- PAGE 82, THE HERALD, Wednesday, November 24, 1976

Food prices
continue decline

Food for home con-
sumption, as measured by
the Anti-Inflation Board's
Food Price index, has
declined for the fourth
consecutive month. .

Food prices in mid-
October were 0.9 percent
below those recorded in
mid-September, and 3.1

reent below mid-October
ast year. With the exception
of the first two weeks in
April, average retail food
prices are at the lowest level
recorded over the last
twelve months, The index,
based on 1974 prices
equalling 100, stood at 114.7
on October 15 compared to
119.0 a year earlier.

This month, significant
price declines were
monitored for beef, pork,
eggs, poultry, fresh fruit
and sugar, while prices of
fresh and processed
vegetables, processed fruit,
fish and beverages have
increased. The largest price
increases recorded were for
fresh vegetables, due
mainly to the .impact of
unfavourable weather
conditions on local supply.

Several food commodities
are less expensive to buy
now than a year ago, for
example, beef, pork,
poultry, fresh fruit, sugar,
fats andoils. Fish and coffee
are now more expensive
than in October, 1975.

The decline in retail beef
prices continued this month
and, currently, average
prices are 2.3 percent below
those reported in mid-
September. However, this
decline is expected to be
reversed within the next
month due to recent in-
creases in live cattle prices.

Hog prices declined by 20
percent over the past
month, with the first half of
October showing _ the
greatest decrease. Retail
pork prices declined by only
3.7 percent since mid-
September. However, there
is typically a two to three
week time lag before lower
dressed hog prices filter
through to the retail level.
The Anti-Inflation Board
will be closely monitoring
retail pork .prices to ensure
that lower prices are passed
‘on to the consumer.

Price declines for poultry

. and eggs were recorded in
; the last month. Poultry
rices were 0.8 percent

low mid-September levels
+ and 7.3 percent below last
: year. These price declines
‘ are due, in part, to in-
‘ creased competition from
? U.S. oultry. imports,
> particularly in eastern
1 Canada, Egg prices are
> down 09 percent from last
; month but are 1,9 percent
> above levels of one year ago.
+ An increase of 0.7 percent
! was recorded for the fish
? component af the index this
+ month due mainly to higher

t tuna prices which followed.
t

‘an -increase in tuna
: wholesale prices in August
+ and September. Higher
> salmon and tuna prices have
> been largely responsible for
; the 9.2 percent increase in
~* the fish component of the
index over the past year.
+ Substantially higher retail
2 prices for salmon late last
+ all were the results of a
+ very poor catch during the
+ 1975 season. To date, 1976
: canned salmon pack ap-
2 pears adequate although not
» abundant and wholesale
3 prices are expected to
remain stable.
Fresh fruit prices are nine
percent below levels of a
‘month ago. Apple prices
declined substantia ly as
local supplies started to
reach major urban centres.
Small declines in orange

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contributed to the lower
level of the fresh fruit
component of the index. Nat
only are fresh fruit prices

substantially below last,

month's levels, they are also
6.5 percent below levels of a
year ago. Orange prices, in
rticular, are significantly
ower than a year ago due to
an increase in supplies from

the U.S.

Prices of fresh vegetables
increased by 8.9 percent
during the past month.
Supplies of lettuce and field
tomatoes have been ad-
versely affected by un-
favourable weather con-
ditions in Canada and
California. A much im-
roved potato harvest is
eeping potato prices below
last year’s levels. However,
strong export demand is
holding market prices for
potatoes above what would
otherwise be expected with
such good domestic supplies
available.

The impact of lower in-
ternational sugar prices
continues to be felt at the
retail level. the ‘‘Other
Food” component of the
index, which includes sugar,
showed a further decline of
0.9 percent since mid-
September. It is now 6.9
percent below levels of a
year ago.

An increase of 0.6 percent
in beverage prices occurred
this past month. — In-
ternational coffee prices
have continued to increase
but, as yet, have not been
fully passed on to the retail
level. Beverage prices are
now 18.3 percent higher than
they were in mid-October
last year. -

The cost of a nutritious
diet for a family of four for
the period ending October 15
is lower. The cost of the
basket decreased 39 cents
during the past month and
the 12-vity weighted average
cost now stands at $43.01.
The cost of the correspon-
ding week in 1975 was $42.90.

hi Dr. Lamb

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By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.

DEAR DR. LAMB — About
three months ago J] was told I
am slightly anemic. The doc-
tor told me to take one iron
tablet every day. I’ve been go-
ing to him for weight
problems. I'm 16 and have
reduced from. 156 to 142
pounds. I have been taking
Eskatrol for my weight and
have been wondering If it con-
tributed to my iron deficiency
anemia. .

I have also been given:
Erythromycin by a der-
matlologist for herpes on my
left arm.

