. brought on by the con-

‘the pollution is not reduced

the pollutants sulphur _ amd other particles. These

“os

?

Page 16, The Herat, Tuesday, Janvary 20, 198) -

Research so far, most notably by a joint Canada-

" OTTAWA (CP) — An invisible killer is creeping

- and fall as a mild acid in rain or snow.

slowly actoss North —_By itself, acid rain isnot U.S. scientific team, has America, gradually ster- really - dangerous to yielded only some basic ilixing lakes, injuring crops humans. Ita corrosive facts about the pollution

and forests and possibly

nature Is the hazard. and preliminary estimates threatening thousands of

“Drinking it won't ’ of the damage to the en-

lives, corrode your stomach vironment and fisheries | : Acidrain is that killer,a _—lining,""‘says Peter Toftof from acid rain.

nightmare created by the health depar:ment’s In, eastern North

industrial air pollution. chemical hazards bureau. America, several thousand Federal authorities are “Vinegar and salad takes and their inhabitants -

moving to fight the en- dressing are far more areslowly dying because of

acidic than what isin those acid raln. Salmom stocks in lakes." . several Nova Scotia rivers

But health officials‘are are gradually being assessing the risks to eliminated, Crops in highly humans from possible acidic areas are being

virommental destruction

taminants spewn into the air each year in Canada. They also are working

with the United States changes in drinking water damaged. government to make sure due to the effect of high Experts are even finding the same is done there. acidity on metal pipes. thatacidrain ruins new car

finishes. The U.S, Council oa Environmental Quality estimates acid rain, which

But scientists fear that {f They alsaare looking at the incidence of Jung disease

drastically and soon, the andi trying to relate it to

resulting damage may be — airborne pollution. _ acts like road sall as it eats irreversible, The average rainfall in through paint and metal, is Acid.rain is a product of some areas of Ontario and responsible’ for half the

corrosion on North Ameri- can cars. Governments,

Nova Scotia now 1s about 40 times more acidic than nermal — an acid content

roughly equal to that of tomatoes.

dioxide, nitrogen oxides both

federal and provincial, are spending a bundle in an

mix with oxygen and water vapor In the atmosphere

a: OU.

<a

~~ I os

TT 3 To

ct

C—_o 2 ee ae

1978 SUBARU BRAT 4x4

effort to Jearn moro about the probiem. The federal government has set aside about $41 million for re search on acid rain over the next four years to stindy its effects on human health, fish, forests, wildlife and crops.

Health department researchers are mainly concerned about the effect on water quality.

High acidity will corrode metal water pipes and Fittings, the exterior metal and stone work and fix- tures on buildings, and Jeach possibly toxic metals from rock and soil into water used as a source of drinking water.

“The acidity per se is not

the harmful thing,” said Toft. ‘It is its capacity to dissolve lead, mercury and other metals.’* . A wide range of such metals and their maximum safe limits for drinking water are contained in a recent guide set down by the health department, The provinces are mainly re- sponsible for ensuring a safe and adequate supply of drinking water.

Toft said scientists are

| checking water quality

closely for a change in | levels of toxic metal ' contamination.

Computer expert L. D. Hamilton - from the Brookhaven Institute in

“New York recently es-.

timated that 50,000 Americans die each year because of respiratory disease cause. by air pollution.

Toft and othe: federal -

scientists suggested earlier

- that proportionately, 5,000

Canadians could die for the same reasan. .

But -Toft says preliminary analysis of

_ those figures now show the

are most fearful about the

by Hamilton are not appli: cable in Canada because the country is mot, as: ur- banized as the U.S.

Work compiled mostly by a joint Canada-U.S. scientific team has

revealed the. devastating effects of- acid rain on Canadian fisheries. .

The ‘simple problem is that many fish cannot

* tolerate high | acidity. -.

Especlally. sensitive species include brook trout, smallmouth bass and walleye, - :

But fisheries scientists

valuable salmon species,

“particularly the Atlantic

salmon. The acid has various effects on the food chain

and changes the fish’

habitat which reduces the

kinds and supply of food for the fish. Allan Johnson, a

biologist with the Ontario

some fish species has risen slightly in areas where the water is more acidic.

The ministry publishes a

‘ Setalied book booklet advising

anglers about safe fishing areas and outlining which fish are more likely to be contaminated by chemicals and toxic metals,

The toxic chemicals accumulate as they pass through the food -chain ending up In fish which can

; " be dangerous to humans. ministry of environment, "says lead contamination of

In one area under study, increasing concentrations of such poisonous metals as aluminum and zine are being feached from the bottom of a freshwater

. Lake.

- didn't | . thought that: was the

~ ODD, isn’t it? -

VANCOUVER (CP) —A man who tried ‘to rob a credit unién office became the victim of.a language holdup and was forced to flee empty-handed, autho- Tities say, :

The bandit entered the |

Caisse Populaire St. Sacrement on Saturday and passed the teller anote demanding all the mmey. The teller, who is Chinese, couldn’t understand the

- note and asked the'man in

English what he wanted. “All your money,” the

. bandit replied in -English.

Still baffled by the request, the teller called to a second woman teller.” .

' The ‘second woman, knowing the first teller speak French,

problem and asked the

“bandit in French what he

wanted,

“All your money,” the robber replied in French, with a heavy English ac- cent. The second teller set off the holdup alarm: and called the manager.

The manager came from

his office, read the holdup | note arid told the robber: “I

don't ‘speak English very - .

