| : rp 7 Page 2, The Herald, Thuraday, July 14, 1983 '*-" Dublished \every: weekday. at 3010 Kalum ‘Street, ” Terrace, \6.C, by Sterling Publishers’ Ltd. a Authorized as'\second. ‘class: mail. Registration ~ | Number 1201, Postage paid In cash, return postage -. Jerrace:: Ct G856357 2 Don Schaffer "Stat Writer: Photographe ho Reith Alford: “ Raception-Classitied: yo "permission ofthe Publisher, - it has usurped the name, but. the people, magazines and organizations that You mentioned. identifying themselves aa ‘New Age” have no connection: _ With this fascist organization you have dug up. The attempt: at damnation by association is pathetic. oo Please provide us with unbiased, factual reporting, and leave the wild rumors to the gossip sheets. - ‘ ** Patricia Carson . : Vapors studied WASHINGTON (AP): — A: Hot subcommitiee is investigating. whether gasoline vapors,’ linked by industry studies to cancer, pose hazards to the 1.5 ~ million people working in U.S. service stations, ; The House government operations subcommittee Planned to hear testimdny today fron industry representatives arid environmental sciéntists about those Studies, conducted by - the American Petroleum Institute and individual com-. panies.. vs ne ; : “Although the API research-and other data collected by. industry sources are not conclusive, they suggest a health - tisk factor which needs to be explored,” said Represen-' tative Mike Synar: (D-Okla,), chairman .of the sub- committee on environment, energy and natural resources, “This is particularly important for those who are exposed - to gasoline repeatedly in their daily work — service station, refinery and terminal workers,”’ Synar said, of There are an estimated 145,000 gasoline stations in the _ United States, time workers: ©. ; The institute's studies that were concluded last: year ' found higher rates of liver and kidney cancer among rats and mice exposed to high levels of vapors from unleaded - gasoline. 7 CS , __ _The'study was sent in March, 1982, to Anne Gorsuch, then | administrator of the Environmental. Protection’ Agency. EPA reviewed the study for more than a year before con- cluding this spring that it showed evidence the vapors caused cancer. , On June 24, the institute sent its member oil companies a letter explaining the results as well as “draft warnings to - all member companies, for sich use, if any, .as eacti ees fit.” “ _ . Those warnings include labels for possible posting on gasoline pumps and islands. One suggested label. carries the normal warnings of.explosion and fire, then in large . letters; “HEALTH WARNING . . . Long-term exposure to vapors has caused cancer in laboratory-animals,” - 7 Tens of milllons of Americans are exposéd to gasoline vapors every day, but virtually all the exposure is at levels far below those used in the laboratory tests. , A briefing paper prepared for.the subcommittee said the institute has made & preliminary estimate that motorists who pump their own gas at self-service stations are'exposed - to less than 1,000 parts per billion of vapor, Service station employees are exposed to about 8,000 ppb, the institute estimated, while tank truck drivers’ could. be exposed to. about 13,000 ppb. ae By contrast, the lowest exposure level used with rats and mice in the laboratory tests was 67,000 ppb; and some . - animals were tested at more than 30 times : that level. - HERMAN ; C te Was “Dad, I'm writing my life story, - Is ‘poverty-stricken’ one word?” | dallyherald Who deseriibes ~" *Clreulation: Poe ~ Sue.Nelsom - Thankyou, House of Representatives — employing about 1.5 million full-and part-. - ‘Those . Senator ) “about killing millions of people.” a Thenetve gas fight ¢anie in the midat of Senate debate on *-".: 8 $200-billion defence authorization bill for fiscal year 1984, fh qa ‘celebra erTe, “Liberal ina - "KEVIN WHY ’ ~ WOULD YAgdeR oo ARAFAT BE". ee —HITCH-HIKING ON MENKLAND .§ “AVENDE? id vi a; anglophones nthe edge of Parl Que inilster. in'1679, he was - ce-powerful conservative: e UN in February, “Paradis, a stroing federalist, Ielt-the UN in’ ded t0-back 1980, ‘wheh its leader, Rodrigue Biron, dec! tl Quebecols option in the referenduin. w - Patadis's platforin is ane that le heard often these daya: ... F¥ee enterprise, ‘less government,’ more | Individual | “freedoms: . _ Before. entering politics, Paradls made a name. for : . himself defending his views before the courti,. <2) |: One of the highlights of his law career was his alx-year " defence of 40 local ‘egg producers fighting export tariffs on eggs, Paradis, began working’ on-the case. while :still a student, and jt went all the way to the Supreme Court of . CAROL, YOURE. SUH ORDA aa ». -He'wone. |! toe |” But’ Pa radis’s ideas‘ and his brash approach also have’ | "earned ‘hii enemies. ‘His fierce ; opposition. to Quebec’s— "-* -agticultural zonirig law‘led me to describe him as “the . ~~ Don Quixote of agricultural zoning,” . - A Week’ before. the November,’ 1980, byelecilon’ that __- laun¢hed Parédis on his political career, the Montreal daily "La Presse reported Coming across two patrons in a bar in "One sald he was goirig to vote for Paradis because he was . _ Soing 8 good job selling himself. The other was not so sure, | “Would. you buy'a used car from:a good salesman like him? 7 ; ; -— Hyvly un A 1 iil cis iimiai “ROYSTON, England (CP) — Sceiies of. turn-of-the- century Western Canada are captured on a collection of old glass picture slides that Charles Wilkes picked yp more than a year ago at an auction sale in northwestern England, © old newspaper: wrapper bearing the 2 ddress of a Rev, Thomas John Cooper, Field’ Broughton, Newton-in- But who took them and what story they tell is a mystery “Wilkes -has been trying .to crack ever since. There are about 90 elides of such things as the train station at Souris, Man., patients and staff at the Winnipeg: scenes, ; a There are pictures of places andpeople.- with ‘cryptic party,”” "Grace Morrison’s— Kelowna," “Archie Cooper — house and tennis lawn,” “On top of Cheam — near Chilliwack.”. . oe o! : . Some like “Assembling a ‘Tailroad at Prince Rupert’ or. “Winnipeg -- Labor. Day” are pictures of pictures. There is a slide of an unsigned watercolor painting of -“Church and ‘parsonage — Regina June 16, 1898,” another of “Church and School, Treesbank.” >. “Selsey, Cannington Manor, June 25, 1898” is a copy of a painting depicting a scene at a British settlement in - southeastern Saskatchewan founded in 1882 by Englishman *’ Edward Michell Pierce and now called-Cannington Manor Historic Park, © © A couple of the pictures bear the credit of the studios of the.famous Montreal photographer, William Notman. - Wilkes sald the slides’ were part of a lot of old Photographic equipment, ineluding * two 60-year-old | cameras still in working order; which he bought for £51 — ‘about $100 Canadian — at a village sale room in Cartmel, * Cumbria. - a ; a to It was his first visit to a sale room: He didn’t know exactly, "why he bought the lot. «| * . WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President George Bush cast the deciding vote Wednesday as the U.S, Sena approved "|. S010 40 the production of new nerve gas weaponry, termed “grotesque and barbaric’ by a Republican opponent. Supporters of the administration proposal said only if the United States modernizes and increases its own chemical ” weapons will the Soviet Union negotiate seriously to reduce - ite atockpile. oe _ so |. - (“We cannot negotiate a ban without having a store of _ Chemical weapons ourselves,” said John ‘Tower (R— ” Texas), chairman of the Senate armed services committee... _ __ On June 23, the Demo¢ralic Hause voted 255 to 161 to Ki thenerve gas program, The disagreement must be resolved _in @ congressional conference committee. Opponents said the weapon is an unnevessary and | inhumane addition to the natlon's:military argenal. They |, _ Bald it would kill more civilians than military because the .. Soviet Army has equipment to protect its soldiers against a |. nerve gas attack. — ; . “There Is no case for this weapons system," said Senator - - Mark Hatfield (R—Ore.), who described nerve gas as | “grotesque and barbaric.” - os ho would lose their lives are civilians,” sald vard Kennedy (D—Mass.) “We aré talking: aan Children’s Hospital, and farming, ‘Wwoodeutting and hunting. identifications such as. “Sutcliffe” or Sandhills ‘shooting: + Locals at Field Broughton, where Cooper appears to have and": ty oy _ Bae ws rete hy Ld nL Te ; Css Uuigeitidtea oe with poate _ Slides show early Canada — ee - cg a . y tees ; _ “We're not trying to bea nuisance,” said Al Clark, : ‘superintendent of accident investigations for Tranport ‘Canada on Wednesday9 ‘We are obliged to obey.the law. “T had nothing jn. mind, 1 just knew I had something’ there," he said in an-interview at a'relative's house In this Hertfordshire town an hour’s train ride north of London’ . Thefirst clue Wilkes found to the pictures’ origins was an Cartmel, tucked under gone box of slides. .. ‘The sale room staff couldn't tell him who Cooper was: All . ‘they knew was that the equipment had ‘come from one George Alexander Edgar, carpenter anid joiner Tor Lord Cavendish at Holker Hall, Cartmel, none ‘Edgar, something of a local magpie, died ‘in November, I98ic ee ce : von *. "Through church authorities and residents in Field. Broughton, Wilkes has established that Cooper was bora in 1838 and probably ‘died in 1922, lived from 1917 to 1922, told Wilkes that Cooper had been_ divorced and remarried — unusual conduet fora Church of” England clergyman, especially