eR A ‘spokesman for the

~ British Columbia Wildlife

Federation ‘says the
provincial government
should make a com-
mitment that it will lift
the flooding reserve on
the McGregor and lower
Peace rivers.

Bill Otway, federation
secretary-treasurer, was
commenting on B.C.
Hydro’s «announcement
Tuesday that it has
abandoned the .$300-

_million proposal to divert

the McGregor River, in
central B.C., because it
would have baused
serious
damage to B.C.’s fishery..
“We think it’s great
that Hydro has made that
statement, but we don’t
feel it's enough,’”’ Otway
said Tuesday.
&'We want a com-
mitment from
overnment that it will
ift the flooding reserve
on the McGregor and the
lower Peace,” he said.
The reserve means
-Hydro has the right to
flood the land any time.
“We can’t accept the
word of B.C. Hydro,”
Otaway said. ‘‘We know
their word is no good.
They have made no
mention of the lower
Peace. As long as that

’ reserve remains there

can be no agricultural

. development in the lower

Hormones could —
diagnose cancer

*

». Dr., Don ; 0
peal ofthe departman taf: “own

i
i‘

~~ Researchers

The study.of hormones is
entering a new era which
may lead to new ways to
diagnose cancer and new
treatments for hormone
diseases like diabetes and
to provide - key in-
‘formation. to. genetic
engineers, an American
“Biochemist said Tuesday.
onald . Steiner.,..

"biochemistry.,.-at ., the
“University of Chicago,
told the. annual meeting
of the Canadian Society
for Clinical Investigation
that workers in his
‘laboratory are beginning
to unravel how the
rocedures for making
nsilin and other hor-~
mones are coded into
fgenes. ;
have
ound that the genetic
code does not spell out the

‘formula for insulin, but

for a much larger
molecule called pro-
insulin, which is trimmed
away bit by bit by en-
zymes.

“EIKE SCULTPR

“te’'s like a sculptor
who takes a stone and
carves it. down to
represent what . he
wants,’ he said at a news
conference.

: He- said that some
tumors of hormone-
secreting organs make
“the prohormone but do
not trim it down to. the
hormone. Tumors of the
“pancreas, which
produces insulin, are one
example.

. The presence of ab-
normal amounts of pro- .
‘Insulin could be used as
an early indication of

environmental .

t

a, not enough

Peace. Once it's lifted

that means for sure there

will be no flooding on the

lower Peace.”
CONTINUE FIGHT
Otway said .

its fight “until we get

‘ those commitments.”

Cliff Stainsby,

‘executive-director of the

Society for Pollution and
Environmental ‘Yontrol,
said abandonment of the
McGregor proposal is
fantastic because Hydro
appears td have fina
taken the advice of envi-
ronmentalists.

Stainshy added there is
no need for Hydro to push
the Hat Creek thermal
generating plant which it
proposes to build near
Ashcroft, 220 kilometres
northeast of Vancouver,
in the 1980s.

' “We don’t neéd more
and more major Hydro
projects,” he said,

In announcing the
McGregor abandonment,
Hydro chairman Robert

Bonner predicted the de-

cision will increase the
likelihood of coal burning

wer plants in B.C.’s
luture. .

Bonner said coal plants
present no major t
to the province's fishery,
which was the ma
reason for abandoning
the McGregor

project. .

cancer, he said, and
monitorin pro-insulin
also would be valuable in

the body, doctors would
be able to determine how
‘much insulin the patient's

body :is--producing,
éven While he is receiving
insulin injections, he

said.
The detailed .
biochemical knowledge
which is em also is
important to ef orts to
produce synthetic drugs
that imitate the action of
insulin, Steiner said. _
LARGER. MOLECULE
The most recent
research has shown that
pro-ingulin comes from
an ephemeral. and still
-existence had not been
suspected before because
it exists only for a brief

period, Stelnernsaid—the_
‘enzyme sculptors often

‘start trimming off the
extra parts even before
the molecule is com-
pletel: manufactured.
Further editing of
enetic information. also
kes place between the
genes and the manu:
acturing machinery of
the cell, he said.
These.» complications.
hinder the task of genetic

engineers who want to.

splice insulin genes ine
bacteria and then breed
billions of them in order
to make a living infulin
factory, he.said; -

The problem, he said, is.
that bacterla are _ not
normally inclined to do
fancy sculpting.

