Canada. .

thing

reapiration,"

percent.
“The im

Ewart polnted out that an
oxygen for as long as five minutes still has.a-
twenty-five percent chance of survival. An ad-
ditional five minutes, however, will see the
victim's chances fall dramatically to ‘just

Less than ten percent of the Canadian
population have an adequate understanding of
how to perform artificial respiration. This
figure, released by the Canadian Red Cross, is
said to be a major cause of drowning fatalities in

Susan Ewart, Red Cross Area Consultant for
the Water Safety Service, was in Terrace and -
pointed out that it will be one of Red Cross’ ob-
jectives this summer to introduce, to as many
observers as possible, the mechanics of rescue

“When one considers that mere seconds can
mean the difference between life and death,”
said Ewart, ‘it's a sad commentary that more .
Canadians dosi't understand the basic techniques.
of mouth-to-mouth or other forms of artificial’*’ airway fully by lifting his neck with one hand and:

maintaining his head on the ground with the
voy Othier-hand,. gcisis

Pinch the nostrils to prevent air leakage.

Seal one mouth over the other and blow in,

Remove mouth and release the nostrils,
allowing air to escape from the lungs.

Continvs at a rate of every six seconds until the
victim recovers or until somebody qualified

individual lacking

one

portance, therefore, of witnesses ;
reacting quickly can’t be emphasized enough,” —. declares the individual dead.

| | Susan Ewart demonstrates rescue breathing skis
Red Cross concerned that
so few know necessary skill

sald Ewart, "There's absolutely no tinie to

ponder. the situation.”

' Ewart said that if rescue breathing is begun
within one minute of the accident, the chances of

_ recovery is 98 percent. “Although there will
always be exceptions to the rules,” said Ewart,

' “generally speaking, there are eight
' which Red Cross says should be kept in mind
when practising rescue breathing.” They are:
The sooner rescue breathing is started, the
chance
As long as the location is safe, do not be con:
cerned with moving the victim. That can be done

greater the.

Jater,

Make sure the vietin’s airway is clear and

unobstructed:

"With the vieti lying on his hack, open the

points

of = recovery. -

HULL, Que. (CP)
Pierre Camu, chairman of
the Canadian Radio-
television and . Tele-
communications Com-
mission, assured broad-
casters Wednesday that the
commission “la not in-

terested In getting involved
in the content of broadcast
news,"

“Neither the Broadcasting
Act nor the commission
envisages any interference
to the free flow of news and
totheright a! the public tobe

Beached whales

to be incinerated

e
FLORENCE, Ore. (AP) —
Officials began burning the
4l beached sperm whales
near here this morning.
State police sald the
burning began after the
whales — weighing a total of
500 tons — were moved by
bulldozers into trenches on
gand dunes,
The trenches originally
cialis

. were dug because

Planned to th -
mals, But they changed thelr

' minds Tuesday after a

health olficer suggested the
buried carcassas would
cause a greater health
hazard than burning, The

- whales will be burled after

they are burned.

Sclentists agreed to
remove all the whale jaws
and teeth so there will be
‘nothing left’ of value when
the remaina are burled.

Qne reason for early hesi- .
tancy about burning was the |

unpleasant smoke it would
produce. But Darrell
Johnson of the state en-
vironment department said
a few days of smoke would
be better than having whale
remains wash up on the
beaches for the next few
yéars.

Police said they received :

hundreds of phone calla from
around the world inq
about the whales. Dozens o:
people from the central
Oregon coast also called to

OTTAWA (CP) — Five
have been arrested

Quebec City and Miami,
Fia,, after. travellers’
cheques stolen here during
the $9,8-milllon postal
robbery Easter Sunday were

complain about smoke from
the burning reaching their
areas.

Bruce Mate, an assistant
protestor of the Oregon State

niversity Marine Selence
Center at Newport, sald
examination of tlasues 0 far
by more than 80 aclentlsts
has shown no indication of
disease.

He said sclentists found no
trace of brain damage due to
parasites, as some had
earlier suspected. :

eens i hs {neredible
Oppo y to study these
rare mammals,”’Mate sald.
“T have had more than 40
requesia from museums all
over the world asking for
skulls and some asking for
full skeletons."

He said. the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington,
D.C., has only two such
skeletons of sperm whales,
He said he would try to save
10 «skulls and let the
museums arrange to pick
them up. .

Mate said the sclentista,
working around the clock,
might come closer or even
find the answer to the
question why whales beach

amediver and die, :

In some respects, Mate “isu:

sald, United States scientists
will learn more about sperm
whales from
stranding than they have
learned in the entire history
of whale research.

