‘PAGE 2, The Herald Monday, June 25, 1978.

EDITORIAL ©

The “Late Movie” on television,” the otHed night ~ “‘Babe’' -- a mostly true story on the life of “Babe” Didrickson Zaharias: depicted the brave and moving career of America’s gieatest ‘professional woman athlete, in which she was struck down at tbe height of her cateer by cancer,

The statistics for death by cancer are still staggering. As ome who bas had to git by, _ helpless, while his wife died of cancer pf the breast, a yeat affer an sttdrhpt was nhade to cut the malignant spread by radical eirgery removing the breast, underarm lymph glands and surrounding tissue + the fact tha¢ ofa ouf of every four undergoing similar treatment i

dead within fdur years is a' dking camientary on where our divAlzation places its Hesearch |

priorities. The following: intideat may + or IMmatyl not -- have some on medical research. 1

merely throw it in for what it # worth If our readers like — they ¢an freat itiad just andther bit of imaginative editorial exencibe thb

, Althpugh I was involved, (in a way) {n the incigentt I still.

have no means of ve the most important

of the facts. Buf every now Arid then § hear from

someone who hds had a similar experience that

reinforces my suspicions that the atory could be e.

Victoria Report — by Gyril Shefford

, Last week I again introduced a bill called ““Bhe

British Columbia Petroleum Sales Act” (1978) which is simply a bill to equalize wholesale gas prices across the province.

This would allow all retailers to buy at the

same price and bring back real competition to the industry which is sadly lacking at this time.

The most unfair thing about the present policy ‘is.some service stations can sell for less than

others can buy. This is the main reason why so-

many independent businessmen go bankrupt each year.

According to reports, over 20 percent of the service stations go down each year. This doesn’t mean the station closes, only someone else with a few saved dollars takes over till he too goes broke. -

Many company spokesmen will quickly point out that they sell at the same tank wagon price in the same area. However they fail to point out that they often sell for up to .08cents less than tank wagon on consignment or some other such arrangement. i :

It takes little imagination to know there is no way they can survive with their competitors

.-Selling for less than they can buy.’ All levels of -government talk about helping small business and independents which means little more than the words on paper because the various tax, and other changes normally only stave off the evil day of bankruptcy a _ little longer.

It's something like starving a person slowly rather than letting him die quickly. If this trend continues the independent will disappear altogether and the large will control total sales.

This will be a shame when the only real competition comes from the independent, and this fact is reported in several reports on petroleum sales in various studies across Canada, United States and even Australia. The large corporations normally only compete with “gifts”, ‘‘gimmics” and “give aways’, but practice price leadership where the price leader leads, and the rest follow. '

If free enterprise and competition is to survive then government must move in this direction.and give all retailers an equal start; then good management and courteous service will quickly weed out poor operators as it should.

It’s interesting to note in a book entitled “Corporate Power in North America” that they

point out - less than 200 corporations sell 88

. percent of all goods and services and the other thousands and thousands of companies compete vigorously for:the other 12 percent, -

If this present trend to consolidation continues price competition will largely disappear and the consumer will pay dearly, also the country will be gaverned by a system of private socialism which shouldn't ‘be misunderstood . for state socialism. .

As I pointed out earlier in this session once corporate power reaches this level NO govern- ment has the power to seriously challenge a corporation that no longer serves the national interest which can and does happen from time to

me.

‘Their power to shut off development and employment is so great that no democratic government could survive for long when they were forced to cut back on development and plant modernization. They could do this simply by increasing their development and expansion in countries where the government behave in a manner favourable to the corporation.

This is a serious problem which governments * will have to find solutions or with the growth of

corporate power in key industries, governments

will be nothing more tlfén an extention of cor- porate power rather than a true servant of the people. _

n we see the oil industry involved in coal and ‘atomic energy, along with direct and in- direct involvement in the fields of banking, food and many others it doesn’t take much in- telligence to realize the adverse effects on the Canadian or provincial economy they could bring about if they so desired,

This could leave governments powerless to always serve the interests of the people first. . This lack of control in the hands of elected representatives leaves me cold to remain in the political field. \

' with metal, the rater, it

7 Medical mystery

About 30 years ago, 4s @ bnissionary in a qub- arctic community, I had gtopped*at oria of ine two hotels in theivillage, and found that, as ustal, there were more persons trying to get ae- commodatioa than there were vacancies. This

happened every time the twice p werk tain pulled in after al thousand mile journey north by rail. What particularly interested me was one of the persons being turned away: an elderly, distinguished gentleman whd dould_nof, by speech or demeanor, be a Canadian.

