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Flouride poisoning exposed

‘CORNWALL ISLAND,
Ont. (CP) — White pines are
symbols of peace to the
Mohawk Indians. But the
white pines on this island in
the St, Lawrence River are
dead or dying.

“The needles of the trees

don’t
should." "gaye Hens

Lickers, on indian biologist
wi ¥ St. Reg
Indian band. “Some will
grow long, some short. It
cuts the efficiency of the
tree. In the end, the tree
dies,"

It is a fate that people on
the island which straddles
the Ontario, Quebec and U.S,
borders fear for themselves,

this week from

7 U.S. environmental and

health authorities show the
island is
with fluoride contamination
from the Reynolds Metals
Co. near Massena, N.Y., just
1.5 kilometres. away.
Indlans on this part of the
Regis reserve say bees

red from their
island; thelr chi

losing their quire “more
nell are suffering fram
tis. And everyone lives

in fear of cancer.
have been warmed

‘notte eat fh from the iver

They can

express

Opinions

VICTORIA (CP) — At-
torneyGeneral Garde
Gardom sald Wednesday his

cy advisor John

cit Rta had ore aioe
ress & persozal cpinion
about the British Columbia
government’s controversial
compulsory heroin treat-

ment program.

Ekstedt said in a recent
address to the Saskatchewan
Criminology and Corrections
Association that mandatory
treatment of heroin addicts
ia not the best solution and

ea on the civil rights
of those detained.

as fast as they...

fluoride, U

belng inundated guidelin

‘and to lake their children te.
swimming pools in ‘nearby:
Cornwall.

7 We have one of the most
beautiful rivers in the world,
In the heart of Canada and
the States,” Lickera said
Tueaday, “and I’ve got to tell
my kids they can't.awim in.
it. When they do, 1 despair;
the river is like a sewer,”

Lickers said people come
to him every day to discuss
U.S. pathologist
Lennart Krook estimates
there is an atmospheric
concentration of fluoride of
107 micrograms per cubic
metre of air, far above the

acceptable provincial level]

of 8.6 micrograms per cubic
metre, although the

‘Reynolds plant is operating

within state and .U.S.
e8,

.. The worst risk is for

children, saya Dr, Bertram
Carnow who, with another
Chicago environmental

authority, examined the

fluorides danger on the
island,

Carnow and Dr. Shirley
Conibear were asked by the
Indian council to assess a
study by Health and Welfare
Canada, which concluded
that island residents face no
immédiate health risk from
fluoride contamination. -

Their 1978 report said
island residents up to age 20
have had a Iifetime of ex-
posure and accumulation of
fluorides. Not only are
vegetation and animal life at
stake, they. said, but people
are in a high-riak category.

“Particularly the children

_ at the school,” Carnow said

in an interview. "IT have
young children and ¥ would
not permit them to go to that
school.”

The 27-year-old school lles
Zroutly in the path of pre-
vailing winds from the Rey-
noids plant

In font Hugh Faulkner,
then-minister of Indian
affairs, said the government
would “spend $2 miltion to
build a 16-reom school for the
273 ~elementary school’
children on the island, The
new school, to be about two
kilovnetres milea west of the
existing one, will be no
further from the Reynolds
plant but it will be further

from prevailing winds.

“I don’t think the reasons
were every really
stipulated,” Lickers said,
“But I know we made a case
for it — the reason was
because the present school is
in the critical zone of con-
tamination of fuoride onthe
Island,”

Spokesmen for the depart-
ment of Indian and northern
afiairs refused comment
Tuesday on-any connection
between the planned school
and the fear of fluoride
poisoning.

But Carnow shares the

‘fear of Cornwall Island.

residents,

plahel

bee

_best port for oil

VICTORIA (CP) — Port

_ MANAGUA: (AP) —
Ads ‘of Amaricone

flew. ‘ollt- of civil war-torn

; Nicaragug on ‘Wednesday,

leawng nd scenes
furious ew ¢ fighting and
mass looting hy: hungry Ni-
caraguans.

Government air force

~planes ‘trying toi,root out
Ss. fired .

Sandinista. guerr!
rockets and strafed eastern.
and-southern neighborhoods
of the capital city, resident
Hehe as they tried to flee

. In Min Washington, U.S, State
Secretary Cyrus Vance
called for a mediation effort

by, the Organization of
“-- Anierican States to settle the
’ gonfilct between Nicaraguan

President Anastaalo Somoza

‘ousting the

and the Sandinista Nationa
Liberation Front, whose
“final offensive" launched
two weeks ago is aimed at

Somoza regime.

“Bighty Americans were.
evacuated. to Panama
aboard a U.S. Alr Force C-
180 transport plane. In the
first such flight Tuesday, 61°

Americans were flown to

Panama, Mary were wives ‘

and children of U.S. embassy
staff members. .

About ‘@ Qenadians, in.
cliding’ Mionaries and.
employees ‘of: international

conporatiora, are believed -
at in Nicaragua, A’

Canadian diplomat has .

advised them to leave.

Port Angeles said

Angeles, Wash. appears to |

-'- be the bestaitein the Juande ”
’ FucaPuget Sound area for a

tanker terminal because its

“harbor can dissolve same ol

spills naturally,
microbiologist said Tuesday.

. . Three top

GTON

’ Candida’ “Britain
United ‘States were am
countries with the highest |
unemployment in. the first
quarter of 1979, says areport
issued Wednesday” by the
vs. Bureau of Labor ang
cs

. Canada, with the: highest
unemployment rate of all the
countries ‘compared, was.
own to 7.9 per cent for the
first three months of this
year, compared with 8.2 per
cent at the end of 1978.

