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Notre Dame University in
Nelson is former Terrace
resident and Caledonia
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Cathy Whitmore (nee Porter), a 1973 graduate of
Caledonia Senior Secondary in Terrace, has just
aduated with top marks and special recognition
rom Notre Dame University in Nelson.
The
Tecognition comes in the form of the Governor
General’s Gold Medal for the best all-round atudent of
her graduating class.
The best all-round student must combine academic
excellence with involvement in non-academic ac-
tivities. Cathy filled both requirements very well, She
had the highest average at N.D.U. this year, an im-
pressive ninety-two
reent over all, She also served
as Vice President of the student council and student
representative on several university committees.
The award came as a surprise to Cathy. “I had |
hopes of getting it last year after I got my marks back.
I had a ninety
rcent average in third year. But this
- year, after my finals, I sure didn’t expec’
tit.”
The results of her finals became known to her only
at the graduation ceremonies themselves, where her
high average was announced at the time she was
presented with the medal.
“Everyone else knew I was getting it except me,"
who had tray
she said, “They kept it a secret.” Cathy's parents,
ed to Nelson for the ceremonies, were
told beforehand she was to receive the medal.
It will be useful to have as a job recommendation,
andif whe decides to go back to school to become “...a
ASO Se SUPE NSE NSA MDA SH an TH Se
Doctors complaining
about trivial patients
VICTORIA (CP) — Health
Minister Bob McClelland
has firmly rejected
suggestions by British
Columbia doctors that-
people be required to pay a
part of their doctor's bills
themselves,
Doctors at the B.C,
Medical Association’s an-
nual meeting here argued
that a deductible or a
deterrent fee for medical
care would reduce the
number of trivial com-
plaints doctors would have
te handle.
McClelland said in an
interview Friday the
government does not believe
deterrent fees would be
effective in reducing the
volume of work. He said
Medicare was set up as a
crisis intervention plan. .
He also answered charges!
made by Dr, William Jory;
association president, that a
government working paper
on the problems of over-
doctoring in some parts of
the province is an attempt to
Move doctors around ‘‘like
checkers on a checker
board,”’.
He said the group that
prepared the paper included
an association represen-
tative and said a study ~
which he is setting up to
make recommendations will
include representatives
from the association and the
College of Physicians and
Surgeons of B.C.
In another matter,
delegates to the meeting
approved a rec-
ommendation submitted by
the association's quality of
care. committee, that
WINNIPEG (CP) —
University of Manitoba is
Studying the propriety of
accepting discriminatory
scholarships. The schoal
says many people in their
wills leave scholarship
funds but stipulate it must
be for either a man or
woman.
ACUTE-CARE BEDS
MAY BE REDUCED
VICTORIA (CP) — Fewer
acute-care hospital beds
maybe needed in the future
as a result of the provincial
government’s plans for
long-term intensive care,
Health Minister Bob Mc-
Clelland said Saturday.
McClelland said his
department now is locking
for ways to reduce the
number of acutecare beds,
currently 5.25 a thousand
population across the
province, to 4.25.
“No person who can be
care for in their own home
should be institutionalized,”’
McClelland said.
The government's new
homemaker program which
will @xpand homemaker
_services and make them
free for people with an in-
come of less than $8,000,
should permit many elderly
people who end up in
ospitals to remain in their
own homes, he added.
Other elderly people now
are occupying acute-care
beds in hospitals because
they cannot afford to enter a
rest-home, and cannot take
care of themselves, even
though they do net require
acute care, McClelland said.
For those people, the new
long-term care program. will
enable them to enter a
nursing home at a cost of
only $6.50 a day, which they
will be able to pay out of
their pension, he said.
=
WEST BANK
Tear gas lobbed
at Arab protesters
TEL AVIV (AP) — Israeli
troops using tear gas broke
up demonstrations by stone-
thowing Arab = students
Sunday in the occupied
Jordanian West Bank town
‘of Nablus. The students
were staging protests to
coincide with the an-
niversary of Israel's in-
dependence.
A military spokesman
said a curfew was imposed
alter soldiers dispersed the
students, who also set piles
of car tires afire and
chanted anti-Israeli slogans.
There were no reports of
injuries.
In the West Bank town of
Ramallah, businessmen
closed their shops and
school children boycotted
classes in a show of anti-
Israeli feeling.
The state radio said there
were minor disturbances in
several refugee camps.
On Saturday night, Israeli
troops exchanged fire with
Arab gunmen across the
Lebanese border, and one
Israeli soldier’ was slightly
wounded, the Israeli
military command said.
There was ho report on
Arab casualties.
It was the second shooting
incident this month’ along
the Israeli-Lebanese border.
