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VANCOUVER (CP) j8
british Columbia's super-
vising coroner disqualified
himself Wednesday from
conducting inquests into
three deaths at Vancouver
General Hospital, one week
after being rebuked by
Health Minister Bob Mc-
making
‘irresponsible statements
about the incidents.”

Glen McDonald said in a
statement prior to the start
of the inguests in North
Vancouver that ‘after
considerable deliberation in
connection with the deaths at
the Vancouver General
Hospital, I feel that for the
better discharge of these
duties as coroner they be
taken over by Coroner
Bernard Nash.”

Nash normally conducts
inquests in North Van-
couver.

Health Minister Bob
McClelland had called
McDonald irresponsible for
making the statement that
“vou'do be deaf, dumb and
blind” not to know there is
some kind of trouble at VGH.
His statement referred to the

’ deaths of patients Bill Lako,

39, Danny Barnes, 26, and
Getrude Geblum, 57, and

VGH. ;

McDonald said his reasons
for disqualifying himself
stem from the fact that he
has been an honorary lec-
turer in pathology at VGH
and will continue in that job
this year.

“ I ave been involved
inkidney donor schemes, the
tissue bank, the ear bank,
homographs and other co-
operations which make me 4

Inquiry
Deaths

party to many sensitive
conditions at the Cancouver
General Hospital.
LAYMEN VITAL

"I an of the opinion,” he
said, ‘that it is the foreman
and jurors who perform the
most vital function of the
coroner's court.”

He said that “‘it is not only
important that justice be
done but that it appear to be

done.

. “And the jury” in
discharging their duties
show no fear, favor or af-
fection, | as their oath re-

Meanwhile, North Van-
couver coroner Bernard
Nash heard evidence
Wednesday that razor blades
had been taken away from
Lako, a multiple sclerosis
victim, about 12 hours before
he was found dead at the
hospital.

Lako had two deep cuts on

his abdomen when found.
Grace Vanderwall, a nurse
on Lake's ward, said she had
discovered a cut on his
fingers and when she asked
where he had got it from, he

said he had thrown a razor

blade out.

Vanderwall said she told
the head nurse and was told
to take Lako’s razor blades
away from him. She said she
locked up several blades
which she found after
searching his drawers.

She said Lako had never
given any previous in-
dication he was suicidal.

Evidence also showed that
the normal complement of
nurses was on duty and that
Lako had been checked an
hour before being found

ad,

Girls Still Cannot

Play With

TORONTO (CP) — Gail
Cummings is less upset than
ber parents or the Ontario
Human Rights Commission
by a court decision upholding
the right of a sports
association to prevent her
from playing hockey with the

yB.
"I want to play, but
whatever the answer is, I'll

: just have, to, 29 plorig! with,

the 12-yearold Hunt-

Tuesday, .

“But when I'm 13, that'll
be next year, I'll be able to
play with the girls’ team, the
Huntsville Honies."

The Divisional Court
ruling last week ended a
bitter iwoyear struggle
waged on behalf of Gail and
another girl by the provin-
cial human rights com-
miasion.

Gail was 9, and had played
four games with the Hunt-
svilie All-Stars boys’ hockey
team, when the Ontzrio
Minor Hockey Association
refused to approve her
player's certificate.

WAS DISCRIMINATING

The commission ruled that
the association was dis-
eriminating against the
youngster on the grounds of
Sex. It also ruled in favor of
Debbie Baszo of Waterford,
Ont., who was denied the
right to play on a boy's team
in the Ontario Rural Softball
Association.

The court ruling against
Gail's case rested on the fact
that facilities provided by
the hockey association were
not open to ihe seed giving

e grot ight to ex-
clude girl,

A spokesman said Tuesday
the commission Is concerned
by the wide implications of

the court interpretation of pl;

The Boys

the section of the Human
Rights Cade preventing
discrimination on the
grounds of sex, race, creed,
color, marital status or
nationality. | :
“If we go by the kind
argument used with the
Cummings case, then it
could apply to other groups,
involving race, or creed, or
color,” commission director
‘George Brown said. :

{eine OOHE,” iter said The ‘eight’ commissioners:

and their lawyers are
studying the ruling.
WANTS TO APPEAL

Gail's mother, Dorothy
Cummings, said Tuesday
that she waul¢ like to see the
ruling appealed but will
abide by whatever the
commission decides.

