© -asaasty, \ groan ice) — . The ex- _ perimental anticancer agent Interferon. is. being , Siminiitered to Marathon of Hope rumer Terry _ - Fox in an attempt to arreat the disease. - The Canadian Cancer Society said Monday it : ub ~ found and paid forthe expensive substance. Fox, 2, ae waa tréated an an outpatient Friday at Royal ’ Columbian Hospital. He returned to his family's home in nearby Port Coquitlam on Monday where :he remains on- intravenous. and under ‘round-the- oct care of nurses, ‘ Doctors and the bogpital weren't commenting oa . the treatment and the Fox family asked that thelr Privacy be respected. ~ Cancer Society. spokesmen in Vancouver said Interferon — a derivative of white blood - cells _ developed by British scientists [n'1957 — was ob- tained by the national office in Toronto. They didn't - say what dosage Fox was given nor how Touch it _ Cost. a "Two weeks ago doctors anmbunced they had . considered using Interferon bat rejected it because , New give just . cause for _ dismissing empléyees, and ' give the employee written nn notice or wages in licu of the ' notice. - It will also require — businesses to pay em- ‘ployees with five or more years of service six per -ceoton the annual vacation -- pay. From one.to five years ‘of service employees will ride four per cent. The legislation will be enforced by = Edna _Forestnan and Dale Reid, Isbor' officdrs in the Skeena region: They serve the area @ast to Topley Landing including Granisle, north to i: _, Camaiar, west to the Queen | ..” Qhaplotte Islands and south be xl RETARD nee fo Reid has been tired as a second . labor . officer because of the gize of the Skeena region’ and the impact the new legislation , is going to have on this area. At the present time about ‘34 per cent of the inquiries made to.the labor office relate to people who have been dismissed without any cause. ‘Someone called in . ON ‘provincial. legislation effective March _1 will force employers to New regulation for dismissals. tere. recently saying: the had been working for. a business for. two years without taking any time olf, She called in sick and five minutes later the boas . called her back and said it would not be necessary for’ her to come back to work. We couldn't help her, but aiter March 1.we will be ‘able to help. people like her,’ said Foresman. : Cases involving un- scrupulous employers only -involye one per cent of the ‘problems the labor office - solves. Most employers are simply careless and don't keep’ proper’ - records ‘in ‘matters that involve the -Dorpayment of overtime | work, Some employers are shocked to learn they must pay employees time-ania- overtine worked, - says Foresman. The labor officers also are required to serve as the investigating officers for the labor relations board, and at times are required fo serve as the in- vestigating officers for the human rights branch. The labor office says if anyone has any questions relating to the service it provides to. call 638-8101. Baroy age ae, pas last longshot ” NEW WESTMINSTER, -B.C. tt has been used with mixed results and is largely | unprdven as 4 cancer cure’. They said then that only a wiracle euld-aav Fox. Cancer firet appeared in Fox's body four, year’ ago, forcing amputation of his right feg gece the’ EGISEA _ Vev-ane “ie Bi Prey ie ale aren —o TIVE fo AE pabhréueae BULLDIN VICTORIA, B.C, ss sens pra 3, #61. i thigh. The disease returned last September, ‘this. time to his lungs, and ended his cross-country rum o, raise money for cancer research. : ; Fox, who stopped near Thunder ay; Ont, had _ covered more than 5,000-kilotyetres since 'dipping © _ bis artificial leg into the Atlantic seer: St John’s spread a month, reaching his‘ =o ‘Bom gods pursing arts iw pala tery which distributes blood to thé body. wt A Calgary research group, headed by biochemist Dr, ¥. H. Tan, was one of the first in Canada to . . : isolate Interferon two years ago, . “It is a protein produced when a virus attacks a “gel It travels to neighboring cells to warn them of ~Fopending virus attacks. This triggers an antiviral ” alert by production of little-known niolecules which | » other’ cells.” a prevent the virus from reproducing and attacking «The: Calgary research group: uses a: virus to "stimulate Interferon production and a chernical to , Stop. the cell from turning off alter producing only “U.S, medical’ centres, "its normally: ‘small supply. - - The researchers supply the W. W Cross Hale denne wih the drag and alzo sone © “Much of