Locals campaign against poisonings

By ERLEEN COMEAU
Herald Staff Writer

Local pharmacists, public health nurses and the
Mills Memorial Hospital are actively involved in
campaigning against accidental poisonings here.

Over 60,000 Canadian children were accidently
poisoned last year, Most of these children were under
five years of age. “If accidental poisonings were a
disease it would be classified as an epidemic,"says
Leroy Fevang Executive director for Canadian
Pharmaceutical Association. .

“Children and Poison Don't Mix” Js the theme of a
‘national program on poison prevention sponsored by
‘the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association. The
Association adopted the national program as an In-
ternational Year of the Child project to focus attention
on 8 very serious hazard to the health of Canadian

The emergency ward of Mills Memorial Hospital in

Terrace treated over 100 drug abuse cases in 1978. “All _

were so common sense."said Shirley Nevison head
nurse for the ward.

Nevison says that a 24-hour open line is utilized by
the hospital to contact the Provincial Poison Control

Centre located at St. Pauls hospital in Vancouver.

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Mills Memorial emergency staff have reference
material on band to assist callers who suspect their
children may have injested some form of poison
substance. .

“Think before you put something away and be
safely minded,’’stresses Nevison.

One of the more common incidents for drug over-
dose in children is vitamin pills, said Nevison.
Vitamins containing iron could be fatal.

The Terrace Public Health nurses are actively on
thescene of poison contro] as they attend at the homes
of cases treated at the emergency ward,at Mills

Memorial, _ .
The visits are not to slap the parents hand but to

encourage safety programs for prevention , concluded
Nevison. . .
Information centres will be set up in participating

drug stores where parents can learn how to ‘poison
proof"'their homes. Free folders and wall charts will
Provide do’s and don'ts for the safe handling of
potentially dangerous materials and what should be
done if an emergency develops.

Canadians lead
attack on spill

The Herald, Friday, September 21, 1979, Page ¢

More sewage
for the lake

PRINCETON, B.C, (CP)
— The local health board has
voted to support an ap-
plication that could initially
Increase the ‘amount of
sewage dumped in Lake
Okanagan, despite the ob-
jections of a health officer.

The South Okanagan-Sim-
ilkameen Union board of
health voted 0-2 Wednesday
to support the City of
Kelowna’a application to

double output from it sewage
treatment plant.

‘The board made its sup-
port conditional, however,

isting that any permit
granted apell out that
dumping of sewage into the
lake end by 1991.

The city has applied to the
pollution control branch to
increase output from its
sewage treatment plant to
five million gallons a day

. RED DEER, Alta, (CP) —
An oll recovery system
developed by a Red Deer
company could- be ¢on-
trolling the world's worst oil
spill by the end of this week.

, Bob Sayera aaid Thuraday

uakes rocking Italy

frescoed 16th century church
associated with a Madonna
miracle collapsed. The
octagonal building, the
Church of Our Lady of the
Snow, was decorated with
frescoes by the noted

ROME (AP) — Hundreds
of aftershocks rumbled up
and down central Italy
Thursday, echoes of a sharp
quake that killed at least five
persons and left more than
1,000 homeless ag it shook the
peninsula from Pisa's
Leaning Tower to Naples’
broad bay.

There were some reports
that as many a8 15 had died.

The Wednesday night
earthquake levelled stone
houses and medieval
churches in the Umbrian
hills north of Rome, rattled
palaces and basilicas in the
capital, and sent thousands

dedicated te the miraculous
survival of a local resident
said to have been buried for
three days under an
avalanche.

The walls of the Basilica of
St. Benedict cracked open in
nearby Norcia, a medieval
town that was virtually
leveled.

elucei brothers. It was children

of terrified Italians pouring
into the streets. Panicky
clreus elephants smashed
their way out of their pens in
Perugia, near the centre of
the tremor.

_ . Five deaths occurred in
villages around Norcia, 112
kilometres north of Rome. A
collapsing house killed three
members of one family in
San Marco, and two persons
were crushed to death by
falling debris in Chiavano.

Rescue workers continued
to dig through rubble
Thursday searching for
thoaa who might still be
trapped.

reas phe tt
were |
hard-hit areas, but roads
blocked by rockialls and
debris were delaying some of
the relief work.

The major jolt, striking
just before midnight Wed-
nesday, measured 5.6 on the
open-ended Richter scale at
its epicentre. The Richter
scale isa measure of ground
motion as recorded on
selamographa, A quake with
a reading of five can cause
considerable damage in
populated areas, and a
quake with a six reading.can
cause severe damage.

Art and restoration ex-
perts, after preliminary
checks, reported no
signiticant damage to such
monuments as the Leaning
Tower, the Colosseum, the
Roman Forum, St. Peter's
Basilica and other anclent
bulldings in Rome and the
Vatican. ‘

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The quake struck while
most Italians were asleep or
watching soecer = on
television. As buildings
shock from Pisa in the north
to Naples in the south,
thousands grabbed their
and belongings and
poured into the strects.

Many spent the night out: |
doors, .

