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New Vaccine for Pneumonia |

Doctors ‘and phar- macists are receiving the ‘first shipments of a new Pivemococcal :

ama ae

r pre cent effective in avons ee tat ean at pom ting most forms at age who is at high risk of

pnuemococcal disease b am fi Co US. ‘eltizens vaccinated. y

That includes anyone The pharmaceutical with sickle cell anemia or firm. of Merck,

other spleen disorders; and Dohme éald Monday

anyone with diabetes or began shipping 700,000 other chronic conditions es of the vaccine from

such as heart and lung

its West Point, Pa.,plant se; and anyone in a

‘to have another chronic care facility such

almost one million doses a8 a nursing home where ready. by the end of next

pneymococcal The: Food and Drug

Administration licensed ‘the vaccine called Pheumovax, last Nov.21.

“A Public Health Ser-

pneumonia easily can spread,

vice advisory committee |

Merck also recom- mends.its vaccine for anyone 50 or. older.

The advisory com- mittee . recommended that there ‘be no- mass immunization of healthy persons.

Federal. U.S. health experts estimate as miany a8 400,000 to-500,000 cases of ‘pneumoccocal Pneumonia occure each year in the United States.

Despite treatment with tacterlum

penicillin and other antibiotics, the death rate ranges, from five to 10 percent.

flealth hic says the

pected for at t least tree

‘ pneumociccal that cause more than 80 .

years, is safe and cannot cause pneumonia. -

The vaccine Immunizes against 14 types of cteria

per cent of the disease. There. are 83’ known types of pneumococcal

bacteria. They also.can | ‘figure in. other diseases, includng meningitis.

The pneumococcus is a normally jound. in the nose and throat of health persons.

It can invade the lungs . and calise pneumonia if the body’s defence

; mechanisms break down.

‘The vaccine bolsters the

protection.

Truck Logger Association - Calls For 5-yr MacBlo Plan

iceberg's tip under which is near-bankruptcy of MB's coastal operations

lo ing, ,lumber,

tywood a shingles,” Hed Dave O'Connor, association president.

“Now is the time for MB to make complete

The Truck Loggers ‘Association TLA called Monday on Mac-Millan

ins in British Columbia pl or the next five-years. “The association, representing independent log, lumber, plywood, and shingle producers 5a id in a statement that the pending closure of the compan. Vancouver Piyw plant could set bn of a

ain reaction 1B ig epenent eee, ‘and pushing of workers out ay ane is — out its ly operation.

But Officer! !

- ABowmamille, Ont., man who appealed a speedin conviction on the grounds that het was “training ng birds to fly in the dark,” lost his appeal in provincial _court Monday.

arpanles Price, iu, said in summary convictions

getter eons, not hi ruck, that

on radar at4 etresanhour in as

ce ap hire Homma ast opine . vitied no's ppeared

before Justice of the Peace AB. Skidmore int Bowmanville, in August,

for government as lan- dord and timber owner to take measures to replace the jobs being lost,” O'Connor said.

MacMillan Bloedel announced in late

t, Price told the the flying a ahead of his truck and they registered on Ta Skidmore, dismissed the speeding charge saying it was the most novel defence he had ever heard. However, Crown successfully appealed the dismissal,sprice in turn, 1 appealed but the court ruled against F him and fined him

General Motors, the world’s largest automaker, ‘Monday record profits for 1977 of $3.338-

iene increase of 15 per cent over 1976"

For the fourth quarter, GM’s profits totalled a record $938 million, or $3.26 a share, 17.4 per cent higher than the last quarter of 1976 when the company earned $797 million, or million, or $2.77 a share, .

Sales for the last three months of 1977 totalled a record 15.1 billion up 15 per cent from the year-ago

billion. For the year, GM's profits came to $11.62 a share,

against 1976's $2,903 billion equivalent to $10.08 per

Sales for the year were a record $54.96 billion, up 16.4 per cent from 1976’s' $47.18 billion. GM said its worldwide sales of cars and trucks last year totalled 9,068,000a four per cent i increase over the previous high ‘af 8, 684,000 in 1m’.

