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Nobody will stop
this hearty’ man

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP)
— The tempo of the ‘new life'’
of Louis B, Russell, the world’s
longest surviving heart tran-
splant recipient, has his doctor
worried.

Three years ago today a team
of surgeons in Richmond, Va.,
placed into his chest the heart of
aslain 17-year-old boy. But the
operation has not resulted in a
vicarious existence for Russell,
To the contrary. .

He’s a full-time teacher of
industrial arts, a public speaker
and novice politician. He has
even endured the strain of
judging a nude beauty contest.

His latest venture is politics,
but his physician hopes he loses
his fight for a seat on the In-
dianapolis city council.

Russell says the doctor
believes a man with a borrowed
heart in his chest must draw the
line somewhere,

The dead boy's mother and
sister and brother joined
Russell's family, friends and
assorted well-wishers for an
open house in their stucco home
here Sunday to celebrate the
“birthday,”

When somebody asks how
much time doctors have given
him to live, Russell fires back at
them the question: “How much
time have doctors given you ta
live?”

He says doctors have not
made any concrete predictions.
‘That's not in their power.
That's something for God to
decide.”

Russell says he was sobered
recently by the death of the
fourth-longest-living transplant
recipient who died after almost
three years with a new heart,

As far as they can tell, doctors
expect a “beautiful future” for
him, Russell reports. They
make the forecast despite a
smoking habit he hasn't beaten
and a few extra pounds around
his middle,

Loffmark may
be called to
help in north

FORT ST. JAMES, B.C. (CP)

This northern British
Columbia community needs
another doctor and Health
Minister Ralph Loffmark may
be asked to force one to move
here.

“All we have now is one
general practitioner to care for
a population of 4,000," W.R.
Milligan, administrator of St.
John Hospital in nearby Van-
derhoof, said in an interview
Tuesday.

“We need another general
praclitioner to handle the
growing medical needs of the
community.”

A new 25-bed hospital opens
here Oct. 1 and Mr. Milligan
said an appeal for a doctor was
made to the B.C. Medical
Associalion and ads had been
Placed in various medical
journals, without response,

He said the community may
have to appeal to the health
minister, “much as we hate to
do it.”

Jaguar, Triumph
proved to be
gutsy cars

Sports car enthusiasts are
turning their attention to the
Jaguar and Austin products,
according to recent publication
of Freeway Magazine.
Triumphs are also getting a lot
of attention,

Featured in the lineup of
gutsy, versatile mechanization
are the Triumph GT6, Mark IIT,
the swinging Spitfire and the
Superior 1900. And there’s the
very popular Austin Mini.

’ Recent acceleration tests in
the desert show Jaguar to be far
superior than most sport cars,
superior enough to warrant that
company to emerge into the
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Russell, the father of four
children, has a seeming non-
stop schedule of speeches and
public appearances in behalf of
what he thinks are good causes,
They take him through the U.S,
Middle West, and even as far as
Alabama.

His latest thing is a bid for one
of the atlarge seats on the
Indianapolis city council. He
admits he was “plenty busy as
it was’’ without the hubbub of
the election,

But with a tittle en-
couragement from some local
Democrats, Russeli is
managing to squeeze in politics,

If elected, he says: “I'll be in
4 position to do certain things
that will be more effective than
just telling audiences what 1
think.’

During the first year with his
new heart, Russell made return
trips to Richmond four times
when his body tried to reject the
alien heart. . Although there
have not been any more
rejection episodes, he still takes
a daily dose of medicine to fight
the potential rejection.

Even now there are oc-
casional trips to Richmond for
checkups and three times
week he has an elec-
trocardiogram

The slash burning season

Shortly smoke will begin to
rise from various logging
areas due to annual. slash
burning activities. While most
people know what the term
“slash burning” means there
are Many queslions as to how
and why it is done.

In basic terms, “slash
burning” is the act of pur-
posely setting fire to logged-
Off areas. It is a “science,” It
has tobe done at precisely the
right time, with wind,
humidity, and other weather
conditions in mind. And the
job has to be done by highly
trained and well qualified
men. Because of the stable
conditions required for slash
burning smoke can be a
nuisance as there are no high
winds to help disperse it and
smoke builds upin the valleys.

These ‘‘slash burn’ fires, as
the very name indicates, are
designed to get rid of the very
dangerous flash fuels and to a
lesser degree the larger
branches, snags, un-
merchantable logs, and all
other unuseable material left
in the wake of a logging
operation. 1

In the nalure and over.
mature stands we are now
logging, waste residual is high
and it is not economically
useable under present market
and development, conditions,
This will change, but not until
sometime in the future.

Of course there is some
understandable objection ta
smoke caused by slash burns,
The Forest Service and the
forest industries do not like it
either. . . but at the present
time, there appears to be no
alternative,

Some people link slash burn
smoke with the air pollution
problem, usually just because
it can be seen. Experts in the
field admit the contribution of
slash fire smoke to the overall
problem is almost in-
finitesimal when compared to
the invisible fumes coming
from exhaust pipes of
vehicular traffic.