“For me, an ordinary
person, they still haven't
given me any sufficient
reason why she can’t play.”

When Gail heard of the
decision, she was flying
home to Ontario from
Vaneouver, where she was
the only girl on the Hunt-
sville Pee Wee team, second-
place winner in the Canadian
National Lacrosse Tourna-
ment,

Bruce Prentice of the
Ontario Minor Lacrosse
Association was surprised to
hear Gail was on the team,
However, he said any girl
good encugh can play lacr-
osse, although eventually
boys outstrip girls in
physica! ability.

Both the Canadian and On-
tario minor lacrosse associ-
ations allow girls to play on
any teams.

“Hockey's problem is that
the adults have all got their
noses out of joint,’ Prentice
said.

“Hf she’s good enough to
play goalkeeper, let her

ay.

Diefenbaker .
Tuckered Out

SAINT JOHN, N.B. CP -
Former prime minister John
Diefenbaker was taken to
hospital by ambulance
Wednesday after becoming
fatigued during a tour of the
Maritimes.

A spokesman for Saint
John General Hospital said
the 82 year old member of
Parllament for Prince
Albert was in stable con-
dition Wednesday afternoon.

Diefenbaker arrived in
Saint John on Tuesday and
had been staying at the
estate of Mitchell Franklin, a
prominent businessman and
Progressive Conservative
Party supporter, at Bain’s
Corner, about 40 kilometers
northeast of Saint John. .

His activities Tuesday
included a deep sea fishing
trip and an appearance at an
evening dinner and recep-

tlon.

Franklin sald in an in-
terview Wednesday that a
mmber of thinga Jed to

Diefenbaker being admitted
to hospital

GOES WITHOUT SLEEP

The former prime minister
had only two or three hours
sleep a day for the last few
days, a tooth infection was
acting up again and there
might have been some kind
of reaction to the penicillin
he was taking for the in-
fection.

Asked how serious the
situation was, Franklin sald
it was not up to him to say
but he is hoping that
Diefenbaker will respond to
treatment and rest.

Rick Logan, Diefenbaker's
execulive assistant, said his
boss is “fine” but will be in
hospital several days.

Logan said Diefenbaker is
totally conscious and is
suffering nothing more than
fatigue. He said there are no
psans to transfer him to any
other hospital.

Japans Adoption OF Wesiern Methods Will |

Mean Increased Sales

VANCOUVER CP - A slow, but increasing acceptance
of North American frame construction methods by
Japan could lead to increased sales of Britis
Columbia lumber, says Junichi Hosotsuji, the Osaka
representative of the B,C, Council of Forest Industries

Jinichi is here with a 3l-member delegation of
Japanese who have a background in housing, studying
North American construction methods.

The B.C, industry wants to cell more dimensional
lumber to the Japanese and has been engaged in a
program of selling the benefits of our system of
construction for some time.

The Japanese group is here for a week getting an
intensive look at the local housing field including
lectures at the Pacific Vocational Institute and on-site
visits, The group also will visit Seattle, San Francisco
and Los Angeles.

Because of traditional post-and-heam methods of
construction, Japan has not been a ripe field for B.C.

lumber in the past, but COFI believes that with an.
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Of Canadian Lumber

increasing need for housing and an incrasing adoption

of the North American system, it could become a rich

market,

Hosotsuji said Tuesday that the Japanese Housing
Corp. is building three trial projects and this could
provide more impetus to change methods.

He said the Japanese also are moving away from
high-rise hiving and are showing increasing interest in
town-house accommodation.

“Because of the skyrocketing price of land in Japan
itis very difficult for anyone to get into single-family
dwelling,” he said, “but the townhouse provides an
accommodation between the single house and the
huge apartment.”

“There are great possibilities for Canadian ex-

ports,” he added.

The quicker method of Canadianconstruction also is
an attraction for the Japanese.

The Japanese domestic industry supplies about 40
per cent of its current needs. 7

Researcher Granted Approval. __
For Human Embryo Experiments.

NASHVILLE, TENN. AP - A Vanderbilt University -

afessor may become the first researcher to win a

nited States federal ethics board's approval for
experiments with human embryos conceived and
nurtured in the laboratory.