Five mail robbery 7
suspects were caught |

cashed, city police sald & i
Wednenda: :

A spokesman sald Mon-

this one. 3

-CRTCto ‘ignore the’content

informed,” he said at the:
opening of a commission
he on news wire ser-
vices available to radio
stations. ;
Carnu said there seemed to
be a basic misunderstand!
that the commission want

. to become involved in’ the
process of gathéring and:

distributing news. .
Camu said the commission
was not trying to extend its
authority by looking into the
operations of news wire
services, nor did it belleve
that Canadian broadcasting
would be improved by over:
regulation or by a restrictive
interpretation of the
Broadcasting Act,

But the commission did
have a duty to examine the
news services available to
radio stations to determine

- whether they were networks

as defined by the Broad-
casting Act and thus under
the regulatory powera of the
commission.

Before the commission is
an application by Newsradio
Ltd. which wants to provide
its customers with an ex-

erimental live newacast

tween midnight and six
a.m. Stations taking the
newscast would have to
carry a one-minute com-
mercial contained within it.

Taylor Parnaby, head of
Newsradio, told Camu that
he could foresee no danger of
radio stations relying solely
on wire services for their
news, Local news was a must

treaters Michael Allard, 28, 2

and Christian Cypllot and
Lyme Duthaine, both 22,

were arrestedin Quebec City. iii

~ WANTED

for the following areas, .

for a statlon to ba succesaful,

He was replying to Camu
who sald he feared stations
might take news services

‘and “there would be a trend

towards automatic radio
statlons.” ,

John Hylton, counsel for
Newsradio, apoke of fears of
the news service of too much
regulation fram the com-
mission. He invited the
commission to trim, its
powers where it sees it has
too much authority over net-
works,

Broadcast News, an af-
fillate company of The
Canadlan Press, the national
news-gathering agency, said
the news service {t supplies

‘to radio stations js not a

network as defined by the
Broadcasting Act because it
is up to the atatlons whether
tocarry the lve newacaata it
provides, ;

Because there is no
reserved time for the BN
newscasts arid because there
is no delegation of broad-
casting time to the news
service, it is outside the
Broadcast: Act, said BN
lawyer Peter Grant.

Questioned by - com-
missloner Paul Kringle, BN
general manager Bob
Trimbee said editors would
have five minutes.or less to
jook over a written tran-
script of a newscast before it
went live aver the air. But
BN hoped to extend that time
frame before the end of the
year.

If you are Interested in one of these routes please phone
635-6357

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

[Pitch

_ TERRACE

Dutch Valley
Cedar Crescent Area
Kofoed Drive
Thornhill St.
Hemlock St.
Highway 16 West
Woodland Helghts
North Eby Street
Willow Creek Road

OTTAWA (CP) — The Na-
Honal Indlan Brotherhood
says federal health’ depart-

ment arsenic, land and--
fluoride pollution studies are -

“grossly incompetent” and
persons who prepared them
must be kept out of the
groposed Cornwall Island
fluoride inveatigatlon,

_ "We don't want any of
thoge guys sitting on any
(monitoring) board when we
know the study {5 going to be
very controversial,” a
brotherhood = environment

. Spokesman sald Wednesday,

“We're notsaying we don't
want health officials,” he
aaid, “If through their
yesearch and ‘thelr studies
thelr credentials are im-

. peccable, they're accept.

able.” °

Health Minister David
Crombie has promised an in-
quiry following recent
reports that. fluoride
pollution from the Reynolds
Metals Co, of Massena, N.Y.,
has killed cows and

vegetation and has impaired .

health on the St. In: .
dian reserve, eltuated on a

chaln of. islands. in the St, be

Lawrence River between the
U.S. and Cornwall, Ont. ,
depen tealth de a tambien
on urine samples,
which have already been dis-
credited by the U.§. govern-
ment, for teating air
ollution  levela; the’

.. brotherhood — apokesman

Reynolds’ s keamen have
denied responaibilit - for
humanrelated - health

| problems, such as brittle

’ teeth and bones, but has been
paylng compensation to U.S.
farmers. near the plant for
cattle stricken with fluor-
on

The company also. points
aut that Canadian health
department  officiala
testifled in 1977 before an
International Joint Com-
mission hearing that there
were no human health
problems related to fluoride
on the island,

The Reynolds smelter, one
kilometre downstream from
the island, discharges 1,800
pounds of fluoride fumes into
the alr each day and hun-
dreds. of pounds of fluorida
wastes into the St,
Lawrence,

The Aluminum Company
af America (Alcoa)
discharges moré than twice
an omuch =

River, violating New York
state regulations in the

process.

