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NDP outspent.

VICTORIA (CP) -- The Social Credit party outspent the —

New Democrats by almost two-to-pne in winning the last - provincial lection, fi figures from the registrar of voters: Show.

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The figures indicate the Socreds spent $1. 8 million onthe ©

2e-day: campaign, while the NDP spent about $965,000.

OF that, the Socreds- spent $718,393. on promotions and

‘advertising, while the NDP spent about’ $705,000,

The Socred campaign was characterized by a flashy road. tour complete with customized’ buses featuring television :. sets and telephones and a travelling band with snappy blye nylon windbreakers with “Premier Bill Bennelt”” stitched - on the back. .

Opposition leader Dave’ Barrett! 8 ‘campaign was ‘the model of restraint, with his staff flying in a vintagé DC-3 aircraft. until the final days. and rolling ‘through the countryside in.a no-frills bug,

Figures show the Socreds spent’ $230, O00.on “travel and accommodation” while the NDP spent $50, 00 on what they called “‘leader’s tour expenses. re MAJORITY BIG -

The Socreds ended Lip with their biggest majority e ever, .

winning 35 seats compared with the NDP’ 922. Statistics show the Socreds got-820,758 votes or 49.78 per cent of the ‘Popular vote and ihe NDP got 740,586 votes or 44.52 per cent.. © In 1979 the Socreds got 48,23 per cent of the vote while the NDP got 45.99 per.cent,

Other figures show: the Socreds . spent $310,000 « on 7

“campaign material” while the NDP spent -$79,000 on: -“printing.”’ The Socreds say they ‘spent $396,000 ‘on administration, while the NDP say they: Spent $130, 000 gn - _ office, staff and supplies.

The Socreds also racked Up & $127,000 bill for unidentified _@xpénses, —

Statistics from the registrar's office also show that the | Liberals, Progressive Conservative and Communist parties |": spent about $20,000 each on this year's campaign, while the Green Party ‘spent about $650 — a figure being contested.

-OTTAWA (cP), ~The goveFnaiieit has invited five native organizations t participate in the selection of the head of the agency that will administer the $345-million native economic development fund, it was learned Wednesday.

Some native groups had-requested such an input, fearing

the tiew Winnipeg-based Native Economic Development

Board was merely going to become a-haven for friends of the Liberal party.

Campbell Mackie, a former Indian- Affairs Department executive. who. is head of the -government’s Urea Formaldehyde Foam. Insulation Information and Co-

\. ordination Office, has been rumored as a possible choice as.

the head of the agency.

Mackie is on vacation this week and could not be reached. for comment.

A Public Service Commission official said ine an interview. ’ that a ahort. list of four to six people for ‘the job as administrator has been drawn up and ‘that a selection will likely be made by mid-August,

Asked if Mackie was on the list, the official replied: “Thal could be the case,” .

The job, which pays yi between $63,000 and $74,500 annually, was not advertised publicly. © ;

Candidates were selected from the public service “using our own inventory,” the official said,

Four government officials and five natives will be on the committee which will -select the final candidate. The selection process is done by consensus, rather than by a. vote af committee members. — De MOVE EXCEPTIONAL |- - ets

Although people outside government. are not nornially asked to help in the election of an appointment, such a move is “more emceptional than unusual,” the official said.

The five native Groups are the Assembly of First Nations, the Metis National CoucvNative Council of Canada, the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada and the Native Women’ 8 Association of Canada. oo .

A cabinet docurnent leaked to The Canadian Press in 1 May included a recommendation from the native Liberal caucus — a group of card-carrying native Liberals — that the fund should be administered by‘native people who are Liberals, experienced in busineés and not representatives of native political organizations,” -

The government has never said whether “that recommendation will be adopted.

Ltke most Crown agencies, the native agency will have a

- board. of diréttors appointed by cabinet, although. the

administrator will serve as the chief executive officer and . run the day-to-day operations: '

Most members of the board are expected to be. natives.

The native economic development fund was first - proposed by the government in 1981 but was not approved © ‘by cabinet until last morith,

The mioney would be available io native organizations - and entrepreneurs for commercial enterprises, resource — projects and economic development af communities.

