CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 25, 1981

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CASTLEGAR AMBULANCE Station was

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ce crew member Bill Maartman was on

visited last week by 14 members of the hand as the Beavers investigated the

Second Kinnaird Beaver Pack. Ambulan-

a. ibulance and viewed its equipment.

Former MP a fighter

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Grace MacInnis, a scrapper
from way back, is learning a
few new lessons these days in
how to keep up the fight.

For most of her 76 years,
MacInnis, the first woman
MP ever elected from B.C.,
battled on behalf of others,
especially the poor and the
powerless,

Now, as an arthritis suf-
ferer, she is doing the fight-
ing for herself just to retain
her own independence and
self-sufficiency.

She says the crippling and
painful disease that strikes
nearly 10 per cent of the
population has posed one of
the toughest challenges she’s
ever had to face.

“Sure, I get discouraged —
especially in the morning
when I have to get up and
start moving again,” she said
in an interview.

“But I fight to get quisi je
every day and walk around
and see people. I findjhuman
contact is as neceashry lof

health as is fresh air and
sunshine.”

Despite the discomfort
caused by stiff and aching
joints, MacInnis is daily in-
volved in her pet project: the
Lucy Woodsworth Founda-
tion — named after her
mother — which provides
small bursaries to hundreds
of east end children each year
so they can afford to go on
class trips and take music
and art lessons.

MacInnis has had three
operations in the past couple
of years — she now has
artificial knees and a new hip
— and she has to use a whole
array of special devices just
to perform tasks that most
people take for granted.

She has a specially de-
signed door key with an
extra large handle; needs 10-
centimetre-thick cushions on
each chair so she can stand

ipafter having sat down and
hab frictionless covers on her
\car seats so she can move in
‘ahd out with relative ease.

Price hikes likely
to plummet need

EDMONTON (CP) — En-
ergy use in Canada will drop
sharply as prices approach
those paid elsewhere in the
world, the International En-
ergy Agency's director of in-
formation said Monday.

Peter Daniel said it is his
opinion, not necessarily an
agency forecast, that “de-
mand is going to drop like a
stone in Canada” as a result
of higher energy prices.

“We've seen price sensi-
tivity in Europe and Japan

and the United States (where

demand has fallen as prices
rose),” he said in an inter-
view. “There is no reason to
believe Canada will be differ-
ent.”

Incentives for new oil pro-
duction and higher consumer
prices under the national
energy program, Daniel said,
should make Canada’s goal of
energy self-sufficiency by
1990 realistic. Canada might
reach the goal even sooner,
he said, perhaps as early as
1986 if the investment cli-
mate improves,

She also has a housek

Local grads of UBC Magazine caps artist's pen
receive diplomas

Three Castlegar and dis-
trict students wero among
the more than 900 fall grad-
uates receiving degrees and
diplomas from the University
of British Columbia.

Debra Jean Shukin of
Blueberry Creek received a
Bachelor of Arts degree with
a major in Russian; Irene
Anne Brown of Castlegar —

Bachelor of Education (scc-
ondary); and Debbie Zaitsoff
of Robson was awarded a
Bachelor of Commerce de-
gree,

The degrees, approved by
the UBC Senate on Nov. 18,
went to students who com-
pleted their requirements
during the spring and sum-
mer.

Manganese and

Thirty per cent of children
with epilepsy have abnormal-
ly low levels of in

cluding onions, green beans
and spinach.

TORONTO (CP) — Today
magazine is dropping the
weekly Aislin cartoon for
reasons publisher Gordon
Pape won't disclose, but car-
toonist Terry Mosher — Ais-
lin’s real name — thinks some
readers weren't ready for his
satirical wit.

The decision to drop his
cartoon from the magazine,
which appears in weekend
editions of 18 newspapers
across Canada, didn't sur-
prise Mosher.

“I sort of expected it,” he
said in an interview from his
home in Montreal, where his
cartoons regularly run in The
Gazette. “The thing is,
they're used to me in Mon-
treal but that's not the case
in Ed or other

Today editor Walter Ste-

wart, whose column ran on
the same page as Mosher's
cartoon, protested its can-
cellation, said Pape.
- Stewart, who is on vac-
ation and couldn't be reached
for comment, will be writing
an occasional column, said
Pape. He would not confirm
or deny a claim by Mosher
that Stewart stopped writing
a column to protest the car-
toon’s cancellation.

Mosher said he received a
“very sympathetic letter”
from Stewart, advising him
the cartoon — and because of
the cancellation, his own col-
umn — would appear for the
last time Dec. 26.

