PAGE 4, THE HERALO, Wednesday, November 2, 1977 (the herald) Published by Sterling Publishers General Office - 635-6357 Circulation (Terrace) - 634-6357 (Kitimat) - 632-6209 PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE MANAGING EDITOR... STU DUCKLOW a Published every weekday at 3217 Kalum St. Terrace B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized 7s second class mall, Registrationnumber 1201. Postage pal. cash. return postage guarantead. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full. complete and sole copyright in any Advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content pubilshed In the Herald, Reproduction Fant perenltted without the written permission of the ar. tw says There is general agreement among analysts that it is a “good news-bad news situation.” The good news is that the pound will buy more, which will ports cheaper. The bad news is that since it will cost more in other currencies to buy the pound, exports will be more costly to Britain’s customers. make Unreal viewpoint in birth control MONCTON, N.B. (CP) — New Brunswickers are not rea- listic about birth control, says the president of the Sackville Family Planning Association, a branch of Planned Parenthood New Brunswick (PPNB). Marg Bogoard said in an interview that victims of un- wantet pregnancies in the province suffer from two naive attitudes. : The first is that “it can’t happen to me” and the other is the dismissal of birth control as something “cold and calculating that takes the naturalness out of the sex act.” Family-planning consultants, citing the odds, say the ides. that 350 million sperm. are pursuing one ovum is enough ‘o shock most gamblers back to reality. “And when young people insist that birth control is cold and unnatural, we remind them that, without it, many will end up having abortions and how natural are they?” The Sackville group, which conducted sex eaucation courses for students at Mount Allison University last year, also discovered that some young people rejected birth can- trol on the grounds that if they became pregnant it would look unplanned and therefore ‘not so bad.” ., SEES AMBIVALENCE “There seems tobe a lot of ambivalence about morality,” said Mrs. Bogoard. ; Young people have told association workers that they did not use birth control because they did not know their sexual partner well enough to discuss the subject. “It seems rather unreasonable that they would know a person well enough to have intercourse with him but not well enough to discuss the possible consequences, | she said. “Maybe Germaine Greer is right when she says that today sex is replacing conversation.” New Brunswick has reported. an increase in unwanted pregnancies. In 1973, Statistics Canada said there were 1,227 illegitimate births, almost double the number in 1960. Current statistics indicate that abortions performed in the province have alse increased. ; a Mrs. Bogoard said the group's efforts are thwarted by three key factors—its function is misunderstood, people are susceptible to s¢are stories about birth-control measures and e stigma against the pregnant, unmarried girl has essened. AIMS MISUNDERSTOOD “The efforts of the PPNB have been misunderstood. Our aim is just to make every child a wanted child. Our goal isn’t to control the population or promote sexual per- missiveness. . “People think we are condoning the sexual activity of teen-agers. But we're just facing the facts. They are in- dulging in sex without birth control. Their lives can be ruined. We're trying to prevent consequences that are detrimental to both the mother and child.” Mrs. Bogoard acknowledged that some birth-control methods pose health risks but said the mortality rate from birth control is lower than the rate from pregnane . She said changes in life-style in the 1970s have influenced the growing number of teen-age pregnancies. “Girls are reaching puberty earlier because of better health and nutrition but they're not more mature. Sex is advertised, even promoted, everywhere and the old bugaboos aren’t being listened to.” Added to that was an almost religious faith in the birth- control pill and ignorance of available family-planning services. * Mrs. Bogoard said she thinks faith in the birth-control pill is misplaced after dealing with cases of unwanted pregnancies among girls whe believed they were protected. “The possibility of failure can be found in almost all birth- contro] measures. We sometimes suggest to people that they try a combination of two, just to be safe. Maybe, when you get right down to it, it's questionable whether a person who just can’t support a child should even indulge. ... But that's another question.” ©1977 Untearsal Pons Nie "Why don’t you listen. | said you need a chiropractor not choir practicel” Pound rises, but LONDON (CP) — Most Britons are quietly jubilant over the sudden rise in the value of the e of concern that the country’s vital exports drive may be affected. Newspapers generally have hailed the government's decision to remove restraints and allow the and United States dal 2 Daily Telegraph. FOOD SUBSIDIZED In theory, the stronger pound should make food imports cheaper, bringing down prices in the grocery stores. Not und but there is a sharply in relation to the Canadian ars and other currencies. pwith sterling,’ says The Times. ‘A wise decision,"’ Interpreting the news subsidiz If anyth pound to float. _the table. really, point out ex Community~of which Britain is a member—has bee some British tood prices. , & stronger perts who say the European Economic n The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), concertied that “our inflation rate is still well above that of petitors,” says “the further loss in competitiveness of a rising pound will not be welcome to industry.” The engineering Employers Federation, in a rare dis- agreement with the CBI, says “many will welcome the rise in the