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The recent statements by B.C. Hydro chairman
Robert Bonner regarding nuclear power plants do
nothing to diminish Hydro’s image as an
unresponsive and irresponsible agency; nor do
they detract from Bonner's own reputation for
high-handedness.

Energy Minister Jack Davis stated in the
legislature last week that there would be nuclear
power plants in B.C.

Davis said the Social Credit government would

continue the anti-nuclear policy of the previous two

administrations for economic reasons,

B.C, does not need nuclear power stations, Davis
said, because it had other energy alternatives.

Along comes Bonner and says that the
governments opposition to nuclear power does not
mean that. plants will not be developed in the
ufure,

Bonner predicts that nuclear power could be a
reality in ‘10 years or so.”’

In fact, Bonner says, Hydro has already made
Studies into the possibility of locating nuclear
stations in B.C.

No matter how one feels personally about the
nuclear issue, one cannot be but amazed at the
Sheer arrogance and effrontery of Bonner’s
position.

Here is an appointed official being paid $60,000 a
year to tell the provincial government to go fly a

e, lide got .

lt is-hot-onty-a sign’of Bonner’s and Hydro’s
disdain for public accountability, but an indication
of the ineffectiveness of the government in general,
and Davis in particular, to control Hydro's
activities,

Hydro’s Jack of accountability to the public can
be seen in even its smallest actions,

Recently, for example, Hydro slapped on a three
dollar bi-monthly service charge on Hydro bills.

_ Davis,’ presumably acting on Bonners’s
instructions, told the legislature that the change
represented the cost of hooking up customers.

This prompted Conservative Leader Scott to ask
why, since itis a ‘service’, customers have to pay a
sales tax on it.

“And if it represents a hook-up charge, why do
we have to pay it every month forever and ever?”
he demanded.

Libera] leader Gordon Gibson was also upset by
the charge, pointing out that it is unfair to lower
income people.

“The result is to make those who use a small
amount of electricity or gas pay much more per
kilowatt hour or per cubic foot than those who use a
lot,” he said.

And he's right.

But Bonner appears to be unwilling to let
anything - from reasoned debate to governmnet
decree - challenge his and Hydro’s authority on
even the smallest of measures,

And Davis and the government seem unable to
slop him.

tOPPIX

£ 1977 by Chicago Tribune-N ¥. News Synd.
All Pugnts Resatved

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By BRUCE LEVETT

LONDON (CP) — Some
observers suggest Erie's
new government will take a
harder line in its relations
with Britain and with
terrorists in Northern Ire-
land than that folowed by
the coalition swept out of
power last week.

The departing
government of Liam
Cosgrave enjoyed cordial
relationf with Britain: Jack

Lynch's incomine Fianna
Fail is committed to
encouraging ‘‘the unity
of Ireland by agreement’
and says Britain should
commit itselfnto an ordered
withdrawal from Northern
Ireland.

Lynch’s party has also
threatened to be even
tougher on the.., [rish
Republican Army (IRA)
than Cosgrave’s coalition
which shut down IRA

Interpreting the news ©

Cosgrave ‘Lynched’ by Irish voters

santuaries in the republic.

However, observers here
do not feel that either of
these points were vilal
factors in Lunch’s landslide
victory.

They cile such factors as
unemployment and
inflation, problems
besetting most countries but
which are especially severe
in the Irish republic.
REPUBLIC SUFFERS

During the four years of

coahtion rule, the
unemployment rate in the
republic has been
approximately double the
5.6 per cent prevailing in
Britain and even higher
than Brilain’s 17-per-cent
inflation rate Canada's
figures are about eighi per
cenl in each category,

In addition, because of the
lowered voting . age,
approximately one-fifth of
the electorate consisted of

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“Prison reform? What do they think this is —- the twentieth century?”

Secret cancer ‘cure’ could be

TORONEO (CP) — A To-
ronta-based magazine has

-revived-a half-century-old

story about a reported
herbal remedy for cancer
and has added a new twist—
will the secret of the
treatment die with the 98-
earold nurse who owns it
fore it can be evaluated
scientifically?

In its: current edition,
Homemaker’s Magazine, a
controlledcirculation
periodical with national
distribution, publishes the
almost-forgotten story of
Rene Caisse of Bracebridge,
Ont., and her efforts to gain
recognition for Essiac
(Caisse spelled backwards),
her secret remedy.

SEES TESTS FUTILE

But alt attempts to have
the potion tested in a
scientific way have failed.
Nurse Caisse is said to have
regarded it as futile to test
the drug on experimental
animals’ rather than
humans.

Homemaker’s says she
has refused large offers of
money from Americans for
establishment of a clinic
using Essiac because she
suspected the group would
exploit the compound for
profit.

