Page 12, The Herald. Friday, September 28, 1979

Disease not
a handicap

TORONTO (cP) —
Epilepsy, a complex and
baffling disease, hasn't
stopped Brian Metcalfe from
leading an exciting and
mobile life.

A chartered accountant,
Metcalfe, 37, says few people
know about the two or three
times a year he ts knocked
out for a couple days from u
grand-mal seizure.

Epllepey first hit him when
he was 17. He woke up
feeling foggy one morning
after a night of beer drinking
and thought he had a
hangover. He passed out and
when he regained con-
ciousness he was in a
doctor's office and couldn't
remember his name. A
neurologist told him he had
epilepsy,

Metcalfe says he knows
that he is having an attack
when his sight begins to blur,
then “my thoughts begin to
wander and I keep having to
go over things."

Finally, "I’m just sitting
and staring at the floor.’”

His mother, Roma
Metcalfe, wonders if her
son's difficult birth may
have had something to do
with hia disease,

However, he has travelled
Europe, worked in a steel
mill in West Germany, took a
master’s degree and a
doctorate in English
literature, married and with
his wife taught in Uganda for
two years,

He- __ belleves that
employers should be told

about the condition although |

he says he loses lesa time off
work than people who have
other problems.

Job seekers, he says,
should be required to list
physical disabilities on job
application forms.

“It is important the
employer know and that he
do what is necessary to
defuse any fear among
fellow employers,” he says,

Those who suffer fram the

disease describe the form
seizures can take.

Nancy Elllott, 33, a
travelling saleswoman, had
her first epileptic seizure
three years ago, She says she
sometimes sees an “aura,” a
bright light around
everything.

Deiter Michael, a
commercial artist in his 40s,
has psycho-motor attacks —
brief periods of confusion
and loss of balance but no
spasms.

Other victims say it affecta
their senses, For example,
food smells rotten when they
are having a seizure.

Michael says that job
stress can bring on a series
of seizures, but they are not
severe enough to affect his
work. .

Canadian Human Rights
legislation makes it iltegal to
refuge employment to a
person because of a
disability. In Ontario,
further legislation is
planned, but it still hasn’t be-
come law.

About 60 per cent of the
12,000 epileptics in
Metropolitan Toronto have
their seizures fully under
control by drugs, says
Robert Reilly, placement
counsellor with the Epilepsy
Association.

About 30 per cent of
eplleptics in the area who
can't control their seizures
are not working cr under-
employed, Reilly says.

One epileptic, Louise Rob-
ertaon, a former repoxter for
the Welland Tribune and
onetime creative writing
teacher for Niagara College,
is writing a book about

epilepsy.

Tealied It’s All In Your
Head — Living With
Epilepsy, Miss Robertson,
who now ia working with
Epilepsy Niagara Region,
hopes her book will help both
epileptles and the general
public to understand the
ailment better.

Touching story
for an artist

KANSAS CITY, Mo, (AP)
-~_Although +he..ance. made
the Red Sea part fer Moses,
Bruce Baker insists that his
mast difficult ac-
complishment has been the
construction of a palace
ballroom for Cinderella.

On any list of unusual
occupations, Baker's job
would be a worthy addition.
Officially described as a
paper mechanical engineer,
he designs paper popups for
children's storybooks.

Pop-ups are intricately
folded and cut paper designs
that spring seemingly to life
as a book's pages are turned.
They also include special
mechanical designs that can
‘e manipulated by small
paper wheels and pull tabs.

Turn a page, and up pops
Paul Bunyon. Pull a tab, and
a tree “tumbles” to the
ground,

“My job is to take what
would be a regular children's
storybook and animate the
characters and setting to
make the story a tangible
plaything for a child, full of
ideas and action,” explains
the Kansas City artist whose
pop-ups have been featured
in scores of Hallmark
children’s books.

“Small children really
enjoy having their mom or
dad read a pop-up book to
them. It lets them par-
ticlpate more and an-
courages them to read on
their own. This makes my
job very gratifying."

In his 14-year career as a
Pop-up artist, Baker's
subjects have ranged from
Bible stories to barnyard
animals, prehistoric mon-
sters to moon landings.

He has coaxed Little Bo
Peep's sheep over a fence,
helped Ben Franklin fly a
kite, made bucking broncos
buck and ghosts jump out
from behind paper
gravestones.

A popup is glued to two
adjoining pages of a book
and works from the leverage
Generated as the book is
opened or a page is turned.
While it sounds like a great
deal of fun, designing a
workable and reasonably
durable pop-up is often an
exercise in avoiding pitfalls,
Baker says,

The more elaborate the de-
sign, the more likely it will
bind up, get caught on itself
as it unfolds and rip apart.
Even the grain of the paper
is critical. If not aligned in a
strong vertical plane, the
pop-up becomes a droap-
down.