In Perugia, the capital of
Umbria, officials of -Italy’s
Nando Orfei Circus said
their elephants may have
felt the quake as much as one
hour before, They aaid the

the ay hue system
sign company,
Red Flame, is being put into
place by Petrolla Mexicana
Oil Co., operators of the well
that has been spilling oll into
the Gulf of Mexico for about
two months,

The system involves
placing a dome over the well, .
separating the oi] and gas
and piping {t to waiting
barges. The gas is then
burned and the oil saved.

’ “If they do it the way I de-
Bigned it for them, it will
work,’ sald Sayers. “It
should be in place by the end
of the week. They should
have done it when I was
down there in July. They
could have paved

$42,700,000.

Sayera said his system will
allow the company to
prevent any more oll from

animals grew increasingly
restless, tore through
barriers and broke free.
Later, they were brought
back to their confinement.
In Rome, officials refused
demands by prisoners to be
let out but allowed them to
leave their cella and spend
some time in the corridors
close to emergency exits.

The quake was Italy's
strongest since a tremor
killed about 1,000 persons in
the hilltop towns of Friull in
northeast Italy three years

ago.

into the gulf, endangering
shrimp breeding areas! and
fouting beaches in Mexico
and Texas,

Engine
failure —
the cause

BARRIERE, B.C. (CP) —
A helicopter crash which
killed one perzon near this
southern Interior com:
munity: on Monday was
caused by engine failure,
RCMP said today. :

Orest D. Parsey, 45, a Bar-
rere forest ranger, dled
when the Bell helicopter,
which was being leased by
the British Columbia Forest
Service, crashed in the bush
in a narrow valley.

Michael Cook, 39, of

woodlands

Barriere,

superintendent for Fadear
Creek Lumber Co., was in
erltical condition In hospital

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Gov't royalties rapped

EDMONTON (CP)
Governments must reduce
thelr. take from petroleum

inevitable decline in ex-
ploration activity, C, S, Dun-
kley, former Dome
Petroleum Ltd. yice-
president, said Thursday.

Dunkley told delegates to
the Canadian Association of
Petroleum Landmen con-
vention that the tax system
discourages exploration.

He sald the current com-
bination ‘of provincial
royalties and federal taxes
forces a petroleum company
to borrow money to pay
taxes if It is reinvesting all of
its revenues In exploration
and development,

"In 1973 a producer paid no
tax if he chose to reinvest all
his cash flow in exploration.
Taday, governments are
exhorting the Industry to
explore, explore and ex-
plore.

“But look what happens if
it does. This year, 1879, after
spending all his cash flow on
exploration, he has to borrow
Ta centa a barrel to pay In:
come taxes (this assumes a
$14-perbarrel wellhead price
for oll).

"Tt gets worse as the price
increases. At a §24 wellhead

ce he would have t
rrow $1.44 a barrel to pay
income taxes,"

‘Dunkley said he is amared
that the present situation of

‘Terrace’

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allout exploration has lasted
80 dong.
., “Unless some downward

“adjustmént ig made in

royalties, exploration will
eventually slow down. This is
something Canada can ill
afford to do.”

At a $14-a-barrel wellhead
price, a company choosing
not to invest any of its cash
flow in exploration and
Gevelopment would have
$2.47 a barrel left after taxes
to distribute to shareholders,

ey sald.

e sald that in 1973 a com:
pany that chose not to
relnvest its cash flow in
exploration netted 98 per
cent of the wellhead price.

“Today, at $14 per barrel
the producer nets 19 per cent
and the governments 72 pér
cent, At $24, t's 17 per cent
and 75 per cent,”

Dunkley, a consultant,
noted that oll prices in
Canada have increased
$10.81 a barrel. The producer
of old oil who chose not to
reinvest gets $1.30 of that
increase and governments

aL.

“The general publil ia con-
vinced that the rip-off artista
are the oll companies. These
figures da not substaniate

Dunkley said inflation is
erading the value of savings
80 fast that an individual's

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Bhould not rely on a pension
plan. He predicted that most
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nkrupt in 20 years.

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own security — nobody else
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Columnist Charles Lync

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disappointed that Prime
Minister Clark had cancelled

plans by the former Liberal

government to hold a
National referendum on
Quebec separation.

Lynch said it is the federal

government's duty to argue
for national unity because
nobody else will

Lynch said the attitude of

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important in the unity issue
because Quebec will vote to
leave Confederation if it
thinks it is not wanted,

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spilling into the Gulf of
Mexico until the well can be
capped and brought under
control,
He sald another attempt at
capping the well won't take
ce for several weeks.
‘exas ol} well troubleshooter
Red Adair has been unable to
cap the well and now is
preparing directional wells
for another attempt.
Sayers sald Adair is ex-
pected to have his firat
directional well ready by the

in Kamloops, B.C., while
pilot Abe Gelabrecht of
Kamloops, owner of Central
B.C. Helicopters Lid., was in
stable condition. :

- Police said the helicopter
wal removédfrom the crash
site on Wednesday.

Man freed

OTTAWA (CP) — Ed-

end cf this month and the Bakich, who faced war-
crimes charges in

second one a couple of weeks
Yugoslavian courts, is free
ter that. to return to Canada and is
“I would like to go down expected back next week, an
and put it out myself," external affairs spokesman
Sayers sald. “But the sald Thursday.
Bakich was charged with
war crimes during a visit to
relatives more than a year

ago,

Mexicans have a contract
that they can't get out of.”

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about 33,000 barrels a day

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