‘a dail a herald | SECOND SECTION DECISION SOON | Satellite surveillance seen By DAVE ROONEY OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government will decide early next year how to invest in a radar satellite which will: monitor everything from Arctle ice movement and oll slicks to S DRUG PEDDLING Doctors investigated timidated he Is afratd that if” Sone or invite participation VICTORIA (CP) — The “BC. College of Physicians ‘and Surgeons {s in- vestigating a number of doctors suspected of handing out narcotics drug presciptions to known ad- dicts, a college spokesman suid Saturday. Dr. John Hutchison, college reglatrar said the number of ‘doctora is Teacher shortage engaged in the illegal actice is extremely low, t some pharmaclats and police officials feel it represents only the tip of the Iceberg. One local pharmacist esti- mated as many as six doc- tors in the Greater Victoria area alone are issuing prescriptions knowing the drugs are not belng used for medical purposes. backlash result VANCOUVER (CP) — a University of British Columbia education professor said Saturday there wiil be a shortage’ of qualified teachers in the early 1980s. ; Roy Bentley, dean of the university’s education faculty, said he is concerned because undergraduate enrolment has dropped 12 per cent this year and he fears a backlash In the next few as fewer teachers quallfy for the profession. Bentley sai many students are being frightened off by headlines saying there are too many teachera and that layoffs of teachers are imminent. “We have three teacher training institutions in B.C. but they donot produce more than half the teachers needed in the province,” he sald, . While Bentley concedes general figures for the province show a surplus of about 600 teachers, he sald that doean't mean they are suitable for specialized education or teaching In _ remote areas. . . The drop-in enrolment at | UBC means 350 fewer under- graduate education students this year, although the university’s total enrolment has increased six per cent. “It's quite possible that in a few years we will have a shortage of teachers,” he he] e e pats1z1 case * a a dismissed VANCOUVER (CP) — A man who sought ta stop hunting of caribou and moose in Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Park has had his action dismissed in British Columbia Supreme Court Friday. Justice Harry McKay ruled that Jim Wright of Telkwa, B.C., had no status | to bring the action in which Wright alleged that En- vironment Minister Rafe Mair and Parks Minister Jim Chabot have failed to dlucharge thelr respon- albilities for the 1.4-million- acre park in B.C.'s northern Interior. 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V3H 2A8 NEW BLAZE AIRTIGHT HEATER ¢ One load of wood can heat ive afficiant low-cost heating by picking up cold, * _ through thermal tubes placed Also features cooking surfaces said. “I would like to know how many of the unemployed teachers are from outside B.C. and how many of them are unwilling to travel.” Diane Walter, head af - teacher vin garde ser: vices, said the majority of these unemployed teachers Is willing to go anywhere in B.C, for work. “Although 16 of the 75 school districts have openings that we are aware of, most of them are in specialist areas such as learning assistance, im- paired hearing and categories ‘harder to iil,” she said, The drop in enrolment at UBC ip not reflected at the University where the number of education un- dergraduates is running about the same as last year. One Victoria addict, who declined to be identified, sald nea inte et a eas to get drug prescriptions . She said that early this summer she was able to get 240 valium pills a week and all the narcotic-based cough syrup she needed to support her habit by gelng to one or two doctors in the area, “We all know who they are,” she said, “They'll all give us whatever we want without any queations asked,” She said she knows oF one doctor who has accepted asexual favors from a‘ patent In exchange for a “prescription. Hutchison agreed such ex- changes do happen and that there may be some under- thetable payolfa. “Pm gure they exist,” he sald, adding it is almost impossible to prove. “Doctars are no different from anyone else, A few are weak, They allow them- selves to get caught as easy marks. They just aren't tough enough.” A Greater Victoria police drug squad officer said that once the doctor gets the reputation as an easy mark, he is in for a rough time. He sald he knows three doctors in the area who are in that position and they fear repr if they don't ccn- tinue to meet their addict patients demands. One doctor is so in- he doesn't give in to the addicta’ requests, they would burn down his house, he said. T Hutchivon said it is not only unethical but tlegal for a doctor to give a patient a prescription knowing the drug won't be used for the treatment of any diseace. The narcotic control act and food and drug act prohibits medical prac- titioners fom prescribing narcotics ot controlled druga unless the patient is un- dergoing -active ‘treatment for a condition warranting such :edicatlons. “Where we can poe a octor is dispensing c“uge- § for other than medical use, we will take action — we will chop him," Hutchison said. However