me groans i are othe ettectiats
‘grint,a dunipling saten in the

maturity.
The, real. pleasure, ‘housh,

‘Cigarette smoking ‘ia the: .
overwhelming. reason: that ..
men ‘havea. shorter. ‘life
expectancy’ than - women,”
but‘ a rising “ineidence: of ‘
smoking’ ‘among teenaged -
girls suggests. that women.
may lose their statistical
advantage, a new ‘study
says.

American womes today
‘can expect to live to.be 77.0
_ years old, 7.4 years longer »
than men, says the U.S...
Natlonal Centre for Health‘
Statistics for 191, the Latest
year available. ‘In: about
1900, women’s longevity
over men was only two.
years. ~

But the study “of more

"REGINA (CP) — Western
farmers are caught between
the hammer of rising
opening costs. and the
anvil of stagnant com-
modity prices, the Com- |
mons transport committee ©
was told Tuesday. . :

Ted Turner, president ‘of
the ' Saskatchewan Wheat .
Pool, the largest farmer-

_ owned grain company in
Canada, said grain prices .
have remained virtually the
same for the last :10 years,

while farm input costa have |

soared 116 per cent. --

He said the initial, price.
for. red spring wheat in. 1902
was 4.75 a bushel or $174.50 |

_4 ‘tonne, up only. slightly
from the 1973 level of $4.58 a.
-bushel or $169.21 a tonne. ©

_. Turner ' was ying
before. a. hearing: in
sweltering hotel. ballroom

?
on the fetteral government's” :

proposed changes in the
statutory Crowsnest Pass
freight rates for grain. The
changes would mean higher
: shipping: rates for farmers.
He said the pool, which
claims a membership of '
70,000 Saskatchewan far- -
mers, realizes the cost of. -

operating a irallway has also |

Tisen.

Prices -
~ lower

VANCOUVER: (cP) _
Lumber. prices . chave
plunged by as much as 30
percent in the- past two
months and the retreat from
early-June highs probably
is mot yet over, says an
Industry executive. _

Prices are - sagging
because : demand is /sof-
tening in the wake of rising
interest ratea, while mills in

both Canada and the US. |

continue, to operate at high
rates,

“Market psychology is

terrible right now,” sald
Mike © Robson, —vice-
president of wood products
marketing at Canadian
Forest Products _ Lid.
- “Everyone is scared to

death, which is why there. |

isn’t any large amouit ‘of
wood moving through: the”
system, ”

A reduction in interest
rates could. stimulate. in- .
ventory-building, — partic-
warly by retailers, sald
Robson, but if money coéts .
don’t go down, “ho one is
going to move."'

Following the recent one-
half-point increase in the

U.S. prime lending ‘rate, -

some Canadian mortgage
lenders have: started: to:
raise their rates. ;
Wholesale prices .'
Western | spruce-pine-fir
2x4s fell from §243 US.) a
thousand board feet early in
June to $178 last Friday.

Studs dropped to $192 from —

$260.

“This week we are taking
business at $7 to $10 below
last = Friday's — lev
Robson said.

| Clive Roberts, president
of Seaboard Lumber Sales
Co. Lid., suggested the
price drop might not be as
severe as it appears...

for

several helpings, of bhidbecry.
Atlantic provinces during the.
dog ‘days: of. August: when: the: ‘berries ave. “each

i ‘eaived bya growers ‘whe.
“4

lees shorn Hespan

‘ PIPTSBURGH (AP) —¢

County, including

. terviews” “with: the Palstives
“af 4,394; people. who - dled"
’ between. 1972 - and ‘1974,
‘shows statistically that: smen |
who never smoked and were”.
pot killed by violence could. .
expect to live as long BS,
women,

The life expectancies of
men who smoke fewer than
20 packs of cigarettes in
‘their lives are (statistically -
equal to those of women if -
: male deaths attributable to
Aecidents, homicides and
suicides’ are removed, -
‘shows the study by Dr.
Willlam Miller of- Edinboro,
Pa., and Dr. Dean Gerstein
of Washington, D.C.

“The: resulting life exe
than 8,300, people in Erie’ pectancy figures for non- “the, ay warns of the

“Tt has been our position:
- Bince 1974 that-the railways

should be entitled to receive
compensation covering
‘their legitimate costs of
‘moving grain,” he said.

“However, any freight
rate. change imposed on’

grain producers must
realistically. reflect © the

* farm income and cast-price
“by.

situations - faced: -
producers and their real”

capacity to. abeorh | higher.

freight costs,
Don -Mazankowsld, ‘for-

“mer Conservative transport
, minister, asked if-the pool .

