Canadians fic
the world’s cranes |

BARABOO, Wis.
(Reuter) — A foundation
headed by a Canadian is
reaching into Iran, China,
Southeast Asia and the
Soviet Union to help save

the world’s crane
population.
The graceful, long-

legged wading birds are
dwindling as man takes
over more of the earth’s
marshlands and
wilderness areas. .

But George Archibald,
a native of Sherbrooke,
N.S., believes the birds
can be rescued with
money, education and
human intervention.

To battle for their
survival, Archibald, who

graduated in 1968 from

Dalhousie University in
Halifax with a degree in

biology, helped establish |

the International Crane
Foundation in 1972,
While an souin-
dergraduate, he worked
one summer at an
Edmonton game’ farm
‘and “that’s where I first
saw a crane and became
very interested in those
birds.”
FLIES WITH EGGS
Archibald continued
that interest while
studying animal
behaviour at Cornell
University in Ithaca,
N.Y. Now he sometimes

flies from continent to
continent with cartons of
‘q@fane eggs strapped in
the airline seat next to
him.

Earlier this year, while
on a flight from Auatrelia
with three dozen eggs,
Archibald suddenly found
himself “father” to
several peeping
fledglings who cracked
out of their shells. .

Archibald cut up one of
his socks and placed the
cloth atop a hot-water
bottle in a polystyrene
cooler to give the hat-
chlings a nest until they
got to the crane foun-

dation'’s 65-hetare (160-
acre) base at Baraboo in
Central Wisconsin. ;

Those youngsters,
which have thrived, in-
Gude members of the
Eastern Sares, a crane
spedes once common. to
Southeast Asia, but
driven to near extinction
there by decades of war
and violence, -

Forty years ago the
birds migrated to
Australia where they are
now fumerous.

GO TO THAILAND

Next year, with the
help of the Australian
transplants, the foun-
dation will start rein-
troducing the Eastern
Sares to their former

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. extinction have

homeland via Thailand.

“The queen of Thailand
is golng to accept the
birds as her personal

property and’ get the’

people ‘interested - in
turning the — tide:"
Archibald‘ said in an
interview, “Southeast
Asia has been such a

theatre of horror that it’s -

time to start heallng it a
little bit." -  -

There are 15 species of
crane ~ biologically, the
family Grvidae — of
which seven are Usted as
endangered, . including
the rare whooping
cranes. Archibald has
bred whoopers, but he
said most of the efforts to
save the great birds from
been
conducted ‘by Canadian
and United States
government. agencies,

Joan Fordham, the

erane..foundation’s ad-

ministrator, says no one
is sure how many cranes
are left in the world, but

the. population hag
declined since the start of
the 20th century.

CHINA HAS MOST
China, home to eight of

the world’s 15 species, is

a top priority for the

foundation, ‘said
Archibald, the foun-
dation’s director.

Cigarettes in drug stores
pose an ethical dilemma

OTTAWA (CP) ~ The
people who run Canada's
5,300 drug stores will be
asked next month to put

their money where their .

mouth is and take a
stronger stand . against
Ggarettes — even if it
means losing customers.

A campaign developed

by the Canadian Phar-.

maceutical Association
and the federal Health
Department will remind
pharmacists of their rale

promoting — better
health and ask them to
help discourage smoking.
' “Basically what we're
saying is that smoking
does cause health
Problems and it is the
single most preventable

Auxiliary needs
The Hospital Auxiliary

held their monthly

meeting on Monday April .

16th. Plans were made
for a bake sale in the
Skeena Mall on Friday,

May 11 from 3 to 9 p.m.

and for a tea on Saturday,
May 12 from 2-to 4 p.m.
Tea and cookies will be
served in the hospital
cafeteria.

Once again the Easter
Bunny and his apprentice
bunny visited the patients
and staff in the hospital
and the residents of
Skeenaview and ‘the
Willows, It was a very
busy Easter Sunday. The
Thrift Shop on Lazelle
Ave. will he having a

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“White or.
‘60 per cent

cause of illness in
Canada,” says the
association’s executive
director Leroy Fevang,
Perhaps eight per cent
of the country's drug
stores don't handle
cigarettes, but those that
do represent a major
retail outlet for the
tobacco industry and a
Significant source of
income for the ‘stores
themselves.

