Wednesday, March 1, 1978

REVIEW

The mayday was picked
up. at 1:35 p.m. last
Thursday. A fishing boat
was in distress off Dock
Island, and one of ‘three
vessels on the way to help
was a 17-foot Boston
~ whaler skippered. by 19-
~ year-old Karen Klein.

Not long after, the’
fishing boat Tofino lay
safely © anchored alt
- Philbrooks shipyard after a

tow-in. Another boat had

provided the tow and the

RCMP vessel Halverson

also arrived so Karen just
' stood by to help if needed.

For the cheerful blonde
teenager - a qualified diver
and acknowledged expert
seaman - this act of mercy
was a routine run. She’s
taken part in more dramatic
rescues over the last year or
sO. oe

On Feb. 18 she took off
alone at night in the whaler
when a vessel was reported
lost in the fog. Her parents,
Horst and Joyce Klein,
remained behind on the
family’s other boat, Queen
of Storm, to maintain radio
contact with the distressed
vessel through Seattle and
to relay information to
Karen.

She finally . found ‘the
boat in the Tumbo
Channel, miles from where
it was supposed to be, and.
told the owner to drop
anchor and ‘‘stay there.’’

His relieved reply was,
“Pil be happy to.”’

‘Karen radioed her
-” parents she’d- found him so

‘they could) inform Van-
couver: and. Seattle.
coastguards, - and: the’

skipper. of the. lost vessel
followed Karen until they
met up with the Klein’s in
the Queen of Storm.’ -

Their. job of .com-
_muniation had’ been: ac-

‘complished

Karen Klein, 19, skippers boat, helps parents with rescue
work al sea,

and — they’d
come out to help Karen.
Together they- guided the
boat into Fossil Bay, Sucia
Island, in U.S. waters.

It was another rescue job

over for the family, making

a total of 169 troubled
boaters they’d assisted since
June, 1976..

The three form part of an
unofficial auxiliary
coastguard of boaters
operating a volunteer rescue
service along the 10,000
miles of the B.C. coastline. -

And the Klein’s - like the
other volunteers - are not
only unpaid. They’re out of

pocket to the tune of $7,000

for expenses incurred in
their. rescue work.

But the -unofficial
auxiliaries are’ soon to
become official once three
major issues are_ solved.
Transport’ Minister’ Otto
Lang: announced last: fall
$750,000 would be spent to
form the auxiliary in five
regions across the country,
but: who pays for what-and

how the volunteers are to be

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paid are the ticklish
problems now being ironed
out.

Difficulties over setting
pay rates, determining
liability and how: to
compensate auviliary
members injured on rescue
missions has meant that
plans tohave--the force
operational by April 1 will
be delayed.

But despite the delay in
solving key issues, regional
director Herbert Buchanan
still hopes the auxiliary will
be operational this summer.

‘In. effect, we already
have an auxiliary in place -
all we’re lacking is a legal
umbrella,’” he said.

Horst Klein of Otter Bay
Marina. Pender Island;
Robert Somerville of
Campbell River and Philip
Matti of Passage Island,

have formed an unofficial -

executive committee — of
volunteers. to ‘plan the
opration of the auxiliary.
Klein. said the auxiliaries
were asking only that their

expenses: be paid, not their”
~ times as wages. ‘‘Items like.

fuel, maintenance, «a

percentage of our mooring. |-
-fees, insurance, upkeep and
: repairs,” he said: :
‘He ane: his wife’ ‘stressed a.
‘the:
. auxiliary. Awante: to do this”
full time, but there’ sa Jot of.
co-operation.
between’ the: auxiliary and
a the regulars.””. .. eee
: -. Coastguard. regulars man’
cutters; 9a
: ‘hovercratt,. two crash boats: |:
Vancouver, .
- and six rubber boats “used.
only during the summer.

| “ Other Day, A La Cait sean

there . "NO + way =

three big"

stationed’,
As more and more people

take to ‘the water in’ boats,
so the-rate of incidents rise,

demonstrating the need for

an auxiliary service.

The Klein’s log book
amply shows. the
Inchided init are dozens of

letters from grateful-boaters °
-who were rescued “by: the

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family. Out of the 169 total
over
pleasure craft tops the list .
of
most
engine trouble. Others go
aground, sink, lose or foul
props, drift or are reported
overdue.

involved

sometimes
necessary communications
link
fail.
fishing boat .was on the
rocks in U.S.
neither Vancouver, Seattle
or Victoria
radio contact with it.

the communication link - he
was on the. radio for four

; hours
And
side to-these emergencies,
he says.

200 - feet
‘light,"’

of the Georgia Straits. It
} was on the rocks andhalf

“before, although i itis several years.old.*
Vo call-it:delightful because: it very. eloquently argues a

need,”

- England, Scandinavia,

some 20 months,
distressed boaters,with

of them reporting

The Klein’s also become.
by radio,
providing a

when other sources
On one occasion a

waters and:
could make

Klein was able to provide

relaying messages.
there’s a humurous

“This fellow was within |
of a flashing
Klein — explained,
‘but it was two hours
before he told me this! This
factor would have located
his position much sooner!”’
On Feb. 3 the Kleins went
to the rescue of a boat that
had been drifting for more
than 26 hours in the middle

4 ORR

full of water by the time the
family arrived.. They baled
the boat out, pulled. it off.
the rocks and provided. a
tow.
Last May they took three
men - all drunk - off a
sinking. boat... In: another
incident_a fisherman out of
Ganges dredged. a bomb up
in his..net. *‘He called -us
and we got out to him.and
looked at the bomb.”’
A link was made by radio

with a bomb disposal unit
and Klein was told what to
look for to determine

“not.

