‘PAGE 2, The Herald Monday, June 25, 1978.

EDITORIAL ©

The “Late Movie” on television,” the otHed
night ~ “‘Babe’' -- a mostly true story on the life
of “Babe” Didrickson Zaharias: depicted the
brave and moving career of America’s gieatest
‘professional woman athlete, in which she was
struck down at tbe height of her cateer by
cancer,

The statistics for death by cancer are still
staggering. As ome who bas had to git by,
_ helpless, while his wife died of cancer pf the
breast, a yeat affer an sttdrhpt was nhade to cut
the malignant spread by radical eirgery
removing the breast, underarm lymph glands
and surrounding tissue + the fact tha¢ ofa ouf of
every four undergoing similar treatment i

dead within fdur years is a' dking camientary
on where our divAlzation places its Hesearch |

priorities.
The following: intideat may + or IMmatyl not --
have some on medical research. 1

merely throw it in for what it # worth If our
readers like — they ¢an freat itiad just andther bit
of imaginative editorial exencibe thb

, Althpugh I
was involved, (in a way) {n the incigentt I still.

have no means of ve the most important

of the facts. Buf every now Arid then § hear from

someone who hds had a similar experience that

reinforces my suspicions that the atory could be
e.

Victoria Report —
by Gyril Shefford

, Last week I again introduced a bill called ““Bhe

British Columbia Petroleum Sales Act” (1978)
which is simply a bill to equalize wholesale gas
prices across the province.

This would allow all retailers to buy at the

same price and bring back real competition to
the industry which is sadly lacking at this time.

The most unfair thing about the present policy
‘is.some service stations can sell for less than

others can buy. This is the main reason why so-

many independent businessmen go bankrupt
each year.

According to reports, over 20 percent of the
service stations go down each year. This doesn’t
mean the station closes, only someone else with a
few saved dollars takes over till he too goes
broke. -

Many company spokesmen will quickly point
out that they sell at the same tank wagon price in
the same area. However they fail to point out
that they often sell for up to .08cents less than
tank wagon on consignment or some other such
arrangement. i :

It takes little imagination to know there is no
way they can survive with their competitors

.-Selling for less than they can buy.’ All levels of
-government talk about helping small business
and independents which means little more than
the words on paper because the various tax, and
other changes normally only stave off the evil
day of bankruptcy a _ little longer.

It's something like starving a person slowly
rather than letting him die quickly. If this trend
continues the independent will disappear
altogether and the large will control total sales.

This will be a shame when the only real
competition comes from the independent, and
this fact is reported in several reports on
petroleum sales in various studies across
Canada, United States and even Australia. The
large corporations normally only compete with
“gifts”, ‘‘gimmics” and “give aways’, but
practice price leadership where the price leader
leads, and the rest follow. '

If free enterprise and competition is to survive
then government must move in this direction.and
give all retailers an equal start; then good
management and courteous service will quickly
weed out poor operators as it should.

It’s interesting to note in a book entitled
“Corporate Power in North America” that they

point out - less than 200 corporations sell 88

. percent of all goods and services and the other
thousands and thousands of companies compete
vigorously for:the other 12 percent, -

If this present trend to consolidation continues
price competition will largely disappear and the
consumer will pay dearly, also the country will
be gaverned by a system of private socialism
which shouldn't ‘be misunderstood . for state
socialism. .

As I pointed out earlier in this session once
corporate power reaches this level NO govern-
ment has the power to seriously challenge a
corporation that no longer serves the national
interest which can and does happen from time to

me.

‘Their power to shut off development and
employment is so great that no democratic
government could survive for long when they
were forced to cut back on development and
plant modernization. They could do this simply
by increasing their development and expansion
in countries where the government behave in a
manner favourable to the corporation.

This is a serious problem which governments
* will have to find solutions or with the growth of

corporate power in key industries, governments

will be nothing more tlfén an extention of cor-
porate power rather than a true servant of the
people. _

n we see the oil industry involved in coal
and ‘atomic energy, along with direct and in-
direct involvement in the fields of banking, food
and many others it doesn’t take much in-
telligence to realize the adverse effects on the
Canadian or provincial economy they could
bring about if they so desired,

This could leave governments powerless to
always serve the interests of the people first.
. This lack of control in the hands of elected
representatives leaves me cold to remain in the
political field. \

' with metal, the rater, it

7 Medical mystery

About 30 years ago, 4s @ bnissionary in a qub-
arctic community, I had gtopped*at oria of ine
two hotels in theivillage, and found that, as ustal,
there were more persons trying to get ae-
commodatioa than there were vacancies. This

happened every time the twice p werk tain
pulled in after al thousand mile journey north by
rail. What particularly interested me was one of
the persons being turned away: an elderly,
distinguished gentleman whd dould_nof, by
speech or demeanor, be a Canadian.