Dr. Pierre Soupart, 54, a Belgian born and trained

professor of obstetrics and gynecology studying birth

defects, appears Sept. 15in Bethesda, Md., totestify at
a hearing of the Ethics Advisory Board of the U.S.
National Institutes of Health. No government funded
human embryo research has been permitted since

1975

Created by the U.S. department of health, education

and welfare, the 14 member board of doctors, clergy,

lawyers, laymen, philos
charged with deciding whe

ophers and thicists was

er federal funds ehtically

may be used for such experiments.

Baffin Island Interview
With The Governor Gen.

FROBISHER BAY, N.W.T. (CP) — Gov.-Gen. Jules Leger says Canadians
should be more optimistic about the future of their country.

In a rare interview Wednesday aboard a Canadian Forces Cosmopolitan en
route to this Baffin Island community, the governor-genet sai toels t

Canada this summer have been most encouraging.

“Pye seen Canada all around. I think the thingtht strucn oethat Canada is in

good health, playing and working."

He referr

specificall
northern Quebec, a $16-bi

to the James Bay hydroelectric power project in
llion project he described as a fine example of

Canadians working to ensure a better future.

“The country, | Cthink, tty sure 0 itself,the governor-general said in the inter-
view he had requested with The Canadian Press in order to express his optimism

to. the nation. -

. "You have the impression the country is normal in many sénses-of the word:

That is what I bring back with me to Ottawa.”

The governor-general and Madame Leger en
Quebec and the eastern Arctic on Friday. Earlier. this
Columbia and participated

Edmonton.

The governor-general also refe
seat of the new Cree regional governmen|

in ceremonies at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in

da five-day tour of northern

Soupart proposes to fertilize about 150 human eggs a
year in plastic dishes for three years, sustaining them
for up to six days and chemically analyzing their
chromosomes for signs of hereditary diseases. —

“Briefly speaking there is the normal risk of birth

defects in any pregnancy," Soupart said in an in-

terview. ‘We want to determine whether that risk is
the same in tissue culture methods or whether it is
greater or lesser.”’ .

DOOR MIGHT OPEN :

If Soupart succeeds, a new door might open on the
search for the causes and cures of such afflictions as
hemophilia. But the implications of creating and
destroying embryonic humans in the name of
research trouhles many

TORONTO CP - A 35 year old
man has been charged: with
abduction and with having
sexual intercourse with a
female under 14 in incidents
involying a mentally
retarded girl, Metropolitan
Toronto police said Tuesday
The case began last
February when a man
posing as a doctor convinced
the girl's mother to let the 12
year old girl accompany the
man and his family on a trip
to Morocco, police said...
- The girl's. mother, whose
narhe. was not. released,
agreed to the trip after she
consulted with the Chilren's
Aid Society and school of-
ficials, police said.

oughout

ear, they visited British

rred to his visit this week to Fort George, Que.,
t for the northern half of the province. .

“It was good to see native people at work. It was a good example of democracy

in the making.

“It's been a long process.
The Legers were greeted by about 100
Frobisher Bay, 1,880 kilometres nort

I hope the program will be durable.”
eople when they arrived at the airport at
of Quebec City. Many people waved

Canadian flags and burst into applause when the Legers walked acooac.

- Consumers Want To Ban
Supermarket Gimmickery

TORONTO (CT) — The Cons mers Association of Canada, deluged with com-
plaints from consumers about promotional lures by supermarkets, is planning to

take a stand against all gimmick selling.

Ruth Jackson of Kitchener, Ont., national vice-president and chairman of the
association’s food and agriculture committee, said this week that one possibility
under consideration is to recommend shoppers boycott stores involved.

Mrs. Jackson said thoughtful cosumers are asking the meaning of the many
lotteries, credit vouchers for cash register ta
stakes currently being promoted by

Both the association an concern
recent outhreak of games and gimmic

already up 12 per cent from one year a

end of 1978, Mrs, Jackson said.

However, a spokesman for
e several reasons why stores are using these forms of competition. cs n mmicks

cheaper"

Dick Mathieu of Toronto, a retai

and early "70s.

“No price competition over ga
gets the retailers out of a head-on

the supermarket

in the marketplace,” Mathieu said.”