~The Idea of a-pharmacy
selling drugs and other
products to keep people
healthy while making a
profit on products that
are clearly unhealthy has
long been an ethical
dilemma within the
profession. ;

brown bag sale on
Saturday, May 5. '
. Auxiliary members are
busy planning the fashion
show to be held in
November. We need
more help and more new
ideas, so if you would like
to be involved in war-

thwhile community work .

and have a lot of en-
joyment, be our guests at
our May 14 meeting, or
phone one of the
executive, Lorna Morton
at 635-7507, Dorothy
Lewis at 635-7631 or
Eileen Hoflin 635-7874 or
Rada Doyle 635-4318.

See you on May 29 at
8:15 p.m. in the hospital

_ board room.

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“We are quick to
criticize’ unethical ad-
vertisements and shady
sales practices of others,
but ignore our own
professional —_ responai-
bilities. and moral
obligations,” says an
editorial in the Iatest
issue of the Canadian
Pharmaceutical Journal.

The campaign, to be
launched at the
association’s . annual
mecting in Vanconver,
will suggest three
initiatives pharmacists
may take.

The first is to have drug
stores distribute _in-
formation about the risks
of smoking and ways to
help:people quit.

A second option is for.

pharmecisis to stop
mentioning tobaceo in
their newspaper ads or in
promotional material in
alores. They might also
take steps to make the
Shelves set aside for
cigarettes lesa visible.

The third and most
drastic step is for drug
stores to stop selling
tobacco altogether.

The idea of a_self-
imposed ban on tobacco
sales may not sit well
with big chains like Boots
Drug Stores (Canada)
Ltd. and Shoppers Drug

. Mart Ltd. Both do a fair

business in cigarettes and
apparently consider them
& good way of attracting
customers, who often buy
other products as well
when they come in.

Safeway’s

territorial

The Salvation Army

eg
held

lts annual Skeena Easter
Conference at the Gitanmaax Community Hall In
Hazelton Friday, April 20 to Sunday, April 23. About
500.guests attended the evangelistic conference from
all points of the Pacific Northwest.. Among the

special guests were (front row, left to right}:
Divisianal. Commander, Major Lloyd Eason,
Assistant Field Secretary, Cotonel Joe Craig, Mrs.
Colonel B. Craig, and Mrs. Major R. Eason.

The mystery of Alzheimer’s

VANCOUVER (¢P) —
It is fatal, has no known.
cure and some estimates
SAY &3 Many as 300,000

‘Canadians are afflicted

with it. .

As many as 10,000 will
die of it this year, while
researchers work on in an
attempt to: unravel the
reasons why.

It has beén’ estimated
as the. fourth leading
cause of death in North

America, but has only
been the subject of in-
.tense medical attention in
recent years,

For'a long time, the
disorder went by a host of
vague names. The
Clinical ones ineluded
senility. Most ordinary

people called it old ‘age,

Today it’s” called
Alzheimer's disease, And
although organizations
involved in research and

support have sprung up
across the continent, and
although dozens of
theories have been tossed
around in ‘¢linics and
medical journals, there is
still no agreement on
what causes the disease,
. "Everyone is looking
for the cause and the
cure, nelther of which has
been found yet,” says a
spokesman at Toronto
Alzheimer's Society,

Children could take
their mother’s names

TORONTO (CP) —
Children in any province
would be allowed to take
their mother's surname
under changes to
provincial legislation

recommended by. ‘the .

Uniform Law Conference
of Canada, ;
Provincial and
- spokesmen
surveyed Wednesday
said they are considering
changing the laws"which
require children
married couples to .take
the husband's surname
because the laws may not
conform with equality
rights which will come
into effect next: spring
under the Charter of
Rights and Freedoms and
because social customs

are changing,
“We certainly’ are
interested in responding

to changes in -social.

customs and making
things easier for people,"
William Gilroy, Alberta's
director of — vital
statistics, said in an in-
terview.

