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PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Thursday, April'20, 1978,

Public :

Library news -

by Michael Collins
Now that spring is here it’s time to start thinking
about getting your garden in.
One way to get a green thumb is to flip through the
pages of some of the books in your public library. We

have a good number of books abou

gardening which

are just filled with the information you need to graw

things successfully,

A valuable reference book is Taylor's Encyclopedia
of Gardening with over 15,000 alphabetically arranged

entries. It describes house and
vegetables, flowers, growing meth
or plates and drawings.

contains numerous co.

arden plants,
and aids. It

Some of the books which you can check out include:
630 Grow It! by Richard W. Langer. This beginner's

complete in-harmony-with-nature small farm.
Is you what you need to know about everything

It te.

guide.

from vegetables to keeping honeybees.

“632 Gardening Without Poisons by Beatrice Trum
Hunter, If you want to garden without pesticides this
book will offer ecologically sound alternatives.

'638 Good Food Naturally by John R. Harrison. This
book will teil you how to improve your soil, how to
control pests, the tools you need and more. .

635 The Basic Book of Organic Gardening by Robert
Rodale. If you want to know what grows where best,
and how to grow things even where they won’t grow
best this book will help you. Want to find out about
composting? This is for you.

_ :635.965 Houseplants by Muriel Orans. For those of

you whocan’t have afi

fled

ed garden don’t give up!

This well illustrated book will tell you how to care for a
wide variety of beautiful plants you can grow ‘indoors.

Canadians sutters some deg-
ree of deafness.

Deafness is an invisible
handicap. It cuts people off

' from the everyday world of

Have You Had A
Pap Test Recently ?

Cancer of the cervix is
one of the few. cancers,
which can be easily prevent-
ed, or detected and cured in -

_ the early stages. The cervix
is the neck of the uterus
(the womb) and tocated .
partly within the vagina.

Unlike ‘many other can-
cers, cancer of the cervix
cain be discovered early by
means of an easy, painless
procedure known as the
“Pap test”. A sample of
cells taken from the cervix
during a visit to your doctor
is sent to a_ specialized
lab and examined under a
microscope. Abnormal ceils
ean, be ‘quickly- recognized.

_ Approximately 600 wo—

nien die of “sancer -of the-

cervix in Canada every year.
Almost all of them are wo-
men who have never had a
Pap.test. It pays to take this
simple precaution.

As is theease for most dis-
euses, some women are more
likely than others to dey-
elop cancer of the cervix.
Your age, previous health
and sexual activity all ‘in-
fluence your chances of
developing cancer of the
cervix; your doctor or pub-
lic health nurse will be able
to answer your questions or
advise you how often you
need the test. \

Fact Book On
Family Planning,
Sex Education

Health and Welfare Can-
ada has published a boak
called “Facts and Fancy
About Birth Control, Sex
Education and Family Plan-
ning", which demolishes a
lot of myths.

The book deals with the
litle subjects in a sensible,
straightforward way that
provides information for
readers of any age.

For a free copy write
lo the Public Relations
Office, Health and Welfare
Canada, 105-1525 West 8th
Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.
V6) ITS,

I in 10 Suffers
Deafness

As you read this listen
to the sounds that are going
on around you. You may
find you can't hear as well

4S you used to,

itealth and Welfare Can-
ada says that one in ten

telephones, movies, radio,
alarm clocks, fire alarms and
human conversalion. [t can
be frustrating and lonely,

Your occupation may be
contributing to your hearing
loss. In 1974, an Americar
study indicated that 1.-
million workers out of 14
million were likely to suffer
& hearing loss due’ to work-
ing in a noisy environment.
This impairment would be
serious enough by age 60 to
interfere with their ability
to communicate. ;

Most people suffer a loss
of hearing as they get older.
In fact, 30% of people over.
70 endure a partial loss of
hearing. Loss of hearing also
occurs as a result of ear in-
fections, accidents® or the
side effects of massive doses
of certain drugs.

Deafness is often such a

-gradual -process that no-one.

notices the loss until the-
hard-of-hearing person real-
ly cannot take -parte in a
conversation, That is the
time when you should see
your doctor for a hearing
test. Fostunately some hear-
ing problems can be pre-
vented or overcome.