value of the pound because inflation is the main worr among engineering companies and this should help to get it own.” RESTRAINT SOUGHT There is some speculation that the more powerful pound would help the government's drive to keep wage increases down to 10-per-cent a year, on the theory that with the pound pada = DAILY DoccERET, LEP R meme Sout Z as s oS ae “Somehow, the threat of separation doesn’t sound so catastrophic after you’ve been married for 22 years.” , PEKING (Reuter) — China has reiterated its concept of three worlds—the superpowers, developed countries and developing nations— and says the Soviet Union remains the biggest threat to peace. This restatement of Mao Tse- tung's three worlds policy and China’s assessment of the current differences between them comes in an article to be published in the People’s Daily Tuesday. It had been written by the editorial department of the Communist party organ. Appearance of the article a few days before the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Bolshevik Revolution cod indicate China is preparing to uBlish others condemning it former friend and now chief enemy. All the hargh words in the article were directed at the Soviet Union. The United States was barely mentioned and developed nations were treated as allies. LISTS CANADA ; Mao's three worlds concept is that the Soviet Union and the U.S.—the superpowers—are in the first group, Japan, Europe and Canada in the second and other countries, in- cluding China, in the third. - Three-world view China restates Mao’s perspective. Details of the article were published today by the New China . ews Agency (NCNA). It quoted the People’s Daily as saying the three worlds concept was a scientific Marxist idea of current realities. © Of the two superpowers, the Soviet Union “is the more ferocious, the more reckless, the more treacherous and the most dangerous source: of world war,’’ NCNA reported the newspaper as saying. Because the Soviet Union was a late-comer to imperialism, it had to use more offensive strategies and try to grab areas under American control. The Soviet Union “is therefore, more aggressive and adventurous ... it must rely chiefly on its military wer and recourse to threats of war in order to expand ... it has a highly centralized state-monop capitalist economy without its equal in any other imperialist country and it is a state under Fascist dic- 2 LE) tatorship...." SINGLE OUT SOVIETS The article said that if China should put the, twosuperpowers on a B ' Businfss spotlight ? r without discrimination and fail single out the Soviet Union “as the more dangerous instigator of world war, we would only be blunting the revolutionary vigilance of the people of the world and blurring the primary target in the struggle against hegemonism. “Therefore in no way must we pla into the-hands of the Soviet an in its deception and con- spiracy and give the green light to - its war preparations and acts of _aggression,” the NCNA said, As forthe second world, the article said that although some of its members had been striving to maintain their control and ex- ploitation of developing nations, they were also su the superpowers. “The second world countries are in urgent need of opposing hegemonism and safeguarding their natonal independence,” the article 3a o “In the struggle against the two hegemonist powers, it is bott necessary and ible to ally with the second world under given con- ditions.” ~ Search is on for methane gas - CALGARY (CP) — Algas Re- sources Lid. is conducting tests in Alberta's foothills and mountain areas to determine the feasibility of recovering methane gas trapped in coal seams. Algas vice-president E. A Ballantyne says the method has never really been considered in Canada and “it appears timely to take a serlous look at it.” Recovery of the gas requires drilling a normal type of natural gas well into a coal seam. - Ballantyne said test results in the United States have been promising, but the coal seams tested were not folded or faulted as are those in Alberta's foothills. Algas, a subsidiary of Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co, Lid., has spent more than $150,000 investigating th possibility and plans to inves another $250,000 in stage one of its drilling and testing program. Ballantyne said if favorabli results are obtained from the three test holes drilled in stage one, Algas will drill about 30 more ex- rimental holes at a cost of about 1.5 million. : SECOND STEP : Stage will be based in Alberta, but if positive results are obtained Algas will also look elsewhere in Canada. A large portion of the information gathered so far by Algas came from ¢ U.S. bureau of mines, which has been studying the process of extra- cting methane gas from coal seams for several years. _The bureau’s studies were initially aimed at eliminating methane from eoal seams before it was en: countered during mining operations. But as natural gas a) ppreciated in value, Ballantyne s in an in- terview, forms of energy previously thought unfeasible to produc became ‘“‘worth taking a look at.” Ballantyne said the process has never been conducted on a large seale anywhere in North America, although there are a few cases of methane gas belng recovered and sold to local gas companies on a small basis, He said Algas, was formed in January, 1976, “explicitly for the purpose of studying alternate forms of energy.” It is currently monitoring and doing studies on coal conversion, solar energy, wind energy and bio- mags energy. pound would be used to reduce these subsidies, with little reflection in the price of food on our com- ject to in- | terference, control and bullying by so do Britain’s export prices wart more, workers may be willing to reduce their de- mands. This reasoning received a jolt when miners promptly an- nounced they would continue to press for 4 90-per-cent raise. . ; ; One report circulating in London is