-executive. is. betraying" ita -
- membership ‘on. “the Issue.
“Our positionis widely, -
accepted by the . mem-
bership,” ‘Tarner — sald,
bringing a round of boos
from, the audience, —

"Dluoberries were > the lage caith crep in Nova. Scott
Jasi-year with mare than 1,100 growera producing about
million kilograms of the wild berry,’
+The crop was worth $8.5 maillion, and arowere, now. in the:

| amokingt men ‘and ‘worienof.
‘parallel age were virtually’
‘identical. Thus, differential ©
rates. of cigarette ' ‘smoking

_are -apparently.the over: .
“ whelming’ cause for the

longevity :
the. Btudy |

"study, released
thioday, will. be “published
Inter this month-in Public
Health Reports, a periodical
of the U.S. Department. of
Health’ and Human Ser--
vices.

‘WARNS. OF DANGER

“male-femate -
. difference,”

“facta

The study also cites a 1961"

‘Surgeon General's report
that .teenaged girls have
surpassed teenaged boys in
percentage'of smokers:and _

Operating costs’ increase

‘Following | wh, ‘Turner's:
nearly ~- “threehour - ape -
peararice, several local pool .
committees toldthe hearing -
they do not. want the Crow:
rate altered at all.

Stan - Hovdebo.' (NDP. .
Prince. Albert) ‘noted--sur-..
veys of pool members show «:
strong sipport for.retention

of the Crow rate, which was.
written Into the law books in
~ 19255. :

; ‘The hearings have pouged
down in Saskatchewan,

: In order-to accommodate
a ‘flood. of . requests; : the
committee has been sitting
“through Iunch and holding -.
prolonged | evening sessions.
A fourth day has already
been added to the Regina
stop and a fifth. may be
‘mecesgaty;

(a) the ton

4

“ong: a Where the

this Part. ad
The Board’

or telephoning: —

Mr. H. K. Farysay,
~ Labour

2th Floor -

"> Vaneouver, “B.C,_
MOE INT

“Telphone

* baala La Bids Berd
Public Notice Of Application

The Canada Labour Relations Board has recelved ~
jolnt application under Sections 119, 190, and 132 of
the Canada Labour Code from the International
Longshoremen’s.and-Warehouseman’s Union,
Canadian Area, and the Briilsh Columbia Maritime
Employers’ Association (Board File: 530-967).

The applicants -seek certification of the ILWU;
Canadian. Area as ~ bargaining © agent for a

. bargaining unit comprised of: So,

one: ‘agent | be. appointed
.@mployers af - tha amployees in the - -
bargaining unitto act on behalf of those
“employers; and authorized: by’ the
i "x0 70 ~ enfiployers to discharge. the duties and =~

He B . responsibilites, of an employer under

Relations .
Canada Labour Relations. Board

or sie oo .

“all employees employed Inthe longshoring
Industry In British Colurnbla, excluding office
. Staff. foremen, and supercargoes.'’.

| Tha applicants also request the Board to order all .
employers engaged In longshoring operations in
British Columbia to appoint the British Columbla ~

~ Maritime. Employers’ Aisociation to. act on thelr
behalf, and.to authorize it to discharge the duties -
and responsibilities of an employer under tha Code;

Sectlons 130. (1) and 132; (1) and .(3) of the -
Candide Labour Code read as follows: — :

"930,(1) Where two or more frada unions have
. formed a: council of trade unions, the
council so formed may apply.to the —
Board for certification In the same =| ff
: " .manner as a frade union,” fe

"132. a) Where employees are employed in i
jangshoring Industry,or 5 iE
(b) ‘such other industry in such geographic

area 88° may

‘be- designated by

regulation of the Governor In Council . mG
upon the recommendation of the Board, I
the Board may determine that the
_- @Mployaes of two or more employers in. |.
“>; SUCh an Industry In sucha geographic...
- + area constitute a unit appropriate for... -
'- collective bargaining and may, subject. -
me to this Part, certify a tradeuntonas the ~ :
* bargaining agent for the unit!

Board, : pursvant . to

subsection (1). certifies a trade union:

“ominous consequences “0.

“women's. lengerity is ‘a
“group. 6 Se

Minter,” ‘a " enathemitics
proféssor ‘at the Indiana’

carve Stonehouse ui of the Blucbetry
‘Association of Nova Scotia, said in an Interview] that
production has doubled since the mid-1970e and he expects

“another 4t-per-cent Increase before: 1985,

We're on the threshold of a boom and could be producing
0. million pounds AL, million’ kilograms) within two or.

three years,” >. :
David Sangster, diréetor ‘of horticulture . “with ‘the
- provincial Agriculture . Department, ‘sald the: fortune : ‘of :
‘farmers. parallels development - ofan export: narket: to.
Europe. and Asia’ during. the early’: 8706.
_ FROZEN FOR EXPORT. ’

“ About 75 per cent: of wild blueberries: grown vin Nova”:

wa

*Beotia are: frozen‘ and - exported, to. thetwo. continents. .
‘Cultivated berries, larger. than the wild variety; i are: grown.

in the southern half of f the. ‘Brovitiee | and i are sold mainly on::

the local tiarket. -

Quebec growers: are. “expected to harvest ‘about four

‘talllion kilograms of berries this year; most of which will be

University of Pennsyivania,. ~- exported.

