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“MISSION, B.C. (CP) —
. Prisons and the people in
them are rarely well-
received by their surroun-

ding communities, but 25
_inmates at the federal me-
_ ‘dium security Mountain
View prison in this com-
munity 60 kilometres east of
Vancouver are working to
change that. ;

Beginning next month, the
prisoners wiil conduct
recreational and hobby
programs for about 35
mentally handicapped
Mission residents who will be
brought to the prison, They
also hope to work at the
Mission Workshop, where
about 60 handicapped people
learn job skills, .

‘The prisoners, who are
members .of the Mountain
View Junior Chamber of
Commerce, began working
with the handicapped last
January when they trained
six young men for the
pretrials of the Olympics for
the handicapped in Victoria
in June. - ; ;

“Community. workers
camie to the prison and

"the: handicapped. and af

eltizen's advisory committee
was set up,” said Jaycee’.
president Paul Magnussen...
“We called it Operation
Trackshoes. We taught
sprints, relays and ball
throwing. ,
“We went to Victorla and
won -just, abgut everything
including -the : best sport-
sman's award.”
Magnussen said there was
a Tot of ill feeling when the
prison opened three years
ago, but the program is
helping break it down.
“We have held coloring
contests for the children and
provided ‘haircuts for the
handicapped, I think. we will
be accépted even more when.
we get down to the: Mission
Workshop and: help with
programs there.”- a
Magnussen, who-has been
named Jaycee of the year
and whose unit has been
named tops in Canada, ‘said
all work is done on -the
members’ free time, —
The prisoners say they.
benefit as much as the-.
handicapped

Convicted work}
to change role.

- dangerous

from: - the’

taught us how to work with program.

. Slicers and ladlers behind a’

GDANSK, Poland (AP) — - long wooden table at the Le-
Janina’ is barely five feet’ nin Shipyards. ot
tall, but her stocky form .— ‘Striking ‘workers in their
exudes authority as she grimy blue overalls tell her
supervises the choppers, jokes while she oversees her
femalé assembly line tur-

LY

Some of our most gentle breeds of dogs hall
from the bloody pits of dog fighting. This.is an
Irony which is explained by the fact that such’
champions were ‘bred not only for muscle and
fang but also for the ability to get along. with
thelr human masters. To this Irony we owe our
terriers and bulldogs. _

Today dog fighting is outlawed In Canada. To
be ‘sure, this cruel and savage sport belonss
more the Middle Ages than to.our own time. But
a recent Vancouver Sun report claims that dog
fighting, accompanied by gambling, ‘still takes
place in clandestine tocations In southern B.C.
and across the U.S. Border, ==
_ Jack Homes, secretary manager of the
Vancouver branch of the SPCA, doubts that dogs
still fight for sport here: ‘I’ve been associated
with the SPCA for a long time now a
has there been any Indication there’s: any dog
fighting or even cock-fighting in — British
Ciolumbla. If anyone has any evidence. of It |
suggest they contact me about It. Immediately.”

According.to Homes, people Involved In dog
fighting would face
only the people who own the animals, but also
the promoter, everybody attending the match,
and even the owner of the property where the
flght took place.”

**| find the RCMP are very concerned about
thls because It’s the tip of the Iceberg as far as

organized crime Is concerned,” he says. ‘'I’ve

always found that when It comes to animais, the
RCMP are very compassionate.”

There are many laws relating to animals - up
to 15 provincial laws'alone, They deal with such
matters as bee-keeping, Importation of
threatened or hazardous specles and protection
of livestock. But the Canadian Criminal Code
deals primarily with cruelty fo animals.

Dog fighting is prohibited under the Code,
which makes It an offence to cause unnecessary
paln or suffering to any animat. A conviction
may result ina fing, prison stretch, or both.

Nichae! Steven, a lawyer whose firm serves
as legal counsel tothe SPCA, says the courts will
decide on the basis of the facts of a case If
something amounts to a criminal act of cruelty.

He tells of one case Involving a Quebec man
who ran a pet shelter. The shelter destroyed

unwanted strays by asphyxlating them with
carbon monoxide from a four-stroke motor. The

man was found gulity of cruelty under the Code

ndat no time -

“very serlous penalties, not -

. that research animals are not subjected
" unnecessary. pain.