that Denis Healey, chancellor of the exchequer, didn’t want to free the pound; that he was overruled and that he told friends: “T don’t know why I'm carrying on. Maybe I should get out.” Credence is lent to this report by the fact that less than a week earlier, the chancellor—in his mini-budget—still adhered to his policy of gradual rather than sharp ap- eciation e pound. Pranalyste here shy it was Prime Minister James Callag- ‘han and Gordon Richardson, governor of the Bank of Eng- und to float. talked him into allowing the land, who we astic change in the Until then, he had argued that a . pound’s value would make exports more expensive and slow his campaign to cut unemployment. This week from Ottawa Iona Campagnolo SPORT POLICY TABLED On Monday, October 24, it was Try Pies Oa tae r on amateur § policy. A n ' O pos en a white aber, is not a direct prelude to legislation; it means that its contents are essentially, an invitation for public discussion. 3 Very shortly, hearings will begin in different centres across Canada where this discussion will take place and where we will forge new directions and goals in amateur sport for Canada. ; The main theme of the sport policy document is the scale of the federal role insport. The structure of sport, its ad- ministration, technical development and its promotion are also integral parts of this discussion paper. One thing is underlined, however, and that is there can be no more public funds committed to sport than exist at present. We will be seeking and encouraging new sources of funding. Loto Canada revenues and corporate sponsors are two such sources. ; _ The federal government at this time, you might note, gives approximately $18 million to about 88 national sports anizations. It is estimated, though, that about $360 miltion is spent on sport in Canada every year. So, yu you see, there is already a great deal of private funding available for sportin Canada. We will encourage and assist greater private involvement in sport funding infuture. The federal government will also assist in providing equality of sport access in every part of the country so that within and between provinces and territories, as far as is practical, there isa good chance for everyone to participate in sports. The federal government will be seeking greater cooperation with the provinces on this matter. ; At this time Canada has no world class coaches of its own, The federal government will assist in the develop- ment of a coaching school, in conjunction with the universities. . . The federal government will seek new techniques in sport research did sports thedi¢né ad Jook toward improved”. use of existing facilities across Canada. = There will be thirteei seminars to hear discussion of these and other mattets between now and January, one in Vancouver on November 22. 1 hope some of you will take the opportunity to make your views heard. If you. would like a copy of the green paper, or if you have any comments on this issue, please write tome care of the House of Commons Ottawa. K1A 0X2. : Finance Minister . TAX MEASURES ANNOUNCED Finance Minister Jean Chretien has announced that the federal government's wage and price controls will be phased out over a year after next April 14. At the same time, during the throne speech debate, Mr. Chretien announced a personal income tax cut of up to $100 for low and middle income taxpayers. A married taxpayer with two children and an income of $15,000 a year will get an extra $50 in take home pay for the months January and February. This tax cut affects about six million wage earners, More details on this and the other economic measures - introduced by Mr. Chretien can also be obtained by writing to me at the House of Commons. Teaching kids brushing habits LONDON, Ont. (CP) — The first view from the waitin room shows two rows of gangly legs—some with crumpl knee socks pushed around the ankles, others with washed- _ out jeans and fidgety sneakers. The legs belong to children flat on their backs having - their teet checked, cleaned and polished free at Fanshawe College’s new dental-hygiene clinic. ; An obvious question is how eight squirming children are kept still while dental hygiene students rammage about in their mouths for three hours. : First, said Corinne Falconer, dental hygienist and clinic instructor, the procedure doesn’t hurt—no drilling is done. Second, students must have practical experience as dental assistants before they can take the course. ‘‘All the girls (none of the 16 students in this particular group is male) have had working experience, taking training as dental assistants, so they are used to working with patients," Ms, Falconer said. Graduates of the clinic go into two fields of work—public health and private practice. The public health field includes research on tooth care, surveys, health education in schools and other forms of preventive dentistry. and the patients with the children 8 teeth are worked on, i can also watch what is ening in their mouths with a hand-held mirror. Ppening PROPER BRUSHING TAUGHT The children are taught proper brushing habits and are urged, when necessary, to see their dentists for more work. They even are given free toothbrushes. ‘The students will work with all ages, but they deal mainly with the younger set during the beginning of the school year. Ms. Falconer said children present fewer complex prob lems than adults and are a good starting point for students. Later, we will need older patients so we can do scaling of teeth or more sophisticated work, It’s a building-block sort of thing, with increased work each week.” . Plein are encouraged to attend the clinic with children, - “With a five-year-old child, the parent can encourage the child to take care of his teeth later." ee The clinic, which is free to anyone, has a problem getting enough parents to take Fanshawe up onits offer. “We never have enough,” Ms. Falconer said.