How To Detect A Hearing -

Loss
Children

Babies’ without hearing
problems should:
—startle at the sound of a
loud clap 3 to 6 inches a-
way, at birth ta 3 months;
—slop moving or crying
when called or when ex-
posed to: an unfamiliar
sound, at 3 to 6 months;
turn towards the sound of
a voice calling from beyond
the field of vision, at 9 to
12 months;
—talk in short phrases, at 2
years,

Adults

Some clues to possible
hearing problems are:
~you have trouble under-
standing convetsation in a
crowded room;
—you have to tum up the
television or radio so loud
that it fs uncomfortable
for others;
you think people around
you are mumbling;
you frequently have to ask
for things to be repeated:
—you do not understand
people unless you are fac-
ing them. *

Protect Your Family's
-Hearing :

All women of childbear-
ing age should be checked
for immunity against Ger-

man measles and have im-.

munization shots if neces
sary. The immunization
should not be done during
pregnancy.

= Vancouver policeman
a gets injury award -

A oliceman
awarded
Tuesda
receiv

by a car while riding his
motorcycle downtown.

John Edwin Boddie, 26,
was on traffic du
7, 1976 when he suffered a
concussion and dther
injuries.

was
$20,188.95
for injuries

when he was hit -

Aug. °

Justice James Mac-.
oe ame ° protect ‘the collective - p

donald, said, in assessing
‘damages, that since the
accident Boddle has not
been able to exercise ade-
quately, and while he was
stimulated by and en-
jeyed general duty and

no longer the ‘case with
res to his present
duties. os

affic police work, this is.

Leticia Caleron, exchange 8
Caledonia since September.

St f oe) a Oe
nt from Mexico, has been going to school at

Mexican exchange student

‘learns about Terrace

Aiter eight months in
Terrace, Leticia
Calderon has learned

first-hand tha teld cliche’

about people being more
alike than different.
‘Leticia, or Lety for
short, is an exchange
student from’ Mexico,
who came to Terrace in
August as part. of the
Rotary Internation
student exchange

program. :
At 19, Lety has already
completed her high
school education
Mexico, but wanted to
attend school in Canada
to learn English. She
oke no English when
earrived, but has since
attained fluency in the
language, and has to
pause only occasionally
search for a word.

in -

Learning the language
was “really hard,’ Lety
said, but once that was
accomplished everything
else fell into place.

Lety lives in an island
city in southern Mexico
called Ciudad del Car-
men, which has a
population of about
60,000. Her father. is a
beatbuilder and her
mother a homemaker.

. She alsohasfour brothers"

and one sister.

The climate was one of
the bigger changes for
Lety who is used to a
tropical climate.

"I never saw snow
before,’’ she said, “but I
don’t like the cold.”

Mountains were a treat
for the young woman who
described the Terrace
area as “beautiful

country.”

Lety has been staying
with several families
since coming to Terrace,
and is currently livin
with Caledonia princi
Bill Stern and his family.

She will be going to
Seattle for a student
exchange meeting this
week, then will return to
Terrace until July when
she will go home to
Mexico. Lety: plans on
attending university
where she will work
toward 7a teaching
degree.

“] think I learned alot
of things,” Lety said of
her stay in Terrace. -

“Everything is, dif-
ferent,” she added, ‘“‘but
alot of things are the
same.”

Hydro talks hopeful —

Union spokesman Al
Ashton says significant

progress was made.

esday in negotiations
with British Columbia

‘Ashton, president of
division 101-134 of the
Amalgamated Transit
Union, said the parties
vere to meet again today
‘and we are arranging

daily

_ other meetings on a

-basis; both sides are
hopeful a settlement is
near.” ‘

His comments are the
first sign of a break. in
Hydro’s dispute with the
3,500° transit workers
since ATU members re-
jected mediator Ken.
Albertini’s contract
recommendations Feb.
24. ' :
The union launched a
fullseale strike against
Hydro March 13, but then
called it off a week later
because of picketing
problems and failure to
put sufficient economic
pressure on the Crown

B.C. Tel gives
tax rebates -

British Columbia

Telephone Co. announced
today it will provide
rebates to customers

charged an. additional
- two-per-cent sales tax on

a portion of their March
15 to April 15 bills.

