Page 7, The Herald, Thursday, March 19, 1981

Toxic chemical

VANCOUVER (CD —
B.C. has more than two
million litres — of
polychlorinated biphenyls in
active we — with only a tiny
fraction in office buildings.

But environmental of-
ficials say they can’t force’
industry to replace ‘the
hazardous chemical because
there are no safe disposal:
sites in Canada.

B.C. residents face ex-
posure to PCB through fire
or teakage in hospitals,
schools, gavernment

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buildings and industrial :

workplaces.

PCB, a compound related
to the now widely-banned
DDT, is believed to have
changed into deadly dioxin
during. a fire that con-
taminated a high-rise build-
ing “in. Binghampton, N.Y.,
last month.

The compound, which is in
fairly general use in
buildings constructed before
a 1979 federal-government
ban on its use, is used as a
coolant in transformers
which are usually behind

units.

in use
protective walls,

The province's pulp and
paper industry: is largest

user of PCB, with 408,000
litres, while virtually every

sawmill or lumber mill, with |
a tolal inventory of 121,000.

litres, uses the chemical.

B.C. Hydro has 58,000 .
capacitors, each containing —

about five litres of PCB, 63
transformers each con-:
taining about 1,000 litres, and
seven voltage regulators
containing a total of 10,-500
litres, said Lempit Putsep,
Hydro's department:
‘manager’ for civil and en-
vironmental engineering.
Federal environmental
protection service officials
have inspected almost every

¥, piece of PCB-containing
> equipment in place.

“But fire could break out
the next day — it’s beyond
our control, all we dois make

‘sure there's an apron to

control spills. and that the
bins aren’t in need of repair
or rusted through,” said
senior biologist Otte Langer,
assistant to director Mak Ito.

Banning PCB. outright —
the next step to the 1979 ban
on new electrical equipment

_ containing PCB — could be
B two years or 50 years down

the road, depending on. the
life of the equipment and the

haste with which a disposal
S siteis established in Canada,
.said Langer.

Meanwhile, there is a PCB
atorage area in Edmonton

5. but Putsep said it costs about
’@ g10 a litre to truck the
=! chemical to Alberta.

third’ of teenagers in
Calgary public schools

— aren't
control regularly.’
__A veport on sexual
attitudes and behavior -
of 808 students between
13 and 18 was released
Wednesday by Dr. Keith

Calgary | psychiatry
.prefessor, and’ Dr.
Stewart Meikle,

’ psychology department
director at -Foothills
Hospital.

They told a news

United Way grant, was
prompted. by concern
about high numbers of
unwanted © teenage
pregnancies in the city.

Pearce. -said the

active students had
their first experience by
age 13am 71 percent by

Alberta Education

be left to parents rather
than taught in schools:

Although students are
engaging in sex — two-
thirds have had sex at
age 18 — he'said their
knowledge about
reproduction. and birth
control is-sadly lacking.

are having sex but most -
using . birth

Pearce, a University of -

conference the survey; .
financed by a $30,000

‘ pesulis — more than-25-°
. per cent of sexually —

age 15 — challenge ©

Minister Dave King’s:
_ view that sex education —

” Students having sex.

-mendation in. the. 15-
page report by Pearce,

. Meikle, University ‘of
Calgary . psychology
professor Fred Pysh

_ and research associate
Dr., Jacqueline Piet-

- “chinis.

Such programs,
Pearce said, should.
include parents in plan-
ning and teaching.