: ---neither is _ BG Liquor Board

The depu uty minister of corporate and consumer affairs said Monday he asked for a police investigation

of the liqour control t boards main Vancouver ware-

house to chech securi . Tex Enemark said i in a interview that he expected the investigation to ‘be. completed. today. He said he requested the check after Keith Warnes, liquor adminstration board general manager, resigned Friday as the result ‘of a “difference of )

disclosure of its plans and.

Januar it plans to phase .

Company, union and

government officials now -

are probing the closure and trying to find jobs for those affected. About 700 workers are involved, Calvert. Knudsen, president ‘said Monday that “Any allegation that MB is not financially strong and sound area false and irresponsible.” “MB has a. stron Lae oft dity high ree an large unused credit lines

Robert Wallace, 28; ; felt a lettle peckish in the

’ night,’ so he raided the

rigerator and helped himself ‘to a.snack. There was sentenced in

- Provincial court Morda:

fo: nine months in i after he pleaded guilty to achg Be. of ig and

‘Wallace broke into’ the trailer home after a day spent drinking wine and

Cys: ‘The éiyear ald womsn ove t' of the trailer Wallace slumped in -

available. “he said. O'Connor also- urged that other ‘companies should disclose their plans for B.C or the next

fi ars, Me said d the Ministeries

of Forestry. - and Economic Development should codperaté with industry people. to time — 3 down of MacMillan

Bloedel tions with the phasing-iIn of em- ployment oportunites elsewhere.

Self- Serve

a chair in the ‘kitchen early the next morning. Pots on the. range had boiled

. dry, and a half bottle of whisky had been consumed.

She called. the

Wallace's the police

his client felt ha y and was Io «He said Wallace a thot it

no-one was in the trailer

at the time, after having:

knocked on the window.

Judge D.C. Reed recommeded: Wallace ‘receive treatment . ‘for alcoholism.

- BOOKWORMS UNITE - HAY-ON-WYE, Wales - or — This town, ‘home of the world's second est ‘used-book shop, . hold a referendum on April. Fool's Day. - decide whether to oy ede from ; Britain. Richard Booth, ‘who owns the millionvolume bocksho ' says most of the town’s 1,500 residents are sick: of the bureaucrats who run their town. — |

The finest _hotelin

mid-town ©

“Vancouver.

over the way a large merchandising operation gum

be be run.”

Although police were’ ‘asked to check books and 2

warehouse security, Enemark said he does not suspect anyone . _ fs, ha amy - wrong-doing:

The board has 203 stores; wth annual gross sales of $500 million and an annual profity of $160 millon, Enemark sald, and the investigation is an effort to bring him. up-to-date with the: ily” operation of’ the organization.

Enemark said he has asked the treasury, board’ to.

authorize hiring a new general. manager... Warnes,

who held the rank of associate deputy minister. was

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“British company, In- terscan Leisure:

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Year of The Horse

~ Hong Kong (AP) - The

Year of the Horse replaced the Year of the Snake at midnighi Monday night and millions of Chinese began lunar New Year festivities here as well as in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Burma and Taiwan, . Tens of thousands. of last-minute . shoppers ‘swarmed Hong Kong streets into the night while markets, stores and beauty shops eXx- tended business hours to cope with the rush,

In China, more television sets were on male in Shanghai

rtment stores, the pe ook Hsinhua news agency reported. Concerts featuring the U.S. classic Old Man River and ‘ethnic songs,

‘Peking sta oductions . incl

arrested in October, 1976, on charges of

trying to seize power, the were agency

Pombo otfica mbodia's 's offical radio has not mentioned ‘Tet and refugees say the government rsecutes e residents. In Laos where the Chinese community is small, the New Year is. celebrated ona different date. Thailand’s prosperous Chinese community closed down its shops and restaurants in pre eparation fos -for.. Tet

peafeidorn painted their gilded temple alters a traditional bright red. Anti-Communist nationalist. Chinese gumiers on the offshore islands of Quemoy and Maisu_ will observe. a four-day :: cease-fire during. the New: Year

mainiand, defence Peking earlier. an- Mounced a similar cease-fire -for th

following order:

tiger, rabbit,

dragon, -snake, horse,

goat, monkey, cock, dog . pi ‘ .

. | unpredictable.

~ IMPORTANT MESSAGE _ FROM B f. TEL

abi.