Alter . twa: hours’ ‘of inquest. Wktive-merber. “jury ruled Harold: Padgervodt after “he backed his vehisle. into'a basement bathroom Wwindoy Wol

“the carbon nionioxide sulcide of aman mi end th the relited death

“of two infants-has handed: down Fecomméndations ¢alling . if

:: for“ increased training \of. emergency heal * personnel and. police ofdicers, . , daliberation, ending the

died by suicide from motor exhaust fumes March

monoxide -polsoning” between 1p ‘Pm, March Bi

wife Debra Hadley. ~F

-monthold brother : ‘Ryan: died: unnataeaily® ie of th 2 “was “nothing there to indicate'I should have checked."”

7 p.m. PST on March 27°He saidthe Thomson and the bodies -

‘pal icers | : emergency: : ‘heal ‘perdotinel: eee more: in

Araining i in: toxi " gaaa. — -

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teams should have a clearly written procedure for deal a ”

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the day Cpl: Romeo. Bruneau; ood's.

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of their: two children: ‘were’ ‘not discovered until: two ‘hours and 35. minutes tater,’ wy

He sa said he had been taking a statement from Hadley ang another woman when he heard volcés through: ‘the basemen window from outside. : ‘He said he spoke through the window

“Cop r newspaper raid denied

“TORONTO (CP) — Although a Federal Court judge ruled Wednesday that searches by combines investigators. of Thomson Newspapers Ltd. offices violated the Charter: of Rights and'Freedoms, the legal battle.isn't over.

Féderal government lawyer Roslyn ‘Levine said a motion

for appeal of the ruling would be made today, although the ve ’ pppeal might not be heard.until fall.. m _ Untilthe appeal or motion is heard, however, government

investigators will have to abide by the ruling, she said.

Judge Frank Collier was ruling on raids by investigators .

from the federal | Consumer. and ‘Corporate’ : Affairs

Department acting under the predatory-pricing Section of . the Combiries Investigation. Act:

. Investigators. seized documents’ Tuckday at 3 ‘af four Thomson newspapers | in Ontario, three in Saskatchewan, three in British Columbia,’ Thorrigon office in Halifax and the company's head office in Toronto...”

Collier ordered all originals and copies of documents to be

eturned and any notes relating to them to be deposited with.

‘the court, pending a further order,.

‘Levine said the government would file a notice of motlon to stay the order to return the documents.; . CITES DIFFICULTIES ”

~ Federal lawyer J, E. Thompson earlier told the judge thal

“the consequences tothe applicant. of such an order. are

minimal compared to the difficulties to. the director of the .

Combines Investigation Act.”

_The statement prompted Thomgon lawyer ‘Lorne Morphy :

to Say he found it ‘shocking that a representative of: the

- Department of Justice. would take. the position that our

rights are'less important than: those of the director,” |

““If it (the section of the act) violates the Charter, surely it -

is incumbent on the director to get appropriate legislation

~ welcomed - -Wednesday's federal government decision to

“allow price discounts on large-volume natural gas exporis,

but some United States spokesmen said the move doesn't ga far enough, . . For Canada to incréase gas exports markedly .the price

hes got to come’ down more,” said Joe. Vallelly, a: spokesman for Northwest Pipeline Corp. of Salt Lake City, .

Utah, a major: importer from British Columbia. “There is no way we'll. be able to use this price incentive

this. year,’” he said-in a telephone interview. “Ttiere is a ; , - possibility we will in the next contract year," which begins Nov. 1;-1f retail demand grows with economic recovery. ©

Under the discount: scheme, announced by | Energy Minister Jean Chretien, -Ottawa - would. ‘implement a ‘volume-discount. pricing formula similar to one proposed by *

, the Alberta government and industry: lobby groups.

~The price of gas deliveries above 50'per cent of volumes”

authorized by current export licences will be-reduced to~

$3.40 (U.S.) a thousand cubic feet from $4.40 (U.S.) between’ now and Oct. 31,. 1984, when: the’ Program expires... ABOVE U.S. PRICES’

: Canada supplies about four per cent of the U.S. natural . gas demand, but the export price has been higher than the “average domestic US. gas price. So far this year, Canadian ©

‘exports, havebeen- about n per. cent of the: Authorized

1 “volume.

. American importers and federal politicians, faced with | - dropping demands, haye ‘been pushing for lower prices. .