I offered the traveller a ¢hance to sta atlayy
place, warning him the hbtse was full of small
children -— ahd he accepte(! at once

During that night, and the maghts thatifbllowdd
until he was successful in pbtainidg passant qn
an aircraft that|wduld takelhim to Baffin Island,
Twas to heat ee to the a Noe ee

le. Eae yean since those h
1948 some of the Gores fe tala appar Mote
believable, :

The man said hehad been ge ed int inedicht
research at a larad U.S. hpgpital. | canadt recall
the name’of the hospital or institute of rented -
‘but Iremember hecompakédit to Johns Hop
and the Mayo Brothers Clinic.

The work he naabeen crying olit ag pari ofa
‘team of some twenty pf se seqeare ers] was to
discover if there was any rdlationship. hetyeén
the use of metal utensils in the cooking, han
and storing (canning) of foediarid the evidenge bf
cancer. The njore primitive a race of humans
was, and, hence, the less contact their f aoa

med, wag t
rate from certain types of cancer.

The team began to bile up dn inapressiye
amount of evidence that the dossumption of food
that had a high amount af contact with metal -
such as in the ing) and canning andiserv
and storing process + could be felated to the
higher incidence of certain types of cancer -
such as stomach, bowel, ¢olbn ete.

Cancer of these parté of the body, he said, was
quite rare among primitive le who used
other forms of cookingiand storing -- such as clay
pots, steaming, wrappinf iin! leaves, skin bags,
stone -- and so one. ‘

The use of under arm deodorants and anti-
pérspirant with lotions that indluded certain
metallic substances and the very high rate of
breast cancer among women who used fiiem|was
also under study by his proum

When the head of his group df reédarchers

- pregnant.

published a medical paper on the ponte
ween metal in food preparation and cancer, he
said, “All Hell broke Inose.? Pressure wus
immediately put upon the instituition for which
the small body of scientists worked, tq jssue an,
immediate denial. Certdin necessary, in-
stitutional: grants were promptly suspended.
The time was during the Ureat Depressign --
other jobs were impossible to come by. A few of
the more dedicated schentists ih the group hung
on, They refused tocontradict their findings, 4ll
they could say, with honesty and without com-
promising their profebsional i tegrity was that
as yet they had had no absolute proof; the resuits
were not final nor binding. There was still a lot
of detailed studies to do, and the similarities
could still be considered in the realm of ¢oin-
cidences.

Humourous ‘attempts to unaermine the

“Cancer paper” included s agnbles a5: Gut
of & group of 1,000-500 sm: ee and cigars.
Not one who smoked a pape pr cigar became

Therefore, pipesmoking and IGigr
smoking prevented conception. (N@ nidntidniin
the survey being made that the srholters were
men - and the non-smokers’ womenh.)

Then a large metals multinational corpor tip
stepped in. It hired all 20 researcHers onk pn’
a special project involved in research opttrogidal
disease in a certain country in South America.
The cancer study lab was moved and disman-
tled. Most of the records of the previous study
were said to have been “transferred to a medical
research library.’’ My friend, however, was
unable to find them. mo,

“T waited,” he told me, for more than 20 years,
until I was finaily able to retire and get off on my
own. I have no family depending on me any
more. I have enough money of my own. Lintend
to go back and finish that study, by myself, if
need be. .

“There is a group of ultra-primitive Eskimos.
They are still nomads, and they frequedt| tha
Basin area of Baffin Island. They use no nietal
cookware; use bone spparheads arid gtone-tigped
arrows. Thera has never been a single case of:

cancer known ‘among’ them.’ { want td get np:
there, live with them for 4 year, and #2e if the
opinions we started tq resch in gurl earlier, lab

studies were valid,”
The night before my' trend left for Baffin we
talked hour after hour, and thy eyes grew wider

in amazement at gome of the stories he cold me
about ‘the interference by 'big companies tr

NFB makes Canada week a fun time!

The National Film Board will give community
groups and organizations priority access to its
large collection of the best films on Canada for
their Canada Week events. . -

' “The collection includes not only NFB. films,
but CBC productions, as well as private industry
films,” explains NFB Canada Week coordinator,
Sandy Burnett. ,

“Films tell our story” is the NFB’s Canada
Week slogan that spearheads this special
community outreach promotion. mt

And under the same banner, NFB staff in the

27 regional distribution offices across Canada,
will stage various film events and free public
screening in each region of the country.