the Interferon available today comes. from Finland, seer es re cures rom __ White cells of donated blood, ; :_ Only 400 millilitres was obtained: there ini 1079" + 60 rf bot _ we “A spokesman for the Cross Institnta said results” a LE Ne RE SEE SLT OE PN LEE Ee RPL BOP ¥e COMP. 77/78 ] mi . an i chance e for T Terry F determine if certain: domes él the Interferon were poisonous - and: “pb analyze” its - effects. Most patients stabilized during tredtment but the.» ‘Sisease progressed in eight of them after the drug. ON ne Grom lnntite bp cauttmonlresesreh The Cross Institute, has continued research - to a "determine tumor r responses. x from Interferon treatments there haven't been | * an ig, ‘Twelve cancer patients took part in a ‘study to : os Ina San Diego, Calif, tei, 15 cancer patients wh ‘didn’t respond. to eonyentional: treatments were © piven. Interferon dally for six months. Four had #.° Cancer _ Mibstantial-reduction of their tumors, although " Fegrenslon would have been expected in 11 of the 14 patients with standard thei Tapy... a - Another test:indicated that five of. 16 breast ' cancer patiertis | respondéd to Interferon after | tials of 42 to &4 days welll the’ drug. ° _ ANew York siudy of 15 hing céncer patients rho "resid Ilertere fr 30 dap sted gh han change anid seven had their condition worsea, - |. **.: More pronising is-a Swedish. study ‘of 12 bone “ ‘cancer patients treated wilh Interferon, Six now are . free of cancer. , Tuesday, February 17, War ~ Westend Food Mart 6: eee pe 635-5274 aweek oe thewon es Westend tags Service Se", Mag 635-7228 |” 4a Satisfy Tummy & Tank ' a 365 DAYSA YEAR" SJ - — , 01M, YENDIy, _ “Complete Office: Coffee Servite” 3oodhost 638-1825 _ aja Hwy. 16W. TERRACE | Verlfas School in Terrace Is now administered by the new school board. Seated left to-right are frustees Shirley Marleau;- Tom Staebell, vice-chairperson; Anita Page. finance; Audrey McKinnon, chairperson; Julie Fredericks, secretary; Eila George? Gerry Michaud, maintenance . -- deniiate to ‘surcharge’. for- ad pee chairman; and Ron Bartlett Is. missing. Standing lett oe . right are Lesley Netms, staff representative; | Jean Maroney and Herman Oristtin,; outgoing trustees; Father: Jim Jordan; Lisa Brock; outgoing trustee; and: Sister’ Mary, principal. DAWSON cry, Yukon (CP) —- An Alberta woman with nine toes has kicked in the missing ingredientfora . ‘drink that has made this | Gold rush city's Eldorado Holal tarndtis. © . The drink is a sverwe cocktall, a beer ‘glass brimming with charnpagne and garnished with .a pickled human toe instead’ af an olive or cherry. ~ Since 1973, more than 700 people have downed the potion «(how = many’ managed to keep It down is not on record), leaving the toe ‘behind for the next. conter. But last summer a ’ thirsty customer threw back the works afd digested a Klondike in- stitution. The toe -- a bequest from a trapper who lost the digit OTTAWA (CP) — awaited legislation making sible for their criminal acts was introduced in the Commons Monday by Solicitor-General Kaplan. . Under the proposed Young Offenders - Act, which justice department officials have spent years patilig together, youths | would have the same rights ~ to due process of the law as. adults -— including the right to appeal court decisions. Kaplan told a news Long: to frostbite _ was gone forever. Tourists were. ‘ demanding a tot and there wasn't @ toe to be had. - So the originator of the drink, Captain © Dick . Stevenson, set out to find a Union othe Terrace-Kitimat and _ District. Labor Courcil is calling on union members and all “‘good citizens" to boycott the Lakelse Hotel . during the © Telecom- munications Workers - Uaion (TWU). dispute with the B.c. Tel sompany. Paul ° Johnson, 4 spokesman for the labor council, says that as long as the .Lakelse Hotel: continues to allow "geab" law recognizes (or the first ime that youths can and do. commit criminal acts and that society has a right to protection from such - seplace the 73-year-old Juvenile Deliquents Act, proposes major changes to the way youths would be treated for offences against the Criminal Code and ‘other federal. statutes antl _Teguiations. "The peopoted Law would raise fo i‘ from seven years the age at which chikiren could be. charged ° with criminal offences. new toe. And now he has one, corn and all. ‘The ~ donor is an anonymous. "55-year-old . * woran whe lives pear Fort Saskatchewan, Alta:; a few-* kilometres. northeast of Edm onton. When she beard of the