PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Thursday, August 3, 1976

CHILLIWACK, B.C. (CP)
— Health authorities are
conducting an emergency
vaccination program among
mambers of the Dutch
Reformed Church, a
religious cormmunity In the
upper Fraser Vailey, after a
26-year old oped aymptonas

rmer deve symptoms
of paralytic pollo,

The man, a member of the
group which is opposed to
vaccinations on. religious
grounds, became ill shortly
after receiving a visitor from
Holland where a polio
epidemic has affected nearly
100 persons.

He was reported in stable
condition in hospital here,
paralyzed and breathing
with the aid of a mechanical

7 respirator,

a The visitor, also a member

‘of the religious group, had
not been vaccinated.

Because some segments of
the church believe pollo is
evidence of the will of Gad,
some Holland citizens have
refused vaccination despite
the epidemic which has
swept through their com-
munities,
However Dr. William
McInnes, Upper Fraser
Valley medical health of-
ficer, said Tuesday he Is
trying to vaccinate as many
ag possible of the local
congregation to avoid a
possible epidemic here.

He said very few of the
about 1,250 members of the
farming community have
had a polio vaccination.
WORKING STEADILY

“We've been vaccinating
them steadily since Friday,”

Castlegar cancels

CASTLEGAR,. B.C. (CP)
Council = in
southeastern British
a Columbia community has
” Unanimously approved a
resolution to cancel the ciy’s
; eirport contract with the
eon Ministry of Transport
” Mayor Audrey L Moore sald
or . Meare sa
Tuesda:

y.

Theseven-member council
made the decision because it
maintains MoT has failed to
properly equip, fund and

sure t oy apennte i the
municipality operates for t
federal government.

The city currently ad-

BCGEU

VANCOUVER (CP) —The
Province says a new three-
year contract will give 18,000
members of the British
Columbia Hospital Em-
= ployees Union (HEU) an 11-
G7? per-cent wage increase in

ministers the airport with

this funds from a federal subsidy

and from airport can-
eessions.

Officials in Ottawa say
they. are displeased with
council’s decision and fear
Castlegar’s action could
trigger similar moves
among 35 other munici-
pallies across the country.

Ms. Moore said her
council's decision resulta
from problems e need
‘by the city of Cranbrook
where a Paciflc Western
Airlines Boeing 737 jetliner
crashed in February, killing

said McInnes. ‘We've done
several hundred already.”

“Despite what religious
convictions these people
have, some are coming
forward to be vaccinated,
Perhaps It's the different
Interpretation, betweer
treatment and protection, we
don’t know.”

He said the medical health
unit does not want ta became
involved in a controversy
over religious beliefa.

McInnes said there is little
danger to the general popu-
lation since. the. level of
immunity against pollo is

gh.

He said that although no
new cases have tured u
since the farmer was ad-
mitted to hospital, doctors
will be are watching the
situation because it takes up

Possible polio epidemic inBC |

to 21 days for symtoms to. &

a rafter the disease has
been ¢ contracted.-  —

NOT CONFIRMED .

Blood samples taken from
the visitor, the victim and
close contacts have been
sent to the pravincial
laboratory in Vancouver
where analyses will be done
to verify whether the disease
is actually polio.

“It's suspected polio at
this point, but I don’t see
what else it could be,” said
Dr.-R.W. Van der Filer, the
physician in charge of the
cage.

The sick man is out of

«immediate danger, he said,
“but

extent to which he
“will, recover. from the

paralysis in his upper body is
unknown at this time.

airport contract

43 persons, .
The city carried only
$500,000 worth of liability
insurance on the airport at
that time, Like Castlegar,
Cranbrook operates the
airport for the MoT on a
contractual basia and could
end up paying a portion of
the $10 million in insurance
settlements expected to
result from the crash.
Moore said the Cranbrook
experience is the kind of
situation her city wants to
avoid, 7 ms
“T think you have to bear
in mind that the airport
serves a population base of

60,000 people, but in the
event of an accident the
lability could fall on 6,700.
people—the residents of
Castlegar,” she said.

“We get no benefits what-
soever from operating the
alrport, and the MoT can
have it back.”

The Castlegar airport
carries $2 million worth of
liability insurance—about’
average for the
municlpally-operated —_air-
ports across Canada, but
well below the potential
claims that could result from
a major passenger jet crash.

get 11 per cent increase

the first two years and
equality with provincial
government health workers
in the third.

The morning newspaper
Bays the award, retroactive

to Jan. 1, was endorsed by
arbitration board chairman
Allan Hope and HEU
president Jack Gerow.

Lawyer I. G. Nathanson,
representing the Health

Fraser blaims Kamloops

VICTORIA CP - Highways
Minister Alex Fraser shifted

threatened by ahifting “land
cato the City of Kamloops,
B.C. Tuesday.

Officials said Monday at
least 20 new houses could
‘collapse in the immediate
future after a massive land
shift in a picturesque valley

South
in

the

overlooking
River

Thompson

blame for a subdivision Kamloops.  - ce,
i Mayor Mike Latta blamed:

the provincial government,
stating the city would not
assume financial respon:
sibility. because the high-
ways department originally
approved the development.

Fraser told a news ¢on-

Man charged for
shooting vandal.

VANCOUVER CP - A53 year
old city man has been
charged with wounding and
@ youth was in hospital
Tuesday recovering from
bullet wounds to his stomach
toring a neighborhood

Police said the youth was
ahot twice with a .22 calibre
rifle Monday night after four
youths threw rocks through
the rear windows of a home,

Police were told a man
with a rifle came out on a

aundeck, fired one shot into
the air and called to the
“Stand and

youths to

dellver,"’

The man then fired at the
lega of one of the youths.

John Van Bavel appeared
in provincial court Tuesday
and was released to appear
again Aug. 15.

David Reich, 20, was in
satisfactory condition in
Vancouver General
Hospital.

ference Tuesday the high-
ways ministry denied ap-
-proval. for the subdivision
‘becaugze of poor soil con-
ditions, and it was the city of
Kamloops which approved
the development in October,

The minister sald he is
awaiting a report from his
geotechnical staff and “upon
receipt we will be better
equipped to provide further
information on the er of
the situation and possible
solution.”

Labor Relations Association
(HLRA), dissented.
Currently, provincial
health workers, members of
the B.C. Government Em-
ployees Union, earn from
$111.50 to $233 a month more
than HEU workers in
comparable jobs. HEU
members, however, have
superior benefits. -

It took eight months for the
arbitration board to settle an
award after the union volun-
tarily submitted to binding
arbitration under the
Essential Services Dispute
Act. '

The union took this step
after the employers’
association proposed to
increase wages four per cent
and to take away benefits
amounting to one per cent.

The award, handed down
Monday, has not yet been
made public.

Because the contract falls
under anti-inflation board
guidelines, the non-
professionel hospital
workers will receive a four-

 per-cent wage increase this

year and a seven-per-tent in-

crease in 1979, The

agreement also includes a

cost-of-living agreement.
The union and

association are to begin.

negotiations immediately in
an attempt to reach a for-
mula to bring HEU mem-
bers' wages into line with
those of BCGEU members
by 1980, If. they cannot reach
agreement by the end of this
year, either side may ask for
an arbitration board.

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