‘Page 18, The Herald, Friday, Auguat 4, 1978
Ants join people
on picnic lunch

Thinking about an outing
thls weekend? Consider
taking a boat cruise. It’s a
great Way to have a leisurely
day, taking life easy. And at
noon, you can stop along
shore and share a delicious
picnic lunch..,with a bunch
of ante!

Ants can find a picnic
basket almost a5 scon as you
set It down. Their sensitive
antennae home-ln on sand-
wiches and potato chips, and
they're not at all bashful
about inviting themselves to
the party,

Despite having poor table
manners, ants are beneficial
and the folks at Allied

Boating Association suggest '

you consider their positive
aide before condemning their
anti-social behavior.

Primarily, aus are soil

tillers. They keep dirt loose’

and productive for the

growing of many native
plants and agricultural
cropa. They also kill insect
pests auch a termites and the
larvae of many destructive
beeiles.

Scientists have catalogued
more. than 15,000 species of
anta around the world. They
range from inch-long army
ants in the tropics to smali
ants that herd other insects
and “milk” them much the
same as a dairy farmer.
Some ants even take their
“livestock” into their nests
during winter and care for

“There is no way to avoid
ante on a picnic, but you can
take time to study their way

_ of life, Spend a few moments

watching your sandwich
crumbs disappear in the
green jungle where ants live,
and you'll have a better
understanding of their value
to man.

INFO

HEALTH

DR. BOB YOUNG

I've forgotten his name but
the fellow on the old Laugh-
In show whose only line
seemed to be ‘verry in-
teresting’ reflects my
reaction to the responses 1
recelved to my column on
medical plan payments to
doctors,

Your estimate of the
medical plan payment to the
doctor (and all these figures
apply to a general prac-
Hitioner) for doing. a full
physical examination
Tanged from $10,00 to $100.00,
with a mean level of $20.00,
close to the actual amount of
$21.40.

A daytime house visit was

felt to be worth from $12.00 to;

$50.00, while a night visit
payment guess ranged from

$15.00 to $75.00. The actual
figures are $20.70 and $30.60
respectively,

My readers thought that
hospital visits were worth
from $2.00 to $50.00. A GP
gets $6.30 for a hospital visit,

but is only allowed to charge 3
for every third visit ifhehas =

referred the patient. to a
specislist. $6.30 is not a lot
for your physician's at-
tention when you are oc-
cupying a bed that costs
$150.00 a day to run.

Summer fun includes boating and having picnics whenever the weather turns
warm. Both residents and visitors are asked to be safety conscious and have a
happy holiday weekend.

_ _Hquor

CALGARY (CP) — City
service clubs claim thelr
fund-raising efforts have
been’ euchered by the
province’s gaming and

laws. _
The clubs, including the

' Active 20-30 Club, Kinsmen

Club and Canadian Progress
Club, say the charities they
support are being threatened.
by government regulations,

Ted Wilson, vice-president
of one chapter of the Active
20-30 Club, says it Is
becoming increasingly:
difficult for servicen,s. to
raise money for charity,
such as his club's programs *
for the handicapped.

Wilson estimates that &
per cent of the people ap-
plying for casinos and lot-

teries under the Societies Act
are not charitable
organizations,

“We're competing with so
many others for the money’
that we're in a real dilem-

”
ma,

He ne these pa. are
compet lor the money
wagered by Albertans in
casinos and on bingos and
raffles — more than $130
million last: year. 7S
gaming events netted
ville in profits for the
aponsoring groups, after
paying $89.9 million in prizes
and $11 million in expenses.

“The football and baseball
eluba, society for jazz music
and everi community centres
are considered charities and

- We must compete with them

for. the. charitable dollar,” .
Wilson said. “What right has
Joe the hockey player got to
consider himself a charity?
It'a ridiculous."
. The: service club must
compete with “the govern-,
ment as well, Wilson added.
“The dollars once
available to us through
lotteries are no longer there.
Today there's a real glut on
the lottery market, what.
with the Western Express, .

_ Alberta clubs claim *
government is unfair

Loto Canada and the Provin-

“And. there seems to
always betwo sets of rules in
government ~ bureaucracy.
The government lotteries
don’t hava to give a day-to-
day public accounting of
every ticket sold like we do."

Wilson blames the failure
last month of the Calgary
Stampede festival of country
music on the Alberta lquor
control board's decision to
deny the 8 request for a
liquor licence. The club lost
about $43,000 on the event.

Gerry Bader, president of
one of thre three chapters of
the Kinsmen Club in the city,
says his club also is en-
countering funding
problems, and Roger
Bowman, spokesman for the
Canadian Progress -Club,
says his club has had
problems acquiring liquor
licences. He suspects there
may be a. hotel lobby

working ,

Lougheed plans hospital
visits on English tour

EDMONTON (CP) —
Alberta Premier Peter
Lougheed will tour three
international medical
research centres during a
visit ta Great Britain next
week, his office said ‘Thur-

ye: .
A spokesman said the pre-
mier will visit the centres in
preparations for the estab-
lishement of a $3X+million
Medical research fundation
called the Alberta Heritage
Foundation for Medical
Research.
The foundation will be fi-
nanced from the Alberta

- monton Monday

Fund, built up with 30 per
cent of the province's
resource revenue ‘and now
totalling about $5 billion.
Dr. John Bradley, special
adviser on medical research,
will aecompany Lougheed on

visits to the Natlonal In- .

stitute for Medical Research
in London, the Medical
Research Council - Clinical
Research Centre near
London and the clinical and
population cytogenetics unit.
at Edinburgh’s Western
General Hobpital. .

will. leave Ed-
and return

Saturday to Montreal where

he will begin preparations . :
-for the premiers’ conference. |

in Quebec City.. .

The tour is arranged to ex--

pose the premier to the in-
atitutional approach to
medical research and the
type of research unit which
can undertake large-scale
research projects,
Jeanne Lougheed, the pre-
mier's wife and the only Al-
‘berta director of the
National Ballet of Canada,
- will attend a special Alberta-
night performance by the’
troupe during their stay in

Heritage Savings Trust the ‘{dllowing Friday or

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