Page 4, The Herald, Monday, March x, 1961 - eae ook oo. . oad General Office - 635 6157 Circulation - 635-6357 Terrace, postage guaranteed. ay ue a @ photographic yee ERR Ate. dalla h ald Publisher — Garry Husak _ —Edilor — Pete Nadeau CLASS. ADS. - TERRACE - 615-4000 CIRCULATION . TERRACE . 635-6357 Published every weekday at 3010 Kalum Street. B.C. Authorited as second class mail. Reqgistralionnumber 1201. Postage paid in cash, return — NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or content published in the Herald. - |. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. Published by . Sterling Publishers _ "J Elderly women called to arms | * MONCTON, N.B. (CP) — “A weekend conference on women and aging became a _call o arms against the “loverty of Canada's elderly women and the myths that surround them. » Out of the three-day conference here came _.tecommendations for better income for women over 65 and suggestions of how, ‘among other things, to get by on $10 a day. "Tf you get organized you can go to the people who need your votes,”’ said Madeleine LeBlanc, head of the New Brunswick Advisory Council] on the Status of Women. “We are the ones who will have to destroy the myths." Atlantic Provinces joined Sunday in resolutions that will be taken to the federal and individual provincial governments calling for better income for elderly womett. , They said the Canada Pension Plan should be expanded toa include never enler the workfarce © and who end up with old age security and a guaranteed ~ income supplement as their only income. Louis Dulude, author of a new study on women and pensions, told the 400 pension scheme for women TORONTO (CP) — Micro: wave oven use is increasing, but misconceptions that aliminum foll cannot be uted in microwave cooking ate plaguing the aluminum industry. At is estimated one e million Canadians will own microwave ovens by 1964, but the aluminum industry is concerned about widespread bélieds it is dangerous to use fail when cooking of heating food in the ovens. ‘The microwave and alumi- num industriea are heavily inter-related. About 45 per cent of the foil container business is directed at the frozen food industry and many of these products require cooking or heating, Since microwaves cannot penetrate metal, many believe the rebounding microwaves could damage the magnetron that powers the oven, which can happen when the aven is operated emply. Delegations from the four - housewives and mothers who delegates the fight for a fair will be long and hard, with industry throwing. every- - thing possible in the way of change. Employers and insurance companies: will “fight, like hell,” she said, “but we're not afraid to fight.” Other recommendations destined for governments are to be consolidated over the next two months by the federal advisory council on the status of women, co- sponsor of the conference. An end te mandatery retirement and financial help for single wamen bet- ween the ages of 50 and 64 were among the suggestions brought forward by provincial delegations. But for many delegates, an overriding obstacle to any real improvement in. the lives of old people was what they defined as society's attitude toward the elderly, and the spirit of the elderly themselves, New Brunswick Health | Minister Brenda Robertson - eaid no government program will do. much good unless widespread misconceptions that the elderly are uselegs © and unwanted are taken away. Speakers called for ~ and demonstrated — a positive approach to. aging. “They are a proud lot with 80 Triany untapped talents,’ said May Metcalfe, a 71- year-old Fredericton art teacher. Microwave ovens have been foiled Another concern is with* arcing, which sometimes occurs when a metal con- talner touches an - interior wall of a microwave oven or when two or more pieces of metal are near each other in the oven. This arcing can damage the oven liner or the cooking utensil. But recent reports by microwave manufacturers and the aluminum industry say these theories are In- correct, Still, worries persist that consumers will use aluminum or microwaves when cooking — but not both. The Canadian Appliance Manufacturing Ltd. of Toronto recommends using aluminum foil to shleld parts of the food which -might overcook, such as the legs and wing tipa of a chicken. The company says TV TAKE f MR. HANSON { SPRING IS REALLY HERE, 701% ath, Pi Wilson denies overthrow plot LONDON {AP) — Contradicting his closest associate while he was prime minister, Sir Harold Wilson has denied allegations that the late Earl Mountbatten plotted to overthrow ‘his Labor government in 1068. Wilson said in a statement Sunday that there was a plot by “‘one or two people high up in the press” who had approached