Does iron deficiency
anemia, Eskatrol or
Erythromycin cause severe
headaches, neckaches,
lightheadedness and terrific
black and blue marks?

I'm just a high school stu-
dent and don’t have any
money ta run to the nearest
doctor, so I need your help.

DEAR READER — I can't
say without tests, but part of
your problem could be the
Eskatrol.: It is a mixture of
dextroamphetamine (go pills)
and prochlorperazine. The
latter is the drug that may be
causing you trouble.

it can cause changes in the
blosd, including a tendency to
have black and blue spots
(technically known as throm-
bocytopenic purpura), and it

can also cause muscle ©

spasms, particularly of the
head, neck, and shoulders
with headaches.

You should discuss this with
your doctor and he may wish
to discontinue this medicine in
your case, The appetite sup-
pression effect of the

amphetamine only lasts afew

weeks any way. You have
probably gotten all the benefit
you are going to get from it. ©
At any rate you should check
with your doctor any time you
suspect unusual side effects
fram a medicine.

Also ] hope your diet con-
tains sufficient protein.

Piilproblems |
and overweight

Hemoglobin, the iron-
carrying pigment in the red
blood cells, is made from pro-
tein. Even if you have enough
iron in your system, if you are
deficient in protein you won't
form enough hemoglobin to
correct an iron deficiency
anemia.

For more information on
this problem, send in 50 cents
for The Health Letter.
number 4-4, with a. long,
stamped, self-addressed
envelope for mailing. Send
your letter to me in care of
this newspaper. P.O. Box
1551, Radio City Station, New
York, NY 10019. .

DEAR DR. LAMB — My
father and ‘my aunt have the
same mother but different
fathers. If I marry my aunt’s

~ daughter can we have normal

children in view of our blood
relationship?

DEAR READER — Since
your father and aunt are half
brothers and sisters they have
the same general gene
relationship to each other as
first cousins normally do (the
children of full brothers or
sisters}. Your aunt's daughter
and you would have the same
genetic relationship as the
children of first cousins. That
is close but nat nearly as clase
as usual first cousins.

The only proper solution to
your question is to have
genetic counseling, Ask your
family docter to refer you toa
nearby medical facility for
this. They can help you by
evaluating any diseases or

’ characteristics that tend to

occur in the family and their
significance, ;
Intermarrying is nat all
bad. That is how pure-breeds
are developed. The inter-
marrying merely re-enforces
the characteristics. If the
characteristic is a good one
the results are good, but if itis
an undesirable characteristic,
the results are not so goad.
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Some of us arrive in this
world in pretty rough shape.
It is a fact that the risk of
dying is higher in the first
few weeks of life than at any

other time until the age of 60.

or beyond.

A baby is called a neonate
during the first four weeks
of life, and when this period
of time has passed the child
born with problems has
usually had them corrected
or at least controlled. If the
baby is not going to survive,
it is usually lost during the
first four weeks,

Ashort generation ago the
neonatal death rate was
about two babies in every
100 live births, reduced now
by half that number where
adequate facilities exist.

Progress in un-
derstanding and treating the

roblems of the newborn

as been rapid in recent
years, and the earlier
philosophy of keeping the

aby warm and hoping for
the best is a thing of the
past. (In fairness, doctors
did not have much more to
offer in thase days.)

Care of the sick newborn
may start before the child
arrives. Pregnancies are
now assigned risk factors,

and a high risk pregnancy
patient may be moved to a
centre with facilities for
neonatal care before the
baby is delivered. ;

Babies born prematurely
remain the major problem.
The greatest progress in
management has been
made in the care of
potentially normal infants
who have arrived too early.

Other babies arrive with
diseases that require
specialized medical
management, while the
newborn with congenital
abnormalities may require
prompt and exotic surgery
to survive.

Some people, including a
few doctors, have been
critical of the efforts of
neonatal intensive care
units. They. have felt that,
while a life might be saved,
the child may be left with
mental or .. physical
roblems that would make
is life meaningless, or
perhaps require Jong term
care at the cost of society.
There is, however, con-
vincing evidence that future
problems are markedly
reduced when high quality -
neonatal care is available.

y Dr. Bob Young. -

7

‘the only practical method
of delivering ” this type of
care is in larger centres.

The avalanche factor on B.C. highways

*:* Highway
never an easy task in British
Columbia's mountainous
terrain, poses an additional
problem during winter
months, which is unique in
alt of Canada, with the
exception of Alberta.

Here, in addition to winter
conditions running the
gamut from normal to
extreme there is an added
factor to be considered.

The factor is — the
- avalanche.

Avalanches are un-
forgiving tantrums of

nature, yet the Department
of Highways has developed
means of dealing with them
so that minimal hazard
exists, providing users of
the provincial highways are
fully aware of these
hazards.