The border area has been
relatively quiet for two
years, but Palestinian
Buerrillas recently have
en returning to southern
Lebanon from the Beirut
area since a ceasefire was
imposed in the Lebanese
civil war last November...
doctors will have to take a
self-assessment exam
during their 10th and 20th
years of practice in order to
get their licences renewed.
The recommendations
now will be put to the
college, which has
responsibility for licensing
doctors.
The 8,000 members of the
association, meanwhile, are
voting on a proposed fee
increase from the provincial
government.
Jory said Saturday that
the net fee increase to B.C.
doctors would be from three
to five per cent.
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into a post-grad program
Cathy will not be returning to school this fall. Sheis ;
going to become a working woman. ‘‘After seventeen =
years of school, ‘‘I need a‘ rest!” #
She plans on working at least two years.
husband, Stephen. has another two years for the &
sdegree.:- When he has graduated,she {
will consider going ack to school. “But who knows?
ob that I really like, I'll probably just
continue working,” she says.
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be no reason witht hings as they are to be optimistic.
But I am.”
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all her B ans may change by September.
cial government has stil] not reached a decision
about he future of Notre Dame as a university. They
will decide in the fail; if the university continues to
exist, and offers senior programs, she and her
husband will stay. If not, a moveis
_ Will she return to the Terrace area to live? Not too
likely, says Cathy. “I’ve never liked the climate here.
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VICTORIA (CP) — Angry
union fishermen in Britis
Columbia say the first shots
have been fired by the
United States in a sockeye
salmon war and they want
Canada to retaliate without
delay.
The United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union
‘countries and has
agreements between the two
placed
Indians in the position to
catch a large portion of
_ dnbound salmon heading for -
the annual Fraser River
sockeye run,
“As far as we're con-
cerned,’’ said Neish, “this
says the culprit is the United — invalidates the reciprocal
States Maritime Com-
mission in the Pacific
Northwest which has given
four bands of Juan de Fuca
Strait Indians the right -to
fish outside the 12-mile limit
under high seas gillnetting
regulations.
Scotty Neish, secretary-
treasurer of the Victoria
local of the union, said
Friday the move contradicts
fishing treaty that took
seven years to negotiate.”
The union has contacted
federal Fisheries Minister
Romeo LeBlanc and
demanded action. -
The Fraser River sockeye
run will start about June 20
and last until around mid-
September. Neish said that
‘inna bumper year the run
yields up to #40 million to $50
SASKATCHEWAN |
Calling in the troops |
to quell forest blazes
PRINCE ALBERT (CP)
— More than 400 Canadian
Armed Forces personnel
were called in Sunday to
help fight some 67 forest
fires being fought in Nor-
thern Saskatchewan.
“Goodness knows how
many fires are burning
altogether,” said Tim
Myers, a department of
Northern Saskatchewan for-
estry protection spoksman.
“The smoke is so dense it
is hard to spot new ones.
There are blazes out of
_ control and not being fought
because they're in non- .
productive timber areas.”
About’
About 1,800 men had made
no impact on 10 fires of
major proportions—
affecting 5,000 acres or
l more.
On Saturday, 157 blazes
were reported and Myers
said some were in com-
merical timber regions.
About 200 people were
evacuated Sunday from the
Timber Bay community on
the southeastern shore of
Montreal Lake.
Another 100 people—the
remainder of the com-
munity 60 miles north of
Prince Albert— were get-
ting ready to move out.
An unchecked 150,000-acre.
fire was fought in the
Fishing Lakes area, alon
the Hanson Lake Road,
which runs from Prince
Albert to Flin Flon, Man.
People in the area were
evacuated Friday night.
Ted Bowerman, ‘minister
of Northern Saskatchewan,’
said men and equipment
were not effective in
fighting fires and assistance
from the weather was
needed,
When weathermen
predicted rain Sunday night
and Monday, the call for the
troops went out.
“The rain will bring the
fire down out of tops of trees
and down near the ground
where we can fight it,” said
Bowerman,
The troops, who had been
standing by in Wainwright,
Alta., after firefighting
training, were making their
way to thefires by truck and
bus. They were expected on
the scene early today.
‘The Saskatchewan
government will pay for the
services of 400 men and we
will send a few more at our
expense,” said forces’ in-
formation officer Capt.
Craig Mills, in Edmonton.
He said light helicopters
would be offered as spotter
aircraft, — a
No dathage to persons or
dwellings had
reported.
GILLESPIE
Minister urges rush |
on northern pipeline
WHITEHORSE, Yukon
(CP) — There is an urgent
need for Canada to develop
its northern natural gas
resources, federal Energy
Minister Alastair Gillespie
said during the weekend.
But Gillespie, on a four-,
day visit to Yukon, disap
pointed some Yukoners by}
refusing to indicate whic
route or routes he feels
should be used to bring
Canadian and Alaskan gas
south.