I offered the traveller a ¢hance to sta atlayy place, warning him the hbtse was full of small children -— ahd he accepte(! at once

During that night, and the maghts thatifbllowdd until he was successful in pbtainidg passant qn an aircraft that|wduld takelhim to Baffin Island, Twas to heat ee to the a Noe ee

le. Eae yean since those h 1948 some of the Gores fe tala appar Mote believable, :

The man said hehad been ge ed int inedicht research at a larad U.S. hpgpital. | canadt recall the name’of the hospital or institute of rented - ‘but Iremember hecompakédit to Johns Hop and the Mayo Brothers Clinic.

The work he naabeen crying olit ag pari ofa ‘team of some twenty pf se seqeare ers] was to discover if there was any rdlationship. hetyeén the use of metal utensils in the cooking, han and storing (canning) of foediarid the evidenge bf cancer. The njore primitive a race of humans was, and, hence, the less contact their f aoa

med, wag t rate from certain types of cancer.

The team began to bile up dn inapressiye amount of evidence that the dossumption of food that had a high amount af contact with metal - such as in the ing) and canning andiserv and storing process + could be felated to the higher incidence of certain types of cancer - such as stomach, bowel, ¢olbn ete.

Cancer of these parté of the body, he said, was quite rare among primitive le who used other forms of cookingiand storing -- such as clay pots, steaming, wrappinf iin! leaves, skin bags, stone -- and so one. ‘

The use of under arm deodorants and anti- pérspirant with lotions that indluded certain metallic substances and the very high rate of breast cancer among women who used fiiem|was also under study by his proum

When the head of his group df reédarchers

- pregnant.

published a medical paper on the ponte ween metal in food preparation and cancer, he said, “All Hell broke Inose.? Pressure wus immediately put upon the instituition for which the small body of scientists worked, tq jssue an, immediate denial. Certdin necessary, in- stitutional: grants were promptly suspended. The time was during the Ureat Depressign -- other jobs were impossible to come by. A few of the more dedicated schentists ih the group hung on, They refused tocontradict their findings, 4ll they could say, with honesty and without com- promising their profebsional i tegrity was that as yet they had had no absolute proof; the resuits were not final nor binding. There was still a lot of detailed studies to do, and the similarities could still be considered in the realm of ¢oin- cidences.

Humourous ‘attempts to unaermine the

“Cancer paper” included s agnbles a5: Gut of & group of 1,000-500 sm: ee and cigars. Not one who smoked a pape pr cigar became

Therefore, pipesmoking and IGigr smoking prevented conception. (N@ nidntidniin the survey being made that the srholters were men - and the non-smokers’ womenh.)

Then a large metals multinational corpor tip stepped in. It hired all 20 researcHers onk pn’ a special project involved in research opttrogidal disease in a certain country in South America. The cancer study lab was moved and disman- tled. Most of the records of the previous study were said to have been “transferred to a medical research library.’’ My friend, however, was unable to find them. mo,

“T waited,” he told me, for more than 20 years, until I was finaily able to retire and get off on my own. I have no family depending on me any more. I have enough money of my own. Lintend to go back and finish that study, by myself, if need be. .

“There is a group of ultra-primitive Eskimos. They are still nomads, and they frequedt| tha Basin area of Baffin Island. They use no nietal cookware; use bone spparheads arid gtone-tigped arrows. Thera has never been a single case of:

cancer known ‘among’ them.’ { want td get np: there, live with them for 4 year, and #2e if the opinions we started tq resch in gurl earlier, lab

studies were valid,” The night before my' trend left for Baffin we talked hour after hour, and thy eyes grew wider

in amazement at gome of the stories he cold me about ‘the interference by 'big companies tr

NFB makes Canada week a fun time!

The National Film Board will give community groups and organizations priority access to its large collection of the best films on Canada for their Canada Week events. . -

' “The collection includes not only NFB. films, but CBC productions, as well as private industry films,” explains NFB Canada Week coordinator, Sandy Burnett. ,

“Films tell our story” is the NFB’s Canada Week slogan that spearheads this special community outreach promotion. mt

And under the same banner, NFB staff in the

27 regional distribution offices across Canada, will stage various film events and free public screening in each region of the country.