The provincial sales
tax was lowered to five
per cent from seven per
cent effective midnight

_ April-10,

A B.C. Tel spokesman
said Tuesday that the
company computer was
programmed for the
seven-per-cent tax for the

Gov't flyers

full billing period and had
not been reprogrammed
to account for the tax

reduction ‘affecting four |

days.

The company had said »,

it would seek guidance
from the provincial:
government on what to do
about the tax reduction.

The spokesman said
that in the area of sales
tax, B.C, Tel. acts as an
agent of the provincial
government and taxes on
monthly exchange rental
service,, ~.

chastised —

Karen Sanford, New
Democratic Party labor

’ eritic, Tuesday chastized

cabinet ministers in

. British Columbia's Social

Credit. government for
continuing to use AirWest
Airlines Ltd. during’ its
current labor: dispute .
with . the Teamsters
Union, local 213, |

Sanford, who is also
caucus chairman, said in
a news release that NDP:
members of: the
legislature are not using
the airline during the
current dispute,

“We feel it is un-

- fortunate that members

of the cabinet, who have a
serious responsibility to

rgaining process, are
ignoring e dispute and
using the airline," sald
Sanford, the MLA for
Comox.

“It appears that thelr .

own personal . con-
venience is viewed by
some members of the
government as more

important than the rights
oflabor and management
to settle an industrial
dispute through negotia-
tions.”

She said cabinet:
ministers are permitted
to use government, air-
craft. .

‘Survivor
sought

Patrick Kouchnire, 24,
who recently, survived a
23-storey plunge from a
Vancouver apartment,.
failed to‘appear in pro-
vincial court Tuesday on
charges Of theft over $200
and possession of stolen

roperty.
Rouchnire, of no fixed
address, was charged

March 31 with having a °

stolen car, _
Kouchnire suffered
only minor injuries April

§ when he accidentally
fell 64 metres into the

shallow end of a swim-.

ming pool. °

,

- agreement can he

- Socred plan ruined

by tax reduction

VICTORIA (CP) — The
federal government
ruined. the reelection.

ame plan of British
Bolumbla's Social Credit
‘government by forcing it

reduce the sales tax
ahead of schedule, for-
mer attorney-general
Alex Macdonald said
Tuesday night.

“The game plan was to
make the people suffer
through excessive in-
creases in taxes and

| yates, blame it on the

New Democratic Party,
punish the people of this
rovince until shortly
before the next election
and then give them back
a little bit of their
money,”” Macdonald
(NDP—Vancouver East)
told the B.C. legislature.
Federal finance
minister Jean ‘Chretien
spoiled the plan. with his
proposal to stimulate the
economy by reducing
sales taxes throughout
the country, he said.
Macdonald made the
remarks during debate
ona motion of non-
confidence in the budget
which includes reduction
of the sales tax to five per

‘cent from seven per cent.

The federal government

_ said it would finance the

‘White,

reduction for the first
nine months
estimated cost of $120
million. - ‘

The former attomey-
general said that the
rovincial government
Timed down similar of-
fers in October and
January.

SOUGHT WAIT
“They wanted to wait
until just before the
election before relieving
the sctews a litde. The

- Wanted the people to sut-,

fer a little longer.”’

He said Chretien of-
fered to finance a further
reduction to four per cent
but this was-rejected by
the Social Credit gov-
ernment which ‘sure
didn’t want to go to four
per cent for a limited

Macdonald accused
Premier Bil] Bennett of
having three faces. __

" ‘The first face, he said,
was when Bennett
rejected Chretien’s
roposal last October.
The second face was
budget day, when he was
Mr. Benevolent, “and
didn’t say for three hours
that he had been foyced to
make the reductions.”
The third face. Mac-

native

seminars differ

(CP) — There were two.
education seminars at the
local convention centre:
Tuesday, but the prob-
lems they tackled had
little in common.

