PAGE 2, THE HERALD. Tuesday, June 13, 1976

VANCOUVER (CP) —The
herbicide 2,4-D, which bas
been proposed for use in
Okanagan Lake sysiem to
combatEurasian milfoil, isa
carcinogenic or cancer-

_ 2-4-D plann

eavsing chemical defoliant,
ascientist, whohas reviewed
2,4-D studies conducted by
the United States Food and
Drug Administration (FDA),
said Sunday.

Dr. Melvin Reuber, who
was to speak today in
Penticton, B.C., at a public.
inquiry into the proposed use
of 2,4-D, said he has con-
eluded, from a review he

conducted of FDA studies of
24D for a U.S. senate
subcommittee, that the
herbicide is definitely
carcinogenic.

Reuber said the studies,

Battling Davie Barrett against .

TRAIL, B.C, (CP) —
Opposition leader Dave
Barrett, calling both
imilitary and civilian
development of atomic
energy “nuts,” said
Saturday a provincial New
Democratic Government
would ban uranium mining

in British Columbia, ‘

“anybody who is com-
mitted to the extention of
nuclear weapons or nuclear
power is mits,” he told a

party-sponsored * meeting.

Barrett said he disagreed
on the nuclear issue with
NDP Premier. Allen
Blakeney of Saskatchewan,

who announced June 8 that

his government has ap-
proved a $130 million ura-
nium mine and mill in north-
western Saskatchewan. The
mine is expected to return
from $1.5 billion to $3 billion
in royalties to that. province
over the next 13 years.

“T am unalterably opposed
to any radioactive material
mining in the province of
British Columbia,” said
Barrett, who spent the
weekend touring the East
and West Kootenays.

Barrett called nuclear

power “a snare, a delusion, a
massive waste of money.”

21 dead 340 injured |
Japanese earthquake worst in ‘78

TOKYO (AP) — An un.
dersea earthquake stronger
than any recorded in the
world so far this year rocked
central and northern Japan
meme killing 21 4 persons and .

uring 340 others, police
reported,

The quake, centred off Ja-
pan’s Pacific coast, hit
Prefec

a house under construction
in Sendai, the prefectural
capital, police said. .
Authorities said the quake
wrecked 140 houses, knocked
down utility poles and top-
pled furniirethroughout the
worsthit area. They reported
roads cut at 52 locations,
nine wreckednbridges, 17

landslides, two destroyed.

and breaks in

been centred in a populated

area,

In Miyagi it was strong
enough to crack walls and
knock over stone lanterns. In
many other places, including
Tokyo, it shook houses and
toppled vases.

FIRES REPORTED

In Sendai, a city with a
population of 554,000, at least
two house. fires, later

brought under control, were.

reported, and an electrical
blackout knocked out street
signals and tied up traffic.

Telephone service was dis-
rupted in some areas of
Tokyo and officials said

some water mains may have |
been broken in the capital. .

Bottles and cans fell from
shelves in stores and homes.
Commuter trains and sub-
ways were halted in Tokyo
and other areas, and some
runs of the 200-kilometre-an-
hour bullet trains also were
suspended. .

A tidal wave warning was
issued and later lifted for the
Pacific coast of northeast
Honshu, . Japan's

main ,

“Tmere are other types of
power we shi move to,”
he sald,nurging his audience
read the book Small is
Beautiful by the late E. F.

-Schumacker, a British

economest who advocated
the use of small-scale
technology.

A proposed $27 million
uranium mine backed by
Denison ' Mines Ltd. of
Toronto at Birch Ifland near
Clearwater, B.C., was op
posed last December by two
B.C. mining unions—the

Mechanical and -Alliea
Workers. The unions ccte the
evidence of an Ontario Royal
commission which found at
least 8i uranium miners
have died of lung cancer at
Elliot Lake, Out.

The Registered Nurses
Association of B.C. also has
called for a judicial inquiry
into the gafety of uranium
mining at Birch Island, while
the B.C, Medical Association
has called for a moratorium
until ‘‘a full, open and im-

United Steelworkers of © partial judicial inquiry” is

America and the Canadian
Association’ of Industrial

island. The first wave to hit
the coast, about 30 minutes
after the first lateafternoon
tremor, measured less than
seven inches. It was followed
by other small waves
causing no damage.

The Central.
Meteorological Agency said
the epicentre of the quake
was beneath the Pacific
off Miyagi Vrefec-
ture. It reported a weak
tremor followed by a much
stronger shock fine minutes

later that registered about |

7.5 on the Richter scale at the
.epicentre.

The Seismological In-
stitute at Uppsala, Sweden,
recorded the strongest
tremor at eight on the
Richter. scale, The institute
said it was the most powerful
quake it had detected around
the world this year, n
AIRCRAFT. GROUNDED
- Aircraft at. Tokyo's
Haneda Airport were
grounded while workers
inspected runways. —

“T felt like I was getting
seasick,” said a telephone

s

whieh used a concentration
of five parts a million of 2,4-

“Dp on rats in the lowest

dosage, appeared to show
that 2,4-D produced can-
eerous tumors in the

als,

While the proposal of the
provinciql water —in-
vestigation branch |g to use
2,4-D ata level of 001 parts a
Million in specific areas of
the lake, Reuber said if the
herbicide is carcinogenic at
one level it is carcinogenic at
others.

