| Seal. hunters _
| getting ready
‘despite protest |

ST. JOHN'S, Nild.: (CP)
— Newfoundland and

‘ Norwegian. seal hunters,
- undaunted by the threat of

anew seaborne protest, are

7 ‘preparing for their annual

voyage into the massive

” northwest Atlantic icefield’

known as the Front.

With the outfitting of
ships and signing on. of
ctews for the March 10
season opening comes the
yearly storm of protest
from around the world.

Statements that the
harvest of harp and hood

” seal pups puta both species

in danger of extinction are

. . routinely rebutted by the

industry, governments and
the sealers themselves.
There Is no sign of any
slackening ‘in the hunt,
regarded‘ by Newfoun-

* dianders as a traditional

way of earning money.
during the lean spring
months when fishing
communities along the
island's northeast coast,
where moat of the, sealers

’ come from, are icebound.

Years of protest have
had little impact within this
province of 560,000' except
to raise the ire of some
residents who believe they
often are unfairly por-
trayed as cruel killers of
helpless animals.

“The attitude in New-

foundland is the reverse of |

what the protesters would
Hike to have,” said Guy

‘right, who spent one

pason aboard a sealing
rhip as part of his research
for a master of arts thesis
on anthropology at
Memorial University in St.
John’s.

‘Wright, a 28-year-old |
‘pative of Nelson, B.C., said
in an ‘interview that
generally New-
foundlanders) view the
protests Si iiéFely aribaibe®

manifestation of riders” "

trying to run their lives.
“The

. lifestyle is based on the
outport value structure and
the seal hunt is wrapped up
in sentiments about the

|, Newfoundland |

present 1g milllon.
The figures are disputed

by protest groups, which ©

contend there are fewer
animals every year. .

‘ One such group, the Sea
Shepherd - Conservation

_ Society led by Paul Watson

Wright said that New- —

foundlanders, heirs to

- qemturies of battling to

make a living from natural
resources, are trying to

| preserve a sovereign

identity ia which the seal
bunt 'is deeply anchored.

The. Canadian govern-
ment, which takes a
leading role: in In-
ternational negotiations for
setting kill quptas, sup-
ports the Newfoundland
position. -

‘

“The history of sealing is —

filled with tales of bravery,
of hardship and of
disaster,” says a federal

publication describing the

‘bunt, “It has become part

ef the economic and

‘ cultural heritage of
Canada’s East Coast.”

. Ships, land-based hun
ters and native peoples in
‘Greenland and = the

 Ganadian Arctic will be

able to take 190,000 harps
this spring, This includes
10,000 for Greenland and:
20,000 for two vessels ex:
pected to hunt in the Gulf of |

with two or three Norwe-
gian vessels sharing 20,000.
prec rest ol the harpa oil

be available to landsmen, *

moetly residenis of mor-
.thern Newfoundland and’
southern Labrador.

The 15,000 hood quota is —
three ways:

divided ;
Canadian and Norwegian

ships split the first 12,000; -

the remaining 3,000 may be
taken by tie first vessels to
reach them.

The federal government
says the harp herd could
easily sustain a ill of
between 215,000 and
290,000.. The aim of the
Present quotas is to allow
the harp population to
gradually increase to 1.6
million arkimals from the

of Vancouver, plans to sail
a ship into the Front area
from Glasgow, Scotland

, this year and to spray harp

pups — known as white-
coats —- with a green dye,

“The idea is to make the .

oe commercially wor
a Natson was convicted in

(a Quebec court last year as

a ‘result. of a simitar.
operation in the gulf in
‘1909.

‘The Quebec court or
dered Watson tostay away
from sealhunting areas

‘until 1963. However, the

order was written in
Frexh —~

“| signed something — I
don't know what it was
tecause J don't read
French,” Watson said in a
Yecent interview: from
Vancouver,

He said that in any event
he will be aboard the
‘converted North. Ses.
trawler Sea Shepherd when,
she arrives at the Froat.

The 32 persons on board

the 190-foot .Sea Shepherd, ©

including Watsco, jilah to
use a threeman hovercraft

- # carry them over the ice -

among the sealers.

Chances are they will be
ignored as much as
possible by crews of the

sealing ships, who are .

under orders from their
captains not to pay any
attention to protesters.

So far there have been no
violent clashes between
sealera and protesters at
the | Front... sah
5 The. only

ie only jPiagah de it
Watson, then a member of
the Greenpeace
organization, hitched
himself to a wire being -
wed to tow seals acroas the
ice to a ship. As the seal
pelts were being hoisted
aboard, Watson wound up
in the water, He was later

taken aboard and given a
meal and: warm clothes, ©

Watson said Canadian

authorities will not be able '

to Interfere with the Sea
Shepherd since the vessel’
will be outside
territorial zone of 12 nau:

“Heal miles and is uader

British registry. Enough

fuel and stores will be | -

aboard so there will be no
need to enter a Canadian |

"part.

1 ” f
Although federal
fisheries officials have not
said how they intend to deal
with Watson and his crew
of Britons, Australians,

, Americans, Canadians and

assorted other
nationalities, they have
noted that Canada’s fishing
fone of 200 nautical miles

“covers seating.

-In the «past, “most
protesters who showed up
without a federal permit or

who touched seals were ~

arrested,

The seal pups, born in
late February .when the
females clinb on to the

» drifting ice, have reached a’

“weight of between 27 and 32°
kilograms when they are

” Killed by blows to the bead
. with a hakaplk, a Norwe-

gian instrument consisting
af a jong’ ‘pola with a
haromer-like end.

“The seals are skinned
after killing and the pelts,

with their thick layer of -
_ blubber left on, are piled

for later hoisting abcard
the ships, The blubber. is.
used to make fine‘oil for

- hubrication and ccametles.