‘and Gerstein, a National:
: Research Council. study
"director, - centred + their
analyals in Erie County, a
northwestern Pennsylvania
area of about 250,000 people
where. women statistically
live about six years Tonge"
thanmen..

“They. interviewed ° “the -
families of 69 per cént of the
6,990 people age 30 and older :-
- who had died in Erle County. *
between. ive and” “4074,

. The New Brunswick crop ds estimated at between 2 2 and .
_2.7 million kilograms, while P.E.I. and’ Newfoundland. ©
should produce about two million kilograms between them,

most of which is sold locally...

Unlike Nova Scotia, production of wild blueberries in the
other provinces has been fairly ‘steady and industry of-

‘ficlala say. promotion and incentives have made the dif-.

ference. =

‘ ‘The provincial: ‘prodiigers" “assoclation “and the “Nova” .
“'Seotia government acted together to. create strong overseas

‘Toarkets, especially in Weat Germany and Japan, where
distinctive uses have been found-for the berries, .
“Would you believe blueberry chewing gum?” said

_ Stonehouse of one product developed by the Japanese.

eee

‘as the ‘bargaining agent for a. .n-
bargaining unit, the Board shall order

by the -:

Hs directed that pobile notice be ‘

“given, and ‘noticé is hereby given to all persons,

aime , oF trade unions whoee Interests may be
tad by the application. Coples af the application -

* dnd further Information may'be obtained by writing Bs

officer -

1090 West Pender ‘Street. ao

P 4: Kirklend, os
: “Regional: Director.’

ne hearings. ;

> Alcan i in -
_British Columbia.

; aking si sure that thie
environment in and around -
&. its plants is clean and safe is —
2 -also part of Alcan’s‘business. For

a “Instance, at Alcan's S$ Newest aluminum
‘reduction plant in Quebec, $100
‘million of the $500 million cost was

~ invested in equipment and measures
- elated to environmental protection -
-and worker health and safety.

Alcan hasn’t yet received approval .
~ to.build a new aluminum reduction
“plant 1 near Vanderhoof. After three
a years of exhaustive study, (at 2 cost
_of more than $7 million) and ;
- extensive consultation with the
public, the next step for the Kemano’
Completion Project | is ‘open public -
ped, eee eee Providing jobs.

— vo

a "Producers In Nova Scotia biave als been betped by-m

_ But one thing i is certain: Ifthe ~~ —°
people of B.C. say “yes” to Kemano: .
Completion, the plant will be
efficient and environmentally safe.

The Herald, Wedeesdey, August 1, 183, Page 7 |

amen especially for thé selective Japanese,

-have taken the advice to heart.. “Tle
About: 8,000 hectares of land is available for bin ;
production each year, but only half is planted. -

BURN HALF EACH YEAR|", - :
Ta’ maintain a quality: ee growers: burn hair i thetr r
_erenge ‘each year, allowing new platits | to grow, "Sangeter

provincial program which pays farmers about ard for each .
hectare cleared for blueberty.p
‘-Agticulture : Minister Roger Bacon ‘sald ‘retently ‘tat

"about 1,500 hectares have been‘ developed for blueberry °°"!

"production since the program ‘began five years ago...

:, Sangster and Stonehouse would not predict what’ price ‘* ao

. farmers will receive their year, noting that the strength of».
‘the Canadian dollar in relation to the West German mark |
could hurt exports to that’ country and regult in. ‘a glut, on
‘other markets." “~
‘Because the wild blueberry is not found in large gaan:
tities further west than Quebec, the producers’ association ;
hopes it can establish a market in Ontario and Western :
- Canada and will -begin a Promotion campaign in those ©
In addition to being a good cash crop for ‘farmers, most of:
. Whom grow blueberries as a sideline, production costs and:
harvesting adds millions of dollars to the economy. a
‘Stonehouse said. between | 5,000 and 6,000 pickers, most of «
them. students, will be employed in Nova Scotia during the:
last three weeks of August.
Pickers are paid. by the aégunt they harvest: and.
Stangster, whoge 12 year-old daughter works i the fields, .
Said a perton ean eam about $80 on.e good day. ;

ey td

Technology used in the aluminum...
production process. keeps i improving,
and, as one of the world’s leading

: producers of aluminum, Alcan has a
kept abreast of these improvements. =
Right now, Alcan’s new Grande Baie EE
‘plant is a clear demonstration that

_. industrial projects can exist in,

: harmony with the environment.

‘Alcan has operated the plant at =
~ Kitimat for 29 years, The people at
“Alcan untlerstand the importance
_. of environmental protection.» I
. British Columbia is their province. >.
too, and they intend to preserve :
the quality of life — while also’.

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