In the paat year, the college has taken that action only once and stopped. short of expelling the of- fending doctor from the medical society. Hutchison said that there was a reasonable doubt the doctor had simply been duped by an addict. He said it ls almost impos- sible to control the problem because of the difficulty in obtaining proof. Doctors who knowlngly hand out prescriptions to addicts are generally very careful in their reporting. They may place a fictitious diagnosis on the patient's record to cover their tracks, he said. Prairie crop condition, says the satellite project's deputy manager, Radar expert Keith Raney said ina recent Interview the big queation facing federal planners is whether Canada should develop the $300- million survelliance satellite by the European or American space agencies. Participation by the -European Space Agency: would cut Canadian costs to about $30 milllon but might entail compromises to meet European requirements. “The compromises would easentially bein frequency of coverage,” Raney sald. “But it makes sense to think inter- nationally because eatellites by their nature are global. tendance at the side. TOBER 24, 1979. PUBLIC NOTICE TO BOATING f To effect conatructin of 3 pipeline li will be necessary to cbatruct the north channel of the Skeena River from 4 polnt 1,000 feet upstream of tho east boundary of lot 4803 toa pont 5,000fest upstream of the east boundary of fot 4803C.R.5. This Is approximately 23 miles west of Terrace, 8.C, and Is in the general area of ihe Salvus CNR aiding and Is 2.46 miles vp- stream from the confluence of the Kassicks and Skeena Rivers. River traffic Is advised fo avold the north channel If at all possibte and to contact the power Ff barge (DELTA TRANSPORTER) which ts In at- The obstruction will be a 1! cable spanning the river. It will range in helght from 2 feet to 12 fee! above the water, There will also be a 12" discharge fine projecting from thesouth bank Ina nor-herly direction. This closure Is In effect SEPTEMBER 24 - OC- LORAM INTERNATIONAL LTD. “The thought of one nation doing It all on its own is nice, but not terribly practical be- cause moat the time satellite 1s elsewhere and it . would be nice to have part: ners to share the costs and benefit from the results.” Ranoy aaid .Cansdian oiliclals have done little more than discuss the projeat with their coun- terparts in the U.S. National Space and Aeronautics Administration,..._. . SurSat has been discussed since 1976 and if built will be equipped with a synthetic aperture radar system which enables it to peek through the heavy cloud cover that has bilnded conventional radar systems, Thesystem requires only a fraction of the power of or- dinary radar and can produce from orbit accurate images of objects only a few metres in size, The project invalves the federal departments of ‘defence, Indian and northern . Canada, The Herald Monday, September 24, 1979, Page 9 affaire, energy, mines and resources and com- munications. Raney said SurSat ta ideal for tracking ice conditions, the weather, navigational hazards, selected human activitles such as ex- ploration in the North and pollution in the oceans, The solar-powered satellite aleo will carrv search and rescue tran- sievers, television cameras and microwave semors. The NASA space shuttle may be used to place SurSat in an 800-kilometre-high orbit, he sald. Information from SurSat would be transmitted to ground slations at Resolute, N.W.T,, Prince Albert, Sask., and Shoe Cove, Nfld. Judge said quite stable VANCOUVER (CP) — Bora Laskin, chief justice of the Supreme Court of sbeen moved Into intensive care at St, Paul's Hospital, his doctor sald turday. Dr. Ress Sharp sald Laskin, who is recovering from two major abdomina: operations, was moved Friday so that more careful monitoring of his conditlen could be conducted, The ¢6-year-old judge's condition was ‘‘quite stable”, he satd, DISTRICT OF TERRACE NOTICE OF COURT OF REVISION 1979 MUNICIPAL ELECTION VOTERS LIST The Court of Revision to hear compialnts and to correct or revise the 1979 List of Electors will sit in the Councll Chambers of the Terrace Municipal! Bullding _ at ten o'clock In the forenoon on Monday, October Ist, 1979. A copy of the 1979 List of Electors Is posted and Is available for viewing at the Munielpal Office, 3215 Eby Street, Terrace, B.C., during regular office hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday). The Court of Revision may (8) correct the names of the electors In any way wrongly stated therein: or (b) add the names of electors omitted from the jist: or (c) strike out the names of parsons from the list who are not entitled to votear whoarse disquallfted from voting; or (d} correct any other manifest error therein: and (a) add to tha list of electors the name of any person who was qualified to have his name entered on the list of eleciars on the 31st day of August, 1979, and, for this purpose, an application for registration may be ac- cepted If deilvared to the Court of Revision at Ite first sitting. ; All persons enililed fo have thelr name entered on the Ilat should check to determine whether or not they have been omitted or Incorrectly recorded. 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