Dan MacNamara, secretary’ ‘and general counsel of the” Canadian Petroleum, Association, dgteed:with Vallelly. that - the federal initiative will ‘not Increase gas sales this year, * but said a U.S. eeonorile, recovery. could, increase demand” next year.

The announcement. carries a spin, importané, he

_added. ms

. being diagnosed in the United States in 1981. There have | -been 28 confirmed c cases in Canada since then, 13 of them in >

“Tel signal to the tae States ‘we've tying. to be”

reasonable sellers."

tather than: just gay: “Let 8 continue to flout it for ‘some time,’ said Morphy, .

In his ruling, Collier cited a “January: decision of the. ~ Atberta Court af Appeal, which held that araid by combines

investigators in Abril, 1982,, on’ the. Southam-owned *” Edmonton Journal was’ unconstitutional. because search powers under the ‘combines act were too road.

The federal government is appealing that decision to the Supreme Court of Canada, but Collier said "it would be a

"travesty of. {ustlee’ not. to _adopt it because: appeal is’

pending.” wy . RAIDS PAPERS” . ;

Tuesday’s raids took place at Ontario papers belonging to Canadian Newspapers Co, Ltd. a, Thomson subsidiary, in Peterborough, - - Midland, Woodstock. and... Barrie;

Saskatchewan papers belonging to the Thoméon subsidiary ;

Western Publishers Ltd. in Prince Albert, Swift ‘Current ‘and Moose Jaw: anif/B.C. . Papers belonging’ to Thomson _ B.C. Newspapers Ltd. in Nanaimo; Penticton and Kelowna. Raids Also occurred at Thomson offices i in | Halifax and the head. office.

~ > The document authoring tt the ‘search said it applied only. ; ' ta “the manufacture, production, sale and supply: of °

newspapers, newspaper’ supplements, flyers, advertising Supplements and related:products." .

Thompson, representing the federal | government, said the raids were not. connected with seven conspiracy, merger

and monopoly charges laid against Thomson and Southam - -Inc.-after-the closings oni -Aug, 27, 1980; of the Thomson- - - owned Ottawe Journal and: the Southam-owned Winnipeg

Tribune. in. Cénada.

- Canadians happy to 0 give toU.S.

CALGARY (CP) ~ Oil and: gas ‘industry: officials ~

‘Ron’ ‘Rutkowski,’

‘the announcment was a step in the right direction,

“Any move for lower prices: is a positive. step for ‘our: ” customers.” .

: Pacific Gas’ s-contracted imports from Alberta make it the biggest single American’ buyer of Canadian gas...

British Columbia Energy Minister Steve Rogers said his : Government has been’ pressing Ottawa for more than a year to lower the price. .

operation ‘with American gas utilities, will be able to develop tiew industrial markets in the U.S., and make up for some of the losses in export volumes-we have suffered since 1979,' " he said in a news release. De,

"Last April, Chretien made an across-the-board reduction

in the gas export price to. $4.40.a thousand cubic feet from

$4.94. The move did not improve Canadian gales. because of a warm American’ winter and U.S, customers saying the -price was still‘too high. : :

. - Steve Haberl, natural gas manager. for. the Indepondent ; -Petroleum Association of Canada, said Chretlen’s initiative _ . .Will stop. wearing contacts for two years and then. come’

ds “about. exactly what IPAC has been promoting.”

“The }--association ~ and the. . Alberta. govemment recommended a discount price of $3.20, ‘but Ottawa opted “for $3.40.80 ‘export gas would not be priced below. domestic -- Supplies delivered at Toronto. . Lo

Haber! sald'U.S. buyers must still’ accept ‘BO per cent ‘of <. their Canadian supplies 'at the $4.40 base price béfore taking ‘more at the discount level. \. -

Alberta Energy Minister John Zaozitny said ‘Wedtiesday.

‘the. discount: “price will: help Preserve: Alberta’ 5 shrinking ;

share’ OF the U.S, market: :

“But he also: indicated the. ‘province. has radio. ‘enough ;

“concessions and may not consider further price cuts..

*“T -wouldi’t want to speculate on that (further: price ° daisy," he said. “The re buyer aways has, theview the price “Tontt low enough. "

Media blamed: ‘for. poor. MDs

> MONTREAL (CP) — An infectious disease specialist has-: blamed “sensational media’ coverage and poorly- Anformed doctors” for panic about AIDS, or acquired ‘immune , deficiency syndrome.