“well.” “Burry, hurry, 1 want all your money,’ the robber

empty. drawer next-to the

full till and said ail the

money was in the vault. The bandit left empty-

handed. But a short time

later a.man answering the

- game description handed a

similar note to an English- speaking teller at another bank. The teller handed over $1,200 and the robber fled.

NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkera are not as

_ tude and heartless to ’ people in need of help as

they are generally reputed tobe, according'to a survey in New York magazine.

The survey, published in the magazine's Jan.z6 issue and released Sunday, was titled, The Good Samaritan is Alive and Well and Living in New York,

-In- one experiment,

| someone pretended he - _eouldn’t see because he had © ~ Just had eye drops put in ~ ' and asked passers-by lo . read some directions to a said in English. The .- manager pulled open an -

subway station. Seventy-five percent of the 1,-200 persons 4ap-

proached did help, the

_ survey said,

NEW YORK (AP) — -

Three alleged muggers ~-were put on ice and took a trip up the river before they were even caught, police say.

‘The three allegedly robbed an elderly woman of her purse Sunday at a park on Manhattan's northern Up and ran to the ice on the shoreline. They soon found themselves floating away on a chunk of iee about two metres

square.

They floated north on the Hudson River for about an hour until police officers flew a helicopter to the rescue, police said.

“Acid rain: The invisible killer on prowl ©

Those results were seen

in one of a series of lakes located southeast of Kenore, ‘Ont., where government scientists have been doing acid rain ex- periments since 1976. .

Over the last four years, scientists have “dumped three tonnes of sulphuric acid into one lake.

“That equals the amount

_ (of acidity) the lake would have received from precipitation if the lake had been slitated near Sud- bury, Ont., for the past 20 years,” says the fisheries

- department,

Other changes noted:

Fathead minnows have

' disappeared, freshwater shrimp,.a major food for lake trout, have been wiped out; and increasing num- bers of deformed trout embryo are turning up. .

‘the entire picture, a8 portrayed by the Canada- US. team in its second joint scientific report od acid rain, is no less dismal.

Their informatian shows:

—A serious loss to Atlantic salmon fisheries in Nova Scotia rivers. . For example, in 1980, only five native salmon returned to spawn in the Tusket River.

—Preliminary crop studies by the U.S. En- vironmental Protection Agency ‘showed that leaf damage -is prominent among such vegetables as radish, beets, carrots and broccoli under high levels of acid rain.

~The Canadian Forestry Service suggests that continuous high levels of acid rain could hurt agriculture and forest areas where soil is poor. Sugar maple and yellow birch forests in southern Quebec appear to be quile sensitive to acidity and a

' mathematical models used range of air pollutants.

4 speed, radia.

1900 THUNDERBIRD

Loaded with extras. Air, stereo, all power equipped

1980 FAIRMONT FUTURA

2 door, 6 cyl., stereo, auto. trans.

1979 COUGAR XRI

2 door, VB, auto., stereo, alr cond., loaded with extras.

198 CAPRI 3 DOOR HATCHBACK |

cyl, wuto, Low mileage

1960 VOLKSWAGON JETTA

Adour, 5spted trans. Only 6,000kllos, Very clean.

1974 FORD F250

Camper Special, V8 automatic

1979 MERCURY MARQUIS

2 door, V4 auto., air cond., stereo. Loaded with extras.

13.5%

\ v; s \

FZ

aN

TALE

We

cy

i)

KMMS 470 POLYESTER

330 — N.A.C, PLAN

a

_p POLYESTER/ FRONT WHEEL Every 8.000 km, tor the bie at . ¢K mart Battery we per I FIBREGLASS ALIGNMENT Yorm at ae piditivnst charge : re AND thesé maintenance services. : at 4. Check Alternator 2. Check FR we ew Hav 135% TEREST RATES aWMLABLE | , SUSPENSION |icgncres vice i CHECK [fea hucletcition : rome re K mart Sale Price . ae spacific gravity (on con- ; - B Moe wilt: ventional batteras). 5. Check , | @ set toe and castor tor defective cables, loosecon- OM SELECTED FORD OF CAMADA CAR LIMES. = | Ecce [Eee . * cases ar covers. Cloancable mt . “ Clamps andbetter 8 f GUAR | EACH charge the uattery | neces. 1 eee : LED WO (N Sie : FOR SIZE. ER7e-14 j° correct tire pressure. @ general inspection of MAINTENANCE FRER NSTALLED I BALANCED FOR SIZES ie 4 rant and rear suspension. . ¥ Hee q [Parts ond instattasion entre.

BATTERY i= 3973 |

$2.00 lens with € mart Sale Price on 4 trade-ln. series ZAC, 24F & 72 yA

Engineerad so you should never have to add water!

The tread wear on the ; not just faved or .

not just rave —for smart ; 56.000 d ffustrated Sale 8 LA |

| Eieeypetctne. Brie

<n

Terrace Totem Ford

‘Sales Ltd. _ 4631 Keith

ET} C—

. : . ""-w Prices eflective wali Salarday, January 24ih, 198? 6 Whee quaatbesfasi

* We riserce the eegat fod ao qanknes,

les Advertised Merchandise Policy

<e

Ou flocs ono Tete op achwertrsed

Taito tances Fry cvoreseeeason K mpl we st a Plan Couth on

tears yt caaed atthe ale prcewhertve: coer

1 MALL... OPE en

: 5761 LAKELSE-AVE. TERRACE teem P

eee or pre Dur pore a ip t Ow sare

Cuter K mart Canada Limited

-—/ =~

“an OO

a