PAGE 4 | ' PUBLISHED BY NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED . Published five days a week at 3112 Kaium Street; Terrace, B.C. A member of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publisher’s Association and Varied circulation. Authorized in cash, return postage guaranteed. GORDON HAMILTON MARY OLSEN PRODUCTION ; ADVERTISING P.O. BOX 399, 3212 KALUM STREET TERRACE, B.C, Harmless as table salt A short while ago, this comment was __ that “harmless sprays’ there, Then there.is the other part of the 50- spraying of the highway along the 50 mixture, 24D. People spraying Skeena. lawns with this mixture, who have The spraying tock place on become wet with its spray, have September 23 and 24, the verytwodays | suffered severe neuritis and even that birds died at Prince Rupert. No _— paralysis. A curious indirect result of doubt the birds were lucky not tohave § any plants sprayed with 2-4D, is that started the flights south in July, since _— there is a strange attraction for the the September spraying was “merelya sprayed plants, particularly wild touch-up process” to July’s major cherries. Rachel Carson wrote effort: “another curious effect of 2-4D has In November 2 Herald, we read important effects for livestock, about naturally occurring cyanide wildlife, and apparently for men as compounds (Canadian Wildlife well.” The increases in nitrates is the Service), with the final paragraph danger, and I will quote the fatal chain made in regard to the September stating ‘the cyanide compounds — of events that may follow: believed to be the cause of death are pital Insurance, Mr. Ralph R. content. Loffmark informed me that the herbicides utilized was a 50-50 mixture feathered friends never had a chance as second class mail Registration number 1201. Postage paid — THE HERALD, TERRACE - KITIMAT, B.C. “In that ease you ean just send the bills to Mr. Benson!” . - comments made therein might '. prompt an apathetic public tof - do something to stop the use of Fam . mentioned, since we have been If ‘given to understand many 8 __, . Columbia are to be treated with Hil _. this improved 10-80 compound. i “The nitrates act on the blood present in the tissues of a number of pigment to form a chocolate-brown plant species including some wild substance in which the oxygen is so berries. The amounts may be incre- __ firmly held that it cannot take part in ased in wilted or frost-bitten plants, in respiration, hence oxygen is not young plants growing rapidly as a transferred from the lungs to the result of fall rains afteradrysummer _ tissues. Death occurs within a few and in plants treated with hericides.” _ hours from anoxis or lack of oxygen.” In a reply to an enquiry made to the © When the weather is exceptionally dry Minister of Health Services and Hos- there is an increase in the nitrate It is my opinion that our small originally planned over 40 years This has resulted in unbelievable crowded staff working conditions. adjusted where we could, added on where feasible resulting in a new Metabolic Unit and Amino Acid Laboratory, the only facility of this type for children in Western Canada, Asa result We have importance. Skeena hospital of this new investigation unit a program has been instituted to diagnose, evaluate & develop a plan for the management of inborn conditions that could lead to retardation. diagnosis and initiation of treatment can be of critical Included in this pediatric pioneering plan which of 2-4D and 2-4-5T,” which acts as an with this “harmless as table salt” ’ excelientdefoliantbut is not considred —_ mixture. One is reminded of the killing J ohnston s to be exceptionally toxic.” of the wolves in the Keewatin Barrens, An item published in Vancouver —§ spoken‘of be Farley Mowat at the end _ Gasser Province on November 10, 1971 of “Never Cry Wolf” The poison 10-80 , mentions ‘‘the environmental was later found to kill10 times but I takea serie ters andpu protection agency says there appears _ now understand it has been improved netia flona oar e to be 4 link between the herbicide 2-4- upon and become even more lethal. h- ).D th id 5T, which was widely used as a apoet feesci thee onven tons defeliant’ in Vietnam and birth ~ ~ British: Columbia: is still using this. Imann er,i. = espac .eafte’™= | defects.’’ presumably if a spraying of poison against the wolves today despite rthee.. ndofe parat eandd 2-4-5T is good enough for Vietnamese, protest from both the Rod & Gun and Hun clwor Font erat it should be good enough for us as Trapper Association, Now it is more punct uatic nmark with noreg regards use of a defoliant. lethal, perhaps we ourselves will come ardto “read ty."U setwe However EPA administrator in on the extended chain reaction. nty-f —ivema etter sorpu William D. Ruekelshaus suggested ‘‘a- Since so few of ‘Us appear to be ~netua tionm andfor urspa correlation between the spraying of 2- | concerned with the indiscriminate use _ cespe line Ther esult wit 45T . and the incident of birth of. 24D, 24-5T, 10-80, or any other of pract a natin a orb . defects” among the Vietnamese. The these poisons, perhaps that is as it (ifdo nepro perly )andy oumay military