Hopes for a pipeline down
the Alaska Highway, which
traverses 500 miles of
Yukon, have been building
among pro-pipeline groups
here because of setbacks
suffered by the Mackenzie
Valley pipeline proposal.
The Berger pipeline inquiry
has recommended a 10-year
delay in the Mackenzie
Valley line and the United
States Federal Power
Commission has split be-
tween the Mackenzie and
Alaska Highway routes.
Gillespie told a Liberal
party panel discussion
turday that he personally
has not made up his mind
which route he prefers.
He said Canadians must
become self-sufficient in
energy in the next 10 years
because imported oil might
not be available by then. To
become selisufficient the
country had to conserve and
develop its own new sup-
plies.
Not building a northern
natural gas pipeline, or
delaying it, will make it
difficult to meet the self-
sufficiency goal, he said. “
“1 thin
there's a very .
good chance that in 10 years
here won’t be any foreign
oil. going anywhere,” he
added.
“Tm not erying wolf on
this one.” .
‘Later, he told a Liberal
fundraising dinner that he
plans to remain confused
about the pipeline routes for
the next two months. The
government must collect
various information and
recommendations’ in that
time and is expected to
make the route selection by
Sept. 1. ;
The Pipeline ‘is the main
topic of discussion in Yukon
and at the dinner there was
obvious disappointment that
Gillespie did not talk about
it. However, he and aides
have maintained that the
purpose of his visit is to
watch and listen.
He was to fly the proposed
Alaska Highway route
Monday, then would follow
the potential Dempster
Highway route, to Inuvik,
N.W.T., Tuesday. The
Dempster Highway, still
under construction, is seen
as a possible route for
bringing Mackenzie Delta
pas into the Alaska Highway
ne
ine.
Although Gillespie has
been reticent on the issue,
not
During the Saturday panel
discussion, Bob Sharp of the
Yukon Conservation
Society, said indications so
far are that the Alaska
Highway pipeline's social
and environmental costs
will outweigh the benefits.
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WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.
(cP) — Sam Bawif,
recently-appointed
provincial minister of
recreation and con-
servation, told the British
Columbia Wildlife
Federation convention Fri-
day that he generally agrees
with W. W. Mair’s review of
the fish and wildlife branch.
‘The hitherto secret report,
referred to by Bawlf, was
ordered by the minister's
predecessor, Grace Mc-
Carthy, then and now the
minister of tourism.
Mair, an ecologist and
environmentalist of Canada-
wide status, started the
study late last summer and
:. completed it a month
ago.
Bawlf, in a 40-minute talk,
: said he rejects the idea of
: merging the fish and
* wildlife branch with the
forestry department, a
recently rumored idea
viewed with apprehension
by branch and federation
officials.
He said’ he generally
agreed with the Mair report
SASQUATCH
of hairy
MISSION, B.C, (CP) — A
Pacific Stage Lines driver
and four of his npassengers
reported to RC
that they saw what the
believe was a Sasquatc
creature crossing Highway
7 about 9 a.m. PDT.
RCMP Constable Millie
Norry said the creature was
reported to have crossed the
highway on the north bank
of the Fraser River about 15
miles east of this . Fraser
Valley community. .
Mission is about 35 miles
east of Vancouver.
Const. Norry said the five
witnesses, w
remain —
described the creature as
being more than‘seven feet
tall and being dark and
She said RCMP took
‘pictures of footprints that
measured about 14 inches in
Sunday .
beast
length and estimated the
weight of the creature would
be around 300 pounds.
The driver pursued the
creature down a dry creek
- bed butsoon lost sight of it in
the bush, said Const. Norry,
and he later described it as
-smelling like old garbage,
dead meat and old machine
oil.
_ provincial
and admitted it closely
follows recommendations
by the federation on future
fish and wildlife policy.
Bawlf said both recom-
mend regulation of the tuse
of the resource by sport-
smen, tempered or shared
by other users.
The Mair report .
recommends a bdalance
among competing uses of:
land and water resources
and implies hunters will
have to share with hikers,
picnickers and the like.
Mair recommends that all
the best wildlife acts in
Canada be studied, with a
view to updating the B.C.
Wildlife Act within two
years. He recommends
reducing the number of
management
zones to four or five from
seven and would {fill
wildlife management - posi-
tions by open competition.
All promotions in the
branch would be baged on
potential management
ability, not necessarily on
scientific knowledge.
Bawlf opened his talk by
admitting he' is not con-
versant with wildlife
management. In view of the
other concerns of the
ministry of recreation and
conservation, Bawlf said he
wasn't sure he ever would
He said he was interested
in the use of satellite
technology and. has
organized a committee -to
review the possibility of
working with the National
Aeronautic and Space
Agency (NASA) in the
United States in using its
surveillance techniques in
B.C. resource management.
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