Ona a progressive 2 basis, autamatic number ke identitication service willbe provided on direct dialed long-distance cails far most cusjomers with numbers beginning with 635

customer whose number begins with 635 or .636 will no fonger. feed fo give the number -to an operator when’ placing a ‘direct dialed long distance cail.

.. New equipment will automatically record the number of the - folephone from which fhe call

senior pilot and vice-

- as well as the overwater.

iferafts.

4 THE HERALD, Wednesday, February 8, 1978, PAGE 3 y .

-Gakalla Sexual Probe s Results revealed today

Proudfoot, com- missioner of the i inquiry into | conditions of

prisoners and several } organizations scheduled 4 to appear before the :

The finding of an RCMP investigation into allegations of sexual

extortion by male guards women's jails in British commission. i ‘olumi

festonal. “Correctional The RCMP probe last They incluae the

Centre Oakalla" women's fall also looked into Elizabeth Fry Society

Government Em joyees" Union representing jail employees officials of the Corrections Service and the B.C.Human Rights Branch,

A government em- ployees union-corrections service committee has recommended to. the branch that jails be exempted from equal opportunity clauses of the provicial human rights code so that men can be excluded from working as guards in women’s jails .

The code makes sex dicrimination in em- ployment illegal except where “human decency and id privacy” are in- voly

allegations of welfare fraud involving guards and prisoners. at the

Oaklla women’s unity.

Attorney- -General Garde Gardom set up the commission in December, assigning it to “a full-scale, wide- ranging public inquiry into ‘all aspects of the incarceration of women in B.C."

The move was o result of reports of sexual ex- tortion, welfare fraud and other irregularities at

about half of the province's 200 women prisoners are confined,

Hall said it would take about a month for the ‘inquiry to hear busmissions from prisoners and former

‘Killer Found = | Insane ||

unit will be disclosed at a royal commission inquiry opening here - Wednesda

y+ Commission councel John Hall said Monday that RCMP officers who investigated the allegations will testify before Justice Patricia

Airlines Drop Rafts

Three airlines have cut costs by removing liferafts from passenger jetliners flying routes over tretches of water. And the Federal Aviation Administration FAA says at least four other carriers have been told they can do the same,

Braniff and National confirmed Monday that

wpe

cet

son

liferafts have been removed . from their aircraft flying the 4

Atlantic coastal corridor linking Miami and the northeastern United

States and Gulf of Mexico

Alfred Robert Walcott Tucker came to visit-but said “here's to you,” to soon was involved in a

his friend last March 11 heated- argument over

then. killed him with a whohaveknowna mutual routes between southern shotgun blast, a British friend for the longest i And Alaska Airlines flies Colum Supteme Court period. ttohis iz ” jury onda’ . eaccused wen . over water on its Seattle He was fourid rot quilty bedroom, cameback with

Anchorage. route without liferafts on its Boeing 727 jetliners.

Warren Metzger,

of a shotgun, pointed it at Tucker and said “bang you're dead, you're lucky the safety was on,” then put the gun away Rowan

of murder by reason insanity but was ordered by Justice W. J, Trainor

be returned to. the mental institution where

president of operations he has been | since the

or Alaska airlines said

slaying .to be kept in The argument subsided

tro reeks ago ter the stricy custody until tut flared later. Walcott overwater route without provincial cab net ap- retrieved the gun. 1 placed oves his release. point-blank a er’s

liferafts on the jetliners. Prcrown counsel John chest,said ‘‘here’s to

He said the airline con- tinues to fly an overland Seattle-Anchorage route

you’ and pulled the trigger, Rowan told. the

Jury.

‘Rowan said Walcott was in his room when his friend Ross Edward

route, depending on flight conditien.. pot btn,

“Transoceanic routes , are not affected b FAA a approval of the

of liferafts from airliners. flying over

stretches of w. .

The airlines. fer ‘asked fe for the exemptions of the fim liferafts requirements on § certain over-water routes IZ on grounds that they I

t save fuel without the extra: weight of the liferafts and that the. requirement was hol necessary for modern aircraft.

Eastern United. Delta and Western all have FAA a roval to remove liferaf from their airliners. Spokesmen for all four airlines said their Janes still carry

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