And it is interesting to note

the need for slash burning has
been so evident that this ac-
tivity has been exempted from
air pollution controls in
Washington and Oregon.

If anyone comes up witha
better, more practical
and economical method of
sidposing of logging slash, we
will welcome him with open
arms.

Let’s look at the ‘why’?
question,

The reasons for slash
burning are many and varied
— and here are some of them:

Slash burning can be con-
trolled — in both intensity and
in area covered. Such
operations are conducted by
trained and qualified men of
either the Forest Service and
or industry, during a
relatively short period, late in
the summer or early fall —
when proper weather con-
ditions prevail,

If logged-over areas are not
subject to controlled burning
inevitably lightning, human
carelessness or olher causes
will ignite them —- presenting
far greater blazes, en-
dangering surrounding areas
(and quite possibly human
lives}, and creating
tremendously greater smoxe
problems.

And don't forget that
fighting forest fires is an
expensive business — an
@x pensive business paid for by
the people of British
Columbia.

Slash burning paves the way ©
for faster, more efficient and
more productive reforestation
measures. Seedlings can be
planted easier and’ faster.
They will grow quicker and
straighter not having to fight
their way through a tangle of
snags, branches and other
suffocating debris. They will
have a head start and better
survival chance in growth
competition with bush and
other non-useable Species,

Slash burning practically
eliminates any insect hazard
which could be extremely
harmful to adjacent timber.

TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27,

FORT ST, JAMES, B.C. (CP)
— Charges were being con-

sidered after an oil slick was.

discovered last week on the
remote salmon-spawning
Tachie River in central British
Columbia.

R.A. Crouter, manager of the
southern operations branch of
the department of fisheries said
Saturday the oil came from a
tugboat which dumped bilge oil
near the outlet of Trembleur
Lake,

He said the amount involved
was probably less than 100
gallons, and there was no
damage to fish or spawning
grounds.

“But we are concerned about
the tug activity there, and they
will be taken to court," Mr.
Crouter said.

The name of the tugboat
company was not released.

John Tuyttens, a federal
fisheries officer from Prince
George, B.C., and members of
the Fort St,
detachment left Saturday by
boat to investigate the slick,

Girl recovers
from cancer
after 'miracle

GLASGOW (Reuter)
Doctors described today as a
“miracle” the recovery from
cancer of a six-year-old girl
following a visit to Lourdes, the
Roman Catholic shrine in
France.

Three years ago, Deirdre
Burns of Glasgow was told there
was no hope for her daughter
Frances, then 3.

Mrs, Burnes decided to take
her to Lourdes. She was bathed
twice in the waters of the sacred
spring where thousands of in-
valids have sought a cure,

Back in Britain she made a
remarkabie recovery which
doctors said could not be ex-
plained in the light of present
medical knowledge, Medical
experts said the tumors in her
body began disappearing
almost as soon as she returned
home and all traces of the
disease now are gone.

Miniature virus
found in USA.

BELTSVILLE, Md. (Reuter)
— A US. government scientist
has reported discovery of a
microscopic disease-producing
“viroid,” a particle 1-80th the
size of the smallest known
virus,

The discovery was announced
by Dr. Theodor 0. Diener, 50, a
Swiss-born pathologist at the
agriculture department’s plant
industry station here,

He said viroids may be re-
sponsible for some human dis-
eases, including multiple scle-
rosis and some types of cancer.

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Oil slick on Tachie
sets thought to court

They flew over the area
earlier this week after several
Indians from the Tachie
Reserve and game guides
reported the oil.

Steve Waibler, a game guide .

from Fort St. James said the
slick went from “shore to
shore" for about 14 miles —
almost the full length of the
river which links Stuart and
Trembleur lakes.

Gastown
pledges
itself

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Gastown merchants have
pledged full co-operation in a
provincial government inquiry
into the Aug. 7 street fracas in
their community between police
and public.

The decision to launch an
inquiry was announced Tuesday
by Attorney-General Leslie
Peterson. :

Mr. Peterson praised the
objectivity of a police report
prepared by Chief Constable
John Fisk, but said there is a
need for further investigation,
He said the provincial inquiry
will not only caver the actions of
the police, but investigate the
motives of those who organized
the pro-marijuana demon-
stration that touched off the
disturbance.

Larry Killam, spokesman for
the Gastown merchants said: “I
Support it (the inquiry) L00 per
cent and I am sure that applies
to all other people concerned.
The thing has te be examined
from all sides.”

Bruins sign
draft choice

BOSTON (AP) — Boston
Bruins have signed their No, 1
choice in the amateur draft con-
ducted by the National Hockey
League last June.

Ron Jones, 20, an outstanding
defenceman with Edmonton Oil
Kings for five years, agreed
Monday to a two-year contract.
The 6-foot-2, 135-pound prospect

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