Insights into
organ transplants _

“The riddle of why a.
“mother’s body does not
reject the fetus prowing
_within her has led to new
“Insights into the problems
“of organ transplants and
the question of how the
‘body fights: cancer, an
Alberta physician told the
‘Canadian Society. for
‘Clinical Investigation
Tuesday. ,
* Dre J, B. Dossetor, a |
“professur in the depart-
ment of medicine .al the
University of Alberta,-
‘said he has proved that.
“the mother produces a
‘special kind of cell that
fi uts down her own
-mmunily.
“The cells, called sup-
pressor cells, are at least -
part of the answer to wh
A mother can tolerate tle
presence of'a baby whose
genotic makeup—.
cause.-of the  con-

tribution’ of: the father's” invasion of tumor cells.

-

er.own, he sald; ©
He said that when cells

from’ the father . were.

administered to a third
person, mary killer cells
attacking the foreign

cells were produced. .n

Significantly, fewer killer
cells were formed when
serum from the mother
and father together: was
administered. The ex-
riment was designed 80
he could conclude . that
suppressor cells’ were
resent in the’ mother's.
y. . -
bupp.essor cells, which
have been studied by
other researchers, are
suspected of being re-
sponsible for the failure
of. immunit
suffering
who become less and less
able to deal. with. ‘the

the
federation will continue’

River -

gener ‘different than _

' “To me,

in persons,
rom Cancer.

ig

f

The provincial inquiry
into issuing of guide
licences was told Tues-

_ day that Howard Paish’s

guide's licence and
outfitter’s certificate

cording to a ruling from
attorney-general’s
department.

ce 4=«s«GGibault = co-

a "ordinator of regulations

and guides for the fish
and wildlife department,
told the inquiry that he
wau. instructed ... by
assistant branch director

Dr.. John Bandy to get.a |
- ruling on several aspects
he.
received. a‘ memo from ~

lawyer.

of the Palsh case.
Gibault — said

department
Loretta Chaperon stating
that it would
order- -
validate the licence and
certificate,

She. also -advised that

the year of grace to which -

Paish was eo guiding
e of his g
operation should expire
larch 31,1977, and his
certificate shotild be
cancelled the following

day. .

However, Gibault said
branch director Don
Robinson decided the
year of grace should not
endnunti] March 31,1978.
AWAIT HEARING

Gibault said he did not
think Paish’s licence
should be cancelled until
the charges against him
were disposed of and he
was given a hearing by
the branch.

‘Moat of the charges to
which he pleaded guilty
were administrative and
not of a serious nature,”
he said. “This is a com-

mon fault with trappers

and’ guides. They on't
bother too much with
forme,” Zé

“Are you aware that
the judge found that
omission on two of. the
ferms was intentlonal?”’
provincial court Judge J.

.MeCarthyasked,

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wish it were otherwiss. .
But-both:-N.D.P.- and
Social: Credit govern-
ments have traditionally
own litte. un
derstanding of the

-Nishgas.:" The Nishga

leader have, themselyes
declared their presen-
tation was made as an
{nitial bargain position
and was. negotlable. I
think the'B.C. Govern-
ment should have locked
at it in:that light.“

ere Was
exactly the- same
problem with ‘thy NDP
overnment when it was
mn power In B.C.
- THowever, I am. still
hopeful that some way be

found to resolve the long °

standing grievances. of
the Nishga people. —

by the Britis

require an

: colliding
8

web

Guide’s license was invalid,
provincial inquiry told

“IT am not aware,’
replied Gibault.

Paish and his guiding
speration in the Spatsizi
Plateau drea have been a
focus of the inquiry.

Lloyd Brooks, deputy

minister of recreation.

and conservation, told the
hearing that the ruling
requiring a minimum of
two years experience as

B.C. Court ¢

‘VANCOUVER’ (CP), — an inguiest into the death’

Daniel Pelech of -Bur-
naby, BC. has leet
‘ound gros negligen
Columbia
Supreme Court in a 1968
motor vehicle collision in
which his three children
were injured.’
' Justice J. S. Aikins
‘made the finding against

- Pelech, a pharmacist,

and Grace Drugs Lid., in
acivil action arising from
a crash on the Trans-
Canada Highway in Banff
National Park, Alta.
The judge said the six-
day trial held last Sep-
tember only- concerned

- the issues of Hability and

that assessment of dam-
ages could be argued
later. so,

Pelech: was taking his
children on a ‘holiday
when he was involved in a
collision with a vehicle
driven by Clarence Irving
Watson of Yorkton, Sask,
Watson was seriously
injured and has no
recollection of the
collision itself or the
events leading up to it.

Justice Aikins ruled
that Watson, who also
was named as a defen-

. dant in the suit,.was not

negligent, n

e suit was brought by
Pelech’s former wife on
behalf of the children,
Donna Leah Elarie, 22,
Janice Carol Elarie, 20,
and Gordon Douglas
Elarie, 18.