~ after a court discovered the temperature of the
- gas when It hit the animals was s0 high that it

“more or less fried them for the.first 30 seconds

“ before they.were rendered unconcious.” ‘The
court took issue not with the destruction of the

strays but with the inhumane method used. —
_ Homes says that anyone who sees an animal’.
mistreated should Immediately telephone the
nearest SPCA office or the local RCMP detach-
ment. A criminal charge may result. _
- What ‘about the sufferings of research:
animals? Some. experiments , performed on.
dogs, cats, rabbits and mice - offen Involving
vivisection - seem fo make dog fighting a parlor
game. by comparison. ~

"There's no legislation relating to ex-
perimentation on animals,” Steven says. “Our
society takes the position that experimentation
on animals Is a necessity because It Improves
the {Ife of humans. And so there are no
prosecutions agalnst people who experiment on
animals although there Is probably pain and

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suffering by those animals.” .

“But you must bear In mind,” Homes says,

“that research Is governed by the requirements
of-The Canadian Council of Animal Care which
lays down specific guidelines for the ex-
perlmental establishments. If they are not met,
the Council takes action agalnst the people in-
volved, it doesn’t do It under the Criminal Code -'

basically it will stop any grants to the resear-—

chers.” . ;

- Homes says animal research. projects are
closely monitored on five or six levels to ensure
to
Researchers are only per-
mitted to buy: animals from approved sources,
rather than private citizens.
The SPCA Is forbidden by Its constitution to
provide animals for research although
municipal dog pounds may. The Vancouver City
dog pound sold 259 dogs to UBC In 1978 for
research purposes. .

. Another Important plece of animal protection
taw Is the provincial Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals Act. It gives officers of the SPCA, as
well a8 police officers, the authority to selze
animatsthatare not being properly cared for. It
also gives them the authority to destroy the

- animals If they are bayond recovery.

Sqmetimes, Homes says, cruelty to animals is

- not so much the result of maliclousness as of ill-

founded kindness or ignorance of the animals’
needs.

In one case, the SPCA intervened when an |

elderly woman kept 66 cats In the top floor of her
gmail house. According to Homes, “She was
becoming feeble and the result was the cats
were suffering. Some of them were blind and
there-was cannibalism.”

- Lineup after lineup —

“With. the bonuses 1 am-

‘ning mountains’ of bread
loaves - and . sausages « into
sandwiches for the striking
workers who stream into the
hall to discuss strike tactics
until Jate into the night,

Janina tells“'a
reporter, speaking in Ger-
man, "I can certainly do the
same for the strike.”

“You want to know what
life is in Poland? Life here is
not bad — if you have money.
There are enough meat and

' yegetables. It is just that itis

s0.expensive. [ am a simple
woman, and I don’t eam
enough.” ;

She asked that her last
name not: be used, ‘ex-
plaining, “I must think of my
daughter.’ She has been a
secretary for 22 years at the

Lenin Shipyards, Poland's “

second largest, and her
dsughter and son-in-law both
work there. , ;

Janina lives with her 45-

yearold brother, Gniech, |

who was “hit inthe head” as
a child during the Second
World War. He cannot speak,
can care for himeelf only
partially and earas 2,600
zlotys (about $87) a month
working in a factory that
employs handicapped
‘persons to assemble metal
‘parts.

eligible to get, earn about
5,000 zlotys ($170) a month,
so we live together and I give.
him some of my money, but

it is too little for us to live -
, on," she said, .
‘Jam 53 years old, and I've .

stood in plenty of lines to buy
. food,”

“Every day -1 must go’

shopping. I work from 6:30
until 2:30 p.m., and then I go
to stand in the stores,
because thera are so many

“people. I stand an hour, an

hour and a half. 1 can't be
sure I wil] get what I want,
but I have to starid there
anyway to-try.” .
. Janina’s daughter has‘a

three-year-old daughter.

harder than I do,” she said.
“She must work, get the
child from the kindergarten
and then go out and shop. By
the time she gets to the
stores there is nothing good
that is left.

_ “Her husband gets lots of

_eggs in his lunch pail when

there ig no.meat to be had."
Although treatment . by
doctors is free in Poland,

Janina said she had to pay 30 .

per cent of the cost of tablets
for her brother when he got
sick, 7

pensive, 600 zlotys,” she
said. “That is a whole week
of food for us you can see

‘why I walk every day and

cannot afford a car."

MOSCOW (AP) — A top...

ranking Soviet geneticist
claims: attempts to breed 4

* naw man” through genetic

engineering could lead to:

Soviet Institute of General

issue - of - the- authoritative
journal Kommunist. —

charged -* ‘‘bourgeols

* F@eologues” with striving to
‘find scientific . justification

- for. social Inequality, race
“Jaws and genocide.

