Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press for people Winnipeg free press Friday May 21, 1976 13 ethnic is in All the Way to Attila the Hun by Rhoda Feldman the happening that is known As the showing of ready to Wear collections in France was flamboyant with color deeply layered and big on separate pieces. There were surprises such As Yves St. Laurent the Kingpin of Paris turning his Back on the Man tailored look of his couture collection. He brought out a brilliantly col ored feminine collection without a single pantsuit except for some narrow pants Over tunics and that after he d put pants Back on the map. Color in solid masses in stripes and in prints and Pat terns was the Over Allim pression of the collections As Paris went folkloric. Ethnic is in and we can feel satisfyingly smug As Paris design ers endorse our Canadian mosaic View. Layering was another Story. It ranged from Primi Tive wrappings want to look like Attila the Hun on the to sleek layering and then on to dazzling and exquisite costumes. It s adaptable. Whatever category they fell into for Day or evening tunics were the rage in Paris. So were pants often tucked into boots or pulled in at the ankle Over boots. That s two layers already. The Bottom layer at most major houses started slim. It was usually a cowl necked sweater that might pull up As a Hood and worn with a slim skirt or pants. What s on top from Roomy to roomier. But Yon can quit Early. At St. Laurent some skirts for Day and virtually All of them for evening were As big or bigger than the big look of three years ago. Some knitwear designers piling sweaters on sweaters made distinctions for buyers Between inner and outer sweaters. It s to be hoped sales people Wil pass on the information or else Label the sweaters. Most collections including St. Laurent s made a big Point of doing the trans formation bit. Separate pieces were calculated to work overtime interchanging to give different effects. There were slim sport Sepa rates at Given Chy pin striped suede jackets and straight skirts. Dior s Marc Bohan showed Tweedy skirts brushed Wool pants and patterned sweaters. The Man tailored slim suit done with pants and skirts was very much alive at dior. Bohan often mixed tweeds with checks with whip Ord with stripes and solids. At Dorothy Bis Broad stripes american Indian de signs and cubist motifs in Coats tabards and jackets were designed to go together in different combinations of separate pieces. The thing is i think not to throw anything out not blazers not slim skirts not big skirts not Short skirts. Just buy a tunic and a cowl necked sweater they re both important starters this year then some Day when it s really cold Wear every thing together. It la make you or break you. Ukrainian relatives reunited after decades life Long ambitions tend to be centred this in c r e a s i n g 1 y materialistic work. But for two elderly Winnipeg can with roots in the of country the Hope has been for reunion with their Only siblings after years of painful separation. Dreams came True a few jays ago for ukrainian born Anne Kowal Chuk 81 of wednesday and katrina Kilimnik 78, who have not seen each other for 56 years. They also came True for Helen lash Upa 87, and her brother Nick Hale Pechuk 70, who be been apart for 63 years she in Transcona and he in the Ukraine. For the Kowalchuk Sisters a. Six month visit has just begun. After months of try ing to locate her sister katrina in 1975, Anne Kowalchuk along with Daugh ters Marie Kowal of Winnipeg and Nancy Pudlowsky of. London ont., met her a t Winnipeg International Airport last Friday. Anne Kowalchuk came to Manitoba after the first world War in 1921 from the town of Bil Potik in Ter Nopil the Ukraine following her husband who had emigrated a year earlier. They came to a near Oak bum Man., and after her husband died Anne moved to live with her daughter Marie in Winnipeg eight years ago. Anne had Only intermittent Contact with her sister Dur ing those years. Katrina Kilimnik had been constantly moving to avoid the Wake of the second world War and finally settled in the town of slash in Western Poland. Daughter Nancy and son Morris Kowalchuk both now living in London ont., visited their aunt in Poland last year and Only then did it seem possible that katrina s health was Good enough to allow a reunion of the Sis ters. The realization of those plans was marked with a family reunion which Drew 32 relatives to the Kowal Home at 1140 Ellice Avenue. For Helen lash Upa and Nick Hal Pechuk the wait was even longer 63 years. Forty Days of reminiscing came to an end thursday morning when brother. Nick hew off from Winnipeg on the first leg of his return trip to the town of Ivan fran Nevski in the Ukraine. Helen who came to Canada in 1913 with her husband from the town of stanislaus in the Ukraine spent five years trying to locate her brother through the red Cross. She found him in 1922, but they too have had Only intermittent correspondence because of the wars. Although Nick had requested a three month