PAGE 2, THE HERALE, Tuesday, November 22, 1977

Co-ordinated
spraying

OTTAWA (CP) —
Environmental groups
from the Maritimes,
Quebec and British Co-
lumbia have called a one-
day meeting here
Wednesday to coordinate
their opposition to the
spraying against spruce
budworm. in their
provinces.

“In the past, most of
the groups fought their
campaigns in isolation,
unaware of the tactics of
their colleagues in neigh-
boring provinces,” Dick
Pratt of the Canadian
Nature Federation said.

Environmental groups
have opposed the annual
spraying to attack the
voracious insect because
they say chemical in-
secticides kill birds and
insects and are suspected

of affecting fish spawning
grounds. Nova Scotia
researchers have linked
spraying with Reye's
syndrome, a rare but
usually fatal children's
disease.

The groups hope to
discuss Othe’ issue with
Environment Minister
Len Marchand.

The meeting will
discuss the federal role in
spraying and whether
alternative forestry
techniques are available

to control spruce bud-.

worm.

Provincial govern-
ments authorize the
spraying. The Nova
Scotia government has
stopped spraying but
New Brunswick, Quebec
and British Columbia still
spray.

Schumacher’ riding
holding rematch

CALGARY (CP) —
Gordon Taylor’s cam-
aign director said
Runday a decision by the
executive of the Bow
River Progressive
Conservative Riding
Association to call a new
nomination meeting will

be appealed.
The executive has ruled
invalid an October

meeting which saw sit-
ting MP Stan Schuma-
cher lose the party’s
nomination in the next
federal election in the
new riding to Taylor.
Ken Styles, campaign
director for Taylor, a
former Social Credit
cabinet minister who now
sits in the Alberta legisla-
ture as an independent,

said he was “horrified”
at the decision.

“T don’t understand it.
How can 25 people
overturn the decision of
9007"

Styles said the ruling
will be appealed to the
rty’s national —
ea quarters, the riding
association and, if

necessary, the courts.

Schumacner, who now
holds the seat for
Palliser, had contested
the result after the Oct. 23
meeting in Strathmore,
Alta., awarded the
nomination to Taylor. He
said he was “happy and
gratified’’ at the decision
and will work hard for the
new nomination meeting.

Pneumonia
vaccine approved

WASHINGTON _
(Reuter) — A new vac-
cine to protect the
chronically ill from

eumonia was approved

londay by the Food and
Dru Administration
(FDA).

The product, called
Pneumovax, is 90 per
cent effective in m-
munizing against 14 types
of pneumococcal
preumonia, the Merck

arp and Dohme divi-
sion of Merck and Co., the
vacecine's developer,

says.

It is the first vaccine to
be approved in the U.S.
for this type of bacterial
pneumonia and will be
available early next year.

Pneumonia is the fifth-
largest cause of death in
the country and the
pheumoccocal type ac-
counts for a major share
of the 25,000 lives that are
taken each year.

The FDA said wide use
of antibiotics has helped
reduce fatalities from
pneumonia, but the old
and chronically ill still

Skills

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Linguistics and liter
skills often take a bac
seat to literature in the
training of English teach-
ers, the provincial
government’s committee
on teacher education was
told Saturday.

Joyanne Landers and
John McVicker of the
British Columbia English
Teachers’ Association
said at the committee's
public hearing that the
majority of English
teachers have had their
training in the English
departments of
university faculties ol
arts, rather than faculties
of education.

In those departments,
they said, there is vir-

Socreds look for.

aye.

The election of a new
resident who will likel

a the Britis
Columbia Social Credit
Party into the next
provincial election
campagin will be among
the highlights at this
year's party convention
at the Vancouver Hyatt
Regency Hotel,
November 24th to 26th.
Two candidates have so
far declared themselves
— Kathy Almas of North
Vancouver and Les Keen
of Coquitlam — and both

have been actively
campaigning in con-
stituencies throughout
the province.

The theme of this
year's convention, ac-
cordi to rly
president Peter Hynd-
man who will not be
seeking re-election, is
“Work With Your
Government” with
emphasis on encouraging
“maximum participation
by our members in the
political process. The
government is seeking
valuable feedback at this
important mid-point in its
first term.”