‘Bicycle a vehicle

for revolution —

day, 1--discovered:a: delightful book that I ne not. ‘seen

‘point of view that | strongly endorse.::

discussions of the evils of the automobile are interspersed

search of places still unspoiled by. cars."
Most of the: world’s

corners of the urban scene that have been really tailored to
human needs. are quickly. being turned into motorways,
parkades and other facilities that cater to the needs of cars.

By Mary Kierans :

Yet these cars, as we all realize nowadays, are becoming,

in-many cases, useless; their sheer, road-jamming numbers
defeat.their purpose, .

During -his cycling trips along the ‘by- -ways of France,
and -New. England, Behrman

learned the ecstacy of getting out from under the cloud of
carbon: monoxide,

Who is to blame for olir helplessness as the automobile
devours the last places where a person can walk or cycle in
peace? Behram lays most-of the blame on: the vast in-
dustrial «complex whose. prosperity. is founded on our
continuing addiction to cars.

“But he tells us that ‘the’ bicycle is a vehicle. for
revolution, [ft can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as

B etlectively as the printing press brought down: eesnals of

flesh and blood."
isa nice dream. But, as Fsit hergin the library typing:

i. hearing. the drone of traffie on the highway, and the roar of
HW -the planes above me «1 fear-for the cevOINTiOHs: and moss
quiet places it itis trying 10 save,

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-“oaDaniel Behrman’: s The Man. Who. Loved. Bicycles raises :
the: question: ‘of: why ‘our: western: society has. allowed itself.)
‘to be over-run and utterly despoiled bys a ruinous plague of “
“unnecessary automobiles...

‘Behrman’s presentation of. the case against automobiles
is handled in a novel: manner. Throughout the book, ‘his

Little goes a along: way

“incomes, but’ are ‘not .so ready::to. admit. that many..of ‘us.
“pick the: wrong. cars and ‘often -use them wastefully. Mean-
. while.: everything from: rising. prices’ to dwindling fuel
“supplies; from congested roads and: parking areas to traffic
with narratives about: his own adventures ona bicycle, in’ Which means lordrive less often, less fast and-less fancily.

Toa societybrought..up on ‘the. legend: of. the: Stutz ©
remaining open spaces are “rapidly

disappearing under a. blanket of pavement. The last’small

and away from the ugly, inhuman -
“shrines of our destructive g god, the automobile.

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Horst and Joyce Klein daily answer calls on radio for atonmation or help. The family has
notched up 169 rescues in 20 months.

He pronounced it a.dud | equipment, antenna costing

$1,000: and ‘radar, another -°
$5,000. The whaler carries
emergency equipment: . -
flares, searchlight, .etc. :’-
anda $1,000 portable radio.
with-a range of 10 miles or
more depending on- the
boat’ s uote -

His two boats- the * Queen

pada

“Most people will agree’ that’ curs’ take: a large: slice ‘Of, our’

accidents and: air-pollution is plainly: telling us to ease “up:

Bearcat and the Open- Road, the-notion’ that motoring :

. today: is no longer’so free.and easy comes as a slap in the

face. It’s a bit like the knight of 500 years ago discovering -
that the glory of: putting on armour and galloping to-the .

rescue of fair damsels had.suddenly lost its appeal now that”

he ran the risk of being blown off his. horse by the new-
fangled cannon, :

We. have. no. choice: . it seems,’ but 1o learns some tricks: '

that can help us to travel in fair comfort while beingaware
“of the needle on the world’s gas gauge, which unfortunately

is creeping toward: “SE mpty"’. T he first anes is to pick the.

; vel car,

Two kinds of energy go into ¢ anew car ~ the energy ‘used:
in producing the steel dnd-other materials, and making the:
parts and putting them together, and then {he energy to
make it-run. That's not counting: the energy. needed for

_ maintenance, new tires and repairs, and for providing roads
~and traffic. control systems, and finally for towing the old
_heap to the dump.

When you set-out to buy a new car, you look for the

deal that suits you best, of course, But remember a good

deal goes beyond finding ' ‘a honey ofa car", bargaining
hard for it, doing well with your trade-in and paying on the
easiest terms available, It also means asking: What. kind of.

ecar-do Tpeed? What wilt it cost to rin? How long will it last

me? Tf youvcan pet the answers right, you will save yourself
it lot-af money in the fongerun and (may heaven bless you) »
youwill be helping to beat the energy shortage,

If you are in-the market for a new car, a poad way’ to
begin as with) list af-current models that shows their-fuel

consumption. The Offiee of Energy: Conservation, «De-

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makes and models ranging froma low: consuniplian of 83-9

miles. per gallon (85 kpg). toca high of 14 wipe QQ2 kpe),

“These sare divided: inta three classes! $1 ood fuel’ Savers”

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This list of carsand other information-an buying, driving.

‘and ntaintaining then is in The car mileage book, Just writé.

(o Box 3500, Station Cy Ottawa, Ontario, saat = for,

. your copy,

 Acuseful rule of thumb to apply-is, of course, that little
cars usually go farther on a gallon of:qas than bigger ons,

but size is not the whole story, especially asthe smallest :

cars don’t meet every need, A car's fuel consumption also
depends on the weight, size and efficiency of its engine, the

efficiency’ of its transmission and drive train, its shape - '

(streamlining); its; stability on the road, and the extra
equipment: on: ft (such as pawer ‘windows and ar cons

-ditloners),

— Fuel consumption will vary. (ao with your driving habits,
how well you maintain your car, and the weather and other,

driving conditions. So your miles-per-gallon Cor kilometers

persalion) may not quite match the published figures, but
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