As late as this spring
Homemaker’s reporters
helped draft an agreement
under which Essiac would
be made available to a trust

under full control of Nurse
Caisse. The trust would seek
a patent. and the written
formula would be placed in
a sale-deposit box, to be
opened only in the presence
of the nurse or her nominee.

The trust would use its
best efforts to gain. testing
and recognition for Essiac
and none serving on the
trust would gain any
financial benefit or take any
fee, except herself.

After a few days of
thought, the nurse refused to
agree to the proposition.

What is the value of
Esslac?

The story goes back to
1922 when Nurse Caisse,
then working in a
Haileybury, Ont., hospital
noticed the scarred breast of
a patient. The women’s
story was that 20 years
before she had heen told she
had breast cancer. Fearing
a mastectamy, she accepted
the offer of an Indian friend
to heal it.

GAVE UP SECRET

The woman's condition is
said to have begun to
improve and the Indian
gave her the secret of the
herbal brew so the cancer
patient could treat herself.

Nurse Caisse got the
formula from the patient but
gave little thought to it until
two years later when her
aunt was in the final stages
of cancer,

- The nurse gathered the
herbs—she told
Homemaker’si: they are
native Ontario plants
profuse enough to treat all
the world’s cancer patients.
After two months of the herb
treatment, the aunt rallied
and lived another 20 years,
During the 1920s and ‘30s,
the nurse -provided
treatment for cancer
sufferers in Toronto and
Peterborough, Ont
Government and

Trude

TORONTO (CP) ~~ Jean
Dixon, American author of a
syndicated astrology
column, says Canada is
entering a golden age in
which its food and energy
resources will make it one af

the most powerful nations in

the world,

Miss Dixon, in Toronto to
appear on the CBC-TV
program. 90 Minutes Live,
predicted that Quebec will
separate.

‘But a separation does not

have to mean
independence,” she said.
“There'll be a new and

sometimes difficult rela-
tionship (between Quebec
and Canada) but it will be a
creative, strengthening

professional authorities
tried to slop her but gave up

‘when il was learned she was

making no charges for
treatment—-she accepted
Voluntary payments.

Her case was a-maller of
controversy in the Ontario
legislature. Letters were
written to King George VI
and lo thea Premier
Mitchell Hepburn of
Ontario. co

Even Dr, Wrederick
Banting, co-discdverer of

:

7: Re Tie

oh

young voters going to the
polls for the first time, a
group sufkering particu-

larly heavily from
unemployment.
However much—or

little—the issues of uniting
Ireland arid cracking down
on terrorism had to do with
his election, observers
Suggest they are issues
which will give Lynch and
his government many
problems.

Frank Dunlop, a_ top
spokesman for Lynch, has
said: “If any Provo (IRA)
sanctuaries are found, they
will be cleared out. ‘

“If necessary, even
tougher legislation (than
exists at present will be
brought in to deal with
terrorism and border
security will be increased
where necessary.”

The TRA has responded
wilh a vow to resume its
bombing and shooting
campaign in Eire to test the
will of the Lunch
government.

In addition, the IRA's ©

political arm can be
expected to put pressure on
ihe new government to

make good on its intentions .

to get the British out of
Ireland

But the Lynch
government made other
promises that can be
expected to come back to
haunt it.

The party’s election
manifesto pledged to abolish
roperly taxes, remove
xes from farmers, abollsh
the car tax for small
vehicles and give firsttime
home buyers a &1,000
($1,800) grant.

‘Voice of the readers:
Safety council
supports Gardom

Dear Sir

1 wish to endorse and
support in every possible
way the Attorney General's
present campaign against

those thoughtless
perpetrators of so much

uman — sufferin and
misery, the rinking
drivers.

Nothing other than the
fear of being caught is so
likely lo restrain a motorist
from excessive drinking
right from the oulset of an
evening or to encourage him
to go home by taxi if he has
taken rather too much
liquor,

As for the completely
heedless, the police must
simply be on hand in

insulin, asked her to work
with him in his. laboratory

with experimental. dnimals.

But, the nurse tald Home-

‘maker’s, she refused the

offer because she would

have to accept the Banting

condition that she give up

treating patients during the
Sts.

SURVIVE CANCER
Homemaker’s lists
atients who claim lo have
en cured by Essiac, some
of them still living.

DIXON PREDICTS

relationship, not a hostile
ane.”

She sar Prime Minister
Trudeau will win the next
federal election bul she does
not believe he will complete
his lerm of office because of
problenss in his personal
ife. She refused to comment
on exactly how the personal
preblems she anticipates
would affect his political
life... :

She was more explicit in
discussing Trudeau's
Marriage, .
PREDICTS DIVORCE |

‘I predicted when they
first vol married: ch, oh,
there's a mistake! There'll
be a complete divorce and
he'll marry again in the

early 1980s. He’s going to
have untold trouble in his
personal life,

“Margaret will be very
sorry about some mistakes
she’s making new, and some
time in the future two men,
Pierre not among them, will
have not a duel but there
will be conflict over her and,
ifshe isn’t careful, she could
be harmed."