In Ottawa, in the east end of Confederation
Park, the NFS is setting up a geodesic dome
which, during Canada Week, will be “Cine
Dome” - a theatre about as big as an Olympic
swimming pool -- 80 feet in diameter and 20 feet
high, eapabie of holding some 200 people at a

eg.

The program of continuous screenings is made
up of seven-and-a-half hours of different films.

Highlights include the 1978 Academy Award
winners, Sand Castle and I'll Find a Way, as well
as other award-winning NFB recent releases,

NFB regional productions, government spon- .

sored films and private industry films.
. Highlights include the 1978 Academy Award
winners,

In the, B.C, region there will he outdoor
screenings in Vancouver's Stanley Park, as well
as film showings at the NFB Theatre in con-
junction with the Victoria Folkfest, and a week of
Canadian films at Victoria’s PmPherson
Playhouse.

In the Prairie Region, Edmonton will hold a

OTTAWA OFFBEAT

by Richard Jackson

__ Ottawa,- It’s taken nearly 15 years to emerge --
slowly, from the days when former Liberal
Prime Minister Lester Pearson brought in the
Bilingualism and Biculturalism policy followed :
by the Official Languages Act - and now, sud-
denly, the English-French issue is out in the open
on the floor of Parliament.

And surprisingly, it was the Liberals who
dragged it out of the closet. |

They kept it there, partially hidden for years,

under the taboo that to merely mention it was to

be a bigot. - ;
. To suggest that English Canada was being
ripped off for the profit, privilege and pleasure of

Quebec was to be a racist, the Liberals piously

lectured.

What was even worse, they warned from their
lofty platform was that any protest by the
English majority would imperil national unity.

So except for the infrequent outburst of
complaint from the Opposition, it was all very,
very and almost officially hush-hush.

Each time the Opposition questioned the
wisdom of subordinating every other -national
interest to the appeasement of Quebec in ‘the
name of unity, it was chided for unpatriotic in-

temperance.

’ provincial. deals.

special screening of the award-winning: NFB
feature film J.A. Martin, Photographe. In
Calgary there will be a six-day film festival

celebrating ‘the spirit of toi et moi”, and there ‘the ‘majority of our neigh-

will be daily screenings in the NFB theatres in
Regina, Saskatoon and Winnipeg.

For the Ontario Region, in Toronto there-will
be daily free public screenings in the NFB
theatre and at Harbourfront, as well as mobile
cenemas at various shopping centres.

Outdoor film shows are planned for North Bay,
Ellict Lake, Sault Ste-Marie, Sudbury, Stugeon
Falls, Kirkland Lake and Timmins.

The Thunder Bay region will see a special
circuit of Canadian Film Awards winners and
Kitchener, Hamilton, London and Kingston will
have free public screenings either at -NFB
theatres or outdoor screenings via a mobile
cinema.

In the Quebec Region, the NFB has a special
Pavillion at Man and His World where
screenings will begin in three cinemas during
Canada Week and continue for the rest of the
summer, There will also be outdoor film
showings in Old Montreal and at Montreal’s Pare
Lafontaine, = t

In the Atlantic Region, there will be. film
screenings at various locations in Halifax,
Fredericton and St. Joh,. Moncton will screen
films on the theme of ‘‘les acadiens et les franco-
manitobains”,

In Newfoundland there will be special
screenings at campgrounds in national parks

and in St, John’s, beginning during Canada Week

and continuing for the summer. .
On P.E.L,, there will be a series of screenings
in Charlottetown. .

” Quebec still gets
favoured treatment —

Of course it was none of John Roberts’
business, being a provincial affair.
No matter, he. smeared Premier Davis as

- cynical and shabby for refusing the demands of

French-Canadian activists -- demonstrating at
a Park and on Parliament Hill —- for their
bd | ts,-- -

He said not a word about abrogated English _

rights in Levesque’s Quebec, nor even of the
minority trespass of majority English rights in
Eastern and Northern Ontario. | .

Roberts' serving of suddenly acceptable
provocation in the French-English issue was

‘pretty wealt tea against the strong stuff poured .

by Transport Minister Otto Lang. He accused

the Conservatives of using “lies and deceptions”' .

to feed “hatred” in English Canada of Quebec,
And ‘get this: included in those “lies and
deceptions,’’ lamented Lang, was the Opposition

. gravel section.

claim that Quebec was being “grossly favored’: -

in the federal government’s grants programs.

The government's own figures routinely show
that Quebec customarily skims the cream, . In
grants, in make-work contracts, in custom and
tariff concessions, and as always, in special
“Quebec is different from the others’ federal-

research -- espetiall

in the publication pf

research that might abpaar harmful to the safle

of their product.