in those'days — and that he “jhad two soris:who were killed, possibly.in the First World War, and daughter :who lived in’ Binmaingham. * He was, ’perpetual ‘curate’ : v qd:B Wilkes said. - le _ Since ‘many of the slides seem to date from around 1918, -Could it be that Cooper took some of them on a-trip through’ ~4)Canada? But why would a 70-year-old man tindertake such va journey?; SO . Family ies,‘perhaps? Could ‘the sllde: identified as: | "Archie Cooper. -— house and tennis lawn,” and all those . Outlook improved other slides of Archie,or Archie and Amy, be of a son, one of the reverend’s two boys resurrected from the grave? ~ Bush casts decidi ng vote. including .etfcrts to sctittie two other weapons critical to ;President Reagan's defence buildup, the MX. missile and | “the B-1 bomber. But they, too, were likely to survive the.‘ test, . eu, _ ‘ _. Senator Gary Hart (D—Colo.) said ‘despite claims by ° Republicans'to the contrary; he plans to press or with plans "for a-filibyster’ against’ the MX,” which Reagan says. is : releasing em ‘government may give out. ~ legislation: In reporting a plane. . agencies: involved, the RCOP, Transport Canada or ae. _irport-offielals would give out the names of the peoph . >. the matter with the newly-formed B.C: ..’. “This kind of thing. can be appropriate for Information office on Parliament Hill, _ “That person could have legal recourse against the would ‘also: apply. tot! 1. Bu ‘serutinized, higher-ups say RCMP policy will be to continue jas, perpetual ‘curate “of: Grarige-Over-Sands ‘in’ Cumbria. 1888-1902 and rural dean ‘of Carimel 1992-1907. . f _After 1907;:“he disappears till 1917 when he reappears al | Field: Broughton," adding that the.Powell ‘eConomle conditions. in ‘aix ected isin | RCMP hesitates _ ~" VANCOUVER (CP) — Some federal agencies ‘are " clamming up fo the news media because of new privacy legislation. ee a But the RCMP — after some hesitation — will continue to "provide information to the public until clarification comes... ' from Ottawa... we No os *. The Privacy Act, which was proclalmed July along with 7 | the Fréedom of Information Act, restricts information the On Tuesday, the Vancouver Province ran up agalnst the . crash. None of. three killed, or name the pilot or owner of the plane, citing the: a Privacy,Act.: -“‘T certainly was not aware that interpretation could be * made," sald Pat Carney, Conservative MP for Vancouver Centre-and a former journalist. “But I'm no expert on the- _-. Fréedom. of Information legislation,” - Province publisher Gerry Haslam said he may take up Press Council, .-;' hich deals mostly with complaints against newspapers, | clls,!: he. said) (The presecauell has:aright to inv a complaint from the press.” : The bureaucrats say they are trying to protect the public and themselves by refusing. ° The law is very clear.” oe Ministry staff had been: briefed in advance: on the im- plications of the Privacy Act, he said, a fact contirmed by Ottawa 7 "We don’t know. the legal ramifications if it (a name) is- released,’’ said Marion McGrath of: the Freedom of t is going to want to’ protect any private information from the public.” . - RCMP in the south-coast community of Powell River, where the crash was investigated, at first refused to give government:. Tha governmen out the names of the victims, and said the privacy policy: imes:as well. ‘But until. the act is as before. :,. ee, rt, Serre “We're in the process of devising poliey — just how this - will be applied," said Supt. Lyman Henschel in Vancouver. '“That’s going: to take a while to:work oul, -’ “'In the interim:we will continue to release names. I can't see it applying to things like that.” - The meas should be sorted out early next week, he said, River detachment acted on their | ‘own interpretation of theac!: ee “T-think it's going to be.a matter of trial and error to. — determine what the intent and application of the. act: will be,” . a ede oe ae _ 5 OTTAWA (CP) — Senior business execulives are feeling much better about the.economy, the Conference Board of Canada says, but fears. of -rising wage. demands and Tenewed inflation -are.creeping back to haunt them. ~ “This was the fourth consecutive quarter during which business confidence in Canada's. economic outlook has improved,” the board. said today, releasing results of a survey conducted during the second quarter of the year - after the April 19 federal budget... ce The results of thé survey of more than 1,000- senior “executives from large and ainiall businesses ‘confirm that Caitiada eis undwS resovirinis” from ita . recent’ severe. recession,” -theboltrd:Baidei'!} 25 ce Compared “With ° the previous ‘survey conducted in. February, more ékecttives iow anticipate atronger overall _ Reflecting current; federal’ governmerit. concert, 6 on