- . . © Sp on er nar —— Legionaires TORGNTO (CP), — se the construction of a four- lane highway ‘in north To- ranto, the doctor for one of the pailents who tied said Monday. Dr. Sydney Shubert told a news conference at Humber: Memorial: Hospital, , where Steohe seven patients were being treated as if they had the: disease, that the rovt-ahaped bacterium could have been released into the en- * Tere ig alsg one eurpected case of . Leglonnaire’s disease ‘at York-Floch ‘Hospital. and two at Nor hweatern Hospital. Another suspected case checked himself out within the last 10 days. Shubert, . phyaician for n dows, 67, who died July of virulent neuinonte, less than 48 after being admitted to hospital, said that because -all the: ted. cases ex- construction, it may be the source of the disease. Shubert said an autopay was not performed on Lowe because his wife, who went diet hei hospital there the Calgary to. visit her | ughter. the before- ted to day her ddied and was unable ! to authorize the autopsy. Jim Townend, assistant director of nursing at Cal aaj ry General Hospital, he would not comment on Anne Lowe's condition or the nature of her divulge “suspect illness, although Shubert vironment by the excavation cept ‘ote i¢ live within 1.6 kilo said he was told she had PROVINCIAL LIBRARY PARLIAMENT .BLDG5 Qgia Be disease pneumonia, However, a hospital nurae said Mrs, Lowe was In fair condition Monday. Orin Kerr, 26, of Toronto died: 45 minutes after arriving — at Humber Memorial on Saturday. ‘He , and difficulty breathing. Dr. Larry Edwards, a specialist in internal medicine, sald Kerr's poecumonia was “far more advanced than the three patients on respirators. ” The: three are in critical condition at Humber Memorial. — The 23-year-0ld man who checked himeelf out of: the _Ming Cheung, complained of chest ‘paina faves oa ta pvemeniey wella for more teste” said Dr. interal medicine specialist, The incubation period for 44 Legionnaire's disease could who. didn't complain to his family until he realized be was seriously ill. “Dr, Margaret Archibald, medical officér of health for - . the Metroplitan Toronto ~ borough North York, where the outbreak is located, said © and an investigation revealed no common contact among the victims. She eaid they had not yet inquired whether any of the Hents had alr conditioners fn their homes. Faulty air conditioners were thought to be the source of Legionnaire’s disease, given its name after it killed 29 people who attended an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976, More than 200 others who con- tracted the disease re- “owvered, The most effective - Toma, treatment 1s the antibiotic, erythromycin. Toronto patients are treated with the drug although it will be five to ten days before the Legionnaire's disease bacte- rium. can be positively identified, said Dr. Sandu medical bac- terlalogist with the Ontario health ministry. Toma said he may know today whether one patient, with” tentatively confirmed Legionnaire’s disease, does Tomaseidat leant 2 ‘cases of :Legionnaire'’s disease have’ been diagnosed ‘In carried out on the linked to construction -the disease is not contagious, Ontario within the last decade, with.18 cases in 1978 and 1979. Three victims died, he said. The most recent death was in Toronto in May of this year. Dr. Archibald said no extensive tests have been water at any of the | patients’ homes though Legionnaire's disease bacterium is known to be found fg: water. headaches, ting, diarrhea, lung: conjeation and chest pain, 5555 TAXI. (1978 24 HOUR SERVICE —™, LTD.) 635-5555, 635-5050: - 635-2525 | |. LIGHT DELIVERY SERVICE | ‘i TERRACE: KITIMAT IF L "Volume 73 No, 211 ily herald Tuesday, August q, 1979 pA, ‘ [. RUPERT SALVAGE LTD. Seal Cove Rd., Pr. Rupert 624-5639 WE BUY copper, brass, all metals, batteries, etc. Call us - open Mon. through Sat, ry am. aaa STEEL & cup - \ | Uganda seeks | - Canada grant LUSAKA (CP) — — Uganda President Godfrey Binaisa - paid Monday he is pressing Canada for an urgent grant of nostrings cash aid to help his warravaged East African country. He also wants Canadians to train’ police. Prime Minister Joe Clark, here for the Commonwealth summit conference, is ex- pected to respond this week “with an immediate payment of $100,000 and a promise of mare help in yee “Tam 4 lugging Clark,’ Binaisa said aa . interview with The Canadian Premier Bill Bennett pours ingot marking 25 years of aluminum production in Kitimat. ' PRINCE RUPERT, | B.C. (CP) — Members of . the e Pulp, Pa rs and (ewe voted Sunday to to accept an offer on local | issues and end a strike at the | Casadian Cellulose , “The strike began July 0, The 600 ‘millworkers voted 6 per cent in favor of the offer' made by company negotiators earlier Sunday evening, ’ The union narrowly rejected a master wide vote, but union lead- exs later anid that. the master contract would be approved when local had been resolved at.individual mills. . the last of the Jive pulp mills employing PPW members * to reach ‘CANCEL UNION ENDS STRIKE agreement in a province- - Canadian Cellulose was - higher. ‘sgreament, on Jocal Is- w Local agreement calls . for: the matagement to “portals and eeultucal : pursuit workers . an miles... tafferential for living 4 a remote. area, said Ken Halliday, ‘ director of: industrial relations, but the. management offered the trust fund instead. ye rial contract for. C) a ¢ hourly wage increase in the firat year on a base rate of $8.16 an - bow. and a second-year raise of 8.5 per cent or 90 cents, whichever Is In addition, there are improvements ‘to pen- sions: and other benefits, Fatal accidents : mark weekend Seven persons killed in a house fire in Ilford, Man., were among at jeast 66 persons who dled ac- cidentally across Canada during the holiday weekend celebrated in some parts of the country. A survey by The Canadian Press from 6 p.m. Friday to late Monday night local times showed 44 trafile fatalities, 11 drownings, eight fire deaths, a boy who died when his overturned, a man died while attempting Jo hop a freight train and a who died in a boat co The holiday is being cele. brated in British Cohmnbia, Alberta, o-cart ° "Baskatehewan, : Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick and the Nor- thweet Territories. Police in Manitoba sald the fire in which a man and six. children died may have been ‘caused by one . burning stoves in the house. nat been released, peering & mo ea pen notification of next of kin. Prince Edward Island re- - ported one traffle death and one drowning. Newfoun- dland iad one drowning. three traffic deaths and Nova. Scotia had four. There were 17 traffic deaths in Quebec as well as” phir 1 poet person w! a collision, ; industry. provides for’ | two wood: . Die-ins set trend for nuclear protest ‘NEW YORK (AP) — Rallies, roadside crosses and so-called die-ins marked Monday's Mth Anniversary -of the. atomic bombing of | Ja pan. wt New York state, 13 of led nuclear opponenta _ they will refuse to eat until they are freed, “What we did was not wrong," said a statement issued by supporters of the 13 nuclear opponents ‘who announced a hunger strike. - States Aug. 6, 1945, Rocky = Flats { Remembrance, said: In Hiroshima, rain, The city was ‘destroyed by an atonile bomb by the United Pro- teaters observed a minute of . silence at 6:15 a.m. local, time in memory of nearly 96,000 known victims. Moat of the U.S, demon- ' strations were peaceful and staged without incident. One of the largest rallies was at Indian Point, ¢4 kilometres north, of New York City, which attracted about 4,000 persons Sunday. More than i Pepsi el res passing, and police jailed 105 who refused to give their names, Thirteen of the 105 sald they will not eat until released unconditionally. The Sound and -Hudson Against Atomic Deyel- ment Alliance issued a statement from the 13, “We would like to enphasise that that we are not criminals," - Colorado, between 500 and 600 white wooden crosses were planted along the roads leading to the nuclear ‘weapons oon Jack Joppa, spokesman for Coloradc’s Ad Hoc Committee for Hiroshima ‘We Japan,’ " more than 30,000 persons _ attended ceremonies ‘in the plant these crosses because we remember those who were injured, sickened or. killed.” He said the crosses, some with ‘Never Again” painted on. them, were planted during Sunday night. He said the group did not attach any religious significance. to the gesture. Crosses were chosen, he sald, because _they are a: ‘‘universal symbol" for graves. Sheriff's deputies made no | attempt. to’ remove the crosses, which were aot on plant property. In other. ‘Protests - across ; the U.S, Monday: —At the Pentagon, 2 demonstrators from a frou calling itself the Atlan Life Community marched in ‘front of the defence department headquarters . Photo by Ann Dunsmuir ‘threw. ashes on the steps, sang songs.in the building's interior shopping area and _ then left for the White House. Police made no arrests. ~-A U.S. Navy cook was taken into custody during a protest at the United Nuclear Corp. headquarters in Montville, Conn. Philip Sipp, assigned to the submarine USS Narwhal, carried a aign saying “Submarines make war, Dot peace.” He sald he had been trying to leave the Navy and get conscientlous objector status. About 30 civilians also demonstrated. ~In Hartford, Conn., four protesters were arrested for apreading ashes in the lobby of the United Technologies tie Corp. after they refused to leave, Outside the building, members of the Hartford Peace Coalition began a 75. for about three hours, Some vigil. Stikine residents remain at home PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. ‘(CP) — Flooding will be iess than originally thought when a melting giacler [finally gives way and residents of the Stlxine River valley in southeast Alaska now do not — have to evacuate their homes. “People are not leaving; just watching,” Jim Stott of the. British Columbia provincial emergency program, said Monday. “The Canadian government Saturday began urging resi- dents of the sparsely- populated, 110- kilometre. long valley to evacuate because a lake building © behind the Flood Creek gla- cler could be loosed an time, releasing up to 100,060 cubic feet of water a minute. Stott said the - Stikine valley is eight kilometres’ wide and the “large volume (of water) will not cause the fldeding we expected.” He said the flood will cover about half a metre of the valley Moor — about half what was originally ex- pected. The glacier might give way sometime between nw and the end of August, he sali d. “It’s one of those things where nature takes ita. i Stott sald the lake is five kilometres long and 600 meires wide and about 90 metres deep. is raising Press. Canadian MP Douglas Roche, chairman of the government caucus on ex- ternal affairs and an ald — specialist, sald in a later interview that the prime minister. assigned a com- mittee of accompanying officials Monday to put