The convention —

exdpected to attract close
to 1,000 delegates — wilt
repea wo popular
feedback sessions in-
troduced last year: a
three-hour As the
Cabine: question and
anwer session on the
Friday night and a Meet
the Caucus brdeakfast on
the Saturclay morning. In
addition, more than 100
resolutions from around
the province on a wide
variety of policy matters
have been received to
date.
Election of the
president will take place
at 10:30 Saturday mor-
ning, at which time
rominations will b made
from the floor,

Both declared can-
didates have criss-
crossed the province over
the past six weeks
seeking delegate support.

Mr. Keen, 48, who was
campaign manager in the
Coquitlam campaign that
resultted in the 1975 upset
victory over former
Premier Dave Barrett,
says his strength is
organizational ability and
enthusiaam.

“My number one
priortiy would be gearing
up now for the next
election,’” he says. “We
must build and sustain
membership, organize
and activate all con-
tituencies, with special
effort in the = con-
stituencies we lost last
time and in those where
we won but only be small
margins,’

Keen points to his
experience and results,
not oniy in the 1975
election but since in the

itions of president of
Coquitlam cinstituency
and as the party's
regional director for the
Fraser Valley.

Mrs. Almas, 36, is a
seasoned campaigner in
the North Vancouver-
Seymour constituency.
She began her political
activity as a member of
the Youn Socreds and has
worked in all aspects of

olitical organization

om canvasser and poll
captain to constituency
canvass chairman and
assistant campaign
manager during the 1975
election campaign.

"J have always
believed that the active
constituency

organization, offering as
it does the greatest op-
portunity for individual
work, has been the key to
the success our party has
had," shje says. “The
new president must take
on this job with the
knowledge that we are
probably less than two
years from another
election and tnat the
party organization must
prepared to give
strong support to can-
didates in all con-
stituencies.”’

Mrs. Almas stresses
her belief in the im-
portance of the ‘work
ethic’? to political
organization and her
“personal and active
working relationship with
members of the party
throughout the provin-
ru it)

e. . age «
Registration, the an- IN British Columbia

nual convention of the
Women's Auxiliary and a
welcoming social evening
will be held Thursday,
with opening ceremonies
set for 9:30 a.m. Friday.

new president

Premier Bennett's
keynote
delegates is scheduled for
10:00 a.m. Discussion of
resolutions under the
chairmanship of Leslie
Peterson, Q.C., former
Attorney General, will
take place Friday af-
ternoon from 2:00 to 5:45
and on Saturday from
8:00 til 10:30 am. and
2:15 to 5:00 p.m.

The convention will end
with a Saturday evening
dinner dance featuring
another fund-raising "fun
auction” similar to one
held last year

remain particulary
vuinerable.
The company said

healthy young adults and
children, who with the
help of antibiotics can
fight off pneumonia,
usually would not be
candidates for the vac-
cine.

The FDA said
preliminary studies
Suggest the vaccine is
also useful in treating
siete cell th anemia
patients since they carry
an increased chance of
getting pneumonia.

It added that studies
are in progress to
determine the effeec-
tiveness of the vaccine in
preventing middle ear
infection in infants.

Since it is entirely
derived from inactivated
or killed bacteria, the
vaccine itself cannot
cause pneumonia, the
FDA said.

Field trials of the
product, involving some

30,000 volunteers, began
in 1973

TORONTO (CP) —
After 17 years behind
bars, Clyde Barre‘: still
says crime pays—be-
ause the victims make it

easy,
Barrett, 42, said in a
recent interview that he
is starting a one-man
anti-crime campaign
after years of committin
pasting bad ne fraud,
BS. a wes and
tealing credit Cards and
utomobiles.

A native of Newfoun-

between London, Ont..
Toronto, Ottawa and
Montreal where he would
drive through well-to-do

a

neighborhoods in
very van. He would

Crime pays

Barrett said he often
obtained credit cards by
befriending businessmen
in bars. Once a new
friend gave him the keys
to his apartment, which
he robbed before the man
arrived home.

He said he wants to see
more emphasis on crime
prevention.

Some of his advice
seems sbvious, abut ‘most
people ignore it and that's
what keeps people like
me in business.”’

“You should always
make your home look
lived-in when you're out,
and install a burglar
alarm. Neighbors will
just watch (what they
think are) delivery men
moving your stuff out
unless they hear an
alarm.”

