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Trustees want Spending Sentral

VANCOUVER (CP) —

Britlah Columbia's achool. ~

trustees. will be asked; at |
their’: “four-day: . annual
general “meeting which
opens Thuraday, to join
together and take back
ae otro the
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provinelal . ‘government.
About 500 trustees from
the province’s 75 school
districts will also hear an
address: Saturday from .
Education Minister Jack ”
Heinrich, who they hope
will tel them ‘what is on
the horizon” for British
Columbia's education
system... oe
The B.C. government,
citing the need for
restraint, took control
over local school board
spending in 1962, an
action some trustees say
reduces school boards te
mere rubber-stampers
budgets set by vetsrie,
AS *. pumber. of
resolutions to be debated
at tha meeting demand
the governitventY: Femur

local districts. : '

Bev. Rodrigo, autgoing
vice-president of the:
association, said in -an
interview . from Kitimat

local taxing’.

Sunday: that the. govern:
ment . has said. it. will.
consider *’ giving” ,back.-
power: ‘to.
schoo! districts. in” 1966, °
“] think trustees are
continuing to work on it in
hopes that we may
achieve: (that taxing.
power) earlier than
that,” Rodrigo said.
Under the present
financing system, school
districts are given drafts
of their district budgets,

. setting out spending for

each area. They may
change the priority given
to certain needs = except

‘in the area’ of special

education — but cannot
exceed the total amount
set by Victoria,

. CANNOT TAX

Protests by . school
trustees reached: a peak
last July. when Heinrich
announced. that the

increasing the pupil-
teacher: ratio to 1978
levels of ms to one from

Rodgrigo

17 to Pp
céitilains hae Event"
power’ over ‘bpebidhig’t3 of eae “Yh!

Vietoria, rather than
elected trustees,
control spending.

_ Alberni school districta

have: put" ‘forward —
resolutions calling on the |
, assoclationk ‘to “deplore

provinlal government’

in giving ‘itself power
“traditionally exercised

by elected trustees ",

Trustees also want
assurances from /
Heinrich that they will be
consulted before. the
government adopts
recommendations - _from
its white. paper releaged -
earlier this year.

The paper proposes

streaming studenta into
academic,
voeational programs as |
early as Grade 7, which
‘some trustees fear may

limit a student's options if
he or she changes goals

later in high school.
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government's .
rogram...
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skills,

career or

NOTES |

Trustees also will be
government would be comparing notes on how
their respective ‘districts
have coped under - the
restraint

oo ge Prustees zo-leet ane
a.

districts belie forced fi
lay off teachers, trustees
now havebecome particularly
concerned about how best
Both Vancouver and to evaluate teachers’

ep
pared to June 1989: There
are about 29,000 teachers
in British Columbia now, §f .

- considex a resolution

asking the government to
do away with ‘continuing
appoititmentas” ~ for
teacherg,.and: introduce’.
‘term’ contracts.:

The resolution,” ‘from:

South Cariboo school
district, says. that once
teachers -have received -
continuing appointments
‘. they. are secure: for the

remainder «of
working lives, -
That leads to

- districts or the parents a

they serve from -

demanding teachers « be :

accountable .. for — the
quality. of education, ‘the
resolution says.

presid

Nanaimo... Only ©: one’
candidate, Bill Lefeaux-
Valentine. of. Queen
Charlotte City, has been:
nominated sofar.. -

Whistle to reduce collisions?

PRINCE GEORGE,
BC. (CP) — Environ:
ment Ministry officials
are hoping that an
Austrian-made ultrasonic
whistle will help reduce
moose-vehicle collisions
in northern British
Columbia. * ©

The device, called Sav-

A-Life, conaiats of a pair
of four-centimetre bullet-
shaped whistles that
mount on the grill of a car
or truck. Once the vehicle
reaches 60 Kilometres an
hour, the whistle emits a
high-pitched sound which
can be heard by certain
animals up to half. a
kilometre away.

The device is not yet
sold in B.C., but Ken
Child, district wildlife
biologist, has received
three sets of the whistles
.and he hopes it will prove
to be as effective with
moose as it has been with
deer in Europe and the
United States. —

. The U. Ss. distributor

Doctors numbers limited:

EDMONTON (CP)—It
may necessary soon
for Canada to limit the
number of doctors who
practise in some areas,
says;Dr..F.B.. Cookson,
assoclate dean of
medicine. at the
University of Alberta.
The . movament of
doctors to urban areas Is
part of a national trend,
Cookson ‘said in an in-
terview.. a

The.’ ‘proportion of
physicians in Edmonton

and Calgary is increasing
faster than
population, he said, and

British Columbla is

trying to stop new doctors
from settling in the lower
mainland, where there is
a surplus of phyasiclaris.

