¢

7 ee ae ie pe charged

, “volved was not that large,

‘or more.
| of possession and let off
-f dollar fines are the norm

permits,

Food pe

| TORONTO (CP) — Public

th inspectors were in-
weatigating 13 food outlets at
the: ‘Canadian . National
Exhibition on Wednesday -
~ after teats revealed food that
‘contains excesalve levels of

tentially harmful bac-
a o
egg £2 tarlo P.

in the CNE
food bullding and barbecued
__ pork from the Thal kiosk in
" the outdoor Foods of the
World exhibit — contained
salmonella, a potentially
dangerous bacteria that can
‘cause food ee a ve

' Bud Conne: a Toron

‘teating food sam

ed

official, auld the department
was zeroing in on the outlet:
found in a oreato Star-

by a microbiological

‘laboratory contracted by the

Ontario government to
sample Pisce outlets. at On-

Connery. sald his ntaff was
from

each of the 13 et.

Health officials said there

wes. nO cause for alarm.
However, the salmonella
findings caused one
microbiologist’ with the
fedéral health protection
branch to say “it makes us

public health department damp pretty “high.”

es

. LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY
PARLIAMENT BUTLDINGS,
VICTORIA, B.C.
Vov-1

ALoblowsspokeamansaid new laborate

egg salad sandwiches were
no longer being sold and that

‘Most cases of food
polsoning are never
reported, according to

' Dave Manning a public -

health inspector at the

_ Skeena Health Unit.

“Most people think it’s
just. the flu or just don't
bother to report it. The
number of cases we do
get is only the Up of the
Iceberg.” he explained

+ who works

Manning,
_ out of the Terrace and

. Gaston Wacker,

AND IT HAPPENS

being conducted

‘Kitimat offices, save
people shouldn't
reluctant to report
suspected cases of food
poisoning. He also said
this year’s statistics for
Terrace and Kitimat are .
about average.

Deaths as a reault. of
severe forms of food

cisoning such as
botulism arerare, More
common are the less
serious but

thet

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as Samonella.

You don’t die from the
milder forms of food
poisoning, you only wish
you could at the time," he

said. .

There are a few
simple but effective
precautions you can take
to prevent food poisoning
the fhe inspector told the

Hot food should be kept

ry tests were he five CNE food . outlets
‘ including the Thai kiosk,
manager said he would change his The i

lier of ooked
immediately nn Pose
al tests algo

HERE TOO ———

comfortable types such

hot, and cold food cold,
Manning says that in
general food should be
Kept at. temperatures
‘below
Pahrehelt or above: 140
degrees Fahrenheit.

very - There are some cases

of people in the Terrace-
Kitimat area who have
suffered food poisoning
on picnics because they
didn’t keep their tood
und e r'refrigeration.”

degrees

-shawarma, a

found staphlococe! bactéria
in five fooda — including
barbecued pork, submarine
sandwiches and a salami
sandwich — in numbers 10
times higher than what is
generally recognized by
health officiala as a
maximum safety leve!

.. There are no legal stan-

dards for such con-
tamination,

Coliform bacteria counts
were found in six food
samples, ‘tnetuding
‘Middle
Eastern meat dish, | sub-
Imarine sandwiches, a
stuffed

poisoning plagues the PNE

rvedsweet0tnetiger

than federal = health
guidelines call acceptable.

Howard Tate, CNE
asalstant general manager;
sald be wants the matter

nella being
found at the exhibition,

A federal health depart.
ment microblologist said
that foods should be cooked
at 70 degrees Celsius for two
to four: minutes to kill all
staph bacteria.

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more who available, 4
“Yukon magistrate noted
Wednesday.

Magistrate ‘Roger]
Kimmmerly: made - the
observation in agreeing
fat Dale Gordon Pat-

Uson of Bennett, B.C,,

ximmeriy said he
believed: that Pattison
was drug for
his nal use, not for
sale. The amount. in-

the magistrate sald,
considering that po-
session cases in the
Northwest Territories
have involved that much

Pattison was convicted
with a $100 fine. Five-
for ‘posseasion cases in-
volving an ounce or less in

the Whitehorse judicial -
district, )

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here

for

crime

_tANCOUVER (CP) — :

Kuwait police say there is

Virtually no crime in their

oil-rich Persian Gulf country

but a 12-man contingent of
Policemen are -

in Canada to learn how to

deal with a crime wave if
and when {tcomes. = *

“We're not expecting it
and we don’t want it but if it
should come tomorrow, we
coulda’t handle it without
modern methods," Major
Abdul Ghafour AlAwadhi, .
anid in an interview Tuesday

the annual convention
of Canadian police chiefs.
“We have no experience.”

Al-Awadhi, chief adminis:
tration officer for Kuvwaltl
police and leader of the 13-
month crime-fighting. ex-
pedition to Canada, sald his
country is experiencing a
population Influx and with it
some crime but so far that
ctime is belng nipped in the
bud by his 6,000-man force.

“The biggest problem we
contend with js non-Kuwaiti
juveniles on visite to our
country or on working
writing NSF
he said.

‘Womens centre facing cutback,
) but it’s going ahead —

_In spite of an uncertain |
future, the Terrace |
Women’s Centre is going
ahead with a full slate of
Support services for
women,

' Frances Birdsell, a
worker at the centre,
says the restraint policies
of the new Conservative
government mean fun-
ding for the centre might

have.-to be obtained.
here,

[eg cut. back severely |
by the government. . We
are presently
other areas for ”
Birdsell said. -

Birdsell stated that the
centre is only funded for
one year by Canada
Works. However , she
explained that other
community agencies.
have given support to the

Women's Centre's
projects, She says a

oad range of women
make use of the sentre,
from teenagers
epeistents of the

cenaview Lodga,

“The centre is place
to come and -meet other
women ‘who you can
relate to and talk about
things you both un-
derstand.” she said,

The centre also offers
information on related
services in Terrace , as
well as legal information
such as details on the new
Family Relations act.