together. an aid program ur- gently. Details are expected in a matter of days. "We would put into play $100,-000 iinmediately through the Canadian commission to Uganda," said, with a pledge of longer- term assistance. Roche said this could include writing off ‘a $2.5-million debt tneurred by Uganda under previous regim Binnisa, interview in the closely- guarded suburban villa provided by his Zan bian hosts for the Com- monwealth summit, ob- served that Australia has al- ready pledged one million Australian dollars in im- mediate ald and New Zealand ‘is sending processing and storage equipment for dairy ets. The stocky, 50-year-old lawyer was installed ‘as president six weeks ago in place of exiled Yusufu Lule. - ‘The upheaval came in the wake of a war, waged mainly by troops from neighboring Tanzania, that ousted dic- tator Id] Amin after eight years of devastating gav- ernment under which hundreds’ of thousands of Ugandans were reported to have been executed and the once-thriving economy was : left a shambles. Binaisa, relaxed in an easy chair during the interview, clad in a slate-grey leisure sult, slad ‘The situation Is ‘perfect’’ in his c country — -“people are going to work, Erucks to drawing pis." ] AW! . Likewlse, he sald, internal security is improving after recent riots, theft and killings. Trouble has been _ caused by ‘‘a small clique of ultra-conservatives," worried about their businesses, he said. At the same tlme, Binaisa said there is urgent need for immediate help to combat malnutrition, get Industry _ working again and overcome a black market. He said he knows Idi Amin an army of mer: “] want. him’: to cenaries in neighboring Sudan, posing a threat northern Uganda, But he added he belleves the Ugands army can counter . the. threat. Asked whether this per- eeived threat to northern Uganda means he will ask the Tanzanian army to stay longer in his country, Binaisa replied: “No, we've got our own army. We're going to mobilize our own army, and ' we've got to train also, we’ve got to train. We've got the liberation army,” alongside the spearhead of the months- long war which led to the defeat of Amin's soldiers and which. the Tan. f fae Paneanian’ ‘pintiy wae the flight. into exile of the : dictator after eight years in power, The Ugandan army is- “still there — all we need is - more training,” Binaiss Canada to help in wraining ng . Lecrhes and paramilitary riot. Sinaia estimated the size of Amin’s Sudan-based army © at 90,000 men. He has offered . to pay thousands of dollars — : the exact figure is indefinite © — for Amin’s capture, dead or alive. - - criticized Sudan ag brother the withdrawal of Tanzanian troops from Uganda. (CP) LUSAKA Rhodesia if a new Com-. monwealth proposal leads to peace and a _ political settlement in the warring territory. Prime Minister. Joe Ciark said Monday “the part in which we would be involved would be 4 role as observers" of super- otha majo . genuine rity rule in the former British lony. : “That might involve troopa, it might involve other kinds of personnel,"’ Clark told ere. But British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sald she does not anticipate use of any troops at all, only civilian observ: ers. And External Affairs Minister Flora Mac- Donald said later that there Is no question of the we of Canadian troops. She said Canada might be helpful in other ways, such as providing civilian personnel to observe the elections to make sure they are fair and free. At the same time, Clark and others made it clear there are formidable hurdles to be overcome in translating a weekend Commonwealth agreement on principles into a detailed ceasefire and a black-majority political system, The summit agreement on ples that should underlay a Rhodesia settlement calls for gemulne black majority rule under a new con. stitution removing powe! of the white minerity to control security, the courta ‘and the ad- ministration and block any change. At the same dime, it says there should be peinte safer nds ae propriate safeguards” for the white minority. As the former colonial power, Britain Is CANADA MAY AID ZIMBABWE - the 14-year-old economic fone an alien organ- ana lea con- stitutional conference and supervising ceasefire, Any removal of ooupled in the agreement coup! @ agreeme with a ceasefire following the convening of a con- atitutional conference. Clark said Canada’s tole in developing the outline agreement was to try to be helpful and ‘‘we had modest success in he pa tribute to the Britis Prime Minister Thatcher ae “the most important actor,’”’ whose understanding “(made it possible for the African nations to relax fous that the might ha tions that they ve imposed.” In particular, he sald, 4 hardlining Nigeria joined \ the - agreement, . althougl “T think’ there was pressure brought to bear.'' Nigerian agreement also was helped by inclusion of the provision that any removal of economic sanctions depends on action toward a black- majority constitution. On the possibility of the combatants agreeing to the peace process, Clark said he bdelleves the present black-white partnership government of Bishop Abel Murorewa would find it “very dif- fleult to resist the ure” for agreement y Commonwealth governments and probably also the United States. An earlier Nyerere proposal to set a special reeattlement fund for Rhodesian whites “" temporarily, not dropped altogether, because it ran into op position from other African leaders, Clark + mia ged ea