|. anew. Canada-Health-Act-that would. define-in. detail the 4 iq ” suggest it will propose strict limits onuser fees and aban on ; years in private hands, president-Horst Schidtke said:.:' “THe ‘sald the door-manufacturing firm has . Increaved a th aot nnn = Herald Stat Writer. - . “TERRACE — A Terrace nine- “Nile Momeni year-old youth was taken to. Sunday evening. Pollee i q ini ae i pot —— “ae hospital i lser fees, extra billing: by doctors, and monthly - medicare Premium. . °, 30 a letter to Prime. “Minister Teudeau. mada ‘public’ " Monday, association president: Barbara Shand singled out” user fees as a special problem. 7 “In particular; we deplore the policy of the government of. - the province of Alberia to ‘allow hospital user fees in that-| ‘province and {ts open encouragement: of ‘other. ‘rovinclal governments to emulate that policy.» °°. - :'Similat letters were sent: to-all ‘cabinet members, with © copies, to opposition. party critica interested in health and. consumer affairs, Alberta announced plans for new or higher hospital user “Teed dn late March, and New Brunswick said.eatiler this “month, + would be introducing Smaller, but - somewhat . ees, a “Shand said: user fees hurt: poor: ‘people ‘the most and. are : contrary to’ the principle that: . everyone. ‘should have _Teayotiable access to higdicare,” |... “Governments ‘at both levels in this country ‘mnuiat realize that’ consumera_of-health_services are’ opposed to-any ~~ datertoration of that systern and will not support its being - held. ‘hostage in intergovernmental disputes over fiseal arrangements, ” . . The federal government has been working for months on guiding ‘principles of medicare and. -the. obligations - Rovinces must ‘Mest to anally for” federal: ‘financial ‘Health Minister Monique Begin refuses to ‘gay what will be in the draft act, but recent statements by.the minister extra billing. Begin doesn’t like monthly premiums, but she has made no move to ban them. Alberta,. -Ontarlo and British - Columbia all use premiuris to defray the cost of medicare, while other provinces rely.on general tax revenues. ‘The letters from the consumers’ association mark the - Jalest: effort to marshal support for tava new federal Jegislation covering megicare: ‘Last week, -similar concerns were raised by the Canadian Health: Coalition, a group made up of the Canadian Labor - Congress and a number of othe Matioial organizationsatidt itowpan sai wey Vsetion ty of vad a » (Chairman Richard Haughian: said Alberta's plans for. user:fees had started a “chain reaction," and he erlticized’ ’ plans in , the. recent - Ontario: budget to raige monthly premiums... ; “Itis incumbent on the federal government to take a firm. ‘stand in order to ensure the observance of the principles of - medicare by the provinces, which form the basis of funding: agreements between the federal kovernment and. the - provinces,’” he said. ' Meanwhile, the Canadian Medical. Association seems to. be making: renewed efforts to get Ottawa to back away from ~ the ‘tough rhetoric of the paston medicare. | _ The CMA has been lobbying for -more funds for health care and says.the best way to get those funds is to have most People pay for some of the services they receive. Corporation founders WINNIPEG (CP) — Spokesmen for former’ Crown , corporations sold to business by Manitoba's ” ‘former Progressive Conservative government in the late 19706 say” they've fared beiter in private hands, Five years after the former government of! Sterling Lyon ‘ sold them, four former Crown companies have weathered __ therecession, but a fifth, the cruise ‘ahlp MS Lord Selkirk, is . floundering. Lyon's government was 13 toppled by the New Democratle arty and. Premier Howard Pawley in. the last povincial | election In November, 1961. | Noneof the four companies has set the carpariate worldon | fire. However, spokesmen claim thelr firms didn’t flicker and burn out during tough economic times, and all predict bright ftures. Dormond Industries Ltd., Dawn Plastics Ltd, Morden ” Fine Foods (now Best Pac. Ltd.) and Cybershare Ltd. were: all sold off by the Lyon administration, beginning in 1978. | ‘Spokesnien for all four say-they've succeeded becauie a - privately-run operation is inherent ently m more likely to turn a - profit than a governments ifs cow your own | pocket,” sald Herman Bollenbach, general’ manager of Best Pac Ltd., a. food-packing ‘firm. ; . “Anybody. can run a company if you don’t have to worry about making- money” he said, adding that Crown-owned companies can operate with almost an unlimited supply, of financing. — .Best Pac increased its | after being sold to’ a aro businessman John Bubler, wie heat purcha from the government... © supra of snag eet a a. Its business increased after: it dropped ite: yezetabledines.” vity, and sales last year’ : Morden _ and concentrated on juices and. bean productaace) 7501 Dermond, which made $90,000 the. jear:hé govertiment’ sold It, tripled and. quadrupled that figure: ivdts first tw - profits by about 20 per cent each year-except for} 1962) when it turned'a smaller profit «6s. rau betes : Dawn Plastics, which: manufactures