Mountbatten and Sir Solly _ Zuckerman, his government's chief scientific ad- viser. “Mountbatten and Sir Sally sent them packing in the best quarter-deck manner,” Wilson said in response to a report by The Sunday Times on the plot. Wilson’s former political . secretary, Marcia -- Williams, who took the name of Lady Falkender after he made her a life peeress, told The Sunday Mountbatten was the fourth prominent dead Briton attacked by a British newspaper within a week. The Daily Mail reported last week that Sir Roger Hollis, former head of MI-5, the counter- © intelligence agency, was suspected of being a Soviet spy and never cleared; that Tom Driberg, longtime Labof MP and ‘onetime party chairman, was a double agent, and that Charles Ellis, Britain's No. 3 intelligence officer at the end of the Second World ' War, confessed in 1965 that he had spied for both . Nazi Germany and “the Soviet Union, He gave this version of the meeting: The earl summoned them to his London apart: ment, and Zuckerman arrived later. Mountbatten told them the Queen was ‘‘diatressed and dis- ‘turbed"’ by lettera of complaint about Wilson's - administration. - was “an unwarranted slur” on the soldiersiatesman . Mountbatten approached him and his gepuly I Hugh * - when the armed forces and the monarch “might Times that Mountbatten was a “‘prime mover” in* the plot. The former prime minister said the allegation The earl said he saw little purpose in sending the letters to government officials. '". “Tgaid there might come a time when the armed forces might have a part to play or the monarch and cousin of the Queen who was assassinated by : in 1979. might have a part to play, but it certainly was not the Irish Republican Army guerrillas in i : contin ) But, publisher: Cecil, King one of the, Alleged 5 5° eahad he nd PA bee oe plotters. named by -The,. Sunday , Times. “pa ye ps “in view of his position, said: itv was as important ro) that he should keep his hands completely dean. it was not only advisable for him to do nothing, it was imperative for him to do nothing." - Two days later, The Daily Mirror carried a front: Cudlipp, about letters to the Queen complaining about the Wilson government. . King said he told the earl the time might come page editorial by ing ‘calling for Wilson's have a part to play, but it certainly was-not then.” : resignation. Humorous ‘speakers scarce. Then there are speakers. \ who are always looking for an audience and will show up on almost a moment's notice, suchas politicians and professora. World famous people continue to beat a path ta the Canadian Club a jloronto's Royal York Hotel, attracted by its reputation as a “good platform.” Foreign and domestic prime ministers and - cabinet ministers, celebrated authors, scientists and travellers, all have had their say on the Canadiah Club podium, for free. ‘The clhb doesn’t hand. out Eskimo carvings, lighters or ashtrays with pictures of the CN Tower. The only perk for the speaker Is a tape of his own speech which, in some cases, probably. isn’t a perk at all. Kincaide said it is hard to get a speakers’ bureau off the ground in Canada because a lot of the booking is done informally. . “Someone on a club's planning committee will know a speaker and just call him up,” she says. “The United Statesis different; you can't get hold of people as easily there. You have to go through their agents, and you'll find that many want to screen you first. Ww . _ Fora commission — usually 20 per cent of the sogagement fee — a bureau will select the right kind of speaker, acquaint him with the particular _ needs of his audience, arrange transportation and _gecocimodation and take care of the apeaker’s idiosyncrasies. All this should add up to.a truly interesting lunch TORONTO (CP) - — There waa a time in Canada when you couldn’t sell a humorous speaker at a businessmen's-lunchean or service club dinners. “In those days, after-dinner speeches were usually on some heavy political topic which gave luncheon guests something to chew on other than their des- sert. Today, it’s different. “Audiences still want speakers with lots of depth, _ -but they want them to be humorous,” says Barbara . Kincaide, of the Speakers Bureau International in Toronto, - “What we look for is a Ughtness and deftness of touch, but it’s hard to find such apeakers. Although Jots of people call us and tell wa they’re humorous, we find that’s usually a very subjective judgment." Matie Molinaro, of the Toronto-based Canadian Speakers and Writers Service Ltd., says Canadian cartoonist Ben Wicks Is In demand, with bookings at least once a week, ; “The minimum for our speakers 1s $750 and the "average is $3,000, while our top people get $5,000 an engagement,” Molinaro