Dr. Roger LeBlanc of Montreal’ ’g Royal Vieloria Hospital ” said AIDS hysteria has caused people to look suspiciously . upon homosexuals and refusé to get. into ‘taxis: driven by"

‘Hattians. because, slong with hard | drug. addicts, these”

groups have the highest risk of contracting ‘the disease, | - “Every day 1 get calls at the office’ from employers : asking whether they ‘should fire. people who may have » AIDS, and there is even some hysteria among doctors at the . hospital,” he sald in ari interview.

But LeBlanc stressed that people who do not fit into these .. high risk groups.can rest assured they will not contract .

‘AIDS, “There isno reason on earth to say you'are going to

Bet it by sitting next to someone who has it.” The syndrome, which breaks down ‘the body's natural _ immune system, has struck about 1,600 people since first -

Quebec,

-Restarchers do not yet know what causes 5 AIDS, exactly”

* how it id trénsitaltied, how many limes one must be exposed

befora cohtracting tt, or how to cure it, About “0 per, cent of © tases 80 far hitve. ended in death, |.

They do know that most cases have involved individuals "who flt at Jeast some of the risk factors: ‘using dirty néédles :

to infect drugs, or. leading an active bay-life, ‘including , sextial contact with many partners. AIDS had also stritck a -

_ humber of Haltlans, but again, researchers bal ndt. know

__Sehy and ie : some hemophiliacs - have: contracted - it, ‘pretimatly” -through bloud products...

"+ Dr; Oren Rosengren, a ‘general Practitioner at ihe Queen _Blkabeth Hospital here, emphasized, there have been. “no ‘reported cases of someone Seiting the diserse-other than through séxual contact, maternal-infant contact, primarily “ta. thé ‘womb, and blood: products:

‘But tragically, the friends and. families’ of many. ‘AIDS .

"victims are abandoning these patients, just when they most.

need .aupport, out of unwarranted fear of, contracting the-

- digeise, -

: LeBlanc. bited the example of a ay. social worker who , ‘had convinced himself he had A1band eontided his fear to:

colleagues at the office.

-But when a misinformed: nurse e told one. of thie. ‘social - service agency employees that AIDS.ig highly contagious, &

_-the staff agreed the man should be fired. .

Distraught, the man left a sulcide note. and. disappeared.

Luckily, sald‘LeBlarie, he di-nat carry through with his “threat, and -waa: found to have. another. disease that was ” easily treated.

No, healtfi care é worker: has. contracted ALS, LeBlanc “added, even though furses, dottors and lab technicians are expobed to ‘it...

__Tvebeen working with thesé patients for two years,” be-

continued, “taking: fluid samples and: is their.

* plouthis, and I've already paésed thé incubation period” ‘ News. ‘storles have. been geated to. the: “horror stories" ‘3

about: AIDS, Rosengren commented, and. ignore the other. a aide of the epin, which:ig that “it is only a parileular sub- that Is at ‘riak," L

“group | of « a subculture,

Jn ded to coroni De id i Chen. that police officers an all pther”

_ dwellings be pressurized.

Thomson and Southam are the largest newspaper chains

- one, out of three, no one in B.C. knows about it," ee . 2. Spokesman’ for Paéifie - ‘Gas .” Jantzi told the news conference corneal Vaseulariatén i

‘Transmission. Co. of San: Francisco, ‘Calif, , acknowledged -

“With.this incentive pricing scheme i in 1 place, B c, in co- .

depre

” She-said ‘she Jast saw: him Ffi ‘about whether she would continue liv Stie returned to the apartment at: dq: 30 March 27-and'found his body in the ba : _ Among. the jury's other” recommendations “that the provincial building code require that hallways: in multiple

That recommendation steramed. fréiti bi

: Claide Bedard's evidence that pressurized hallways wo

- have greatly’ reduced: ‘the spread of the tasteless,

. poisonous fumes: > : ; : Fred Thomson, the children’ 8 grandfather, grited the .

‘verdict with skepticism...” -- “All we have to do ia get them introduced now," he said,

* Although Thomson‘ and Ed Turvey, Debrah's. father, agreed they were satisfied with the jury's findings,’ they are concerned that amendments to the building. code will be hard to get. -

¥At best it could only apply to new. bangs, " "said Turvey.