Programs being of-
fered includes single
parent seminar sessions, .

as well as recreational
activities such as picnics,
For the moat part , the
centre offers women a
place they can come to
talk with people familiar
with their concerns and
“experiences, said Bird-

What is this? See Greg Middleton’ 8 Editor's Journal page 4

GREAT CANADIAN

Diefenbaker laid to rest.

SASKATOON (CP) — John
Diefenbaker. was buried’

Wednesday on a bluff over.
looking the South Saskat-
chewan River before hun-
@reds of the Prairie folk wha

make him Canada’s
16th prime minister and a
regen | that often was larger

ee “ite was Canada,"
Prime Minister Joe Clark
said in a evlogy to the man
who led the country from
1957 to 1963 and ‘the
Progressiva Conservative
party for a decade.

“Ashe offered passion to
his fellow’ Canadiam, he
drew passion in return. John
Diefenbaker attracted every
reaction from the people of
this country except in-
difference,

-Spanned our history

“Over eight ‘decades he
from
the ox cart on the Prairie to

leading up to it, and ha was”
buried with the ‘military and
police Pomp he had.

the satellite in space. He reques

shaped much of that history
— all of it shaped him.”

- Diefenbaker died last
Thursday in Ottawa at the
age of 83. Clark's culo
delivered at the end ‘of a
week. of funéral events that
included devotions during a
train trip from the capital to
his political home here on the
Prairies

He was buried beside his
second wife, Olive, on a knoll
to. the west of the Diefen-
beker Memorial Centre at
the University of Saskat-
chewan, Her body had been

ved here from Ottawa,

Diefenbeker Planned the
ceremony and events

As his coffin was lowered,
a bugler plerced the Prairie
tush with The Last Post, a
Piper followed with Lament
and military guns cracked
aut 4 19-gun salute.

In his eulogy,
Diefenbaker as a
feat Populist and a man of
passion.
taker sald tnt Dieten:
er always had a persona
view of issues that was
“atrongly held, forcefully

ites red, vigorously defen-
” ‘The late prime minister
“did not tp toe

Clark

sell. The Women’s
Centre is ‘Fam 10a, to

Thursday 10a.m. to
p.m, and till 4 p.m. on
Fridays. More in-
formation on the

“Women's Centre in
Terracecan be chtalned

— he by calling 635-5145,

FOR TERRACE

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Mr. Justice Peter Seaton
sald Wedneaday he found
no sinister motive or
improper conduct by
anyone involved with a
telephone call deputy
attorney-gen
Vogel made to Ri

ts. ; BAC. family court Judge ,

hP- Gogedrrs tee

Seaton's findings ended
an inguiry into the .
set up alter New
Democratic Party MLA
Stu. Leggatt complained

in the legislature last
seasion that Vogel was
interfering with the fus-
tice system,

Seaton said the charges:
by Govan were extremely
serious and that even the
slightest suggestion of

NO SINISTER
MOTIVE FOUND

government interference
In the justice system
would merit criticism,
Govan had ruled his
court did not have
jurisdiction ta handle
cates under the new
provincial aly
Relations Act and tha
they should be
ert rman oet om §

him to express concern
over a growing backlog of
cases created by Govan’s

‘Goulet said Govan'sa
fears that in et was
interfering in the justice
system .wWere unrea-
sonable.

Farmers want
grain moving

OTTAWA (CP) — the
peealdent of the Natlonal
Farmers Union urged the
federal government Wed-
memlay to order Canadian
National Railways and CP
Rall to alip more Prairie |

gra

Jim Mayne of Emerald,
PEL, told a news con
ference that poor service by
the railway companies in

‘recent years has been, in

effect, a strike agaivst
farmers.

. “I think what needa to be
done is for the federal
government to use lts power
and force the railways back
to work."

Mayne made the com-
meats shorily after meeting
with two of the. threa
Progressive Consetvative
MPs who have been asked by
Transport Minister Don
Mazankowaki to recommend
emergency measures for
streamlining grain
movement.

Meanwhile, farmers were

reportedly @ demonstrating in
dozen Prairie centres

in opposition to any moves
by Ottawa to stri
Canadian wheat ott ita
present powers over grain
marketing and trans-
portation,

Mayne said the demon- |
strations were also to protest
the findings of a consulta
report commissioned by the

recommendation: was that
Statutory Crowsnest Pasa
rates for shi grain by
rail be a ned and the
rallways be allowed to
charge farmers full or -

speeding up grain °
movements to export ter-

against
CP Rail in the Federal Court |
oft canada last eifareh
alleging ways
have failed to live up to their

legal obligations

Farmer’s market planned

It, “backyard gardeners” to help make the venture a
success. Of course, he hopes enough people in the area
show up to buy the produce,

0-0p
president of the Terrace Farm

The first annuat Terrace Farmer's Market will take
place in the Terrace C
’ Saturday morning. The

parking lot this coming

- and Garden Market Society, Tom Knox, is hoping for a
good turnout, Produce of alll kinds will be available, In.
addition, people wishing tosell crafts will be provided

with space to do go.

“People are welcome to sel]

says Knox.

whatever they want,”

through = Knox is looking for a good turnout from, as he puts

“IH we get enough people this time, we may be able
to have another farmer's market later this year, and
certainly next year,” he explained.

The market opens to the

public at 9 a.m, Saturday

morning, and runs to 1:30 p.m. Anyone wishing to sell
produce or crafts should contact Knox at 638-1091, or
bring their g goods to the ‘Co-op parking lot between 7

and 9 a.m. Saturday,