Stewart considered the

places”
But although Pape acknow-

their blood, a Montreal re-
search group has found.
Dr. Yukio Tanaka of McGill
University and St. Mary's
Hospital says that normal
children and adolescents
have blood levels of 1.5
manograms of manganese
per decilitre of blood, while

who comes in periodically to
do the heavy work in her
apartment.

“There really isn't any cure
for arthritis, but they can do
an awful lot to make things
more bearable,” she said.

It was in 1958 that she
started experiencing ex-
treme stiffness and pain in
her arms and hands, accom-
panied by a gradual loss of
functioning.

“It has improved in the
past year,” MacInnes says. “I
think it has reached a plateau
and stabilized. I know there
could be an avalanche at
any time onto the plateau,
but I don’t worry about that.”

FAMILY TRADITION

Fighting is actually quite a
family tradition for MacInnis.

Her father was  J.S.
Woodsworth, one of the

of the Ci

30 of 100

children he and his co-work-
ers studied had only one-
third as much in

ledges the received

common problem, with more
than one per cent of Can-
adians experiencing some
form of epileptic seizure at
some time in their lives, says
Health and Welfare Canada.

some from news-

a personal de-
feat, said Mosher.
CITIZEN RUNS NOTE
(rape said the decision to
the cartoon was

paper publishers and read-
ers, he won't say whether
adverse reaction was. the
reason the cartoon was
dropped.

made “roughly 10 days be-
fore” an editor's note ap-
peared in the Ottawa Citizen
accompanying four letters of
complaint from readers un-

Union unhappy with firings

WINNIPEG (CP) — The

their blood.

The possibility that man-
ganese plays an important
role in ensuring normal, seiz-
ure-free brain activity is fur-
ther supported, Dr. Tanaka
believes, by the fact that
epileptic symptoms are rare
in infants, who almost always
have high levels of man-
ganese, but begin to appear
after 12 months when levels
of blood manganese are drop-
ping.

However, since 70 per cent
of epileptic children have
normal levels of blood man-
ganese, any relationship be-
tween manganese and epil-
epsy is not a straightforward
one.

Dr. Tanaka has tried giv-

Commonwealth Federation
(CCF), the forerunner of the
NDP. Her husband, the late
Angus MacInnis, was a long-
time MP, as well asa CCF

“co-founder.

After years as a CCF
activist — she was honorary
secretary to the executive in
the early 1930's — she repre-
sented the party in the B.C.
legislature from 1941 to 1945.

In 1965, she went to Ot-
tawa to represent Vancouver
Kingsway after the death of
her husband, and stayed until
forced out by arthritis in
1974,

“Actually, I only got to Ot-
tawa because of a miracle,”
she said.

“For 71/2 years my arthritis
was in complete remission.
Otherwise, I couldn't have
done the job.

“But for the last year and a
half I was there, the symp-
toms started coming back. So
7 knew I was for it.”

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union Boeing of
Canada Ltd. workers in Win-
nipeg will ask the incoming
New Democratic Party gov-
ernment to investigate the
firing of 99 striking employ-
ees.

Hemi Mitic, representative
of the United Auto Workers,
said Monday the union also
will build a case to present to

the provincial labor board
over the incident at the air-
craft part manufacturing
plant.

“We're going to use every
legal channel to get these
people reinstated in their
jobs,” he said.

Union officials were told
last week the firings had no
relation to union activity and
were based on work perfor-

mance and absenteeism.
However, Mitic said those
dismissed included a number
of workers who had been ac-
tive in the union, some who
had been with Boeing for
more than five years.

der the headline “Citizen
plans to cap magazine artist's
"

jn.

The editor's note said
although Mosher is “a bril-
liant satirist,” the cartoon in
the Nov. 7 issue was “of-
fensive and should not have
been published.”

“Because of complaints
from The Citizen and many of
the 17 other daily news-
papers that carry the maga-
zine in Canada, the Aislin
cartoons have been can-
celled,” the editor's note said.
“Because of advance pro-
duction for publications of
this type, however, the car-
toons will continue to appear
in the magazine until well
into December.”

The Nov. 7 cartoon —
which showed a bartender-
priest who'd replaced’ the
communion host with salted
pretzels and the “pedestrian”
wine with Dubonnet — at-
tracted about 20 letters from
offended readers to Today,
said Pape.

He said the cartoon was
not intended to be offensive
but was a comment on the
tendency of some churches to
be trendy in an attempt to
attract and hold parishoners.

But Mosher will have the
last word — the Dec. 26 car-
toon, by coincidence, is of a
newspaper publisher.

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