Eldorado Hotel's problem - she went to the closet and dug out a jar of alcohol. containing .the middle toe ~ of ber. right foot. Tt had : aiming at hotel - "employees to live’ there _ members. af unions in the Terrace area. should. not | ; patronize the busixiess. _ Red Verstrate, owner of the hotel, is out of townon « business ag president of the B.C. Hotels Association; but last week he. told the © - Dally Herald that to refuse _ the people of B.C. Tel a room would be the same thing-as a slore refusing to sei] them groceries. Only youths between 14 and 18 could be tried in adult courta and caly for the most serious offences such a8 murder, rape, | manslaughter or armed | robbery. Others would be .tried in juvenile courts. However, Ottawa would consider altering the fnaximum age of 18 if the wanted this. The current Juvenile Deliquents Act applies to young persons under the age of 16 in moat provinces, under. 17. in: British > Columbia and under 18 in Quebec ard Manitoba. “The new law also would , “y just. ‘can't kick my customers: ‘out i. Fm in business 0 rent rooms.to people; and.I must treat management the same gd . I do THU members,” he cays, ; Verstrate said that if - he did force them to leave there would be legal action taken against him by the This may. ‘sound corny, but. human rights commission. , “Pm caught between the | devil and the deep blue " sa. give youths the right to jeetl representation ‘in The proposed law, which justice officiats haye spent more than 10 years draf- ting, emphasizes alternate. means of pttnishment besides confinement. “Youths would still be sent to training schools for up to two years but could also he given can absolute discharge, be ordered to compensate their victims, - do commimity work ot pay & fine of up to $1,000. The maximum fine now 8 $25. For the first time, youths would have to be given a " thusiaam;, the two" di monda’ iti his. fron“ one offence. a] ' ‘The government ak with a $100 offer. So the wonnen rebottied ber tow, overprool: white. nun “tbe alootol had guse a bit. 2 cloudy" —and packed it ft to Dawson. ety. “It's way worse looking . m8 “TPs, big wel, Een Tim pole have a hard time me gag.” ye criginal toe pickled inf - @f rum in his ca promised to shoot ff 6x his own ta remeemen ; could’ pot been. found is ; Kids: responsible for their ir mes. or + t pact: VANCOUVER P B.C. dentists have reached" agreement with ° the” _ provincial government on a ‘pew fee schedule providing : increnses averaging 13.7 percent, effective Marchi. Dr-: Ted ‘Ramage, president of the B.C. College of Dental Surgeons, said dentists willonly sot & 12-per-ceal, increase. The - ather °7 per cout: Ramage charge" to accommodate - the price of-silver, which ‘Has, Btablized. (Last year, dhe government permitted -work done with silver after . ‘its price rose - ne dramatically)’. “We feel it is a fair " settlement,” said Ramage. . “It’s close to the increased — ‘cont dentists face.” — "He said fee increases for - -will be, the same as the promukehaeaed mo ‘Apri 1. ‘deadline, ap- a proaches with no break in 3” the current impasse. mr Last. week,:the B.C. -Medical Association board ~*” of: directors rejected the - government'g’ offer ‘of. 13 ~ per cent. Doctots continue . ‘to press for 26.4 per cent ~ and . are ‘threatening — ‘to surcharge. patients the difference betwees-13. per: cat aed ont nar cert at ~ there is no. setilerient by April 1, - Under the new fee gulde, astandard oralexam goes . ‘to $13 from $11.60; cleaning and sealing of permanent teeth to $26.40 from $44; 2 root canal to $161.10 from _ Saag, a two-surface fill: ing on a permanent molar” to $23.65 from $30.90 and-azi ‘extraction will cost #0. 19 tnmtend of #8. Incorrigibility and sexual: Libmdrality would alto be diminating many abolished. of the offences with which m, juvenile now (can be charged. Currently, a juvenile, delinquent is defined asa child whe violates the Criminal Code, federal or provincial. siatutda, municipal. bylaws. ‘or: ‘guilty’ of sexualy . iht- morality Gr any form of view.” ~ However, Eaplan shld formal legal. distitiction tributing to delinquency would dié« The offence of con- juvenile’ | _ appear and parents would. " not be held responsible for iHegal acts committed by their chikiren. - Youth court proceedings, “cow held behind closed ‘doors, would be open to the * public but the media would . be . prohibited fren " publighing the names of the. youths charged with of- called a ‘“butit-in sur- - the provincial govern- - ‘