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with a thank you certificate from JoAnne Ames

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Priest describes horror
of fatal bus accident

ASBESTOS, Que. (CP) ~
A priest who was one of
seven survivors of last
week's Eastern Townships
bus disaster said Wednesday
he felt ‘a sword go through
my heart” watching the bus
alip into placid Lac «Argent
carrying 40 to their death,

Rey. Gaston St, Jean was
still yisibly shaken as he
described to reporters how
last Friday night's disaster
neur Eastman, Que., took

ce,

Funeral services for 36 of
the victims will be held teday
in this mining community
195 kilometres northeast of
Montreal. Four others were
buried Tuesday.

“It all happened so
quily, Father St. Jean

The priest said he was
seated at the rear when the
brakes falled while the bus
was descending from a hill-
top theatre where the
group—including many
physically and mentally
handicapped—had - attended
a play.

Father St. Jean said his
first indication of trouble
was when the driver shouted
a warning to the passengers
to brace themselves,

“Then we skidded onto the
lake as if there were skis
under us.”

THOUGHT WAS SOLID

The bus shot out 50 metres
onto the lake, but the priest
said the driver said the
wheels wera touching the
bottom while the vehicle was
still on the surface,

Father St, Jean said he
went to the back of the bus
and comforted the
passengers. The bus floated
for 1§ minutes, and then as
the back of It began to sink
because of the engine's
weight, water engulfed the
passengers.

When they opened the
front door to escape, more
water rushed in. The 51-year-
old prist said he could hear
the coughing and sputtering
of victims as they drowned.

The driver jumped out and
Father St. Jean followed.

en ne

“T looked back and saw
people with eyes that asked:
‘What can we do’?”’ Others
cried out that they didn't
know how to swim.

Father St. Jean circled
trying to help some of the
passengers’ reach shore.

At one point, he grabbed
the arm of a male passenger
and they held onto each
other. Together, they wat-
ched in horror as the bus
slipped below the surface.
PEOPLE STRUGGLE

The priest said he could
see people struggling at the
door as the vehicle went
down.

His companion couldn’t
swim and the two couldn’t
make any progress toward
shore.

“They say a drowning
person holds his grip and
doesn'tlet go. He gripped me

for a second as if to say good-
bye, and then slipped away.”

Father St, Jean said he
cried out for help, and heard
another person yell that
rescuers were coming in
rowboats. Finally a rowboat
Picked him up and took him.
ta. shore,

Father St. Jean will be one
of the 50 clergymen from
around the region afficlating
at today’s funeral mass.

About 7,00 people visited
the makeshift funeral home
in the local hockey arena
Tuesday and 8,000 came
Wednesday, with 10,-000
expected today before the
funeral.

The funeral itself will be
closed to everybody except
friends, relatives and a few
dignitaries,
Quebec Social Affairs
Minister Denis Lazure and

_ Lieut.-Gov, JeanPierre Cote.

United front

against PM — Grass easing cancer pain

value of the drug might not’.

REGINA (CP) _
Canada's 10 premiers joined
forcess Wednesday to
condemn what they
described as federal intru-
sions into areas of provincial

power. -

And there were Indications
after opening taiks at the
19thannual premiera’
meeting that the provincial
leaders will form a similar
united front agalnst Prime
Minister Trudeau’s latest
proposals for constitutional
change.

Premier Allan Blakeney of
Saskatchewan told a news
conference that the premiers
want aclion hy the end of the
year to stop duplicate
federal-provinclal activity in
such areas as consumer
affairs, environmenta.
protection, agricultural re-
search, housing arid urban
affairs, the administration of
justice and post-secondary
edcuation. ;

But while the premiers re-
stricted moat of their public
statements on attacks on
duplicated government
activity, Premier Gerald
Regan of Nova Scotia said
that they spent much of thelr
time in the first of a beries of

closed meetings discusang

constitutional matters.

OPPOSITION IS UNITED
Those discussions were ex-
pected to lead to an annouce-

ment that the premiers dry

oppose Trudeau's’ latest
Proposals to revamp the
country's constitutional Law,
the 1lll-year-old British
North America Act.