Other
_ mendations
report:
— Laws should be —
removed which prevent -
doctors or birth control

recom- .
in. the ..

 qlinics from giving con-
- traceptives to teens

without parental con-
“sent. ule
_ — More family

planning clinics should '
be set up to help

‘teenagers.
A

research |

program should be
\gtarted to seek answers

to such questions. a5
what prompts .
adolescents to become:
engaged in sexual ac-
tivity'and what forms of

birth control best suit

their needs. -
Pearce said an annual
provincial fund “of -.
$500,000 could provide
such a research —
program. ,

He said he knows of no
‘other jurisdiction which
gives doctors power to-
“provide contraceptives
to a minor against
parents’ wishes. :

Thestudy found75 per
cent of students sur-
veyed. think birth

’ control’ devices should

be more _ readily
‘available to teenagers. .
An earlier reportby the

couver: The Calgary office
was opened lagt- September

and began functioning early

this year. | - .
BA’ limits itself to cor-
porate banking in Canada.
BankAmerica's . previous
foothoid came through
domestic institutions,
principally @ -20-percent
ownership of Montreal Trust

Another arm, Finance
America Ltd., operates in
the mortgage market but
Ralph Young, BA president
and director of the bank’s
Canadian operations, says
for the time being that will
be the limit of
BankAmerica’s activities in
banking

the consumer
sector. .

But the bank has mapped
out a long-term strategy to
take advantage of the new

‘ low, middle and high

whose knowledge of

"students failed half the
‘questions on: two tests.

same group on-parental
attitudes to teenage sex
found 54, per cent of
parents favored more

contraceptives for
teens. Le
The study tested

equal-sized groups of

social class adolescents.
It found low-tlass teens
the most sexually active
and high-class teens the
least. Lower-class
parents were more in
favor of sex education in
schools. than high-class
counterparts.

Forty per cent of the
students surveyed had
received sex education
hut didn’t do much
better on tests on
contraception and
reproduction.

’ ‘The study found that
13 and 14-year-old girls
who had sex education

| often postponed getting
involved in sex a5 a
result.

Sex education may
not be providing much ©
factual knowledge to
students,. Pearce said,

‘but it is affecting
behavior positively.

' High school students
aren't the only people

reproduction and con-
traception is shaky. -
Sample groups of -
-university biology stu-
dents and nursihg

- Pearce said copies of
the study will be sent to -
the Calgary public
school board with hopes
it will influence govern-
ment decisions
regarding sex
education.

; —-BankAmerica-is-changing |

Bank Act, revised last
November. BA currently

operates as a s0-Called ‘near:

bank,” offering limited
services {o corporate
customers. — ,
Under the new act foreign
banks can apply for a
charter to conduct full-scale
banking in Canada. Rosendo
Castillo, head of the Calgary

office, says BA's application’

could be approved by this
summer. His office can then
expand its wholesale bank-
ing operations into com-
mercial deposits, foreign
exchange and credit tran-
sactions and a variety of
other international banking
services.

‘BA will face stiff com-
petition as a late-comer. Of
70 foreign banks operating in
Canada, 20 have Calgary
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vestments Ltd. of “Toronto
has become the largest
single shareholder of Royal
Trusteo Ltd. of Ottawa —
Canada’s largest trust
company — bY purchasing
Campeau Corp.'s interest in
Roya) Trusteo for $36.8
million.

The purchase, announced
Wednesday, increases

Olympia and York's holdings :

to 23.3 per cent of Royal
Trusteo’s 19.3 million
common shares. Campeau
Corp. of Ottawa, controlled
by Robert Campeau, had
purchased about eight per
cent of Royal Trustco last
fall after a bitterly-contested
and unsuccessful attempt to
win control of the trust.
” company.

Olympia and York's
purchase of 1,233,103 class A
common shares for §22 a
-share and 312,-500 series A
preferred shares for $31,35
each follows the company’s
successful bid this month for
contra] of AbitibiPrice Inc.

of Toronto, the world’s.

largest newsprint manu-
facturer.

Garfield Emerson, lawyer
for Olympia and York, said
the agreement price means
the purchase does nol qualify
as a takeover bid under
Ontario securities law.

He said the Reichmann

family of Toronto, controller
of Olympia and York, was
merely following through on
astated intention of buying a
20-per-cent interest and
seeking representation on
Royal Treusico’s board of
directors.