Economist: Richard
Plain sald Alberta
already has.a, surplus of.
general practitioners,
which is. burdening
taxpayers with more than
$100 million a year in
extra medical. and

NDP race tight.

VANCOUVER _
Vietoria: lawyer David
Vickers and former labor
minister Bill King are
running neck and neck in
the New Democratic
Party. leadership race,
according to delegate
counta ‘by two other
candidates, .- The ~
rem: four are
battling it out for third.

spot, ‘hoping to hang tt a

fod

LEWISPORTE,

Nad.
(CP) — Steve Fonyo’
continues to be plagued
by poor weather in his bid
to rin across Canada to
taise money for cancer

Fonyo, who lost his left :
leg above the knee to
cancer six years ago, has
covered 390 kilometres
since leaving St. John's,
Nfld., on March 31. The

there for a second or third
ballot and pick up support
from the dropouts, Of the
1,002 delegates, 622 are
elected from the con-

‘gtituencies, 153 are from.

union affiliates and the
remaining 117 are from

-. the provincial executive,
legislative
| MPa:

members,
‘and provinelal
Fepresentatives:

- counell

ae aeate
18-year-old Vernon, B.C:,

man hoped to average
about 3) kilometres a
day, but has seen the sun
only two of the first 28
days of his.run,

His planned run of
more than 7,000

kilometres was inspired

by the late Terry Fox, the
one-legged B.C. youth
who raised more than $21
millon.

hospital costs. ‘
’ Plain said economists
have warned for 10 years
that Canadian . medical
schools are graduating
too many doctors, ~
He said the economic
competition which
prevents or curbs sur-

pluses in most business .

sectors doesn't exist in
medicine, . Medicare
prevents. price-cutting
and - doctors - avoid
competition for patients
’ by ordering ‘extra teste
and having patients visit
more often.

Cookson said Plain is
speculating | about a
_ surplus, ;

Plain's estimates are
based on a formula
developed — by the
National. Committee on
Physician ~ Manpower
which assumes one
general practitioner or
speciallst is required for
every 630 to 665 people.

A. summary of a

Manpower review by the |

Alberta Medical

**..Asgoclation, released in

Merch, recommends one

2° -°"gobtor for 7200 people.

_ ‘fie’ ~——sasgociation’s
‘review recommended
Alberta reduce medical
school enrolment by
about 25 per cent by 1966
to avoid a projected
surplus after 1990 as the

number of: doctors in-.
creased,

Cooksdn seid =o no
enrolment reductions are
planned.

He . questioned — the
wisdom of training fewer

doctors when there is a
physiclan shortage in
rural Alberta. a

lives, -

claims the device also is :

effective with dogs and
cats, but doesn’t work
with cattle or sheep. The

‘ gourd -is inaudible _.to

humans.

The device will be ©
tested by conservation
officers who spend

. considerable time driving
‘in remote areas and are
better able to evaluate its

effectiveness, Child says..
If ‘it works, collisions.
could be avoided and
property arid. -
animials would be saved.
Two people were killed
in the Prince George area

last fall in mooserolated

car accidents.

COLLIDE WITH: CARS.
’ statisties -
show. ‘there - were: 217°

Ministry

moose-vehicle collisions.
during the 1962-93 winter,
which . resulted . in
property damage | of
$805,000 and the ‘Toss. of
many animals: - :

The whistle “emits. a
sound between 16,000 and:
20,000 megahertz, Moose —
have a vocalization range
between 240 and. 11,000
megahertz.

Child said it remains to

be seen . whether. the .

animals hear the high--
frequency’ sound and
whether they will react to
It. *

’ Moose - are: often ‘un
predictable and stubborn

animals; A few years ago;

an Ontario rallway tried
a hora that was supposed
to scare moose off the
tracks. Instead, ‘it at-
tracted them and the
railway had to get rid of ©
the horns.

Child said if the whistle
works, the ministry may.
ask, Canadian Natlonal

than 1,000 moose were
killed by trains in‘ nor-
them B.C. But, Child
cautions that man: trains
may move too
the whistles to function

properly.

their 7 o

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y, May 12, 1984
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