Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 30, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday August 30, 1977 for people pages 17-28 Barbara Cansino will it be Cash or As reported in the free press on aug. 18, people can put their divorces and operations on charge and master charge. Some Winnipeg lawyers and doctors accept credit cards As a Means of payment. One Man has phoned to complain. He tried it with his lawyer but the fee exceeded the Man s charge limit. The 2 . Terrorists the Manitoba Telephone system is a monopoly. Which makes business easier than it is for the simple competitor. Its does t have to treat customers As gently say As the Avon lady or the Fuller Brush Man. If Avon starts up with the collectors there s lots of Bath Oil in town thank you. For 1 v per cent the Competition won t Bug you. As for floor Wax there s lots of that around too. Hence perhaps the Politeske of is. Avon or. Fuller. Hence also perhaps the phone people s bravado when they Aren t courted paid haste Post haste on demand. What after All is a person to do homing pigeons take a while to train. The mail service takes longer. But As everyone knows Power corrupts absolute Power corrupts absolutely. And As Small ironies go the Telephone people in their Zeal to collect Are corrupting their own Means of Power their very purpose to get the most for their Money out of the most people for most of the time. The Point is this. In order to utilize the its task Force to the fullest advantage the Force should be Given a two part sociology refresher course. It s easy part l the fact of. The Holiday. Some its customers go on vacation. Some go for one week some for two some for a month some Ever longer. Part 2 Bill paying habits of people a some people pay their Bills As they come in every Day. Others pay their Bills once a month some on the first of the month some on the last of the month b when people Are away on their holidays they can t pay their Bills. Because they re not there to get them. Get it so if they go away for six weeks say they will miss two monthly payments. If they go for eight weeks they la miss even More. Right but Don t get excited. Their credit rating. If you Check is Okay. They be always paid their phone Bills before. So relax. Don t do what you did to poor mister Doeh. Mister Doeh is a Winnipeg citizen some would say Well to do. He pays his Bills once a month. He s been gainfully employed for 16 years. During that time he s built up his credit and reputation in the Community. In general he s trusted by his creditors his customers his colleagues his employees his neighbors his children. He s never been Dunne. He has no prison record. Phone around you la find out. He went away for a six week vacation. Somewhere in the its machinery was his phone Bill upwards of not to be sniffed at. One of your better customers during his absence the Bill was mailed to his House. Then came a cute yellow Billet Doux. Its 1-77 you know the one it has a picture of a Telephone Man and he s crying tears. There there now. Under his receiver is a letter addressed to or. John Doeh 1 easy Street City. His message it s not easy to Send a notice asking for payment and to do it without offence. Perhaps payment for your Telephone Bill is already in the mail or you plan to pay it today. If not we would appreciate your Early consideration. Well it s not easy to get the notice asking for payment offence when you re in Tahiti if you used your own commodity you d find this out for yourself save some its and some work hours. Then came a no nonsense form letter. No teary Execl Telephone Man. Laced with paranoia hysteria the message was Clear. Pay by 11 . Or your phone will be disconnected and no promises As to when you la get it Back. Because its is so Busy. Sending letters to people who Aren t there then came the next Bill for upwards of mrs. Doeh talks a computer overlap added. Then another Bill for the same amount a desperate due immediately included just above the touch tone extensions Are fast and convenient order today message. Then or. Doeh came Home from his holidays. He intended to pay All his Bills at the first of the next month As is his custom. But he sensed All was not Well with its. Unlike to Gas people water people Eaton a the Bay. The Book shop the florists Vizcon its seemed in difficulty. Concerned he decided to Send them a Cheque right away. Too late. Before the mailman unloaded the Box the phone people were on the Horn for their Money. They phoned the Man s Home. The woman asked his 10-year-old daughter where her dad could be found. It s the Manitoba Telephone company and it s very she told the child. Frightened the bad lady might take away the Nice touch tone the child gave her the number. The lady phoned Man at his office. His Secretary said he was at a meeting. So she harassed the Secretary instead. This is the Manitoba Telephone company. Toll him to phone this number before 2 . Or we can no longer hold his rudely. Not born yesterday the Secretary knew what was up. The Boss can t pay his Bills. If he can t pay his Bills then he can t pay me. Time to quit she reported the Call to or. Doeh. He did t want his phone Cut off. It s inconvenient and costs to re connect. When they get round to it. He phoned his wife and pave her the goods on the 2 . Deadline. Would she phone he s very Busy. Not one to be terrorized the wife waited until . Then she phoned Home. The Home phone still worked. Delaying tactics. She phoned its. The line was Busy. She got through at 2 05 . They said hold on a minute. I connect you with your service representative. She waited four minutes. She told the . That or. Doeh had paid the Bill. The . Demanded. She replied. Well Well wait until monday and if the Cheque has not been located Well be calling Yon thursday morning they called Back or. Doeh. No Cheque. What no Cheque but i mailed if last thursday. Sorry no Cheque. Her majesty s mail it has to be paid by 2 . Today or else we can t hold she account. Or. Doeh cancelled a meeting maybe lost an went 5owti to its with another Cheque for More Jhan he phoned the Bank to cancel payment