pass for the visit to Canada Ukrain Ian officials allowed him Only 40 Days. He and Helen spent it touring the City visiting the new Winnipeg mint and the provincial legislative building. Mrs. Lash Upa who has no other family but her brother now lives in an elderly citizens Home in Transcona. Neither of the two sets of siblings knew English so Only a Little of their Joy emerged through daughters and friends in interviews. But it did t matter to them. They were together again. Soviet ads try to ease boy s pain the Washington Post Washington in the unlikely setting of an embassy reception room three soviet doctors Bent Over 15 y e a r o 1 d Greg Bedan Greenwood i n d seeking signs that their specialized treatment could ease his paralysis. He was the first of four americans that the soviets who Are specialists in paralysis caused by spinal Cord in juries talked to or saw at the embassy facility. The specialists Are Here to address a scientific Confer ence and tour medical treat ment centres. The americans including a Federal communications commission commissioner whose son is paralysed had been drawn to the soviet doctors by reports they offered treatments that sur passed anything available Here. specialists believe in the aggressive use of surgery As soon after the injury As possible to relieve pressure on the spinal Cord and allow the body s own regenerative process to work. Body functions the head of the delegation or. V. M. Mgr Yugov director of the pol nov nue Vologi c a 1 research Institute in Leningrad said soviet Doc tors believe More strongly than their Western Collea gues in the ability of the body to adapt and compensate for injuries to the spinal Cord. While this approval does t assure Complete cure of the paralysis it often a Jows greater movement of limbs and other body functions he said. The reports of the soviet successes were spread to other paraplegics by Roger Frank 21. Of Portland who revealed in news inter viewing that he had regained bladder control and some sensation in his legs after an operation last year in Lenin Grad. But in the four cases they discussed the soviet specialists praised the care Given by the american doctors and said there was nothing More they could do. Those were hard words for the americans to hear and in some cases despite their Sharp translation into English the words were barely understood. There Are to americans paralysed by spi Nal Cord patients Are added to the list each year. The treat m e n t a however had not kept Pace with the number of new cases caused mainly by accidents on highways in swimming pools and on ath Letic Fields. Greg Bedan for example was injured in a football game two years ago. He landed on his head making a tackle and immediately lost the use of his arms and legs. At the request of the soviet doctors Greg s parents Jack and Anne Bedan. Listed him from his wheelchair onto a soft Black leather Couch. With Practised ease they undressed him for the Examina Tion. Reflexes tested or. E. 1. Baby Checko a professor of neurosurgery at the Saratov medical institution tested for feeling in Greg s arms and legs moving them gently Pinch ing. He used a rolled up piece of paper to test Eye reflexes while or. Levon a. Matinian of the org Eli Institute of physiology in Treyan soviet Armenia watched. After their examination the soviet doctors gave the Bedan family the sad news. Right us Urumov said your main Hope is re habilitation treatment. Your most important task is that you adapt yourself to life. As specialists we have a duty to speak candidly. The amount of damage has been so intensive that there is no Opportunity for re Genera still the Beans pressed for some Hope. Mrs. Bedan asked about treatments with enzymes that Maliniak is experimenting with. He replied they arc most successful when Given immediately after an Accident and that they Don t work at All when the spinal Cord damage is As severe As in Greg s Case. Natural Healing the examination of Laurie Becker a 43-Yar-old Auto dealer from champing ill was almost a Carbon copy of Greg s. Becker too had hoped that he could be helped by a trip to Leningrad even though doctors there examining his mailed medi Cal records and a rays said there was nothing More they Vonlil do. The soviet doctors warned Becker against seeking More operations to relieve pain. Operations they said could undo the natural Healing process that allows him to keep on running his business. Acc commissioner Char Lotte t. Reid whose son Tom 33, is a patient in the veterans administration Hospital in Long Beach calif., came to see like Sovi ets because i did t want w leave any Stone they suggested further tests and asked her to Send them the results and her son s a rays. But again they promised together again for the very first time almost. A 40-Day reunion after 63 years ended thursday for Helen lash Upa and brother Nick Hal Pechuk above from the Ukraine. A six month visit by katrina Kilimnik with sister Anne Kowalchuk left a just beginning. 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