The Grass empties into the
St. Lawrence about elght
kilometres away,

No officials — Canadian or
American — monitor river
fluoride levels downstream
from the smelters, both In
the Massena, N.Y., area,

The New York state en-
wronmental department has
authorized Reynolds to
dump an average of Tid
pounds of fluoride a day,

with a maximum one-day

limit of 1,063 pounds,

John Kenna, engineer with
the state conservation
department, sald Alcoa
expanded production
recently and applied for a
permit to dump greater’
amounts of fluoride into the
river,

At times, he said, Alcoa
violates the limit Jmposed b
ita current permit, whi
allows the dumping of 510

Keep Canada —
q) Beautiful

-‘onately high nur

fluoride: as.
Reynolds: inté “thé.” Grass”

pounds a day.: |
An Envircoment Canada
officlal sald Canada does not

have regulations on the
“amount of fluoride that may
be dumped into waterways,

The Herald, Thursday, June ai, 1070, Page 7

Studies called inadequate

Generally, it dollows. the
regulations of the U.S. or
other countries,

Culture clash seen’

WINNIPEG (CP) — In-
dian and Metls Canadians
may be headed for a violent
clash with white society,
says Univeralty of Manitoba
professor - Leonard

L,

Kaminski said in a recent
mere tut evidence of

) 6 rate attiong
Canada’s native people is
found in the dispropor-
er of
native people in correctional
institutions.

The figure is seven times
as high for the Indian and
Metis population as for the
white population, he said.

Kaminski sald that while
the native community's
hostility traditionally has
been directed inward, that
could change, :

Native people have been
th victimizers and vic-
tims, x and violence.
could be ted agalnat the
dominant white society
rather than the native

community.

“My ‘hypothesis is that —

confrontation between the
bounty be th redamt t
country and the nen
society is golng on right now
and that it is violent to a
considerable extent, but that
violence is directed inwards
within the native population

“The high Incidence in the
prison population ia
something we should not
overlook but try to analyse
and understand,”

‘An’ open violent con-
frontation between native
people and the rest of soclety
‘could take place on short
notica unless something is
done soon, Kaminski said.

sate ayhlte man must stop
procrastinating on a number
of native demands — chief
among them land claims —-
‘or he could have a far larger
problem on his hands in a
relatively short time,”

Kaminski sald the issue of

native land claims is fun-

damental and will be pressed .

with more vigor as younger
Peaple take over as leaders

Kaminski teaches social
work and is researching
aspects of native identity
and assimilation problems.

He said most evidence

Heralde

stores.

of | this,” busin

A good sale ad in the Daily
Newspaper
advertising has a captive

~ audience. If you want to
move merchandise and
show big profits then give
this captive audience a
reason to come to your place
of business. Newspaper
Advertising builds traffic for

shows offences committed
by natives are directed
towards thelr own people.
They are the victims of
assaults robberles and mur-

ra,
“This can change v

6 .
. The Indlan and Meta
identity crisis is something
that could even change the
structure of Canada,

Kamlneki said,
"We might end up

ik .
something. u e sovereignty:

“J think you'll find that’

more and more af the people
will come out of a kid road
existence and find them-
selves and thelr cause."'

New native leaders will be .

better educated and will
know how to confroat both
issues and their Ltlom.
They will also win more
and more support from thelr
people, Kaminski sald,

Hesaid native people must -

win some autonomy if ;
show their natienond

ts ahown to be there, and I
think it will be shown to be

Business heads
meet with Clark

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime
Minlater Clark is calling in,10
of Canada's most erful
eas leaders for con
sultation before his par-
ticipation in next week's
western economic summit
meeting in Tokyo.

Announcement of Friday's
private meeting was made
on Wednéaday as Clark
dined with the ambassadors
of the aix other countries

rticipa in the con.
erence and then closeted
himself with James Gillies,
his economic adviser, to
discuss Canada's role,

Clark has consulted Pierre
Trudeau, former Liberal
prime minister, who at-
tended the previous con-
preparing and who war
prepa or one
defeated in the May 22
election,

Executives attending
Friday's meeting includs
Peter Gordon, chairman of
Stelco; Jean de Grandpre,
chairman of Bell Canada;
Rowland Fraree, president
of the Royal Bank of Can-
ada; lan Barclay, chairman
of British Columbia Forest

Producta,

Clark jeaves Sunday for
the two-day economic
summit in Tokyo's Akasaka
Palace June 23 and 4%,
Finance Minister John

- Crosbie and External Affairs

Minister Flora MacDonald

ELEPHANTS
NEVER FORGET.

TERRACE-RITIMAT

— daily herald

‘Bennett sa

will accompany him.
Thesummit je Clark's first
forelgn trip as prime
minister and his first official
encounter with several of the

moat powerful leaders in tha |

non-Communist world.

Margaret Thatcher of ©

Britain, Valery .Giscard
d’Estaing of France, Helmut
Schmidt of ‘West Germany,
Jimmy Carter of the United
States, Masayosh! Obira of
Japan and Glullo Andreoti
of Italy and Clark will face
one another around a h
oval table to talk about wor

- economic problems — eape-
clally oll, :

Investors

welcomed

TORONTO (CP) ~

Columbia Resources In-
vestment Corp, in
B.C, Premier Bill
sald Wednesday.
After ac call on
Ontario Premier, William

“The corporation
longer government,”

Auguit,
Bennett