Page 4, The Herakt, Thursday. October 26, 1978

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Do you have any

dangerous drugs

No one can argue with a campaign to prevent
small children from accidenta! poisoning. It Is
the kind of thing everyone supports.

_ Local drug stores are involved In a project
designed to do just that.. They are asking for not
just your moral support but some active par-
ticipation. What they would like you to do is to
take a look through your medicine cabinet and
take out any drugs you are not using.

The pharmacists stress that they do not want
you to just throw the partially empty, outdated
medicine out. They request that you bring the
drugs down to one of the locat drug stores so they
may be safely and completely disposed of.

In addition, the pharmacists are recom-
mending that people keep’ a small bottle of
Ipecac at a cost of $1.49 on hand. This is.a drug
that will induce vomiting and is specially
designed to be taken by small children in an

emergency.

As part of a province-wide promotional
campaign to encourage people to dispose of

potentially harmfull substances, the drug stores _

are participating in a scheme In which those who
bring in old medicine or buy Ipecac receive an
entry form. This enters you in a draw with the
first prize being a trip to Mazatiand. Now we
knaw you do not peed this incentive to do such an

tial thing as

help protect smail children for

€s6 gee ey AT te :
ma. BOF Tt le” Bhwaye nice to win’

something.

So let us see if we can prevent any possible
tragedies of this kind in this area. And it would

be nice if

someone

from here won.

Grain strike
still poses
problems

WINNIPEG {CP} — The
Great Lakes shipping strike
is over, but the Canadian
wheat board's problems
have just begun a3 it at-
tempts to make up for lost
time in the grain export

Program.

“The question now is
whether the lag time can be
made up,” Dave Suderman,
the board’s information
director, said Tuesday alter
Parliament ordered striking
marine engineers back to
their jobs on the ships that
haul grain from Lakehead
terminals to transfer
elevators on the St.
Lawrence River.

"If the weather behaves
better than it did last year,
then we havea chance, But it
will be very, very hard to
catch up.”

Suderman said board
transportation department
officials expected some of
the 15 ships stalled for the
last week at Thunder Bay,
Ont., to be ‘under the spout”
es early as Tuesday.

“They hope to be back in
full operation by Wed-
nesday."’

The strike caused a
backlog of about 300,000
tonnes (11 million bushels) of
grain at the Lakehead.
Hased on current export
wheat prices, it’s worth
about $50 million.

It will take maximum
effort to clear the backlog,
Much depends on how long
shipping can continue before
freeze-up which occurred
last year about Dec. 20. The
official close of the St.
Lawrence Seaway is Dec, 15
but if weather and other
factors permit, that deadiine
is sometimes unofficially
extended.

Sales commitments still to
be met total absut four
million tonnes, a formidable
load under normal con-
ditions.

Suderman said when the
system is working full tilt, up
to 75,000 tonnes of grain a
day can beshipped. Based on
a five-day work week and
about nine weeks left before pat
reeze-up, means
1.48 million tonnes could be
handled.

The problem is com-
pounded by the fact the

strike disrupted the normal

shipping cycle which means
those ships left idle during
the strike will be limited in
the number of times they can
take loads to St, Lawrence
elevators and return for

more.

Another board official said
some of the sales committed
for the strike period already
have had to be deferred and
the possibility of more
deferrments cannot be
discounted.

There are a couple of
possibilities left to the board
in boosting shipping
capacity. Arrangements
could be made for loading on
weekends and some grain

could be moved by railtothe Dec

East, although that is much
costlier.

An additional problem is
ensuring that sufficient
supplies from the Prairies

arrive at the Lakehead for

export.

Suderman said that during
the strike rail shipments into
Thunder Bay didn't reach
the totals hoped for, About
one million tonnes of all
grains arrived, but only
about 300,000 tonnes were for

export,

During the strike, between
900 and 1,100 rail cars were
unloaded daily, about 200 to
300 fewer than the board had
hoped.

Suderman said the reason
for the low shipments was
primarily a feeling that
there was less urgency when
the strike began.