He was. strongly against ~under-anm, #us-
tain] chemirals ‘and ©
t, Canadian Eskimos

perspirants that used

metallic substances. As
and northern Indian tribes did not use them. My’:

friend felt that the harimful pulistanees were
absorbed by the underanm lipp . pial that
der a

connected to the breast.

and deodorants trapped

udhl sprays
s#igre cup

4 '

_induced absorption into the breast tispte ~ aad

could cause cancer. Underarm hdir'is

re, By

nature, for very good reasons, he td me
Today, when women reynove und¢rarm

hair,
then use anti-perspirants that cantdin “¢

chemicals I believe are cancer-dagsing -- the

chemicals have thousands of. rea¢y-mp

openings to enter the lytnply anc’ breast tigsye

systems.

- The next day I took my sriend to the airvort,
and watched as his flying bpak + 2 PBY! (Cansg)
clumsily took to the air anf hendéd a thousbrd

miles farther north,

That was the year Canhdal Idst bik lange bir-
craft in the North, One, [lrecall.!crashed avdr
the Alert, when a chute, wsédlin; an by torre

fouled the rudder, killing all teu abeard.

least

four of the six airplanes were Cansod.A never
heard of, or from, my friepd again. His card,
. that I kept in my wallet for yesirp, ¢venthally gat

lost.

But I thought of him, agaih, priy the other day,
when I picked up an anti-perspirant.c
the bathroom. It was my late wifels

ter in
yourite

sei tates EM LITT

“Aluminum chlorate 24) pér

LETTERS

Family protests
neighbourhood Pub

Dear Sirs;

Thank you for the chance
fo register our family's
objection in regard to the
proposed Neighbourhood
Pub at the Council Meeting
of June 12, Unfortunately,
we had no time. to prepare
any sort of formal paper as
we only found out about the
issue late Monday afternoon.

Our family has bought

. Property within the one-half
proposed

mile radius of the

pub. We plan tobuilda home
in this area as itis somewhat -
rural, yet close to schools.

‘bours are families with.
children, unlikely to frequent
a neighbourhood pub, With |
only about 60 families in the
area, the pub customers’
would have to come from
other areas. Already the
paved part of Halliwell
Avenue has become a ‘drag
strip” and continues on the
We are
frequently concerned for our
children and others who
travel the road to school, and

ride bicycles on the street
after school. With the
Uplands Elementary School
within the half-mile radius
we cannot understand how a
pob could be approved for
this area. If a
establishment is constructed
this adds impaired drivers to
the speeders and the reaults
are obvious. |
As to the proposal of a
“country club’, we feel it is
a joke among the residents,
In our opinion, we have
sufficient recreation Ir
Terrace, a nearly every
ocal sports group seems to
be funded: We -fifid it dif-
ficult .tc* belleve the
recreational aspécts-will be
developed, only the drinking
establishment. .
In our conversations with
the other residents living in
the area, we neither want or
need a neighbourhood pub.
We are very 5 the
council would have approved
this proposal without regard
to the residents involved.
Sincerely,
Matt & Kaye Ehses

Lions have given ever 100 busses !
for the handicappea

The Editor

Dear Sir:

May | thank you for the
space provided in your paper
dated Tuesday, May 2ard,
1578 re- Lions donation of a
Bus to the Terrace Child
Development Centre,

_ The implication is the gift
came from the Centennial
‘Lions Club: when in fact this
bus is one in a system of over
one_hundred such “Easter
Seal Bus’a throughout the

province of British
Columbia.
Easter Seal campaigns are

,4 major source of revenue
for the British Columbia
Lions Soclety for Crippled

Children; a society that-

provides transportation,
emergency ambulatory
service, rehabilitation
campa, and extended health

eare to the handicapped. - ..

- Each Lions © . club
- throughout our province is
but a small cog in this very
large and continuing’ wheel,
The. .bus “represents. a
tangible asset in our com-
munity; but ls 9 monetarily
small account of the -ex:

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Reproduction Is not permitted withovt ihe written
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ipenditure of the “Soclety” in
Publicity for a service club

is, in effect, an accounting of ~

monies within a. community
to that community. . For this

space and opportunity, we -
think here of”

members of the
media; but. upmost in our

. minds is to thank the many

patrons and supporters -lo
‘our various projects; and

pro,
have them look with pride -

and appreciation on the
accomplishments of

many
' the Lions clubs within our

community. For without the

suppart of the community; |

there would be »o service
eluba for such provisions,
Thank .

you.

Frank Donahue

President,
Lions

Editor's Note: We
apologize for the erroneous
“implication Mr. Donahue
mentioned, but the’ mix-up
was the resul} of the
omission of a story ta go
along with the hus picture

. which would have explained -
more about the Lions’

generoiis donation.

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