products’ such as. plastic bottles, is In @ break-even position, said spokésnian Cecil Shnier. It recorded a ‘small loss ast Year, ‘bit has & | _implemented a. new production brovess and anticipates expanding markets. Shier said civil servants don't have the type of business : _geumen necessary to run a firm like Dawn Plastics, wy don’t want to take too much credit; but I don't think the government could ‘make any monay (on Dawn),” he said, adding that Crown firms don’t have the ‘“drive to cut dow on: costs and expentes and to » watéh nickels and dimes. " Hospital, after her- bicyele ¢ struck a- car ~ Orta (CP) ~The Consumers Astoclation of Canada ‘4 ayn the ‘federal Bovernment ‘should legislate a‘ban on. 1B J mea “Your concems are dittérent if tt the: money "s coming out of ~ the company ‘ - fs hg TENN ES Wat ARES $ appearance. ‘inlocai rivers. - Engineers design new process VANCOUVER (CP) ~~ ~ University of BC: engleers say they are lose to’ ‘perfecting a. scaled-down version of a. - biological, sewage treatment process that could help - ' Canadian cities operate treatment plants ata fraction of current.costs, The. treatment, a ‘simplified version of the Bardenpho system in use at’ the new, Kelowna treatment plant, uses traumatized bacteria to recover phosphorous from. sewage . water, * Although the. Kelowna plant extracts both nitrogen and phosphorous.from the water, the smaller version takesonly the phosphorous. | Engineer Fred Koch, who has spent the past two ‘years , helping to build and operate a pilot plant: at B.C. Research, _ said that blue.green algae,-a principal plant. pest,- ‘ig a. nitrogen-fixing Plant that can get its nitrogen from the air. “That means there's. not much Paint in. | eliminating nitrogen, ” ' he said. . ~ Arguments here. MONTREAL (CP) ~~ A lawyer: representing French- speaking Manitoba residents has been given the right to present arguments at a Quebec Superior Court hearing’ on whether the province’s public service contract law had to be presented in English as well as French. Lawyer. Joseph Magnet” said Monday in an: interview outside the courtroom that what is at.stake inthe case is. whether the internal functioning ofa provincial legislature -should--be’ ‘bilingual under language guarantees ‘of the British North America Act. ‘Magnet sald Article 133 of the BNA ‘Act which guarantees bilingualism in legislatures ia still in effect because the new - Constitution’s Charter of Rights includes an article which specifies that rights already suaranteed by law remain in effect. Jules: Deschenes, Chief ‘Iustice of Superior: Court, is: hearlng an appeal ofa sessions court decision: which ruled the Quebec government had acted: unconstitutionally .because annexes to the public Service confract law were not prepared in both languages. - The annexes included terms of contracts imposed by the - govetnitiénf'on the province's teachers, ele ‘and annexes were adopted last Deceniber. ignel als6 told reporters that he considers -anyhing ae in the national’ desembly or another provincial, Leelee must be bilingdat if the clerk of the legislature order | it te be’ “quiplicate ebec givernment ‘end distributed to members... awyer William. Atkinson: said the : government ' does not consider the contract terms as * Jegiafativé documenta, The Quebec government, ‘18 appealing decisions by sessions Judge Jean-Yves Dutil in Quebec City and sessions Judge Gerard Girouard in Montreal. Both ruled that the “imposed contracti’ terms should have been tabled in , English as well as French. ~ Lawyer Philip Cutler is representing a group of junior. . college teachers who. face charges of having taken illegal strike action. The charges say the teachers had no right to walk off the job while a collettive agreement | waa in effect, . but the teachers say they cannot He charged because the imposed contract ls wnconsiitutional, va “Instead. the’ scaled-down treatment is focusing on. phosphorous, because the plants must get their hosphorpus from: ‘the: -water. “Where jthere-is an excess of- phosphorous, such as in sewage | ‘where. the chemical has not been removed by “expensive chemical processes, algae will proliferate. . ‘Basically,-the pracess involves providiiig a favorable - “substrate” — nuttlent — to encourage thebugs ‘to grow, hen packing them into a tank. where there is no oxygen. ‘The bugs don’t like the anaerobic {oxygeri-free) tank and respond by giving up the phosphorous they are carrying. This boosts the phosphorous in the sewage water to higher: levels t than lt had going in. ‘Then ‘the bugs are released by. being pumped into an atrated ‘tank. The traumatized” bacterla take far more pho&phorous than they origitially released. The purified water is drawn off and most of the unhappy _- bugs are then sent round the circuit agaln, but a percentage are drawn’ off to be dried out and used for fertilizer. Currently the UBC setup, which processes some of the sewage ‘from the Acadia residential ‘complex, removes ‘ about one-twentieth of the bacterial mass each day, giving the: ayerage bug some 20 days in the system. _ Project supervisor Bill Oldham, who has done: ‘extensive _ work on the Kelowna treatment plant, aaid that in cases. such as Kelowna’s, where weeds like, Eurasian milfoil are involved, the: plant muist remove both, “phosphorous and — ‘nitrogen. Since some nitrogen is given off in the anaerobic tank, removing nitrogen is effected by adding tanks to the ayetem * ; and cycling the bacteria through yet another tank. However, Oldham stressed, municipalities not faced with cc -bodles.of water that are loaded with milfoll.do not -have.to.. os WOITy unduly about nitrogen andcan likely omit that part of the process, «« °° In- 90 per’ cent of B.C. lakes, problems are due to phosphorous : so if the nitrogent content (of the effluent) goes to 10 or 12 milligrams per litre, big deal.” At the Kelownaplant, the effluent is so pure that a number . of ‘Talnbow trout’ have been raised in a pond of the water, ‘going from five grams in average weight to between 16 to 18 . grams. since January, Oldham said. “In fact, the water Is so clear we could throw a nickel into * eight feet of it and tell whether it was head or tails altting or on "the bottom,” he added: oS The principal advantage of the bacterial removal process over chemical processes, Oldham said, is cost. . He said'a Calgary sewage plant; which currently treats oe per cent of the elty’ 3 SEWARE, removing | the phosphorous at -- a cost of between $3 million: arid’ $4 million in chemicals, could do the job bacterially at an operating cost of between. 4 $200,000 and $300,000. said researchers new want. to take their. plant to various small-B.C, municipalities to prove the process will worl well in different locations, with different types of sewage. EELS . Wher Skiers! tf 2 Always stay clear of swimming areas. ale The Canadiin Red Cros’ Socity - rack of time for the United rine sald an. extra“ *) a, Ld. between June and jay this: year tohelp keep time on time, a : the U.S. Naval Observatory. announced today." Laer ot The obseryatory,. which. is’ the: officlal agency. ‘keeping That second will be added at the end of the ast j June —°12:59 p,m. Greenwich ‘time: (7:50 p.ni;- ate meaning that last minute will actually. have 61: seconds, The Earth’s. rotation’ is: slightly irregular : an i i" Becatise the Earth has been rateally ‘owing sori over history, the current day. is about two- ‘hours. lor "VANCOUVER. (CP): — two Vancouver-based animal’ protection groups ‘which are: advocating a boycott of the . Holiday. Inn in St. John's, Nitd. -because it served seal flipper pie are ignorant about what. they are _proteating, be Kirk Smith, executive director of the Canadian Sealers” . Association, said today. ‘Smith said ina telephone intesview from St. John’s ‘that seal meat has been ‘a’ ‘staple: of“people’s’ diets in‘. Newfoundland, Labrador and the Northwest Territories for hundreds of years." He sald if seal: meat had not been avallable these areas - _ would not have- been setiled. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society a and Canadians | % for the Abolition of the:Seal Hunt sald last-week that by ~~ y. serving seal meat the ‘Holiday Inn was isteag 4 Canadians into believed. there is'a demand for seal meat.. The groups ssid if other Holiday Inns started serving seal flipper ple, they would boycott them as well,’ Smith said when the geal boats ‘dock, people are lined up at the wharves to buy seal meat. It is a good source of protein, inexpensive and delicious, _he said. Flipper. dinners_are. comman-in- Newfoundland-at—this——-——-. ime of year, he said, adding that the Holiday Inn is just _taking on part of. a tradition in-the Atlantic provinces. “These groups are misinforming the Canadian public,”* ” he said. _. Smith ‘said members of his group are strong. supporters of the ecology movement. ©. .“They have an ecologically sound ifestyte: that should be the envy of the rest of the world, he sald. a ' 4r "VANCOUVER (CP) _ Delegates to the 76th Bession oft the . ’ Anglican Church's legislative body voted this ‘weekend to’. -establish a study group to examine pornography ‘and violence andto preas for government action on there iaaues. ’ ‘The2$8 delegates also yoted to au rt a alley ‘stateinent GHERE Br ATLEH BY the ‘Shares hela SHA be presented fo the church's General Syn Tae hee N.B., in June.. The resolution asks the church to declare that participation in the ’ development, production or use of weapons of mass destruction is immoral. The legislative. body, called the “Diocesan Synod, represents 40,000 Anglicans in 74 parishes in the diocese of New Westminster, which covers southwestern B,C. They vated to add to the draft resolution a motion urging - --the Canadian government to pass an act declaring Canada ” a nuclear-free weapons zone. - - The also voted’ to condemn anti-Semitism and. the ’ “dissemination .of hate literature”. * . In further business, Rev. H. J. McSherry of Vancouver * wastnamed clerical secretary of the synod, H; D. C. Hunter’ . was chosen lay secretary and D. A. Eadie was elected: treasurer. ~‘.. _ Beconte se Friend of _Ghildrerrs| Hospital |; tt dome the claim procedure.on the ack ve Be Water Wise, Play It Safe. 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