says. “Marshall McLuhan used to get even more than that, and (former broadcaster and chairman of the Canadian Radio- television and Telecommunications Commission) — Harry Boyle gets a good fee now.” Less accessible speakers include writer Pierre Berton, who limits himself to selected en gagementa, and novelist Arthur Hailey, who speaks only three or four times a year and demands at least dinners in foil containers can be cooked in the oven aslong | ‘three months’ notice and a first-class fare from his or dinner which is probably worth attending, ht as the foil lid is first home in Bermuda. for a laugh. removed. ROBINS IN MY BACKYARD NY NATURE WAKING FROM | TULIPS AND DAFFobUS wa BEG NNING TS BLOOM F HER WINTER SLEEP, REBIRTH , NEw Hore. NEW .00 IN Ue Ul vp Ai -ORONTO (CP) — Ontario coroner's olfice es | reviewed drug-dispensing practices at the Hospital for Sick Children after a nurse was charged last wéek with murder in the deathk of four — babies, says Kenneth Rowe, hospital administrator. But there have ‘heen no recommendations’ ta -have those: procedures ‘changed, Rowe sald Sunday. Rowe said earlier that under bospital' procedures, only a doctor may order a ‘drug, whether it's .an Aspirin, a prescription drug or a narcotic. The deaths have been attributed. to an -overdose.of the potent drug ‘digoxin, which had not been potency of. the ‘drug, which regulates. the heart's “pumping, hospital policy -requires that two nurses be ” present when it Is used. ° . Rowe sald the coroner's preview. was part of the in- 'yestigation into the deaths and that the review found that “ait our drugdispersing procedures are perfectly effective.” ; Meanwhile, a pediatrician at the hospital said the deaths raised suspicions because the four babies appeared to have been gaining health before their unexpected deaths. Dr. Rodney Fowler ‘said each of the deaths was ' “pather suspicious,” "" and when it appeared something unusual may have been going on, the coroner’s de- - partment was called in to in- vestigate. Fowler, who had been responsible for the care of Kevin Pacsai Garnett of Hamilton, whose March 12 death sparked the ‘in- Chain: scheme... : ee re nationally dispensing | methods. "vestigation, said the deaths -“raised ‘auspicions becatse ' Susan “Nelles, 24, .8 registered nurde on the hospital's cardiac ward, was originally. charged last Wednesday with firat-degree murder in connection with the March 22 death of three- month-old Justin Bradley Cook of Tara, Ont. : On Friday, Nelles was charged with three more | firstdegree murders in conriéetion aith the death of the 3%-weekold Garnett child, the March 21 death of one-year-old Allana Miller of Kitchener, Ont., and the Jan. il death of Janice Estrella, four months, of Toronto. Nelles has been remanded in custody awaiting a bail Paul Barclay, 28, father.of the Miller child, said he is concerned the charges against Nelles may deter people from sending their children to the inter- recognized hospital, "J don’t want to do anything to jecpardize that hospital,” he sald. “Kids need that hospital and 1 still really believe In it.” Rove said about 0 people have called to express their support for the hospital and “one or two" have called to ask whether they should still bring their children in, Basically, we're reassuring the parents,” he said Laurie Anne Pacsai, 21, sald her son was eating and gurgling like a healthy baby when she visited him the day uu belore: he died. fed man 2" Sarre = ot S pyr veda oes amids”” . EDMONTON {CP} — $4 to invest? City police are warning eager Investors to save their money by not buying into the latest “get rich quick" scheme to sweep Alberta — the hand-tohand chain letler. Termed . ‘Inflation Fighter," the heart of the scheme is a letter which investors purchase for $20 and then sell to other in- vestors after sending another $20 to the top name ona 12-name list. _ The investor's name is put . at the bottom of: the list, If the process is carried out, Se lop person cn the Ilst from the state should receive 4,096 lettera after twelve days, each containing $20, for a total take of nearly $84,000. - But police warn that, like the now-collapsed pyramid acheme, the chain letter method is illegal even though the letters are passed fiom hand to hand and do not go through the mail. Fake names are used to make the leiter appear more authentic, police say, and they belleve the scheme is a purely Alberta creation even though some of the people involved are supposedly p of Wash ington, where the pyramid scheme originated. — “They shouldn't be showing girls in bikinis when kids his. age are watching!" LETTERS WELCOME The Herald welcomes its readers comments. 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