Okanagan high school
students, most of them

Paul, who worked in an

alternative education transit

program for Indians at

ictoria’s .Camosun
College, said the
provinee’s education

system caters to the
white,

white, filled one side of ' Protestant

the building, filing past a-
variety of tS at a

corporation. | career seminar designed
Instead, the union i
opted for on-the-job to help them sort out their

harassment of Hydro
operations in co-

operation with two other..
unions also fighting .
-eontract battles with the

corporation—the Office
and Technical © Em-
ployees Union and the
International ©. -
Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, representing
Hydro gas workers.
FINAL ATTEMPT .
The plan, however, has
been held in abeyance,
pending a final attempt
y Hydro and the unions

to see if their problems

can be resolved.

“At this point, both
sides think we can reach
an agreement’ without an
industrial inquiry
commissioner
(previously requested b

eunion),”’ Ashton said.
“Hydro has moved from
its previous position, and
so has the union.”

Main issues in dispute |

had been the  cor-
_poration’s insistence on
‘changes to the current
union control of the bus
drivers’ spare board
system an L
-demand for a reduction in
working hours. |
Despite the. progress
being made, Ashten said
he does not think an

uit
together before the
middie of next week.
. Ashton declined to
-reveal details of the
discussions.
Previous contract
covering the Greater
Vancouver and Victoria
transit workers expired
July 31. Bus drivers
currently earn a. base
rate of
Hydro’s last contract of-
fer provided a twa-year

wage increase of six and |

four per cent, regpec-

tively.
ATU has . an

The
agreement: with the

~ IBEW and the OTEU that

no union will sign a new
contract until all three
unions have settled, but
Ashton said he:
know when the other two

organizations would be-

back ‘at the bargaining
table. ,

“IBEW | and OETU

representatives met last
Friday with Hydro,

| Both. the IBEW and
OTEU have been offered
similar wage Increases to
the transit. workers, but.
they are demanding more
money during the second
year of thelr proposed
contracts, '

- erammed into a

the ATU's ..

$8.90 an‘ hour.:

didn't

tures. .
Many of them sto
to. discuss’ the. options
offered’ by the - Armed
Forces, various govern-

ment branches and ©

companies like Okanagan
Helicopter ard Waod-
wards. Most of them
stopped to talk to
representatives of six
universities who
promoted the benefits of
postsecondary education.
The future was not so
rosy across the hall.
About 60 delegates to the
10th annual meeting of
the Union of British Co-
lumbia Indian Chiefs,
opened officially today,
con-
ference to discuss
changes in an education
system that provides

nine out.

post secondar education

every 100

‘B.C. Indians compared to

28 of every 100 whites.
The changes a UBCIC

committea would like

made would start with,

the Master Tuition
Agreement, a deal bet-
een the federal

Ww

Department of Indian
airs and the provincial -

government which covers

education of B.C.’s In-

dians, -

“The main thing,” said
UBCIC vice-president
Philip Paul, “‘is‘there is
no invalvement of Indian ©
people in discussions
surrounding the
agreement,”
SYSTEM FAILING .

Indians get little from
the system, and that, said
Paul, is: the primary
reason for many of the
native po ulation’s prob-
le illiteracy,

drinking, dnd high rates pr
for suicide and unem- fobs fgr-40,000 people: in
the. next five yearauitt sh.

ployment.

“The country is uptight
about cn unemployment

rate of about 10 per cent,”

said Paul, a member of

the Tsartlip band in the
Victoria = suburb
Saanich.

“Well in most Indians
communities it’s between
50 and 70 per cent. Indian

le have never left the
ast depression.”
+ Paul sees the ultimate
‘oal as the total control of
dian education ‘at the
local. level under the
authority - of band
councils. ;
“We're not looking at a

massive pullout the
provincial education

system,’ he said.

Indians would like the
chance to opt out of. the
provincial system only if

e needs of their
children are not being
met. Manitoba Indians
are allowed such an
option.

Changes in the Master
TuitionAgreement
however, must be
negotiated. Recom-
mendations are to be
presented to the chiefs of
187 of the. province's 192
Indians bands,
whatever they’ (lecide
must be presented to the
federal ‘and provincial

and

_ governments.