The pelts are exported to
Norway for final
processing and later sold at
international fur suctions.

Depending on the size of
his ship's individual quota
— and if hunting fs fit

delayed by the Front’s.

freqoent storms — — each of

the 35 to 30 imnen in a crew

can eafn up to $2,500.

‘

 ‘PORONTO (CR) — A Toronto coroner atood | on n the
side of a dark highway this weekend aid pronounced

an accident yictim dead without realizing the man.

was her husband.

Only whenshe returned to her nearby home did Dr. *

“Margaret Milton learn that -her husband, Sidney
Martin Blair, 83, was dead.

‘Milton, who has pronounced more than 3,000 people :

dead in her career as a coroner, was told by aneigh-

bor in Boltoa on Friday that a man was lying on the

side of the nearby highway.

She was later told that her husband had decided to
joina search party for the family's lost dog.

It was then she knew that it was Blair whose pulse

~_ and pupils: she’ had checked while ambulance at-

tndants performed reauscitations.

She returtied tothe read and spoke to police. “I told
frem very ‘quietly that T knew who it was. It was my
‘posband.”,

In an interview, Milton sald: “I pronounced him
dead. I thought he was Roger, whe lived in our coach

house. Te

TORONTO (OP) After
many years of warning
consumers not to use foil or
metal containers in their
Microwave ovens,
manufacturers now say
that under certain circum-
stances His all right i dp

“weites tit constimers
should follow three rules
when using foil or metal in
the ovens.

Metal pans and foil wrap
are safe to use if the mass

‘ of food to be heated is”.

greater than: foil’ iv" thé =

” container, if any metal foil ,

erin paper to be delivered
next week in Toronto based | -
on extensive tests done in,
the US. using metal in
milcrowaye ovens, Dr.
Rebert V. Deecareau, a
microwave consultant ~

- from Amherst, N.H., says

consumers need not be
concerned about damaging
the magnetron’ power unit
in their appliance by cook-

ing food in: foil or metal

containers. .

However, Decareau

lidis removed before cook-
ing and if the container
does not touch interior

John Balstone of Alcan's |

says: “Microwave avens
are not quile goof-proof yet
but each year we see im- -
provements and each year
the new models reduce the
possibility of arcing.”
Decareau says in, his:
. ‘paper that arcing occurs

_ Whenever a metal con-—

i

“He was wearing some typec of clothing I've’ never

”
Seen.

‘She said Blair was hard of hearing and had dif. .

ficulty seéing out of his right eye, Hewas struck by a
car as he crossed the highway.
Blair had been at the ‘vanguard of resarch in
petroleum engineering since he received a master of
science degree from the University of Alberta.
, He was a former chairman and ‘president af.
Canadian Bechtel Ltd,, z= large engineering and

canstruction ‘firm.

_ He was the [athes of 8, Robert Blnir, 61, president of
: Nova Corp., the largest pipeline company in Alberta,

president of Canadian National Railways. mts
Robert Blair, interviewed from the home his father
‘had shared with Dr. Milton since they were married -

- “two years ago, said without his father the Athabasca =

oi sands projéct would not have existed;
In the-late 1920s, the young engineer was already
- looking at-retrieving oil from the sands by using a. -
: process ‘called hol-water- Separation. More than 0 .

ininer “ comes in contact _
with a wal] surface of 4

‘microwave oven when the

oven is energized.
“Immediate damage to

the wall will occur either as

- aburnthrough pf an acrylic.

~ panel wall,.or pitting.” ”

Food containers made
cut of treated paper
products are also.
vulnerable. to certain”
conditions in both |

} _ Mi¢rowave and = can-
foil and packaging division ~

ventional ovens. -
Decareau writes that two

factors triggered reser-

vations found in cookbooks

about use of foil or...

metalware in microwave

ovens; arcing aid fear of- -
shock.

_ “In. fact you.-can use
metal in microwave ovens,

pots, pans, skillets and so

you just “have to make

~sure they don’t have plastic

handles which will melt or
break down in a microwave
field, and metal , handles

-mnust not be loose. ”
Decareau says fears that —

wing a metal or foil co;

fe

in burding out th

magnetron power tube — ~
‘source of the oven's energy :

— are. groundless.

“As long as there's food
in the containers, fresh or
frozen, microwave energy

is mostly absorbed by. fhe

food.’’ .
Pierrette ‘Beaulieu’ ‘of

'. Ageiculture Canada's food
» advisory board

years slater, noone has founda rabetbarGiyto doit.

' "He jumped into it at the very firat,” his son said....

“He was right qt theheart of research work.’ .~
Later, a5 4 director of engineering fora Trinidad oil

' eompany, Sidney Blair wag responsible for delivering .

high-octane avigtion fuel to Britain's fighter planes

-during ‘the Secdnd Worl ‘War

yo:
In the mid-50s, Blair was invited to the Athabasca +"

a project to help determine its viability, and he began 7 i

‘his work with Canadian Bechtel. :

” Although be officially retired in the early 19708, bie

‘atill remained active in research, studying ice floes

for the Newfoundland Ocean. Research Corp, In 1975,

and of Mona Bandeen, wife of Robert Bandecn, _ he was awarded the, gold medal. at the Ontario . o-

Association

af. “Professional... Engineets.:
“He was also involved ‘with Nova. ‘Corp., in tie «

‘company’s effort fa Jeam how Wo retrieve oil without, a

*" having.” to: pump it

h | tothe ‘surface.
“He: was pushing a ranber ‘of people, including.

.” myself, into ‘recovery of: petroleum," Robert ‘sald,

: whether. ‘oil containers or

‘liner will somehow resigiaaa

says

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