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- Okanagan apple growers hard hit:

more processing plants needed

VERNON, B.C.

Okanagan Valley apple growers suffered a heavy loss of MacIntosh apples as a
result of high winds which swept the southern interior Thursday last week. Packing-
house officials estimate the loss at between 25 and 30 percent; growers claim this esti-
mate is far too low and place their losses between 40 and 50 percent.

One large grower, who delivered 9,000 boxes of Mac’s to the packinghouse last

Lauds Soviet
public health

“About 85 percent of the
doctors in the USSR today
are women,” said Dr. Isor
Steiman,.Vancouver physician,
who returned from a month-
long trip to the Soviet Union
last week.

“Russian medical schools
aceept students solely on the
basis of scholastic ability,” Dr.
Steiman continued. “Only
students with 90 percent or
better averages in high school
can apply to enter medicine.
More women than men apply
for medical school and they
are better students by a long
way.”

Dr. Steiman declined to
make comparisons with Can-
ada because “you can’t com-
pare their medical work by
our yardsticks due to differ-
ences in culture and standard
of comfort,” and added:

“Their public health sys-
tem is terrific, because they
can enforce it; their technique
is good; their surgery is bril-
liant, and they are very
thorough. As for the individual
man I met, you couldn’t wish
for finer types, as men and
scientists,

“But there isn’t anything
they can do that we can’t do
here. They could learn more
from us than we from them.
Their isolation from the .west
over a long period has been
detrimental.

“For 20 years the Russian
government has closed Russia
to medical scientists and has
prevented Russian scientists
from having contact with out-
siders,” he claimed.

Dr. Steiman made the trip
as a tourist with an old friend,

Dr. D. M. Baltzan, of Saska- ,

toon. They visited Leningrad,
Moscow and Tashkent,

“We saw their hospitals and
met their physicians,” he said.
“They showed us everything
we wanted to see.”

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year, delivered only 300 boxes
this year. This is an extreme
case, but many growers are
reporting extremely heavy
losses.

Previously growers had suf-
fered heavy losses through
dropping caused by a high
degree of fruit maturity as a
result of the above-average
hours of sunshine experienced
this year. —

This new loss accentuates
the difficulties faced by grow-
ers.

Heavy damage was done to
the trees by the cariy freeze-
up last fall. Many trees were
a complete loss. Others were
partially affected. Particular-
ly affected were cherries,
peaches, prunes and pears, al-
though all varieties of fruit
produced poorer yields this
year as a result of frost. dam-
age.

Frost damage will not be
overcome in one year.. It will
take up to four years to re-
store trees and plants to the
former vigor.

Nick Klm, LPP candidate
for North Okanagan in the
recent provincial eleetions,
said this week that his party
will give wholehearted support
to the growers in seeking gcv-

ernmental assistance to help -

overcome the financial losses
suffered.

“Approximately 50 percent
of the Mac crop is lying on the
ground,” said Klim. “These
apples will rot there.

“This disaster points up the
need for additional fruit pro-
cessing facilities in the Okan-
agan. Every year there is a
great waste of apples mainly
because of the high price
charged to the consumer and
pocketed by the wholesalers,

‘jobbers and the railroads.

“There is no reason why
cider; cannot be produced in
large quantity in the Okan-
agan, and marketed through
the Liquor Control Board.
Cider is a healthful drink. And
cider could be made from ail
these apples now lying on the
ground.”

A full has been

worked out for

itinerary
the visiting
Soviet forestry and agricul-
ture experts when they arrive
in Vancouver on October 18
for a five-day visit in B.C. The
party, headed by G. M. Orlov,
Minister of the Timber Indus-
try of the USSR, includes O.
E. Raev and S. A. Brukhov,
Deputy Timber Ministers; A.
E. Bovin, Deputy Minister,
Agriculture; I. A. Pasutia,
Deputy Minister, Timber,
Ukraine; L. V. Ross, research
director, Ministry of Timber;
and U. P. Gladyshev, inter-
preter.

Here is what the Soviet visi-
tors will see and do:

* Thursday, October 18.
Luncheon tendered by the
Forest Industry Association.
Guests will include Premier
W. A, C. Bennett, Mayor Fred

Crowded tour for
Soviet lumberme!

Hume and aldermen, #7
forest industry leader’ #
lunch, a visit to Eburne
mill. Leave for Nam
evening.

* Friday. Bus tr
Ladysmith. Visit Com0*™
ging and Hillcrest Lumm
Mesachie Lake. Drive 10,
toria, attend a provine
ernment dinner at B™
Hotel.

* Saturday, Drive 4
island and_ inspect se
pulp mill. Return Se
couver in the afternoo®”

* Sunday. Dia
city and lower mainla :

* Monday. Visit 1%
Pine and: Cellulose: 4
MacMillan’s and Bloe#e™
Band shingle divisio®
dinner at Hotel bee
Party will return aa
p.m. on CPR’s “Canal

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