Highways Department
crews have rescued many
motorists who have been
trapped by avalanches, as
well as a great number who
have been injured. .

These crews are trained in
avalanche’ rescue
techniques and this training
is continuing since its
establishment as a full
program following the death
of seven persons al a cafe
west of Terrace in 1974 and
the rescue of two of five
persons in another
avalanche on the Salmo-
Creston route in early. 1976,

Ideally, the best way of
avoiding avalanche danger
is to stay off the highway
altogether during heavy
snowlall, Avalanches can
thunder down a moun-
tainside at up to 200 miles an
hour, destroying everything
in their path. They give no
warning.

British Columbia's
Department of Highways
has trained personnel to
deal with such problems.

Over 100 department

‘ employees are attending a

variety of sessions right now
which will prepare them for
the avalanche season. They
will study weather ot.
Servation, avalanche
control, safely and rescue
techniques and the use of
their equipment with which
they perform their duties.
~ In 1975, over ’1,700 High-
ways Department em-
ployees attended St. John’s
Ambulance safety oriented
first aid courses.

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By the end of this year
about 650 employees will
have completed training in
the Workers’ Compensation
Board survival first aid
course, a course which deais
rimarily with maintaining
fe in persons who have

either stopped’ breathing, °

have suffered chest
crushing injuries, who are
unconscious or who are
bleeding.

In addition, the Avalanche
Task Force, at-its inception,
began a study of areas
where snow avalanches
aifect our — highways.
Magaitude, frequency and
traffic volume were con-
sidered and 25 areas of the

ovince were thus iden-.
tified, of which three were
considered most serious.

These three areas are: :

Prince Rupert-Terrace, the
Fraser’ Canyon — and
Kootenay Pass. Bear Pass,
north of Stewart, is also
considered a high hazard
area but has less traffic. The
danger to crews however is
present. Rogers Pass on the
rans Canada Highwa
shared in maintenance wit
Parks Canada is another
area of avalanche hazard.

The Avalanche Control
program has three major
objectives — ta ensure the
safety of the travelling
public, to ensure safety of

ighway maintenance

rsonnel and to minimize
interruption of traffic flow.

The avalanche control
gr am is headed by the

enior Avalanche Co-
ordinator whose job it is to
prepare the intensive
training programs and to
Serve as liaison to govern-
ment agencies at various
levels. He is on the road all
winter, assuring personal
contact with Inghways
districts plagued ry
avalanche problems,

Four District Avalanche
Technicians assist the Co-
ordinator. They are
stationed in the highest
hazard areas and constantly
assess the snow cover to
determine hazard con-
ditions. Their analyses form
the basis for decisions to
close sections of the high-

“way and to use explosives to
-clear or trigger avalanches .

when safe to do-so. : -
Weather. observation is
preventive and gives prior
warning of coming hazards.
Explosives are used to
initiate an avalanche before
it might naturally occur, to
reduce snow buildup in the
starting zone and to produce
smaller avalanches of less
dangerous proportions than
major ones, ’
and charges, case
bombs and artillery are

used. The first are usually
dropped from a helicopter
or placed directly into the
snow pack by personnel on
skis,

Case bombs are placed on
smaller avalanche slopes
and when exploded, shock
waves release the snow.

Artillery is used at several
areas in B.C. Steel towers
from which to traverse

‘avalanche slopes using

small explosive launchers
(C‘avalaunchers'’) are
presently being constructed
atseveral avalanche sites in
Kootenay Pass.

Signs and illuminated
message signs encourage
no stopping” in avalanche
areas to minimize hazard to
travellers.

Basic rescue equipment is
light so that quick response
can be made in search for
victims of an avalanche.
This equipment is backed up
by heavier equipment whic
follows inilial rescuers to
the scene of an avalanche.

All department personnel
working in avalanche areas
are required to carry
avalanche rescue beacons
‘— small radio transceivers
‘which emit a signal when
switched on to lead rescuers
to the scene of the burial

quickly.
The department is con-
tinually assessing the

feasibility of routes where
such hazards are minimal,

but meanwhile, nothing is
being, left to, assure safe
travel in winter.

You do your part and the
highways crews are doing or
are ready to do theirs.

Minister of Highways and
Public Works, Alex V,
Fraser, annouriced recently
that moves are being made
toward the further decen-
tralization of the ad-
ministrative procedures for
issuing approvals for

subdivision, zonings and.

driveways, which enter onté
‘ controlled access highways:
“Enstead of the cum-
bersome requirement of
having to apply to Victoria
for all rulings in these cases,
many will be processed by
approving officers in the
department's regional of-
fices in Burnaby, Kamloops,
Nelson and Prince George,
This will provide faster
service to development
application,” said Fraser,
"Hopefully, the new
system will be in effect in
late November’, he added,

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