Sweden, Japan and West
Germany, were among the.
‘countries showlng the best
records,

Dr; Ww §. esti,

Hy conducting
af the disintegeation of |
um through natural
means, told the Canadian
Society of Microbiologists
that .no effective natural
means have
' however, to deal with a valu-
abla crude oil imported by
tanker from Sumatra past
ctoria to a refinery al

Anacortes, Wash.
Westlake,

“whose.

University of Alberta studies. _ %

Ye

oo nattiral “ didsblution):

Still no job: but

waters have been financed
by United States interests,
sald a criterion of an oil port
should be its abilty to dis-
solve oil 5

He sai Port Angeles
harbor from Ediz Hook. to
Green Point has this ability
but beyond Green Point the
waters lose this capacity,

. Theadjacent Dungeness Spit

is an environmentally
sensitlve area which in-
cludds a bird sanctuary. It is
36 ki kilometres south of Vie-

oar other beaches in the
waterway exhibit no self-
cleansing ability, Wesrlake

right-wing -

been foun’, |

open Mion. through Sat., 8 aum.-5 p.m. |

| Planeloads flee |
from Nicaragua

VANCOUVER (CP) te
ey. settling
longshoremen's strike at
seven West Coast ports ls
whether the dock workers
accept a new clause
‘written into the tentative
settlement reached last
weekend, the presiednt of
the British PColumbia
Maritime Employers’
Association said Wed-
nesda:

additional protection
against, inflation for the
3,500 workers, calls for
renegotiating wages and
other issues if inflation
exceetis 20 per cent in the
first two years of the
three-year contract which
is retroactive to last Jan.

* Results oft the
ratification vote on the

Boeke eich tow

DOCK § TRIKE
‘KEY SAID
ONE CLAUSE.

’ also will have the right to

' as the last offer, rejected

excended 16 per cent b
tentative settlament were -

. hour more for each one-

committee . is recom-
mending agceptanee: doa. or

men's and :
Warehousemen’s Union,

strike ‘after two years,
m said,

The wage offer in the

pro pact Ls the same

by one vote, which called
for increases of 90 cents
an hour in each year of a
three-year contract, he
said, The current base
pay is $9.10.an hour.

Ho said the wage offer
coupled with the.
clause means
the longshoremen are
“having thelr cake and

eating it too.” .

Also included in the
contract is a cost-of-living
aliowance which takes
effect two years Into the
contract If inflation has

then, Cunningham said.
longshoremen
would get five cents an

half-per-cent jump in the
inflation rate after Jan. 1,.

1981, he said.
The union: negotiating

2 Ae

ro a wees 1H? tps

he got new home

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) —
A. 21-year-old New West-
minster, B.C., man who stole

a pick-up truck to drive to

to search for a job
waa sentenced in provincial
court Wednesday to 45 days
in jail.

James Patrick Sporar was
algo placed on prabation fof
12 months after being’ ‘eon-

victed of possession of stolen
Popirt was told that Sporar

‘and Willlam Edward Simon,

19, also of New Westminster, -
were intoxicated when they
stole the truck in New,
Westminster earlier this
month and headed for
Alberta. They were appre-
herded hear Chase, B.C,,

Clarks move into their new home

OTTAWA (CP) — Joe
Clark saya goodbye to the
silverfish and skunks of
Stornoway today and hello to
the gold china and hand:
embroidered Madiera linen
sheets that come with 24
Sussex Drive, the prime
minister's official residence,

No longer will Maureen
McTeer, Clark's’ wife, have
to rush home from her law
office to fix dinner — there
will bea staff of elght or 10 to
cook and serve the meals,
make the beds, look after
two-year-old daughter
Catherine and keep the four-
acre yard groomed.

‘The move to the i11-year-
old, 35-room house furnished
with antiques is a definite
improvement from nearby
Stornoway, the official

residence of the Leader of ©

the Opposition, which suf-
fered from poor plumbing,
falling plaster, sllverfish and
a family of skunks which
regularly crashed Clark's
garden partles.

The department of public *

works, responsible for the

two residences, is trying to -
rectify those problems :
before the arrival of the next:

nts, Plerre Trudeau
his three sons,

anlthough both houses are «

filed with government-
saa. personel” elenginge,
rt perso .
The Clarks have more

furniture now than when

they moved into Stornowa
in 1976 with only eno

furniture to fill one vast den, —

an aide said.

Trudeau, aides said,
“guatere tastes” and fave
light. His few belongings
were moved out
weekend.

Turfed out of office by
voters on May 22, Trudeau
loses not only his home of 11
years, but. his controversial
swimming pool and the
beloved summer cottage at
Harrington Lake in Quebec,

which Trudeau once said
made being prime minister
worthwhile.

The §200,000 swimming
pool, paid for by anonymous"
donors, will be of little use to
the new prime minister.

Clark Saeco bead sinks,"
gn one #2 si nks, "
Traeay and his children
are § at least

week at Harrington Lake
and then going on vacations

somewhere in Canada while ~

waiting for repairs and
‘fumigation at 6§-year-old
Stornoway, which has 10-
bedrooms, cathedral ceillngs
and one acre of hedged

gardens. .
Ms, McTeer has already

visited 24 Sussex Drive with
friend and Interior decorator
Cecilia Humphreys who is
expected to get a govern-
ment contract next week to
redecorate the prime
ministerlal residence.

Tonight

it AG:

They are ready for bed but they can still go to the "2 and Lisa Chen-Wing,. The story hour is held '
every Thursday. For more information telephone the

library and hear Jaye Castleden, the children’s
librarian, read them a story. In the pajamas at the library at 638-6177.
library are Megan Tindall, Julie Normandy, Nicole

Heraid Staff Photo