Ontario officials have
drafted a policy paper
“recommending that the
children of a married
woman or single woman
can be named in the
mother’s name or: the

of .

father's name or both,"
Rosemarie Drapkin,
’ Ontario's - deputy
registrar-general, sald in
an interview. : ;

Cablnet will review the
paper. before. dedding
whether to ‘change the
law.
CONTRAVENES CHAR-

TER .
"I think we all
recognize that our

legislation’ would con-
travene the charter,” she
said. ‘Provinces have
been. reviewing various
laws to bring them into
compliance with Section
15 of the Charter of
Rights’ and Freedoms,
which will be enacted
next April and prohibits
discrimination based on
sex, among other things.
1982,, Cynthia
Callard, a divorced
Ottawa woman, lost. a
fight ‘in the Supreme
Court of Ontario to give
her son her surname, |
The National Action
Committee on the Status
of Women, which has
supported her lobbying
efforts since then, objects
to the “completely
patriarchal assumption
that's in the law at the
moment” and would
applaud any changes,

leat Sale

. Most

Kathleen O'Neil,
southern Ontario |
representative, said in an
interview,
provinces and
territories .use, a model
Vital" Statistios: < Act,
drafted’ more: than“ 30
years ago, asa guide. _
In July, they'll meet in
Niagara Falls, Ont., to
discuss. changes to the
model proposed by the
law conference.
The law conference, a
body of legal experts
picked by provincial,
territorial and’ federal
governments, has
recommended parents be
allowed to register their.
children under either the
mother’s, father’s or a
hyphenated. surname,

provided both parties.

agree, . .
While the provinces are
not required to follow the
conference's recomm-
endations, its suggestions
are usually adopted,
spokesmen said. ;
The law in most
provinces allows a man to
give his surname to a
child, regardless of his
marital. _ status or
relationship to the child.
Only women who are
single at the timie of birth
have this right.

Prices effective til Sat. April 28, 1984 in Your Friendly,
Courteous Terrace Safeway Store.

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Formed six years ago,
the -organization has
chapters in every major
Canadian city,

“Alzheimer's disease
was — is, if you Like —
one of those things that

hits older peoplein which .
‘ they-were thought to just

have old. age. That just
wasn't true.”’ :

The society puts the
number of sufferers at
300,000, Somewhere
100,00 = and
300,000 is the figure in the
official publication of the
College of Family
Physiclans of Canada,
which supplies estimates
on the prevalence of the
disease in this country. It
characterizes —_ Alzhei-
mer'’s disease as “a
progressive decline in
congitive functioning
from a previously
established level.’

A victim ‘of the disease
first. _ exhibits a
deterioration In memory,

thinking and conduct. He
may forget names and
addresses. He becomes

. aggressive and paranoid,

perhaps suspicious. He
may need help writing
cheques or travelling ona
bus. - :

In the end, he will have
distinct .«memory- | im-
pairment and inability to
learn, Constant | care,
usually in an institution,
is required, Death results
from complications of
being bedridden, such as
pneumonia, . -

Dr. Burton Reifler, who
heads an Alzheimer clinic
at’ the University of
Washington in ‘Seattle,
says that in 1907 a Ger
man pathologist named
Alols . Alzheimer * con-
ducted research among
his middle-aged patients
whom he called: senile,
After their deaths, he
examined their braina-
and néticed microscopic
changes, 0 *

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Police
Beat .

Q: [have recently experienced a theft from my
garden shed. I want to install a padlock on this shed
but I don’t know what J should be looking for in a

padlock.

A: The most common assaults on padlocks are :
with bolt cutters, hammers, or pry bars. Padlocks — -
should have the following: 1) hardened steel -
shackle; 2) heel and toe locking; 3) at least five

" tumblers in the cylinder; 4) solid one-piece bady -
case hardened; 5) key retention feature - padiock
must be locked before the key canberemoved, ©

Also, remember that the padlock is only as good

- ag the chain or hasp it is connected to:

Q: What is a “Green Thumb Purglar'?

A; This is the name that people attach to a
burglar who enters homes (usually unlocked) white
the occupants are in their yard gardening or simply
relaxing. The best way to avoid becoming victims
of this person is to lock your doors at all times even
if you are in your yard or next door visiting a neigh-
bour. Locking your doors is a good habit to get into,

YOU CANNOT AFFORD

TO MISS IT!

. Woodward of Terrace
Miss E. Kaysser of Terrace

Mr. D, Lindstrom of Terrace
Mrs. N. Brown of Terrace

Russell of South Hazelton | .

Mrs, E.
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