Many of the basic prin-
ciples of paper mechanics
were develaped by thé
Chinese and Greeks as early
as 400 BC, but pop-ups as we

know them were probably
first developed: in: Western
Europe: in’ the: late- 19th
century, Baker says.

. Popup designs became
popular in America during
the late 1940s with the in-
troduction of greeting card
“storybooks” that unfolded
into 360-degree scenes.

Today, the required hand-
assembly and resultant high
production costs have driven
alt at a handful of
publishers out of the pop-u
book market. °

Paper mechanics requires
not only artlstie talent, but
also a working knowledge of
geometry, physics and ar-
chitecture and mechanical
engineering, as well as
unlimited patience.

“Hreally helps to be natu-
rally mechanical,’ Baker
says. “I'm the kind of person
who enjoys fixing things. I
majored in art, but I never
learned any-thing like thiin
school.”

Helearned the basics after
joining Hallmark's
mechanical design depart-
ment,

“I spent four years
working on special greeting-
card designs, making
bunnies’ ears pop up and
tails wiggle. It was a real
education.”

Apples
a deal

OTTAWA (CP) — Fresh
apples — a super pick-me-up
at a mere 70 calories -- are
once again rolling into
Canadian markets,

Whether tart or sweet, red,
yellow or green, there are 30
varietles grown in Canada,
say food consultants at
Agriculture Canada.

Some are suitable for all
purposes and others are
primarily suited for one we
— be it pies, sauces, baking
or munching.

Bating apples should be
juicy and crisp, with a fine,
firm texture. McIntosh,
Spartan and Delicious are
good for eating out of hand.

For baking, choose firm
varieties that hold their
shape weil. Some of the best
types oare Northern Spy, Ida
Red and Red Rome Beauly.

The consultants aay ples
tasia best when they're
made with tart, juicy apples,
These also are ¢ for
stewing, frying and making
dumplings or crisps.

A soft apple like
Gravenstein makea a good
Salice because it mashes
easily when cooked.

Getting It together for

handicapped children are
doormen (left to right) Doug Edgworth-Bayshore Inn,
Marty Szeltela-Hyatt Regency, Alan Barwell-Clarke-
Hotel Vancouver, and Ron Burke-Four Seasons, with
Paul Gauthier “Timmy” for 1979 demonstrating that

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LOUISVILLE, Ky, (AP) —
The passenger in Ed
Burden’s truck has many
names. They depend on
Burden'’s mood at the
moment.

"“T vent my spite on him,”
Burden says. “Sometimes,
he’s my supervisor, or my
dispatcher. Sometimes, he's
the woman who almost ran
me off the road, It reall
doesn't matter what you ca
lim, he never answers,”

Burden rescued his

$ companion — a mannequin
" elown— from the scrap heap

about six months ago.

“This department store
was gonna throw the dummy
away until I offered to take
him off their hands,”

The clown got a home;
Burden got instant company
— anda lot af iddding when
he returned his rig to the
Overnite Transportation Co.
in Louisville. His new friend,
ell smiles, was perched in

_ the seat beside him.

“The guys around the ter-
minal thought I was nuts,
Several believed I was

’ wejrd. Sorta funny, you

know.”

Most of the laughter
subsided when Burden
removed the mannequin's
wig — “it made him look too
much like a woman" ~ and
dressed him in an old
sweater,

“T'm now shopping around
for a muscle shirt and a
straw hat for him,"

In addition to helping him
fight boredom, Burden said
his friend had been
invaluable during the recent

independent truckers’ strike,

"T figured if anybody was
gonna open fire on my rig,
they'd take the first shot at
him,” the trucker explaing,
“But I was lucky. Nothing
happened to me." |

Surden's dummy has
given the driver a celebrity
status around Overnite
Transportation, which he
joined five yeara ago,

“'] was just another driver
until that thing showed up,”
he says, jerking a thumb
toward the lifesize figure.

When people stop and
stare or ask queationa,
Burden has a serles of one-

‘liners ready for them: Such

8B:
“Why should I feed him,
lady? 1 do all the driving.”
‘You're right, sir. It takes
two dummies like us to
handle this vehi¢le,”’
“Do I take him home at
night? Naw. My kids

wouldn't approve, and the.

neighbors might wonder
what's going on.’

RECORD PRICE PAID

NEW YORK (AP) — An
autographed first edition of
Adolf Hitler's Main Kampf
recently was sold at an
auction here for $10,000, a
price that -the auctioneer
called a world record. The
book, printed in Munich .in
1925, was autographed by
Hitler and inscribed to a
Major Schueler yan Kriken
“. in gratitude from the
author, Munich, December
10, 1925.” The book was
bought by a Massachusetts
collector,

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