in the first Rhet to. Toje next Day its Tom that or. For sows Harf paid of cos i twice. Its has two pm cheques and will credit f fee for pos. Mafe a and by 2 quote of the week advanced course to teach speech cats shake hands and Roll Over by Penelope Mcmillan the los Angeles times it All started dog Trainer Steve sea Pitta said because people kept saying you do this with my dog. I wish you could train my i thought i d try it for the Boyish 28-year-old added. And so his course on cat knowledge and obedience training was born. True it s not among the Best known courses offered by Pierce Community College s Community services Section. But a year and six classes later about five dozen cats of various Ages sizes and Breeds have come away Able to sit shake hands Roll Over and do other tricks with some proficiency. The unusual course has gone so Well that sea Pitta is planning an advanced class this autumn in which cats will learn Basic re walking the beam and How to when it started i was a Little concerned. I pictured blood drop Ping from the said scar Pitta who has been a dog Trainer for 11 years and had almost no experience with cats. But the cats did t fight in class and in fact proceeded to Lay some widespread myths to rest. The common belief is that cats of so that s How it s done do i get my Are too Independent to be trained but apparently they Are As train Able As dogs. What obstacles exist Are in the mind of the said Paul Loeb co author with his wife to of the newly published you can train your cat in an inter View. People tend to give so Many of their personal attributes desires or fantasies to their wrote the loebs who for 12 years have trained a variety of animals including cats for commercials. The Way people react to cats makes the cat the Way it to Loeb said. A dog is so when a dog comes into the House people kiss and cuddle the dog. The cat comes in and people say the cat does t want to be cuddled people ignore cats have Independent temperaments sea Pitta said but not so Independent they cannot re Spond to either disciplining or training. Some tricks took 15 minutes to some like answering the Telephone took a said 23-year-old Rosa Green who taught her cat Wizlo 14 tricks. Sea Pitta had asked mrs. Green a former student and Wizlo to come to a recent class to Pep up his present students who were not doing As Well As previous ones. Joanne Lippert was complain ing that her siamese misty was biting my Elyse Mayberry s Alley cat worry had tried to Cut class by running out the door and a 17 Pound Black cat was fast asleep. Scarpitta explained a Little la Mely As Wizlo an Apricot coloured Alley cat jumped through a hoop for mrs. Green. In training cats Scarpitta told his class disregard anything you know about dog there Are some big differences a main one being that unlike dogs cats cannot get along with cats Are trained with food and even after they learn they tend not to perform for cats also have a Shorter Atten Tion Span than dogs so training sessions can run 15 minutes at most. Their brains Are too Small to take to Loeb said. A third difference is Force. If a dog gets bored you tug on the Leash and make him scar Pitta said. But if you Start getting Tough with a cat that s it. It s All instead you have to psych out the cat think of a new approach. If you say you re going to do that or you May never get the cat to do anything training depends a lot on the relationship of the persons with their animal and How they treat said Gerrie Rue a siamese cat breeder and president of the los Angeles area club Best cat fanciers. Her four siamese have been toilet trained which both the loebs and Scarpitta say is rather easily done. Cat training is not Well known and Only four books have been written on the subject. And their techniques conflict. While scar Pitta following one method re commended not feeding a cat for 36 hours before each training ses Sion because the cat must be the loebs disagreed and said that was unnatural. The Best technique is so far what kind of cats respond Best to training is not known. There Are no Scarpitta said. We be had cats that have been four years old and even older do Well and other cats at seven months seem entrain the same goes for Breeds. He does t think cat training serves any great use but considers it a fun Hobby. Keep talking i m listening no i Don t care what the Book says breakfast blah after big win san Francisco a if you become an overnight millionaire by winning a lot Tery you May jump for Joy but researchers believe you May also find it hard to Rise and Shine for breakfast. That is one conclusion of a Northwestern University study on happiness one of sclera presented at the american psychological association s annual meeting. The study by graduate student Dan Coates and two professors focused on three groups winners of the Illi Nois state lottery who had suddenly come into Between and is million Acci Dent victims who were paralysed or nearly so and a control group of people who led everyday lives. The theory being tested was that the lottery winners would find simple Active breakfast or talking with friends less pleasant by comparison with their recent great rack. The Accident victims were expected to find More pleasure in these Simp be Joys than the control grf tap because of the tragedy Coton big the rest of Iker jives. Coates reported that the lottery subjects Feu few than controls in general and took less pleasure on the average than controls in a variety of Ordinary Accident victims he said arc less Happy than controls in general and tend also to take less pleasure in Ordinary this did not really Contra dict the theory that Happi Ness is relative though said Coates it was merely that the paraplegics compared the current state of affairs with their lives before being injured. Another researcher. Or. Margaret Gate of the univer sity of Maryland reported on a group of workers trained to help poor people in a Low in come Urban area. The work ers expressed More dissatisfaction with their lives than the Down and out residents they were assisting. 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