Is
anyo

out

By Greg

current interest in

Man has always

creatures living i

meet those beings.

my privacy, but a
astronomer always

Il HOPE NOT

there

ne

Middleton

| am somewhat bemused by all the

unidentified flying ob-

jects, extra-terrestrial life and the in-
creasing desire to contact them.

it was some years ago that | wrote an
article about a fellow ‘in the Vancouver
Island city of Duncan, who ran a magazine
for UFO buffs. | recollect that he had seen

strange __ things.
watched the lights in the

sky at night and poadered the existence of

other worlds. That

doesn’t strike me as strange at all, What |
think is odd is that anyone would want to

Now i’m not a recluse, although Ido fancy

statement made by an
comes back to me. He

' stated that it would probably be unwise for
us to try and contact any extra-terrestrial
life forms. His thesis was that if they were
capable of coming close enough to receive

HERMAN

“You come 50 million miles and all you can tell
me is, ‘Stick that meat on the fire; iil taste better’?”

our transmissions or see any signs of us,
they would have to be more technologically
advanced than we are. He cited a number of
examples of what happens when a more |
technologically advanced civilization meets
a less technologically advanced society.

We might, he concludéd; be better off
sticking quietly to our corner of the universe

and keeping quiet.

As for ail the sightings, he had to admit.
that whenever there was one he was hard
pressed to avoid the temptation to Jaunch a
kife with candles on it in the dark of the
night. 1t was all he could do, he said, to keep
from dressing up in aluminum foil and
in front of someone’s

running across
headlights.

In the rather extensive U.S. Air Force
report | read on UFO’s most of the sightings
were explained by natura! causes and
misinterpretations of them. The rest were
discounted as hoaxes. One, however could
not be explained. The book concluded that
this didn't mean It was an extra-terrestrial
space craft. It simply said they couldn’‘t
exptain the photo of the saucer-like ship as
either a known phenomenon, a hoax or a

fake.

01978 Univer Prem Syndicote

10-24

TORONTO (CP)
Canadians are consuming
more fish, according to
recent statistics but the
federal government would
like them to eat even more.

As a result, the federal de-
partment of fisheries and
Environment Canada have
designated November .as
Canadian Fish and Seafood
Month.

‘Besides being nutritious,
fish meals may be cheaper
than meat, Economists with
the fisheries department
suggest that consumers
should take a harder look at
frozen fish counters in their

WASHINGTON (CP) — It
was described by many as
the most important piece of
U.S, congervation legislation
of the century, but when
Congress ended its seasion,
the Alaskan lands bill
became merely waste paper.

Largely because of the
efforts of one Alaskan
senator, Democrat Mike
Gravel, the bill President
Carter described as his first
environmental priority
never reached the Senate

oor. .

As a result, the fate of a
chunk of Alaskan land that is
about the size of the province
of Newfoundland is left up in
the alr with a freeze on
development due to expire

» 18.

In blocking the bill,
however, Gravel has not
ensured that developers will

OTTAWA (CP) — Women
who are the sole support of
their families are becoming
a growing proportion of the
country’s poor, the
Economie Council of Canada
Says in its annual report
released Wednesday.

The council, a federal
advisory agency, says in a
discussion of unemployment
and financial hardship that
such women nol only lack
uther sources of income bul

1 wae are eh

local supermarkets, because
the variety of both domestic
and imported fish products
has increased. eo

Assessing quality can be
tricky in selecting frozen
fish, the economists say,

Mf the product has been
kept in storage too long, or
stored at too high a tem-
perature, it loses quality.

This is apparent. by
toughened flesh, bland flavor
or off-flavors in certain
varieties, :

The economists say that .

freezing can hold in the good
‘quality of a fishery product
for an extended period but it

’ *products

IPULAR

“FISH NOW:P

Eating habits changing

can't improve it.

Low temperature and good
packaging are the guardians
of frozen-fish quality.

“Our best frozen-fish
processors package their
tightly with
moisture and vapor-proof
wrappings, leaving little or
no air space between the
product and the wrappings,”
a department spokesman

said. “But despite their

efforts, moisture can

escape."

Moisture and qcality are
lost. when a product is
thawed and then refrozen.

The presence of frost or ice

NEVER SAW SENATE

Alaskan land bill fails

start rolling into the land
before the end of the year,
analysts say.

Carter and
Secretary Cecil Andrus are
delermined to see the next
Congress pass legislation to
protect a large portion of
Alaska.

In the meantime, they are
apparently going to flex the
muscles of executive
authority to protect most or
all of the lands in question.

Congress imposed the
freeze on development of the
Alaskan wilderneas in 1971,
believing that within seven
years they would be able to
decide which parts of the
state would be set aside for
natlonal parka and wildlife
refuges and which should be
opened to mining, timber
and energy development.

