee .for establishing standards for audio-visual equip: ment-. for the Ministry. of Community and Social, Services. As the 'staff training officer at the Bluewater Centre, he does a .lot of public relations work for the Centre and is also responsible for co- ordinating orientation activities for new staff at the Centre. Most of the orientation programs include video-tapes especially made by Salter. • In order to make one of these video-tapes, he first gets authorization from the Centre's ad- ministrator and then writes the entire script while deciding what background shots to use. He gets his script ap- proved and finds a staff member to interview or demonstrate a particular topic on camera while he films with a portable camera called a porta pack. He has made such video-tapes on basic fire procedures at the Centre; choke saving; and an introduction to mental retardation. He recently completed filming the special Winter Olympics held at Western University in which some of the Cen- tre's residents competed. He has also made special video-tapes on the Centre's various projects like the garden project which w s carried out there th' past summer and he s slowly building up a stock of these video- tapes which can be taken to other places and shown later. He has a program called the Bluewater Special on Channel 12' each month • featuring various activities at the Centre too. 'Most Centres- like the Bluewater Centre have at least one recording unit, explains Salter, but not all such centres have cameras or porta packs' to work with. He himself uses two video recorders and a half inch porta pack for his work and sometimes he borrows the color porta pack from Channel 12 when filming things for that station. TRIAL AND ERROR Salter says he has learned how to use audio- visual equipment mostly through trial and error. He has done a lot of reading, studying and experimenting. When he was first starting out, .he used to go to the Centre at nights, set up the equipment, do a piece and play himself back on video-tape, carefully looking for his errors. He feels he is his own worst critic and he is still trying to break himself of habits like swinging the microphone back and forth too much from himself to the person he is interviewing arid, of repeating back what that person has just said. He admits that he is not quite as nervous on camera as he used to be. When you're on video- tape, he explains, you can always edit out mistakes and fix things up later but when you're interviewing someone live, it goes on the air exactly as it happens and there's not much you can do about mistakes. One of the worst things, he thinks, is when you're interviewing someone and all you're getting are yes -no an- swers and then you run out of question quickly. Feeling comfortable with the person you're in- terviewing means a lot, he says., Salter has also taken a one well; 5 ourse in Toronto on instructional techniques. It was a crash course but one - which he feels really helped •him. From it, he learned to talk slower on camera and to set his comments out better. A silent pause is better than an"um" or an ''ah', he says. Others taking the same course were his critics arid although he says his knees were weak and he was nervous in- side when giving a presentation before a video-tape, those in the class said he didn't ap- pear nervous on camera. He hopes to attend another course on video production in September. Salter has also visited the Onxford Regional Centre at Woodstock for advice on running an audio visual department. The Oxford Centre has a four man department and a complete studio. They told him to know his equipment, to know what it can do for himanti-to know what he can do with it. So that is the advice that he tries to run the Bluewater department by. UNCLE LLOYIS Salter .took—a Business- Administration usinessAdministration course by correspondence .after high school and worked at that for five years. He • • worked in the industrial therapy workshop at the Ontario Hospital and has' been with the Bluewater Centre ever since it opened. He has always enjoyed .co-ordinating activities, he says. He was on a committee' which co-ordinated most of the activities for Goderich's Jubilee 3 celebrations and he has video-tapes of many of those activities which he says he will keep forever. The fact that newscaster Lloyd Robertson of CBC and CTV fame is Salter's uncle is a mere co- incidence to his present work. It was his sora Earl who was the real in- spiration to, him. Earl, who was in the drama club at G.D.C.I. as well as beinga guitar player and singer, could, perform •easilyiin front of people and Salter really envied his ability to be at ease. like that. Earl is. presently attending Kingston University and hopes to be an English `.eacher. The Salters also have a daughter, Debbie, who is a Registered Nurse. Uncle Lloyd did give Salter some advice though. He told him that the day he wasn't