Quebec Premier Rene Le-
vesque, who advocates an
independent Quebec with its
awn constitution, said that
his Parti Quebecois
government was ‘‘par-
ticipating in good faith” at
the meeting.

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a certificate for this from JoAnne Ames.

Student Employers
thanked by CEC office

By JoAnne Ames

The Canada Employment
Centre for Students and
Youth is closing for the
summer this Friday, August

1k.

Job orders have slowed
down and there are very
students currently looking
for work,

The majority of students
and youth who were serious
about finding a job have
found one. Many have done
so on their own, which is a
eredit to them. They had the
energy and determination it
takes to find a job,

What about: students or
young people who are not
working? Most of them are
using the summer as a
‘real’? holiday, spending
time at the beach or with
their families on vacation.

I don’t think every student

Polio
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
A 17-year-old visitor from
the Netherlands remained
quarantined in a Chilliwack,
B.C., home Wednesday while
jhis 25-year-cld cousin, a
‘mushroom farmer suffering
from paralytic polio, was
recovering in hospital.
Tests determined that
Jake Van de Pol, the first of
five persons In Canada to
have been diagnosed as
‘having polio, contracted the
disease from his visiting
Dutch cousin. j
The cousin, found to be a
icarrier of the disease, was to
have been flown back to the
Netherlands on Tuesday, but
operators of a charter alrline
service, Martinair, refused
to allow him aboard the
aircraft until tests show he
no longer is infected.
Meanwhile, in the Nor-
wichDelhi area, near
Woodstock, Ont., where four
cases have been diagnosed
and 14 persons who came in
contact with the disease
have been quarantined in
thelr homes under the Public
Heaith Act, police said some

Dutch-Canadians have
received threatening
telephone calls.

Two brothers from Nor-
wich were admitted to
hospital last week.
Laboratory tests confirmed
Monday that Reick Van
Vilet, 24, has paralytle polio,
His brother, James, 14, has

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Many people being treated
for cancer In British
Columbia are ignoring the
illegality of marijuana use
because they say the drug
controls nausea caused by
anticancer drugs. ,

Some patients, including
howewilves and
businessmen, say marijuana
controls nausea better than

conventional antinausea
gs.
Some doctors say they feel

pailents's chances of
recovery ate improved
because pitients are
stronger and respond better
to treatment If they aren't
constantly nauseated.

But unless Ottawa ap-
proves a two-year-old ap-
plication from several
Vancouver doctors to do a
controlled study of
marijuana with volunteer
patients, the actual medical

_and don't expect to start off

-or youth over the age of 14
should take full or part-time
work, That would be
unrealistic. Some students
do not eel ready he the
responsibility of a job, or
they need a break from
school.

at a high paying job. At the
same time, they seen more
willing to work and un-
derstand the committmenta
job means.

The student office has
increased placements by 13
per cent over last summer.

‘This is a reflection of the

Some parenta try to push
thelr youngster into a
summer job, I have to assess
each case individually, of
course, and sometimes the
conclusion [ reach is that the
youngster doesn't want to
work, A student who is
pushed into taking a job will
not make a good employee.

In general, students are
going well this year. More
are. working than last
summer and most who
wanted to work have had
good attitudes. -

They are more realistic

been diagnosed as having
paralytic polio, but
laboratory confirmation has
not been made,

Another brother, Cor-
nelius, 21, has since been

confirmed as a victim of non- *

paralytic polio. The fourth
victim, whose name has not
heen released, was among 32
persons subsequently tested
for polio.

The 32 had come -into
contact with the Van Viet
brothers. .
FIND 14 CARRIERS

Health officials gave 17 of
the 32 a clean bill of health,
but found that 14 were
carriers of the disease,

Health Minister Timbrell
said ‘the 14 will remain
quarantined until specimens
show they can be released

safely.