Barrett also suggested
that women not carry
valuables in their purses
because of the danger of
purse-snatchers. it
card frends Eouid be
prevented by redesigning
them to include a picture
of their holder, he said.

take back seat in training

tually no instruction in
grammar or composition.
“English teachers
must be trained to teach
literacy skills, but mest
of them go into teaching
through a love of liter-
ature,” Ms. Landers said.
“Most are good readers,
but they sHould also be
good writers because it is
impossible to demand a
task of students if the
teachers don’t know it
well enough themselves.”
She and MeVicker said
many English teachers
have only one year of
education courses after
completing their
bachelor of arts degree in

nglish.

“Teachers should have
a greater background in
writing themselves, in
how to teach writing and
in linguistics than they
need to use,” Ms Landers
said. “At present, they
have to go out and find
ways of learning these
things—they're not being
taught.”
NEED SKILLS

MeVicker said he does
not object to teachers
having a good, general
auough a back ‘ound

rough an arts degree,
but that they also need to
become competent in
English-language skills

during those four years of
university.
“When an arts

graduate goes into fifth-
year education, he should

allowed to take all the
courses he needs,’ he
said, “I knew one who
couldn't take English as a

second language, reading
or writing courses be-

cause they clashed on his
timetable.”

Bryan Hambley,
chairman of the Ab-

botsford school board,
told the committee all
teachers, not just English
instructors, need a good
background in basic
literacy skills.

“We believe very
strongly that the ability
to read and comprehend
written material is the
ey to learning in every
discipline," he said. ‘‘Our
board recently passed a
policy that teachers with
courses in developmental
reading would be pre-
ferred over those who

haven't taken the
courses.
“In many: of the

‘elassrooms, teachers are
completely unable to deal

with rea difficulties _

of their students.”

OPTIONAL COURSES

In a brief to the com-
mittee, the Abbotsford
board said it had
examined some of the
education courses
outlined in the University
of B.C. calendar and
discovered) that two
reading courses offered
are optional.

The brief referred to
Education 472 and 474,
both secondary-education
courses that prepare
teachers for helping stu-
dents with reading in

Judi Madley, B.C.
director of Canadian

Parents for French, told
the committee that all

teachers should have

training in da (fecond
language an mc
teachers should be better
trained.

She said that by 1979
more than 1,000 students
will be enrolled in
LEcole Bilingue, Van-
couver's elementary
immersion French
school.

“There can be no
French teaching without
French teachers and
there are now not enough
qualified French teach-
ers to handle the ex-
pansion we are seeing in
B.C.,” she said. “While
the most extreme short-

_ age exists in immersion

schools, we understand
that more than 20 school
districts in B.C., which
have recently introduced
core French programs in
elementary schools, are
having to provide in-
tensive in-service
training to interested
teachers with _ little
knowledge of the French

language.”

PROGRAMS NEEDED
‘More teacher  in-
service programs were
called for by Lois
Meyerhoft of the Pacific
Association for Autistic
Children. She said
teachers are not taught
how to handle special
problems, such as autism
or other mental illnesses.

Star says RCMP
knew about plot

TORONTO (CP) — The
Star says former
solicitor-general Warren
Allmand .was told last
ear about a 1972 plot to

ijack a jet in Toronto.

The Star said in a stor
last Friday that RC
informers were in on the
lot, but Prime Minister

udeau called the
earlier réport “garbage”
and “preposterous.”

In a Montreal dispatch
taday, the news aper
says former Ch
commissioner Maurice
Nadon told Allmand in a
May 28, 1976, letter that
eight persons had been
“preparing an airplane
hijacking” in late 1972,

The goal of the
hijackers was to “‘free the
so-called (Quebec)
political prisoners” in jail
or the 1970 kidnapping

Gun-point
escape

BURNABY, B.C. (CP)
— A prisoner at the
Lower Mainland
Regional Correctional
Centre was captured
without resistance in an
apartment building this
morning several hours
after escaping at gun-
point from Vancouver
General Hospital.

Police said Bernard
Walters, 38, a United
States citizen, escaped
after he pulled a handgun
from under his hospital
clothing, and locked two
guards and a female
nurse in a room in the
hospital's security sec-

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