- However, he aimed his
‘heaviest criticism at Soviet
“scientists and writers whom

‘he accused of undermining

|: Marxist faith in the crucial

:. vole of social factors rather -

“| than heredity in forming an

| individual's personality and

abilities. .

|, “goctobiologists are trying

to eliminate Marasist

"teaching about the unified
_ *"goelal essence of man, of-
’ fering instead the theals that
" genetic.

programming
supposedly rules over athe
social conduct of people,”
the academician said,
Sociobiology is the new
science that tries to find the

genetic basis, if any, for
behavior. Eugenics’ is the ©

attempt to improve the
human -race by. -selectiv
breeding. Tas

Genetics has long been a
sensitive field in Soviet
science, where scientists.are

expected to interpret results

ODD, ISN'TIT?..

DEMING, N.M. (AP) —
Duc Andra, a female
yearling, took tess than two

seconds to win wheal was —

billedas The World’s Richest

Duck Race, but some: of the

losers cried fowl play.
Due Andra waddled
through the five-metre foot

; - - * course in 1.966 seconds
“My daughter has it.

Sunday, and took the #00
first prize for her owner,
Tommy Brdecko, 51, of
Deming. Bdrecko then sold
Due Andra at an auction for
$17.50.

" One group protested that a -

duck entered by agents of the

- US. Drug . Enforcenient
- Administration had been

given ‘duck. uppers.”
But Steve Marlowe, chief
quacker for the race, said no
drugs of any kind had been
administered. - -

"In all, 196 ducks ran, about -
eight at a time, through the.
ss _, thicken wire cages on the.

“They were made in the
U.S.A. so they were ex- -

Luna County courthouse
grounds, =” oS
Some ducks dreased in

costumes were panting, and -

it got so hot at oe point that
Marlowe. advised, **Gen-
tlemen, .cool your ducks.”

social. con-
_ Requences and pose-a direct
‘threat to Marxist : Ideology.
.* Academician ‘ Nikola
Dubinin; director of ‘the.

acquired
_* their: lifetimes: could . be
_* Citing Western proporients passed. along genetically to -

of "sperm banks” and other |
-eugenle schemes, Dubinin ©

- Well

‘mined Immediately,

Dubinin, 74, was himeelf. a’.

“Vietim of Ideological strife in ..
Soviet genetics. In. the late
" 940s he. was

demoted and
obliged to’ work in Siberia
‘after running afoul of Trofim
Lysenko, who emerged -
under Stalin as the’ virtual

‘of Soviet biology. :
Genetics, ‘launched the _czar of Soviet hiology. -
- sharply. worded. attack - 00
“neo-eugenics” in a recent.

-"”Bysenko and his followers

believed characteristics
aby humans during -

their children, This view had

-.Jong.. been: diseredited . by
" Weatern. genetics research,

but was attractive to Soviet -
leadera ‘hoping. to create a

- pew race of men by: re-

education -and social: con-

In Ws article, Dubinin ex-
ssed concern. over. calls
for devéloping ‘highly .
humane, socialist eugenics,”
~ ‘He noted that from the eu-

genic viewpoint, “biological — 7

differences betWeen people -.

‘demand a selective, elltist .

approach to education as
as. favoring
reproduction by: individuals

and groups with “valuable

” Attempts at eugenics have
also met with criticism in the
United States, as when
California -todustrialist
‘Rebert Graham ‘revealed in

' May that he had set up a

sperm bank for Nobel prize .
winners. ce “eg Tee
Many stientists believe the

attempt is useless since in-
tellectunl brilliance, while it
may be partially hereditary,
is not handed. down in a
simple manner like
characteristics such as eye |
color. a

a.

AL
“Va

Among the losers was an
entrant named “Today's
‘Winner o¢ Tonight's Dinner.
Its fate could not be deter-

PASADENA, Calif. (AP)
— A Virginia man has wom
an.unprecedented second
over-all title. in the men’s
division: of the World Frisbee
Championship, but . the.
defending winner in the K-@
division went to the dogs. ©

Scott. Zimmerman of. |
McLean, Va., wor the over-:
all title Sunday before 4
crowd of more than‘40,000 at _
the Rose Bowl. As in 1979,..
McLean did not win’ any of- -
the five individual events —*

. dise golf, self-caught flight,-:

distance, freestyle and...

_ double disc court. But the 18+

year-old high school senior
scored high enough iii all of-
them to take the cham: - -
pionship, :

In the K-9 catch-and-fétch ©
contest, two-time chamypiori *
Dink, owned by ' Jim
Strickler of Severan Park,
Md., was toppled by Kona, &
four-year-old owned by.
Frank Allen of Phoenix,