It failed to meet that dead-

Interior .

line, however, when Gravel
blocked a compromise that
would have put about 96
million acres of Alaska
under protective categories,
such as national parks,
wilderness areas and
wildlife ranges.

Gravel then blocked an

, effort to approve a one-year

extension of the development
freeze.

To keep the developers out
until Congress can act,
Andrus is working on
methods which would in-

‘yolve executive action to

protect the land.

Analysts say the adminis-
tration has a variety of
options to accomplish this
goal, including relying on
little-used legislation such as
the Antiquities Act of 1906

‘” and other laws to declare the

land in question to be

BECOMING COMMON
Woman as the breadwinner

in most cases earn sub-
stantially less than men.

Among other findings in a
section on social programs:

—Unemployment alone is
an unreljable indicator of
financial hardship and
inequity.

~The benefits of social
programs such as uhem-
ployment insurance, pen-
sions, family allowances and
medical care have gone
almost as much ty’ e-

and upper-income persons a8
to the poor.

The report says lower in-
eomes earned by women
usually mean their unem-
ployment insurance benefits
are lower than those paid to
men. This is In spite of the
fact jobless women face
longer periods of unem-
ployment than males.

“In 1975, unattached males
in the labor force received
about one-third more total

crystals inside a package or
bag is evidence that thawing
has occurred.

Thawing can result from
careless handling in the
store or during transport.

“Look for firm glossy
appearance and fresh ‘un-
faded color,”* the spokesman
said. “Avoid fillets which
show white patches in-
dicating freezer burn.”

When shopping, pick up
the fish product just before
going to the check-out
counter, Take it directly
home and store it in your
freezer until you are ready to
prepare it,

national monuments or other
land categories now exempt
trom the freeze deadline.

The question now is what
will happen in the next
Congress.

Observers say the com-
promise legislation blocked
by Gravel in the closing days
of the 95th Congress may be
introduced again next year.

That compromise, which
also would have surrendered
some 75 million acres of

federal land to the state, ia

supported by Alaska’s other
senator, _ Republican Ted
Stevens.

The bill also is viewed as
acceptable by the ad-
ministration and other key
legislators, including some
who had supported the far
more stringent version
passed by the Howe of
Representatives.

income than did their female
counterparts,” it adds.

“Among the male-headed
families who experienced
unemployment, the average
family income in 1975 was
nearly $5,-000 higher than the
income of female-headed
families with no unem-
ployment."

The study used Statistics
Canada low-income levels
which in 1875 were $3,481 a
year for individuals -

Difficult

task ahead |

LONDON (CP) — Prime
Minister James Callaghan
isn't having an easy ride as
he attempts to guide Britain
into a unified European
monetary system.

Reluctance appears to be
shaping up among the richer
partners within the
European Economic
Community (EEC) to
Callaghan's conditions for
joining.

At the same time, he’s run:
ning into outright opposition
within his own party from
factions that don’t want
Britain to join at any price.

The monetary system is
designed to stabilize EEC
currencies. It would involve
development of a new
European currency unit
based on the weighted
averages of the nine EEC
currencies and ultimately a
common monetary fund to
which each of the members
would contribute part of its
reserves. Leaders of the nine
countries hope to work out
final details when they meet
in Brussels on Dee, 4-5,

At this meeting each is ex-
pected to declare whether
his country will participate
in the monetary system,
scheduled to go Inte action on
Jan. 1.

First, however, the EEC
leaders will have to resolve
the demands by Britain,
Italy and Ireland for ad-
ditional measures to
strengthen their economies.

These three Jess-affluent
partners argue that ob-
serving more strict ex-
change rates would impose
tough constraints on them
and that these must be offset
if existing disparities in
economic performance are
not to widen within the nine.

Britain appears to have
given up on any serious hope
of persuading the richer
partners to agree to a large
new transfer of resources.

Instead, it is concentrating
on trying to secure a reform
of the EEC budget to ensure
more equitable distribution
of existing funds.