“The basic conclusion is
that if something is car-
clnogenic at any level it Is
carcinogenic at all levels,"
he said, ‘The reason we do
animal studies is to find out
if chemicals are car-
cinogenic, and if they’re car-
cinogenic to animals they're
golng to be carcinogenic to
humans," _

Reober, in a telephone
interview from Penticton,
said his review of the FDA
report,

conducted for

- Senator Ted Kennedy's

operator on the 20th floor of a
new, office building in
downtown Tokyo.

A cook in a restaurant on
the same floor reported: “At
first we felt an up and down
motion and that made us
worried because we thought
the epicentre could be some
place close, Then all of a
sudden the jolts started
moving the building from
side to side. We had to hang
on to the cutting tables and

8,
The Richter scale is a

measure of ground motion as:

recorded on seismographs.
Every increase of one
number meanf a tenfold
increase in magnitude. A
reading of 7.5 is an ear-
thquake 10 times stronger
than one of 6.5.

An earthquake of seven on
the scale is considered a
major quake capable of
widespread heavy damage.
The San Francisco ear-
thquake of 1904, which oc-
curred before the scale was
devised, has been estimated
at 7.9.

Rescuing birds from oil slick- —__.

may be dangerous to their health

PORT MOODY, B.C. (CP)
— Well-meaning citizens
who attempt to rescue ail-

ilicked birds on. ther own.

often do more damage than
good, Don Adams, manager
of the Victoria branch of the
Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to: Animals, said
Saturday. a
_Adams, who has developed
some innovative methods of
capturing and cleaning oiled
binds, spoke at a workshop

_ @ealgned to train a squad of

volunteers to rush to oil spills

. where waterfowl riak death

hy drowning, starvation and
cold,

“Almost anybodx can get
rid of the obvious outer.
damage,” he sald, “but it’s
the internal damage that
kills the bird.”

Adams said that even
experts can make mistakes,
citing the wae of oll-
dissolving solvents on birds

which damage feathers and
make it dangerous for res-
cuers because of their
‘flammability.

“Eyen one drop of oil on or
below the waterline can killa
waterfowl by opening a hole
in its waterproofing,” he
said. ‘This results in
hypothermia.”

Adams has designed a
technique for catching ail-
soaked birds, which often
exhaust themselves by
trying to avoid capture, .
CONFUSE BIRD °

The procedure involves a
tripod of 1,000-watt quartz
lights and a mufferless
generator mounted on a
rowboat, .

“The idea ia that the lights.
are so bright and ihe
generator so loud the bird is
too confused to do anything
except sit there and wait till
you pick it up,” he said.

"A healthy bird that is

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impossible. to catch in
daylight.”

En route to a treatment

centre, he said, the bird. is .

then placed in a small
cardboard box which helps it
retain body heat, Its beak is
taped shut te prevent it from
preening itself because the
oil causes dehydration,

The bird is then given
three gentle scrubbings in
warm water and soap along
the grain of the feathers to

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.Temove the ofl, Adams said.
He said that unlike other
treatment centres which
feed the birds dead fish fron
trays, be provides live fish in
the holding pool which the
birds must catch them-
selves, He also tries to get

subcommittee on admin-
istrative procedures and
practices, disagreed with the
findings ‘of the authorf of the
report, who did not belleve
2,4-D was carcinogenic,
SAME CONCLUSION

His conclusions, however,

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were the same as those of the
statistician who compiled
the regults but did not author
the report, he sald.

Reuber, who has also
worked with the U.S. en-
vironmental protection
agency on carcinogenic
chemicals and currently is
with the Frederick Cancer
Research Centre in
Frederick, Md., suggested
that the authors of the FDA
report were possibly
pressured into finding that
2,4D was not harmful.

He said the chemical in-
dustry has millions of dollars
invested in 2,4-D and other
herbieldes and that a con-
clusive finding that they
were carcinogenic would
force the government to

order then withdrawn from —

the market, He said he
definitely fell pressure when
conducting his review of 2,4-

if carcinogenic chemicals

-are already present in

Okanagan Lake, which he
said was jikely, the use of 2,4-
D in the lake could increase
their amount to a dangerous
level,
Reuber was scheduled to
appear as a witness at the
public inquiry in which the
South Okanagan [n-
vironmental Coalition is

ed for use in Okanagan Lake
can cause cancer, says U.S. scientist

a decision by the The coalition has told the

appealing

aevincial Pesticide Control
Board to grant 23 permits
authorizing the use of 2,4-D
in Okanagan Lake this

summer.

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that mechanical harvesting

preferable tothe use of 2,4-D,

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