Professor John Liefeld of the family and consumer studies departoent at the
University of Guelph said he believes no store can afford to offer whal he termed

significant price reductions.

“Recently, price reductions weren

5
Prof. Trevor Watts, also of the University of Guelph, agreed with Prof, Llefeld,
saying games and similar efforts are designed to divert attention irom prices

while building store loyalty.

Both agre

that the current lottery craze is.another reason why supermarket -

games are popular with shoppers.

1 Police Cars Arrest 9 yr. old.

TORONTO CP - Nine year
old Lawrence Smith loved
playing cops and robbers
until last week when he was
apprehended y
Metropolitan Toronto police
‘after seven cruisers pulled
up in front of his house. °
The four foot, 80 pound
boy, who had gone to the
rescue of his eight year old
sister after she had been
struck by a neighbor, was
put in the back of a cruiser
and taken lo a nearby police

station Jor questioning.

His ;,;, mother, Gloria
Steeyeg, said Tuesday:
“They even said they were

- going to charge him with

resisting arrest because he
was holding on to the fence in
front of the house and the
policeman couldn't get him
off. He was crying and
shaking like the dickens.”

A spokesman for the youth
bureau at the police station
admitted that seven cruisers
was an excessive response

s, shopping sprees and sweep-
all major chainstores in Ontario and Quebec.
ed consumers are wondering whether the
ks i addnotthe eky-rocketing cost of noo
ff0 and expected to increase more by the

] management consultant, said the games
can cost thousands of dollars to the stores but they are much cheaper than
slashing prices in price-war style, the form of competition used in the late 1960s

mes, gimmicks, coupons service and ambiance
-head confrontation, yet give the stores identity —

‘t all that different and people weren't
noticing, so the stores are trying to attract attention in other ways,” Liefeld said.

industry said there

considering the — cir-
cumstances, but said the
radio call reporting the in-
cident made no mention of a
litle boy.

“We knew there was an
altercation down there, but it
does look stupid when you
find oul it's a nine year ald,”
he said.

The boy, who was held for
90 minutes until his mother
got in touch with a lawyer
and gained his release, was
not charged.

Liberals to Announce |
Future Budget Changes

OTTAWA CP - New
government measures to
restore the economy's vigor
will be announced later this
week or the beginning of next
wek, Finance Minister Jean
Chretien said Wednesday
after a cabinet session.

But Chretien and other
cabinet colleagues declined
to be specific on what the
measures willbe. |

Treasury Board President
Robert Andras, in charge of
coordinating federal
spending plans, said the
government will also reveal
steps that will free up to
another $1. billion which
might be used to stimulate
the economy.

Last week, he said the
cabinet had already decided
on $1.5 billion in spending
cuts over this year and next
along with the elimination of
up to 5,000 federal public
service jobs.

Among the cuts are two
that. have provoked
criticism, the elimination of
a bonus paid to bilingual
employees - worth $35
million - and the mothballing
of a $150 million nuclear
energy project at La Prade,

2,

Chretien said his an-
nouncement will be related
to many government
departments, but he will
make the over all statement
for the government.

WAIT FOR PARLIAMENT

October, unless there is an
election, he added. :

“We are working on the.

assumption we will be going
ahead with the program,”
Chretien said. -
Andras said some of the
measures will require action
by Parliament while others
could be accomplished
through order of cabinet.
While taxation. and
spending budget measures
are usually proposed firat in.
Parliament there is no legal
requirement for them to be
introduced that way.
Political critics, who have
already accused the
government of a publicity
campaign in the an-
nouncement of spending
cuts, have described the
proposals as a sham and
suggested the Liberals are
trying to buy votes in an
election that might come as
early as October. .
The proposed spending
reductions were first an-
nounced by Prime Minister
Trudeau in an Aug. 1
television address in which
he also promised a national
economic recavery plan.

Since then, the cabinet-has
met three times to map cut
the anticipated program.

Trudeau had promised
Canada’s chief economic
partners in a July summit
meeting in Bonn that the
country would achieve a five
per cent annual growth rate

this year, despite indications
that expansion of the
economy has thus far been
well below that level.

If legislation is required
for some of the measures,
they will be dealt with when
Parliament is called back in

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