In Ottawa, in the east end of Confederation Park, the NFS is setting up a geodesic dome which, during Canada Week, will be “Cine Dome” - a theatre about as big as an Olympic swimming pool -- 80 feet in diameter and 20 feet high, eapabie of holding some 200 people at a

eg.

The program of continuous screenings is made up of seven-and-a-half hours of different films.

Highlights include the 1978 Academy Award winners, Sand Castle and I'll Find a Way, as well as other award-winning NFB recent releases,

NFB regional productions, government spon- .

sored films and private industry films. . Highlights include the 1978 Academy Award winners,

In the, B.C, region there will he outdoor screenings in Vancouver's Stanley Park, as well as film showings at the NFB Theatre in con- junction with the Victoria Folkfest, and a week of Canadian films at Victoria’s PmPherson Playhouse.

In the Prairie Region, Edmonton will hold a

OTTAWA OFFBEAT

by Richard Jackson

__ Ottawa,- It’s taken nearly 15 years to emerge -- slowly, from the days when former Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson brought in the Bilingualism and Biculturalism policy followed : by the Official Languages Act - and now, sud- denly, the English-French issue is out in the open on the floor of Parliament.

And surprisingly, it was the Liberals who dragged it out of the closet. |

They kept it there, partially hidden for years,

under the taboo that to merely mention it was to

be a bigot. - ; . To suggest that English Canada was being ripped off for the profit, privilege and pleasure of

Quebec was to be a racist, the Liberals piously

lectured.

What was even worse, they warned from their lofty platform was that any protest by the English majority would imperil national unity.

So except for the infrequent outburst of complaint from the Opposition, it was all very, very and almost officially hush-hush.

Each time the Opposition questioned the wisdom of subordinating every other -national interest to the appeasement of Quebec in ‘the name of unity, it was chided for unpatriotic in-

temperance.

’ provincial. deals.

special screening of the award-winning: NFB feature film J.A. Martin, Photographe. In Calgary there will be a six-day film festival

celebrating ‘the spirit of toi et moi”, and there ‘the ‘majority of our neigh-

will be daily screenings in the NFB theatres in Regina, Saskatoon and Winnipeg.

For the Ontario Region, in Toronto there-will be daily free public screenings in the NFB theatre and at Harbourfront, as well as mobile cenemas at various shopping centres.

Outdoor film shows are planned for North Bay, Ellict Lake, Sault Ste-Marie, Sudbury, Stugeon Falls, Kirkland Lake and Timmins.

The Thunder Bay region will see a special circuit of Canadian Film Awards winners and Kitchener, Hamilton, London and Kingston will have free public screenings either at -NFB theatres or outdoor screenings via a mobile cinema.

In the Quebec Region, the NFB has a special Pavillion at Man and His World where screenings will begin in three cinemas during Canada Week and continue for the rest of the summer, There will also be outdoor film showings in Old Montreal and at Montreal’s Pare Lafontaine, = t

In the Atlantic Region, there will be. film screenings at various locations in Halifax, Fredericton and St. Joh,. Moncton will screen films on the theme of ‘‘les acadiens et les franco- manitobains”,

In Newfoundland there will be special screenings at campgrounds in national parks

and in St, John’s, beginning during Canada Week

and continuing for the summer. . On P.E.L,, there will be a series of screenings in Charlottetown. .

” Quebec still gets favoured treatment —

Of course it was none of John Roberts’ business, being a provincial affair. No matter, he. smeared Premier Davis as

- cynical and shabby for refusing the demands of

French-Canadian activists -- demonstrating at a Park and on Parliament Hill —- for their bd | ts,-- -

He said not a word about abrogated English _

rights in Levesque’s Quebec, nor even of the minority trespass of majority English rights in Eastern and Northern Ontario. | .

Roberts' serving of suddenly acceptable provocation in the French-English issue was

‘pretty wealt tea against the strong stuff poured .

by Transport Minister Otto Lang. He accused

the Conservatives of using “lies and deceptions”' .

to feed “hatred” in English Canada of Quebec, And ‘get this: included in those “lies and deceptions,’’ lamented Lang, was the Opposition

. gravel section.

claim that Quebec was being “grossly favored’: -

in the federal government’s grants programs.

The government's own figures routinely show that Quebec customarily skims the cream, . In grants, in make-work contracts, in custom and tariff concessions, and as always, in special “Quebec is different from the others’ federal-

research -- espetiall

in the publication pf

research that might abpaar harmful to the safle

of their product.