Lenses. dangerous

VANCOUVER (CP) —Astudy by three B.C, optometrists

-has found that one-of every three patients who wears ‘soft

contact. lenses suffers some. corneal damage - from. the lenses. - Optometrists Dr. William Jackson, Dr. Jobn ‘Jantzi and Dr. Karen Smith, who are midway through the year-long

"study, found that of the 366 patients they examined at their

Surrey, B.C... office, © 125. showed | Signs of corneal ™ vascularization. |...’ ~The condition results whén blood vessels grow from the

white part of the eye. in dn effort to supply oxygen to the,

cornea.

~ Jackson 'and Jantzi preserited their preliminary findings - Wednesday at a news conference held during the annual -

meeting of the Canadian Association of Optometrists. ‘The owner of a chain of B.C. optical stores’ reacted to the -

optometrists’ report by sayitig that thelr claim is% part ofa av

scheme to turn patients away from opticians. ~ -Jamilh Aqil who owns Tru-Vaiu Optical, said in a

‘telephone ‘interview’ from her Vancouver. office that

“optometrists . “Bay. this. every year when . they. have a convention.” « “We haven't heard about this problem, * she said. “i iva

ean permanently impair’ a. person’s vision.

‘Both optometrists stressed contact lenses are. safe if

properly fitted, prescribed .and monitered and thal:

- problems develop froma number of factors. f a _ OVERUSE A PROBLEM .

Jackson. said a major cause is overwearing of contacts. People don't realize they can't keep thelr contacts In from first thing in the morning until bed-time, Most optometrists

- recommend taking the lenses out half an hour to an houi”

before going’ to bed and leaving, them out for half a day a week:

- Most important in avoiding problems is having ‘regular checkups from an optometrist or ophthalmologist ; because

_in the early. stages, corneal vascularization doesn't produce

any symptoms, | By the time the wearer is experiencing blurred vision and red and sore eyes, significant. damage. has: occurred. . “With hard contact lenses, if a person hada problem,

. ,they stopped, and a couple of years down the road, came’

back and were refitted successfully,” Jackson said. “We have people who, after having. cornea vascularize,

back and be refitted: a _ “The blood in the cornea may go out but it will leave tiny little ghost vessels, Those will refill once asoft contact lens is put back on,” However, Jantzi said the condition could take two to four years to develop and that is why itis important fora person

‘to -have a-checkup ‘at least once a. year.

ADDS TO. PROBLEM :

provincial government, : Jackson and Jantzi said they feet contact tenses should be -

_ fitted only by an optometrist or ophthalmotogist or by _ opticians

. ophthalmologist.

associated. ‘with’. - an’ ~ optometrist.

- They also said the condition would | not: occur with hard

or ¢

lenses but that some people often can't wear that typeof. 4%

contact. The majority of“ people. “wear -soft contacts,

‘although 8ae permeable lenses are becoming more popular. ;

. Jackson said an optometrist. is llable for eye damiage.a ‘patient might encounter from a contact lens’ prescription he ‘wrote, but there is no such protection for People Who | get

: their contacts through. an ‘optician, ©

. ,Aqil said her company had had no complaints or or in suitis from: Soft contact.

advised io visit; their added: that opticians problenis..

ISN'T. THE: ANSWER

ophthalmologiat . once-a year and at Tru-Valu do tat lagnose eye "

- She sald the optometrists’ advise that all fitngs fou. _ be done by ophthalmologists or optometrists will hot ‘solve a

all the problems plaguing contact. lens wearers. ‘T’'ve seen poor fittings from -optometrists,"" she said.

| “The older optometrists have hever had an training in . “contact lens fittings,” fe ne

Aqil said she is dissattstied ‘with current ‘raining for ‘opticians; Which inyolves «a "Gorrespandence course

pohaored ‘by the B.C, Diapensing' Opticians ' Association. “Anybody:can get up right now . bhie sald.

_ should be.certain standards, Th id heve'te. prove. ‘thelr proficiency, ey. _stiou d hav to prove

, “We have been trying to get legislation and Hicensing for o

~ pticians for a lot of years; and nalody seme ta want to. sive a

us any help.”

ete *

lens clients, She said all patients are ~