was quoted as no longer using should be. . ifyoun wish, calli tart. Apoem | ° .Forestry proven accurate on Nass River dream Tourist as wellas commercial and today stand proud of their Trans-provincial. business is expected toincrease new product, The Nass River linking Prince Rupert and . ’ Prince George, and the Stewart- | access to the North has been The old photos seen below Cassiar Road which, when made, depict the working conditions in finished in late ‘72, will join The completion of the Nass the Nass area and specificallya Stewart at the head of Portland River Bridge this month has walking bridge first used to Canal with Watson Lake on the in the Terrace area now that Bridge, caused a lot of comment over span the mighty Nass. Alaska Highway. the past few days and Terrace — To dig up a little of the past, The Nass River. gorge is District Chamber of Commerce wenow present a press release almost 400 feet. wide at the selected crossing site near very optomistic about the future Construction of the first Meziadin Lake and the bridge vehicular bridge across the decking will be nearly 130 feet In the herald files there are Nass River is well advanced above the river bed. ‘The main several press items of the past and completion is expected by span is to be 186 feet in length. which have today proven te be late October. It is being built by Several designs requiring members are reportedly being september 9, 1971: of Terrace’s business life. very accurate. the Engineering Division of the steel components The B.C. Forest Service has British Columbia ‘Forest considered but the most been responsible for supplying Service. economical and practical media with this material, The bridge will close the final. proved to be a composite wood- including glossy photographs, gap belween the Northern steel structure in which consulting laminated wooden girders take the main stress. designed by Gower, Yeung and Associates, engineers, of New Westminster. The 80 to 93 foot Douglas fir girders have been fabricated by Coast Laminated Timbers Limited of Richmond and pressure creosoted by TPL Industries Limited of Burnaby, The shorter components have already been delivered by truck to the eastern side of the bridge site and are now being installed. The four 93 foot lengths will arrive about Sept. 15 after which they will be spliced to form the two 186 foot main Tt was ee Temporary footbridge for “. workmen. and skyline cables for. movement of _ - }prest -Service. components already spon, the fast flowing. Nass - November. River near Mexiadin Lake where British Columbia completed. permanent bridge in. - Although readily the bridge intended primarily to provide access to undeveloped regions ‘and.to enable the Forest Service to conduct its forest protection and management tasks more throughout surrounding area, it will. be open to the travelling public at specified times. will be necessary because most of the roads leading to the bridge from the south have been built and are maintained by Columbia Cellulose Co. Ltd., whose trucks use the roads to haul logs from the forests. 4641 Lazelle Wwe.can offer hope in the future LE. PRUDEN REALTY Ltd.| children | is available not only to Children’s Hospital staff physicians, but to physicians of the entire province, are genetic and parent counselling. Other clinies set up within the. hospital's Metabolic Unit include. a Growth Hormone Program, Adolescent Development and a Child Diabetic Clinic.' The latter invalves both patient and _ parents who attend individually and ‘for. group education relating to medication and diets _ ‘to live by. Also ‘new in the past few months is the Children’s Hospital Diagnostic Centre, which for lack of space at the hospital proper has been set up in a remodelled residence at 901 West 10th Avenue. . This is ‘basically’, a. one-stop" 'linit' | . offering a pattern of care for the multiple handicapped child with’ ‘such disorders as cleft palate, . myelodysplasia, communica- tion, disorders, includ- ing deafness, language delay and speech problems, congential blindness, developmentdelay and multiple congential conditions. Chronic diseases including epilepsy, muscular. dystrophy,. diabetes, ete are also seen, The Centre's planis to assist in provision of a continuous © program of rehabilitation’ and ediication, plus parental education for home management of these youngsters, All Children’s Hospital Clinics are subject to referrals from the patient’s doctor. ° 7 Thé services at Children’s Hospital are not, diminishing, rather they continue to. grow with the widened scope of treatment available in-today’s ‘ medical world. Thousands of ~ British Columbia's youngsters have reason to be grateful: that: Children’s Hospital was a part “of their lives and because ff people care..and realize the . importance of such a hospital 635-6971, One of the finest homes In Thornhill and only one year old. Four bedroom, double plumbing, wail to wall carpeting and fireplace, are just some of the features on the main floor. The full basement: is completely: finished with rec. room fireplace, extra bedrogm and-bath. 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