At their meeting in
Bremen last July, EEC
government leaders were
reluctant, but they went
along with the Callaghan

- demand that studies should -
. be held to determine how |

Callaghan

with Callaghan, Benn said}: *:

British objectives might be

system itself, Pr
Callaghan clearly w rs
like some commitment

his partners to help take tia:’s
heat off at home, where the, 2
opposition is led by Anthony: ’;

Wedgwood-Benn, left-wing

secretary of state for energy. = : ;

Benn, who could develop :
into a serious competitor to :
as prime :

minister, says the West :
Germans want the system :

‘in order to cripple their |

competitors." :
The French want it, he::

says, in order to keep up with: :

the Germans. ie
In a direct confrontation:

aoree

‘It would mean that -@- +
British government could: .

only get permission (from its:'S 9

partners) to devalue—if we’ -

wanted to—if we made big: :

cuts in public expenditure.: -
“We ought to make it clear:

in the queen's speech that we

In the meantime, thera is:
disagreement even among:
the experts. og

The economic models: :
group of companies, in- :
ternational: forecasters.
based in London, say the ~
timing for Britain to jeln.-
could not be more oppartune.”

If closer monetary links in
Europe are ta be forged and
if Britain were to join in, this
was the time. Nevertheless,
the group forecast that
Britain would not join:
because of the risks involved
and because if offered few’
advantages. ee

In Bonn, however, West-.
Germany's five leading:
economic research institutes
published a report warning.
that conditions for
establishing the monetary
system are lesa favorable
now than in 1972, when the
joint float was set up.

There was no possibility of
the EEC member states
reducing the gaps between
their inflation rates by izh4d-
Shw' amount to make the-

“proposed system work, they

said in their joint auturnn-
report. Sa Bae

ath
tee

President Carter's ant:-
inflation program was
dismissed on world
money markets Wed-
nesday as too little, too
late, and the United
States dollar plunged to
new lows in heavy selling.

Foreign exchange

to limit wages and prices
voluntarily was woefully
inadequate to block the
dollar's 18-month decline.

“We had not expected
much,” commented one
Swigs dealer, ''but we had
not expected so little.”’

Gold soared to record
prices in typical reaction
to the dollar's troubles.

Despite the drubbing
the dollar took on foreign
exchanges, Carter's
action won some praise.

West German govern-
ment spokesman Klaus
Boelling said the anti-
inflation program was
additional evidence of
Carter's ‘'strong deter-
mination to achieve the
aim of effectively fighting
inflation.”

He sald ihe plan was
another “contribution to
realizing the pledges
made at the Bonn eco-
nomic summit" last July,
attended by Carter and
the heads of other
Western governments.

As the U.S. dollar fell to
an alltime low fixing of

. 1.7820 marks in Frank-
furt, down from 1.6085
marks late Tuesday,

German government
shared market skep-
ticism about the dollar's
future.

“We are keeping our
fingers crossed,"' he said.
“We have a wait-and-see
attitude.”

Carter’s plan |
impresses few :

dealers said Carter's plan -

Boelling denied the West _

7

Professor im |
Avelof of the London 7:
School of Economics °°
commented: "I don't see "
why the dollar's so low— "]*
it's a mystery to 1
economists. The United *
States is now one of the’
cheapest countries in the’!
world.” : *

Despite their views, the-!:
dollar sank to record lows: | ~
against the Germani4-
mark, the Dutch guilder,-2
Austrian schilling, ‘4-
Belgian frane, Danishé
and Norwegian kroners.:i7} 7

it fell more than two!’ .
yen in Tokyo to close at a’ |=
postwar low of 180.20 yen. °°
Dealers said trading-
volume was near an all-::8<
time peak, reaching!:}:
$1.136 million and the-#

ee eee

Centrak Bank of Japani.f: |

had to buy more than $7002:§:;
Million to maintain the'-#:
dollar at around 180 yen.v:d1:
European state banka:
also were supporting the, }.
American currency, a7) I

“It is doubtful that the, |.
program is feasible under , |.
the current U.S, economic...J.
situation,”’ one Tokyo,,
dealer said of the Carter
plan. &

wi

Another Tokyo dealerj:.4
said there was nothing int;
Carter’s program ef- 4:
fective enough to stabilize,;;}:
the dollar, which has been.;.}
weakened by inflation
and large U.S. trade

ye Nae

we

deficits. y:
“Carter gave the ball to!"'1.
someone else—he is

always giving the ball to
someone else,’ one: +]:
Amsterdam dealer said,"]
criticizing the voluntary

element in Carter's bid to

limit wage Increases to*'
seven per cent and price,
rises ta 5.75 per cent. -

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