-M-B picketters
protesting.

(CP) — Pickets turned
back about 1,400 loggers
at four MacMillan
Bloedel Ltd. operations
here today to protest
suspensions made

Tuesday by the company.

Members of the ‘In-
ternational Woodworkers

‘of America set up picket

lines at the Cameron,
Franklin, Serita and
Sproat Lake marshallin
grounds this morning bu
eft after turning back the
day-shift workers. © ;

Picketing was
sanctioned by
ficlals.
The pickets - were
protesting the suspension
esday of five workers

at the Shoemaker Bay

“not

; sorting grounds at Sproat

union of- '

Lake. , A: company
spokesman said they
were suspended for
slowin, down
operation. -

Earl Foxcroft,
president of IWA Local
185, said the five were
suspended for 13 days
eac! and
suspensions were later
handed out to mast of the
rest of the sorting ground
crew when they walked
off in protest,

“'g/ a matter of
waiting to see what
happens,” said Foxeroft.

eeaid he didn't know

if the walkout would

affect the afternoon shifts
at the operations or
whether workers would
be back ‘on the job
Thursday.

at -an-

middle-class

of Pa!

two-day’

donald said, was when
the premier went to
Yorkion, Sask., for a
meeting of western
remiers, and attacked
e federal government
for interfering in .the

‘ the province by ~
affairs of the p tax

financing _—the..
reduction.

JOBS PROMISED
Forests Minister Tom
Waterland said itt

defence of the budget that .

a $10 million forest
management program
would provide more than
75,000 mandays of em-
ployee during the
iscal year. .
‘Bob. Skelly (NDP—
Alberni) said — this:
rogram would provide a
fa day of work for evety

rson seeking work in
fhe province « and
registered at manpower
offices. He also accused
the
spending more money on
human resources while

oviding services to .

ewer people. —

Gary Lauk" (NDP—
Vancouver Centre) said
he had no confidence in
the budget because it
fails to provide jobs. He
also accuse . the
‘government of putting
greed on a pedestal.

“It worships greed, and -

it provides no relief for
the ordinary people of

this province.” FAVORS

TRANSIT .

. Lauk called for a full-

scale public transit

system in the Vancouver
ea through a public
corporation
funded by the two senior
governments. The plan
would create jobs and
conserve energy.

He said the available
energy will later be
needed for automobiles to
travel long distances in
the rest of the province.

eaking against the
motion, Health Minister
Bob McClelland said his
hospital construction
ogram should’ provide

He said the treasury
board has approved $700
million worth of hospital

construction between.

now and 1983 and com-
red that to the #40
million a year spent b:
the previous NDP ad-
ministration.

Dave Stupich (NDP—
Nanaimo) said the $40
million a year spent by
the NDP was money that
had been spent, and
wondered how much of
the $700 million would
actually be-spent, and.
how, much was in the
form. of campaign
promises. .

Ft. Nelson

discussed .

Mayors of several
communities served by
British “Columbia -
Railway will join 107 Fort
elson, B.C., residents in
Victoria Thursday to
discuss with government
officials the fate of the
’ yailway’s Fort Nelso
extension, ’
. Fort Nelson mayor
Andrew . Schuck -said
Tuesday. that mayors -of
Fort St. John, Dawson
Creck, Taylor, Hudson
Hope, Chetwynd, Prince
George, Quesnel and
Williams Lake hav
indicated they will‘make
the trip.
Meanwhile,
Bill Bennett said in

Victoria Tuesday that he -

will meet with the dele-

tien, but won't-be‘able

tell them anything
‘ goncrete because the

€. government has not yet .

studied all the evidence.’

John Piety, Fort Nelson
Chamber of Commerce
Manager, said if the

+

extension is abandoned’
three lumber companies -

in the Fort Nelson area
would be forced to close.
He said the companies
provide. _ almost
million a year to the'
“fovernment in taxes
reight rates
stumpage fees.
The government is
considering a royal
commission report which

recommends scrapping
ne

‘the 100-kilometre:
from Fort St. John to Fort
Nelson, .

government of .

have

Premier ,

$15 |

"and