Thursday, October 81, 1964,

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, 5.6,

Page 8

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Health Of Animals Branch
Established 84 Years Ago

History of the Health of Animals Branch of Dominion
Department of Agriculture, and how it protects one of the
nation’s basic industries, was outlined by Dr. Stan Wood to
local Kiwanians at their luncheon meeting last Thursday.

Dr. Wood, who is resident govern-
ment veterinarian, said the branch
was first established ‘in 1870, follow-
ing an incident where a shipment of
cattle was landed in Quebee and
shipped overland to Vermont where
it was found to be infected with the
dread hoof and mouth disease.

Ever since that date the branch

has had the responsibility of protect-
ing the livestock industry by test-
ing shipments at ports of entry;
stamping out diseases that originate
here, and by ridding the country of
diseases that have been established
for years in the industry, such as
Bang’s disease and tuberculosis.
Oda twist to the ‘story of the
branch is that although it was fear
of hoof and mouth disease that led
to its formation, enmployees of the
department were not called on to
fight an actual occurrence of the
disease in this country until the out-
break in Saskatchewan in 1952. Luck
was with the banch in this instance
though, Dr. Wood said. The fact that
the outbreak occurred in a relatively
sparsely settled area and was con-
fined to two farms, helped officials in
their effort to stamp it out with a
minimum loss of livestock.

BROUGHT BY IMMIGRANY

It has been definitely established
that the disease was brought to the

farms by a German immigrant,
either in his clothes or the food he
brought with him. The manu was
working on a German farm, in an

area where the disease is prevalent,
just prior to coming to Canada. He
packed enough foodstuff in a large
tin container to tide him over on his
journey and set out for his farm
destination in Saskatchewan.

While he was working there he
helped a neighbor load some livestock
destined for a city abbatoir, and it
was at this point that the disease
was detected.

Some time later, the first farmer
recalled noticing that shortly after
the arrival of the immigrant, his
hogs had been sick for a period. This
was diagnosed as a light case of the
same disease, and the farmer fe

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membered that scraps from the trav-
ellers lunch kit had been tossed to
the animals.

To try and control similar in-
stances, the branch checks the ef-
fects of all immigrants for any pos-
sible livestock disease.

Ranchers and farmers now wel-
come the intervention of the health
of animals branch in an effort to
control disease, although Dr. Woods
recalled that it wasn’t many years
ago that the government ‘vet’ could
expect at times to he greeted by a
shotgun or to have a penned bull
turned loose in his general direction.

Bulk of his own work in the dis-

trict is carrying out TB tests among
he herds, Dr. Wood explained. He
said that about two-thirds of the cat-
tle population had been tested in the
three years since he came to the area,
and as the tests must be carried out
every six years, it looked as though
he would just finish in time to start
all over again.

The speaker was introduced by
Clive Stangoe and thanked by George
Smith.

LAC LA HACHE

Tentative Approval
For Mail Route

Tentative approval for the mail
delivery route between Lac La Hache
Post Office and Mile 137 has been
given by the Post Office Department
with the courier’s contract to be
awarded to Ray Wise, who was the
lowest bidder. Order forms for mail
boxes have been sent to residents and
now the whole thing hinges on the
number of people who buy boxes. It
must be at least 50% of those resi-
dents who petitioned Ottawa for this
service.

NEIL CARSWELL of Vancouver
was up this way hunting geese. He
told afterwards that he had heard of
fa man looking like a deer to some
trigger-happy hunter, but for him-
self to be taken for a goose was more
than his vanity cold stand. Some-
lone fired across a meadow and filled
him so full of buckshot, he had to
|go to the hospital. He is not com-
plaining, however, as the shot drove
the geese his way and he got three
of them.

Police Lost And Found
Closet Bulging

Lost anything?

The local RCMP detachment is
issuing the periodical call for owners
of odd and sundry mislaid items that
are cluttering up the office lost and
found drawers.

Some of the more worthwhile
items include: a first aid kit; one
carpenter's level, two power saw
chain guides, part of a Motorola car
radio, a change purse and cheque
book that were found together, and
a parka,

The average Canadian worker
loses 9%4 days every year through
sickness and accidents.

VICE PROBE ENDS IN CGURT VICTORY .

—Central Press Canadian

‘The five-year battle of Pacifique R. Plant, left, ended in victory
in Montreal court when Mr. Justice Caron found 20 men guilty of
tolerating organized gambling and prostitution in the city. Named

assistant police director in 1944, Mr.

Plant conducted a vigorous

campaign against vice but was fired in 1948. As a lawyer he con-

tinued the fight, amassing evidence that led

to Justice Caron's

verdict. With Mr. Plant is Jean Drapeau who will run for mayor of

Montreal on a reform ticket.

Honeymooners Have
Strange Experience

Writing to the Kohnke family, with
whom she and her husband spent
their honeymoon recently, Mrs. Al-
ired Knull (Myrtle Pennington, Van-
couver newspaper staffer) related
the following unusual wind-up to
their Cariboo trip.

Mr, and Mrs. Knull had just been
home a couple of days when their
dreams were shattered of a Sunday
morning (1:30 a.m.) by a hysterical
girl in their bedroom, babbling a
garbled story of her experiences.

Seems the girl, a recent newcomer
from England, had answered a “‘lone-
ly hearts’ advertisement and after

writing several letters to an equally
lonely man, had consented to a date.
The pleasant evening turned into a
nightmare for the girl though when
the man drove her in his
yesidential district and then
to get fresh. When the girl resisted
he slapped her and then grabbed her
by the throat, not letting her go until
she agreed to go to an auto court
with him. When he started to drive
off she managed to open the car door
and jump, running into the closest
house for help. It happened “to be
the newlyweds’ home. and the cou
ple calmed the girl and saw that s’
got safely home.

During 1952 a Douglas fir felled
on Vancouver Island was found to be
1,092 years old.'

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