Page 20 Medics probe oxygen lack The daring young man on the flying trapeze never flewthrough | § the alr with more ease than al lot of difficult words like hypoxia, hypercapnia, and nasal cannulea, being used at the annual meeting of the Canadian Tuberculosis Association held in Vancouver this week, “Never mind the difficult words,’? is the advice of C,W,L. Jeanes, executive secretary of|f the Canadian Tuberculosis Assos ciation, “The thing for theordins ary person to do is try never to be a chest physician's problem, "The doctors are talkingabout oxygen, Everyone needs oxygen, r brains, our muscles, our digestive systems needit. Awake or asleep we need it, We need it 24 hours a day, As long as we are healthy our lungs deliver it to the blood and the blood carries it through the body, “The trouble is that more and more people are treating their lungs badly, mostly by smoking too much, Their lungs lose the ability to contract. They can’t squeeze out the carbon dioxide which the blow picked up while delivering oxygen, The carbon dioxide fills the space needed for fresh air and oxygen, The patient gasps, His whole body is crying out for oxygen. “The doctors are taking about ways to getoxygentohim. Hyper- baric oxygen is oxygen withpres= sure behind it, Pressure and skill —for it has to be the right amount of oxygen, Too much can do harm. “Prevention is the best way to cope. Stop smoking, especi- ally cigarettes. If youlive where| § there is air pollution, join the movement to get it corrected,’ Dr, Jeanes concluded. Talking too loudly? Stop your car The strains on a car driver are greater than those on an airline pilot, says the B.C, Automobile Association, BCAA says that extens| | sive heart tests have shown there is more heart strain on a driver| @- motoring 250 miles than ona jet pilot in a sixehour flight. Nothing the well-known axiom that the tired driver is the acci=| J dent-prone driver, the auto club offers these ways of telling when you’re too tired to drive safely: e Do your legs have muscle] j spasms or twitches? ¢ Do you find yourself talk- ing to your companion ina loudere than-normal voice? ¢ Do you find yourself tapping nervously on the steering wheel, or fiddling unnecessarily with the radio? . eK you're driving at night, do you see things coming at you, such a8 the shadows of trees along the highway? If you can answer “yes’’ to any of these, a rest is overdue, | | The only sane thing to do is to} F pull into the nearest rest area or Stop your car on the side of the road, Alcan produces 15 million tons of aluminum MONTREAL ~The Aluminum Company of Canada, Ltd, (May 15) produced its 15 millionth ton of primary aluminum since itbegan production at Shawinigan on 18 October, 1901, Alcan, Canada’s pioneer alum-| ji inum company, needed morethan forty years to produce its first million tons, The last million tons was produced in approxi-| ff mately 13 months. - How much is 15 million tons o£ aluminum? Enough to bridge the distance from Montreal to London, England with a slab 48 feet wide and 18 inches thick, Alcan operates the world’s lar. gest aluminum smelter at Are : vida, Quebec, the world’s second largest at Kitimat, B.C., and others atAlma, Beauhornois and Shawinigan, all in Quebec, I: has fabricating and sales facilie ties across the country, Canada -is today, and has boon ’ for many years, the second lave|p gest.aluminum producing country |§ in the world, Waiters just twiddle thumbs" CALGARY (CP) — Employees |f - In food servico establishments |§- ' work’ at. only 30 per cent of |] ' thelr pfoductive capacity, says {E food service |@ : director at the Univorsity of /§.:.-, _~ Maryland, "+ food service bemingr too many : omployoos- “si around doing .* Hitdle or nothing?" 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