at least a bit nervous in front of the camera, was the day that he had to start worrying. Salter says his real ambition is to some day take a color porta pack out on his boat; .film -.sail boats peacefully floating along in the water against the horizon; and later add `music to the film. Working with color is much trickier than working with black and white,he says. With black and white, you can hide a lot but with color, you have to be very careful about contrasts. Salter doesn't know exactly which part of his job he likes best, whether it's being on camera himself or doing the behind -the -scenes work. "It all goes hand in hand," he says. '''I guess it's sort of like showing off home movies." Up until two and a half years ago, Fred Salter of Goderich had never opereated any audio visual equipment in his life. But now, as staff training officer at the Bluewater Centre, he operates one of the best equipped audio visual departments, in the province according to the size of the Centre. Here he plays himself back on video tape to analyse his interviewing techniques. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) If the old saying you are what you eat has any truth to it there, are a lot of people that are in big trouble. Accor- ding to scientific research over the past decade just about every time you open your mouth to take in a little nourish- ment you risk contracting a few delightful diseases like cancer, heart failure, hardening of the arteries, liver problems and other assorted malfunctions of the body designed to kill. Mom's good old chicken soup may do wonders for' that nasty cold but it won't do anything for your cholesterol level. It seems anything that comes from a chicken will up your cholesterol level which as any serious health buff will tell you is bad news. Science has devoted a great deal of time and effort to determine what is ,safe to eat and from what I understand you may be better off starving to death. It may not be the best way to go but it could be the least painhul.. An ap le a day maY keep the doctor away bit it could bring the cancer s INNIONSIMMINts technician knocking on your door. The apple itself appears to be quite safe it's ,that spray they put on the fruit during the growing season that will kill you. Some scientist has discovered that the" spray, if ingested in certain quantities, can cause cancer. Researchers gave labratory rats several tons of apples drenched in pesticides and the little rodents got cancer and, died. The researchers warned that if you apple lovers continued to eat 12 bushels of apples a day without taking the time to thoroughly wash each one you'll no doubt be a cancer patient. Anyone that ever got involved in any kind of athletic competition under a serious coach may remember being told to have a steak and eggs breakfast on game day. Get that protein level up and you'll have no problem with stamina during the game. Wrongo. You may get ,the protein the coach wants but it could be deadly. Science has determined that if steaks, and many other meats, are cooked a certain way cancer is imminent. Some methods_ of cooking the meat are safe and some.are deadly. That good, old back yard barbeque in the summer has been called a death wish by some resear- chers. Apparently the charcoal used in the barbeque gives off some sort of pollutant that gets imbedded in the meat and can cause cancer. Remember the cyclamates scandal. Scientists took a long hard look at cyclamates to see if it was safe for society to have diet drinks and stay healthy. There was a great deal of concern that the only way people could enjoy a soft drink or a cup of coffee with sugar in it and still stay skinny was to stare cancer in the eye and tip the glass. Month of research proved that it was not wise to stare cancer in the eye and. the governrnent, looking out for our interests, banned the ad- ditive. Those people who were drinking a hundred bottles ofet soft drink a day were saved. Th it bodies were spared the agonies of anter and it is hoped a cure can be found for sugar diabetes which is what many dieters contracted after switching to regular soft drinks. Good news for you people out there that have been eating margerine to stay healthy. 'Some dude in England has completed an experiment that he claims proves that there is nothing to be gained by eating margerine. He claims there is no proof that margerine eaters will have ; no cholesterol problems. He says the people that eat butter have no more problems with cholesterol, than people that eat margerine. That claim was made after the man fed labratoryrats nothing but butter and margerine. That little tidbit must be reassuring to people who have been eating nothing but margerine for years. It does nothing for me. I like the odd apple after my barbecued steak. But I don't think I'll necessarily have a problem with cancer. I don't make a habit of drinking diet soft drinks. JEffH Seddon