The judge said part of
the difficulty presented
by the evidence in the
case was because all
witnesses were testifying
to events which had taken
place more than nine

ears before the trial

an.
ustice Aikins found
that Pélech overtook a
line of vehicles at a speed
of 96 to 112:kilometres an

hour and when he saw |

vehicles approachin

‘made a sudden turn to ge

back into his own lane
then lost control,
head on with
Watson's vehicle.

He said the car Pelech
was driving was owned
by Grace Drugs Lid, a
company of which Pelech:
was an officer.

coroner's jury
recommended Tuesday
that British Columbia
Hydro make safely a

greater priority In its

operations. ;
The recommendation
came at the conclusion of

an assistant guide to
ify for an outfitter’s

ation.
he was most
concerned that there was
no record of an a
lication form for Paish's
icence and blamed it on
sloppy administration.
Vernon, an
associate deputy

- cence is impractical and

"Fe sai

of Stephen Marek, 51, of
Vancouver, who died in
hospital from injuries
suffered when he touched

a. fallen hightension -

power line.

The’ jury ruled the
death accidental. but said
a contributing factor was
that repairs had not been
made to .a damaged

minister, on examination
by Bill Otway of the B.C.
Wildlife Federation, said
he learned only Monday
that the RCMP had been
brought in to investigate
the branch. He said he
was not aware if the
minister had any
knowledge of this.

The hearing continues
today.
clamp, despite «the
recommendation of a

- B.C. Hydro circuit patrol

report, —- . 7
“It jury also said Hydro
should ensure that local
governments are made
aware of their  re-
sponsibility to keep trees
away from electrical
conductors, in an effort to
avoid accidents,

The Partners of

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- decided not: to

Growers not
satisfied —

PENTICTON, . B.C
(CP) — Delegates to the
annual convention of the
British Columbia Fruit
Growers Association say
they arenot satisfied wit
details of anew
provincial farm income
assurance program
anounced Tuesday.

Agriculture Minister
Jim Hewitt released
details of the new
program to replace the
present income ;
assurance scheme in a
speech Tuesday to

elegates. The -present
program has been in

. effect since 1973.

In a question-and-

; answer session following
§ his speec
» delegate outlined op-

h, delegate after

ition to the proposals.
“No matter what way

~ you cut it (the new
. program) it means less to

the farmers of this prov-

ince and why should we

settle for less?” Richard

; Bullock, association vice-

president, asked the
minister. ’
PRAISES PROGRAM
Hewitt told growers the
new program is the best
of its kind in Canada and
asked the meeting ‘is the
new program really as

bad as you expected?”
“T have a feeling you
people breathed a sigh of

relief when you heard the
details," he said.

His statement brought —
a chorus of groans in
dismay from the more
than .600 delegates and
farmers at the meeting.

‘The revised plan would
cover 100 per cent of the
farmer’s shortfall, rather
than the present 75 per
cent, and the number of
commodities included in-
the scheme would he
expanded. § Maximum

indemnity paid to a
farmer would be $15,-000,
instead of the present un-
limited amount, and
remiums would be split
tween a grower and the
government.

Hewitt told farmers
that the $15,000 limit
would affect some of the
larger growers,
“however it doves
recognize and spport the
family farm concept; it
allows for growth and it
sets a limit for taxpayer
involvement.” .

DELETIONS OPPOSED

Opposition to Hewitt’
announcement cen
around setting the $15,000
limit and the deletion of
provisions relating to a
return to investment on
land and management
ee,

‘Tme management fee
is money paid by the
income scheme to the
farmer for his managing
the land.

Garth Bullock of
Kelowna, brother of the

a
president, tcld the
minister his . family
bought its hol to
farm it,-not to sell it, —

“We bought it for a

purpose and the $15,000
t and management |

fee deletiom means we
may get nothing out of
this plan,” he said. “You
say we have become too
big. We. have 160 acres
and it is farmed by father
and brothers. If we are
not a family farm, I don't
know what is.” - -

Hewitt said that if the
farm is a partnership, the
unit would be eligible for
more under the scheme.
He said the fact that the
farm is big means more.
efficient production for
the total unit.

Surrey won't pay —

For the jourth con-
secutive year council has
y the
accumulated _ ‘from
the provincial depart-
ment of health.
The bill now totals
$61,045 and covers a
portion of the public
Ith service presently
belng paid for by the
fro clal. government
or. such services as
health nursing, baby
clinics, school
examinations, im: .
munization and health
inspectlon. o

‘The estimated |
capita’ Gh ee

province’'cs. appréxi-
mately $1.15. The
municipality's share of
the cost is 15 cents per
capita, as is the school
as ia disputed a ¢

sno u en
of its share. myn

When Surrey told the

local school board in 1074.
it would not pay its share ,

the board asked
health department to bill

the municipality directly

for ita share, -

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