’ Dr. Louis Grant, medical
officer cf health for Norfolk
County, said-in Simeoe, Ont.,
that two of the 14 persons
under quarantine are
visitors from
Netherlands who have been
in Canada for some time.

It can take upto 21 days for
thesymptoms, which include
pea eee fever atitt neck

paralysis, velop,

The confirmed cases in all
provinces have been among
members of a fun
damentalist Protestant sect,
the Netherland Reformed

Congregation.
Some members of the

’

be determined for some
time,

Meanwhile, patients
continue to risk a criminal
record and pay high black-
market prices for the illegal -
medication of unknown
potency and purity.

Patricia’ Isert, 37, a
housewife ‘In Coquitlam,
about 30 kilometres east of
here, says she uses the drug
and allowed her name to be
published although it could
result in criminal charges
being laid against ber.

“I'm willing to take the
risk,” she said, ‘just like I
was taking a risk when I
used it (marijuana)."
RELIEVE NAUSEA

A nonsmoking mother of
two, with no history of drug
use, she says she used
Marijuana many times tn
relieve severe nausea In-
duced by chemotherapy for

i

improved economic situation
locally and also a reflection
on the willingness of the
business and householders to
try student employees.

The co-operation of the
businesses and media in
Terrace cannot be stressed
enough. Both newspaper and
television have helped
enormously to promote
students and youth.

The CEC for Studens and
Youth will be open again In
the apring, and hopefully we
‘will be able to match even
more employers with
summer employees, i

group refuse vaccinations on
religious grounds, belleving

- God is the physician
although 1

the church does not

advocate its members avold
vaccinations.

Many of those quarantined

were believed to have been -

in contact last month with a
group of Dutch exchange
students who since have
returned to Holland.

The Norwich policeman,
who would not allow his
name to be used, refused to
apecify the nature of the
threats, most of which were
made during the weekend.

“A lot of people are just
pl up the phone book
and looking Van this or Van
that and phoning them,” the
spokesman said. “Things
are tense here."

BOY RECOVERING
Meanwhile, an eight-year-
old boy from Lethbridge,
Alta., admitted to hospital
last week suffering from
partial paralytic polio, is
improving, doctors said.
Health officials in Ontario,
Alberta and British
Columbia said there was
plenty of vaccine for persons
win have not been im-
munized,

Persons who have failed to
maintain their immunization
through initial injections and:
boosters have only them-
belyes to blame if they get
the disease, Timbrell said..

/Hodgkin's disease.

She said the life of a cancer
victim under treatment is a
dismal one: Weekly visits to
a clinic for tests and drugs,
the burning sensation in
one’s veins as the powerful
drugs are injected and the
secemingly-endiess nausea
that “makes you feel like you
want to die,’

“It's not a pleasant
business and to have nausea
on top of It. . . to have
something to prevent it and
not use it, is juat criminal.”

Mrs, Isert sald she has not ©
used marijuana except when
she was receiving cancer
drags. She sald ahe has not
used it recently after her
doctors prescribed a drug to
which she does not react so
violently.

"The busy have no time for
tears,”

- (Ont),

Byron.

Imitate

in human rights

OTTAWA (CP) -- Senator:
Pavl. Yuzyk shocked a
roomful of his colleagues:
Tuesday by suggesting
Canada’s new human rights
charter should follow the
Soviet example and specify a
list of basic duties of being a
Canadian citizen.

Yuzyk (PC-Man), a
secondgeneration Ukranian, |
told the Senate committee
examining the charter of :
human rights and freedoms’
contained in Prime Minister
Trudeau's proposed con-
stitution that the charter
seemed to ignore the fact
that rights do not come
without duties,

He showed the committee
a copy of the constitution of
the U.S.S.R., polnting out

that there were 20 articles ©

desling with human rights
and 11 dealing with dutles of
a Soviet citizen. »

Senator Richard Stanbury
committee chair
man, blurted out: “I have to
confess I never thought I’d
hear Paul Yuzyk agk us to
imitate the Soviets.

Yuzyk's was one of the iew
novel suggestions in a long
and mostly technical day of

on the proposed
buman rights charter.