He was. strongly against ~under-anm, #us- tain] chemirals ‘and © t, Canadian Eskimos

perspirants that used

metallic substances. As and northern Indian tribes did not use them. My’:

friend felt that the harimful pulistanees were absorbed by the underanm lipp . pial that der a

connected to the breast.

and deodorants trapped

udhl sprays s#igre cup

4 '

_induced absorption into the breast tispte ~ aad

could cause cancer. Underarm hdir'is

re, By

nature, for very good reasons, he td me Today, when women reynove und¢rarm

hair, then use anti-perspirants that cantdin “¢

chemicals I believe are cancer-dagsing -- the

chemicals have thousands of. rea¢y-mp

openings to enter the lytnply anc’ breast tigsye

systems.

- The next day I took my sriend to the airvort, and watched as his flying bpak + 2 PBY! (Cansg) clumsily took to the air anf hendéd a thousbrd

miles farther north,

That was the year Canhdal Idst bik lange bir- craft in the North, One, [lrecall.!crashed avdr the Alert, when a chute, wsédlin; an by torre

fouled the rudder, killing all teu abeard.

least

four of the six airplanes were Cansod.A never heard of, or from, my friepd again. His card, . that I kept in my wallet for yesirp, ¢venthally gat

lost.

But I thought of him, agaih, priy the other day, when I picked up an anti-perspirant.c the bathroom. It was my late wifels

ter in yourite

sei tates EM LITT

“Aluminum chlorate 24) pér

LETTERS

Family protests neighbourhood Pub

Dear Sirs;

Thank you for the chance fo register our family's objection in regard to the proposed Neighbourhood Pub at the Council Meeting of June 12, Unfortunately, we had no time. to prepare any sort of formal paper as we only found out about the issue late Monday afternoon.

Our family has bought

. Property within the one-half proposed

mile radius of the

pub. We plan tobuilda home in this area as itis somewhat - rural, yet close to schools.

‘bours are families with. children, unlikely to frequent a neighbourhood pub, With | only about 60 families in the area, the pub customers’ would have to come from other areas. Already the paved part of Halliwell Avenue has become a ‘drag strip” and continues on the We are frequently concerned for our children and others who travel the road to school, and

ride bicycles on the street after school. With the Uplands Elementary School within the half-mile radius we cannot understand how a pob could be approved for this area. If a establishment is constructed this adds impaired drivers to the speeders and the reaults are obvious. | As to the proposal of a “country club’, we feel it is a joke among the residents, In our opinion, we have sufficient recreation Ir Terrace, a nearly every ocal sports group seems to be funded: We -fifid it dif- ficult .tc* belleve the recreational aspécts-will be developed, only the drinking establishment. . In our conversations with the other residents living in the area, we neither want or need a neighbourhood pub. We are very 5 the council would have approved this proposal without regard to the residents involved. Sincerely, Matt & Kaye Ehses

Lions have given ever 100 busses ! for the handicappea

The Editor

Dear Sir:

May | thank you for the space provided in your paper dated Tuesday, May 2ard, 1578 re- Lions donation of a Bus to the Terrace Child Development Centre,

_ The implication is the gift came from the Centennial ‘Lions Club: when in fact this bus is one in a system of over one_hundred such “Easter Seal Bus’a throughout the

province of British Columbia. Easter Seal campaigns are

,4 major source of revenue for the British Columbia Lions Soclety for Crippled

Children; a society that-

provides transportation, emergency ambulatory service, rehabilitation campa, and extended health

eare to the handicapped. - ..

- Each Lions © . club - throughout our province is but a small cog in this very large and continuing’ wheel, The. .bus “represents. a tangible asset in our com- munity; but ls 9 monetarily small account of the -ex:

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Reproduction Is not permitted withovt ihe written rmission of the Publisher. to

ipenditure of the “Soclety” in Publicity for a service club

is, in effect, an accounting of ~

monies within a. community to that community. . For this

space and opportunity, we - think here of”

members of the media; but. upmost in our

. minds is to thank the many

patrons and supporters -lo ‘our various projects; and

pro, have them look with pride -

and appreciation on the accomplishments of

many ' the Lions clubs within our

community. For without the

suppart of the community; |

there would be »o service eluba for such provisions, Thank .

you.

Frank Donahue

President, Lions

Editor's Note: We apologize for the erroneous “implication Mr. Donahue mentioned, but the’ mix-up was the resul} of the omission of a story ta go along with the hus picture

. which would have explained - more about the Lions’

generoiis donation.

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