Royal Trustco
management said earlier it
did not object to the Reich-
manns buying up to 20 per
cent of the stock and it would

consider board represen-.

tation for the family.
In anather development,

Bon Jahnston, jreasury

board president, ‘sdid U.S.
President Ronald Reagan
and British Prime Minister
‘Margaret Thatcher, are
taking a meat-axe approach
to economic reform com-
pared with Canada, ”
Johnston said in Van-
couver the Canadian
government, by contrast, is
skillfully wielding a carving
knife in its economic

Haig is called 7

programs. He said Canada
has forsome time been doing
the kinds of things for which
Reagan is receiving ac-
claim. cl
“In terms of tax relief,
what the U.S.. government
pro to do for three
years we have been doing for '
the last seven," he said. .
Johnston specifically men-
tioned indexing personal tax
exemptions to inflation, a
practice started in Canada in
1974, Canada has also been
taking extensive. measures
to cut the cost of government
reguialion in the private
sector and to cure “the
disease of big government.”
In other developments: :
—NDP MP Nelson Riis
said his party will call for the

resignation of Gerald Bouey,

Governor of the Bank of
Canada, following the.
release of Statistics Canada
figures which show prices in
February were 12.2 per cent
higher than a year earlier.
Riis sald the latest in-
creases, the largest since
December, 1974, and Bouey's
own admission that Central
Bank policy has not reduced
inflation, means he should be
removed, The increase was
largely due to & L.7-per-cent
increase in {ood prices since
January and higher housing
charges and clothing prices.
—The president of the
Bank of Montreal says
continued double-digit in-
flation and high interest
rates on long-term loans
point to a gloomy economic
future. Willlam Mulholland
told farmers and farm-re-
lated businessmen in Lon-
don, Ont, ‘‘these .are
dangerous times” ~ for.
capital-intensive businesses. .
He said he expects an in-

flation rate above 117 per

cent this year.

—Four of Canada’s
chartered banks announced
they are reducing. th
prime lending rates, ¢f-
fective Monday, to 17.75 per
cent. The Royal Bank of
Canada, Toronto Dominion
Bank and Mercantile Bank
of Canada ail cut their prime
rate by half a percentage:
point from 18.25 per cent.
The Bank of Montreal
dropped its prime one-
quarter a percentage point
from 16. ; -

to committee |

State Secretary Alexander
Haig has been called before
a Senate committee to an-
swer questions about the
proposed use of U.S. military

~ force to block arms ship-
ments to El Salvador from
Cuba.

The Senate foreign
relations committee said it
would query Haig on the
issue after one of his
deputies disclosed Wednes-
day that Reagan ad-
ministration contingency

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plans against Cuba ‘‘do not

exclude snything.”’ -
Meanwhile, in the tiny
Central American country
itself, government troops
and planes pounded leftist
guerrilla positions Wed-
neday near the Honduras
border in the third week of
what a spokesman for the
governing junta called a
cleanup operation. a
Military sources said at
least one government sokier -
was killed in the fighting
Wednesday 195 . kilometres
east of San Salvador,
Residents said 10 other
soldiers were killed when
guerrillas ambushed a
military convoy in the
village of Aceituno, 40
kilometres north of the capi-
tal of San Salvador.

The guerrillas also blew up ~

8 bridge on a coastal high-.
way in Santiago Nonualco, 40.
kilometres east of San
Salvador, forcing traffic to
make a lengthy detour.

Police said the brokeupwp

a gun-smuggling ring’ that
wed private planes to fly
arms into Hopango airbase
on' the outskirts of the

capital. They said the owner.

of a flying service, who wat
under investigation, © com-
mitted suicide in his jail cell.

It was not known if the |
guns were being delivered to
the guerrillas or to ultra:
rightist death squads who
also want to overthrow the
junta that toppled President.
Carlos Humberto Romero 17

- months ago. The rightist

have been blamed for most
of the political violence.

Olympia and York
take over Trustco

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