The charter, which would

face Canada’s 18-year-old
Bill of Human Rights, is
contained in the con-
stitutional proposals:
Trudeau presented to the
Commons last June.
ADDS LANGUAGE RIGHTS

The new bill would cover
allthe rights contained in the
190 Bill of Rights, such aa
freedom of speech, assembly
and religion. But it has a
number of new features
designed to guarantee
recognition of both English
and French as the official
languages of Canada.

The Senate commiltee
began ita second week of
hearings Tueaday. It is one
of the two Parliamentary
committees meeting this

summer to examine the
constitutional propogals,

The second, a joint Senate-
Coramons committee.
chaired by MP. Mark
MacGuigan  (L-Windsor
Walkerville), is to begin its
hearings next week, * -

During five hours of
clauseby-clause ;
examination of the human
rights charter, senators said
there were. a number of
loopholes in the proposed
legislation.

Senator Joe Greene (L-
Ont) said the charter did
little to protect. Canadians
against the possibility. of
government expropriation of
their property, or the re-
imposition of mandatory
price and wage controls.

Senator Louis Robichaud
(LNew Brunswick) sald he
feared the bill would offer no
help to citizens faced with
the prospect of military
conscription.

RIGHTS VAGUE

Senator Daniel Lang (L-
Ont) said he found the bill
vague on the question of
“apprehended in
surrectlon.” He wondered if
the prime minister and his
cabinet could override the
human rights charter if they
felt emergency conditions
justified the imposition of the
War Measures Act, Trudeau
invoked the War Measure
Act in 1970 at t!.> height of
the so-called Octote crisis
in Quebec.

Senator Eugene Forsey
(LOnt) complained that the
provision of the charter
stating that each session of
Parliament would last five
years or lesa was weakly
worded and did not protect
Canadians from endless
stalling from the prime
minister in deciding when to
call an election.

The clause calls for
replacement of the Senate
with a new House of the
Federation, with
representitives

Charges dismissed
. against Bell Tel

aa cay .
OTTAWA (CP) — The

~ Canadian“ Humali' Rights’

threat continues

Commission dismissed
Wednesday a complaint
against Bell Canada, saying
it could find no evidence the
company discriminates on
religious grounds in its
hiring.

However, the commission
said it has reason to believe
the company discriminated
on sex grounds in hiring
personnel for a project in
Saudi Arabia.

A complaint against the
company was brought to the
commission last May by
Herb Gray, Liberal member
of Parllament for Windsor
West::Gray said Bell was
discriminating agains|
Jewish applicants in its $1.1-
billion contract to expand
and modernize the Saudi
Arabian telephone network,
The contract wak signed hist,

spring.

After two months of work,
the commission concluded
Gray’s allegations could not
be proved but it had found
evidence relating to a
discriminatory practice
based on the grounds of sex

in Bell Canada's selection of

personnel,

Bell officials have been
notified of the finding. The
commission has also ap-
pointed its own conciliator to
try to resolve the matter.
UNHAPPY WITH
DECISION

Gray said in an Interview
he is unhappy with the
commission’s Yuling.

ieee tats

discrimination agains!
women, but I am concerned

. about this decision. I have

received no outline of the
findings of the investiga-

on." .

He said he Is displeased
that chief commissioner
Gordon Fairweather waited
until one day before the
commission's findings were
publicly released to inform
him that his complaint had
been dismissed.

He said he learned of the
decision lata Tuesday in a
letter from Fairweather. He
said the letter provided him
with less information than
the statement provided to
the press the following day.

He said he was pursuing
his complaint against Bell
Canada at the provincial

level.

He had written to the
human rights com:
missioners of nine provinces
requesting that they speak
reques y spea
with the telephone company
in their jurisdiction in case
Bell should try to recruit
employees for the Saudi Ara-
bian project from smaller
telephone companies.

* He said Nova Scotla and

Alberta have given him their

word they will instruct

employees of thelr provin-

cial telephone companies not

to answer any questions

about their réligion on Bell .
Canada job applications.

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