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THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE

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RISKE CREEK NEWS

Material Ordered For New Hail

Gordon Jasper, Mr. W. Johnson,
Mr. Delmer Jasper and daughter

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A successful community meet-
ing was held last Friday at the

Williams Lake, B.C., Wednesday, April 16, 1958

home of Mrs. Bert Buckle.
Plans were made to start on the
mew hall, and the cement and

Mary, Mrs. Pauline Perry and
family, Mr. J, Klassen, Mr. G.
Terry and Miss Loralee Terry,

SECOND FRON

First Aid Course
For Instructors

Twenty-five first aid attend-
fmts in the Williams Lake area
‘will be given the opportunity to
make application for enrolment
in a course in first aid instruc-
tion which is under the joint
sponsorship of the St. John
Ambulance Association and the
Workmen’s Compensation Board.
‘This school for industrial first
ald instructors will be held in
Vancouver beginning April 28.

The sponsoring group_ will
choose 100 candidates ~ from
applications received from the
4,250 industrial. first aid
attendants in the province.
Each gpplicant will be carefully
screenéd by the joint committee.
Only those with outstanding
will be selected. The
first one-week course will have
an enrolment of 24 instructor
candidates from the lower main-
land, “Vancouver Island and
coastal areas. Succeeding
courses. will be held in Van-
eouver-May 26, for southern In-
terior candidates, and June 2 tor
northern area candidates.

B.C; industry has thrown its
support behind the project.
| Several industries will play a
major role in the instruction
program.

The Consolidated Minging and
Smelting Company has loaned
the services of its senior train-
ing officer at Trail, B.C., John
HH. Knight. He has been named
director of the jointly sponsored
school of instruction for instruc-
tors ‘of industrial first aid.
Appoifited assistant directors are
C. R, Rustmeyer, safety director,
Canadian Forest Products Ltd.;

LOSES JOB -

Ruffee, a 300-pound cham~-
pion St. Bernard was a natural
choice for the Ontario Safety
league's role in its campaign to

publicize non-alcoholic bever-
ages for drivers. But whoever
painted the sign on the cask
around Ruffee's neck didn't
know how important it was to
use water-proof paint. After a
few si
dribbled
make the coffee sign look uke

“brandy.” So, League President

fra Needles had to formally and
regretfully fire Ruffee from his
job at the Safe Driver Award
banquet in Toronto where 800
accident - free commercial
drivers were honored.

George Norris, safety director,
B.C. Lumber Manufacturers’
Association; and Frank Motti

Work-
men’s Compensation Board.

shaw, first aid inspector,

It is the
goal to have qualified instructors
located in every area of the
province.

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where addicts could get
gested solutions to the

Mr. Mullins said in his
opinion the “drug clinics”
were necessary because past ex-
perience with attempting the
cure of addicts have proved un-
successful. He recalled that
attempt to form a “ drug addicts
anonymous,”* similar to ‘ Alco-
holies Anonymous,” had been
abandoned. The rehabilitation
centre at Oakalla established two
years ago has not affected one
“cure.”

With addicts registered at a
clinic to receive their supply of
drugs, Mr. Mullins said it would
result in police having a com-
plete record of who and where
the addicts are. Major advantage
though, would be that the profit
would be taken out of the drug
trafficking. The Clinic, too,
would provide a laboratory for
the study of the problem of drug
addiction.

Just

how much profit is in
the speaker when he said an
ounce of morphine is worth
around $100. This ounce con-
tains 480 grains, and is broken
down into one grain capsules for
sale to the addicts at around $5
a capsule.

But the trafficker does not sell
pure morphine. By the time the
drug has hit the streets, it has
been cut as much as 25 times.

[MOST ADDICTS HERE

It has been estimated that his
drug habit costs the average user
around $7,000 a year, and there
are an estimated two to three
thousand addicts in British
Columbia, more than are in the

British Columbia made by Vancouver
‘man Mullins when he addressed members of the
Board of Trade last Thursday.

trafficking drugs was shown by|

Suggestions Made for Control
Of Vicious Drug Problem in B.C.

Stiffer jail sentences for illegal possession of
nareotics and establishment of government clinics

drugs, were among sug-
vicious drug problem in
lawyer Nor-

rest of Canada, Since the aver-
age user doesn’t have that type
of money, the result is that he
turns to crime, or if a woman
to prostitution to pay for the
Mabit.

The most vicious turn this
search for money takes Is when
the user gets enough ahead to
buy capsules in quantity at a
reduced price and starts selling
on his own. Since there is a
limited market, he seeks to en-
large this by introducing non-
users to the habit.

The use of drugs started in
the province with the importa-
tion of Chinese coolies, but the
Chinese population today plays
only a minor role in drug traf-
ficking. The addict‘community,
Mr. Mullins said, is mainly made
up of Canadian born people, and
a soberng thought is that 10
yeurs ago the average age. of
the addicts was between 23 and
The averagé has now
‘aropned to between 20 and 24
years,

INTRODUCED TO DRUGS
Contrary to general belief, the
pattern of life of a person
addicted to drugs is not from
drugs to crime, but the reverse.
Mr. Mullins said that most users
were involved in crime before
they became drug users. An-
other way people are introduced
to the habit is when they are
sent to jail and méet up with
addicts. The addict talks only
of the happy, carefree feeling or
“itt” they get from the drug,
not the terrible physical pains

they experience when the effect
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plywood was ordered. A fout-
man building committee was
formed.

and Nell McDonald.

DAVE KLASSEN has been in
Vancouver for two weeks.

MR. AND MRS. Tory Exshaw
were visiting friends in Riske
Creek this week.

VISITORS to Williams Lake
the past week were Mr. and Mrs.

wears off, or of the miserable
life of continually running from
the police and living in slum
quarters. The non-user listens
to the stories, experiments with
the drug and is ‘| hooked.”

TERRIBLE PAINS

Effects of a ‘' fix’’ of the drug
used last about half a day, and
as the effect wears off, the addict
first feels nervous and then de-

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and stomach, As the symptoms
get worse, the addict is almost
doubled over with pain and
finally he reaches the stage when
it feels as though every nerve
in his body was laid open. The
only thing that brings relief is
another. “fix.”

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The news of “ mass arrests”
we read of from time to time
have little effect on the trade in
drugs, Mr. Mullins asserted. He
said the arrest of 30 peddlers
would only slow sales down for
about half an hour. It is sel-
dom that police catch up with
those bringing in wholesale lots
for distribution to the actual
users.

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Appeal to Reduce

Sentence Turned Down

The Court of Appeal last Wed-
nesday refused to reduce a sen-
tence of six months definite and
12 months indefinite given
Wayne Clayton Tressierra, 21, at
Williams Lake last January.

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on Nick Bruna.

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