Miss «Dixon had
optimistic predictions for
Progressive Conservative
Leader Joe Clark but
foresees mixed success for
Quebec Premier Rene
Levesque.

“Mr. Clark will become

sufficient numbers in
sufficient places sufficiently
often to cateh them and to
rule them off the road.

The availability of alcohol
on every hand and at
practically every social
occasion these days imposes
a special duty on all of us
who use it to drink
moderately and not to drink
if we intend to take control.
of a motor vehicle, which

‘has been likened by the

courts to a lethal weapon.

Yours truly,:

G.C, Blair Baillie

President :

British Columbai Safety
Council

lost

investigation of remedies
for cancer. Its verdict the
next year was that
“evidence adduced does not
justify any favorable
conclusion as to the merit of
Essiac as a.remedy for
cancer."

But even in-recent years,
there has been active
interest in Essiac.

au divorce, Clark win

very powerful if he doesn’t

give up in despair over
defeats. He'll hold a high,
high government office. His
(Levesque’s) cause will suc-
ceed but just when he’s
riding high he’ll run into
personal and political
difficulties and have to step
aside.”

Although confident about
Canada’s long-term
prospects, she said: “Some
subversive elements have
penetrated the country,
even the government, and
they will cause you trouble
as early as July or August of
this year. They could even
cause a bit of viclence
here," ‘

the Ontario
Bovernment set up a.
commission ’--for ‘the |

Sharks’

legal loans lead the way.

_ VANCOUVER (CP) — In the loan-
sharking game, a legal loan often leads
toa never-ending string of illegal favors
on the part of the borrower.

Take the example of a young man
working a steady job alt an automatic
transmission shop who needed money to
buy a car.

He received the cash he needed from a
Joan shark and his problems started
when he found he couldn’t keep up with
the $50-weekly payments.

The shark charged him a $25 fee, then
more instalments were missed. The
shark replied with threats and then a

ng.

’ After another missed payment, the
shark said pay with transmissions and
$25 would be taken off the debt for each
unit. After 18 weeks and 18 stolen
transmissions, the young man was
arrested and charged with theft.
_ “Loan sharks’ victims often find they
must do favors to get off the hook when

they can’t pay,’’ Constable Bill Slade of
the RCMP commercial crime section
Said in an interview,

The favor may involve drug
trafficking, blackmail, prostitution or
even murder, he said, but the loan itself
almost always is legal.

CHASE SHARKS FULL-TIME

Slade and his partner, Cp). Len
Nyland, know of one murder and a
stabbing linked to loan sharking and

-have started chasing the sharks full-

time.

Because there are no laws in Canada
which set maximum limits on interest
rates for large loans, Slade and Nyland
must catch sharks violating technical
provisions of consumer protection laws

fore they can lay'a charge.

The total volume of loan shark
business is hard to evaluate, said
Nyland. :

“They hang around beer sarlurs.
poolhalls, nightelebs, race ach:

ee tek he ee Re Rn ee ee ee OTN a Moti RiateT

grocery stores and gas stations, It's not
Just a pennyante thing, it's a
muttimilliondollar business,”

A shark's victims can range from a
stock promoter needing ready cash toa
young man after a4 ear.

Usually, said Slade it’s someone who
can't get the money through normal
channels or needs cash fast,

interest rates range to as high as 2,000
per cent from the more normal rate of 10
per cent a month..Even the 10-per-cent
Tate amounts to* 120-per-cent annual
interest if the victim makes each
payment. Missed payments are added to
the principle and: victims keep paying
almost indefinitely.

“Most sharks want interest payments
only,” faid Slade. “They don’t want the
principle.” ° |

Sharks seldom kill or beat those who
get a le behind in payments because,
ae adi aebta can't raise money
ustahal bee

vey

to drugs, prostitution and murder

loans of $2,000 each at an interest rate of
10 per cent a week. If everyone pays on
time, the shark will be repaid $2,000 a

week and regain his investment in 10 .

weeks. But his victims are no closer to’
paying off their debts,

Over a year, the shark will make more
than $100,000. Even if he demanded only
10 per cent a month, a shark would take
home $24,000 a year tax-free.

Despite the interest rates, the loans

are strictly legal. The federal Small
Loans Act sets an interest ceiling on
loans of less than $1,500, but most loan
Sharks are concerned with larger
amounts,
__ The only law Slade and Nyland can use
in British Columbia is the Consumer
Protection Act, which requires a lender
to put the cost of a-loan in writing. The
Shark can be charged if he fails to
Provide a written statement. __

A typical operation will involve 10 —
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— mdr agp