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By DONALD WATERFIELD

(The: author, a Nakusp
freelance writer, wrote this
commentary for the Vancouver
Sun.)

I DON'T MEAN TO DE-
tract from the doctors’ feat in
delivering Mrs. John Brown's
test-tube baby Louise in Old-
ham, England, Still, I suggest

LE 0 M M ENT Thursday Morning, December 7, 1978

Of Patronizing Tones
And Parochial Views

There was a slightly patronizing tone In
Regional District of Central Kootenay
directors’ responses last Saturday to Mayor
Audrey Moore’ ‘guments against thelr
endorsement of a new regional planning
scheme.

Castlegar, that tone seemed to say, was
only a spolled and p child unwilling

extra planning and all regional functions on
a fee-for-service basis. The cost of planning
to Individual electoral areas, after shifting of
some of the costs from municipalities, would
be offset by allocation of provincial govern-
ment grants to regional district.

In ‘addition, establishment by the

to assume [ts financtal responsibilities, and
its mayor's proposed postponement of a
decision on the ADCK planning depariment
recommendations—until Municipal Affairs
Minister Hugh Curtis reveals to what extent
he will heed the newly-released findings of
his regional district review commliitee—
that quaint sing!
commonly referred to as parochiallsm.
Seeing fit to reject the Castlegar
director's argument the board departed
from its usual cautious demeanor and boldly
embraced nearly all the 25 recommenda-

affairs ministry of a realistic
schedule and cost estimate would lead to a
new joumula for provincial funding.
of those
as akely as Mr. Brewster suggested, thelr
Impact on regional planning functions
throughout the province would be enor-
mous. It would not be unréasonable to
expect the ROCK planning scheme, particu.
larly where it concerns projects In electoral
areas, to take on a new scope and new
limitations as a result.
It was unfortunate more directors did
not have the time or the epportunlty-—an

tions of the “Recom-
mended Approach to Planning.” After more
than 10 years of maintaining a planning
department which did not fulfill the function
delegated to the RDCK by the Municipal
Act, they refused to walt another two weeks
to discover whether new legislation would
render the planning program partially or
fully obsolete.

While noting the objection of Castlegar
and other municipalities to the division of
costs, Area H director Norman

majority, in fact, had not
even read the report—to give careful

jo the of the
regional district review commiites’s recom-
mendations.

But even If the recommendations are
ignored by the provincial government, even
if the impact of new legislation on the
planning function Is negligible, the essential
tragedy of the board’s declsion lies not In its
timing butt in Its inconsistency. While

chairman of the board's planning commit-
tee, sald he was confident the minister
would adopt the regional district review
committee's recommended changes on the
division of costs.

But he then advanced the rather
regrettable argument that those changes
should not hold up RDCK planning ‘‘be-
cause that question will be settled by the
provinclal government, not this board.””

As the.Castlegar News reported last
week, several ofthe more than 50 recom-
mendations | the regional district

which takes the
ambitious and logical step of dividing the

RDCK into five planning sub-regions, the
board has doomed the planning function to
administrative changes which will ultimately
undermine it.

* Choosing to ignore the relative success
of this clty’s In-house planning department
and the obvious fiscal and physical advan-
tages to contracting out planning service to
surrounding areas, ROCK directors have
approved policies favoring centralized ad-
ministrative growth which will neither’ be
to the five

made to the minister would, if Implemented,
drastically affect a function which until now
has retled heavily on the of the

sub-regional units they have established.
As with thelr move to ignore the effect
could have on the

municipalities to Its funding.

The cost of settiament planning would
be separated from the cost of regional
planning and benefiting areas would
charged separately through new accounting
procedures which would divide costs for

Mayor Audrey Moore has

function, directars have displayed with their
blanket approval of the new planning
program a narrow-mindedness which does
not do justice to the components of the
region.

Now that’s parochtalism.

has delayed its approval of

the
funding for Castlegar’s proposed new water ‘spy for at least two months.”

Blueberry Creek resident Philip Shaina wins $100,000 in the Western Lottery.
. * *

Included in Mayor Audrey Moore's 1978 agenda for city council are new legislation, water and
sewer rates amalgamation and government renovation programs.
. 8 8

The federal government has released details of new € igibili

that we the thous-
ahds of cattle in Canada that
have been born quite normally
in this decade without having
any blood relationship with the
cow that bore them.

Ordinarily calves are sin-
gles, rarely twins. But 1 know a
cow that has (or had; they may
not all be living) 15 blood
brothers and sisters, all exactly
the same age.

IT SOUNDS IMPOS-
sible. But not at all. Artificial
insemination is performed in
Western Canada commercially
and without dangerous sur-
gery. My neighbor has dozens
of test-tube cows.

He used to have Herefords,
which may well be the best
commercial beef cattle. But
everyone has Herefords, and
under favorable circumstances
there may be more money to be
made from exotic breeds—if
you can find buyers for their
progeny. People have paid big
sums for Charolais but they are

‘common now and worth no

more than other beeves.My
acquaintance, who lives on the
Arrow Lakes, decided to im-
port Maine Anjou cattle from
France,

MAINE ANJOU ARE
like Herefords in that they are
chunky in conformation and red
with some white on their faces,
They tend to be larger than
Herefords, which makes them
look superior..On the other
hand, their hair lies close to
their hide and they do not
shake off snow as easily as
Herefords do, Their chief at-
traction for my neighbor, how-
ever, was that they were
foreign.

It is neither cheap nor easy

to import cows, together with.

their possible diseases, into
Canada.

TO BE ELIGIBLE TO
import, one has to belong to the
Canadian Cattlemen's Associa-
tion. The would-be importer’s
name is put into a hat and if he
is lucky he may be allowed to

Keep Your
Eyes On

The Flowers

(An editorial in the Van-
couver Sun.)

A TINY BLUE WILD-
flower has been found to
mutate when exposed to low
levels of radiation. Cells within
the flower turn pink.

Planted near nuclear re-
actor installations, the flower,
spiderwort, should warn when
radiation reaches a level at
which it could possibly affect
human life.

ADVOCATES OF NU-
clear energy had better take
head, and make certain their
installations spray no stray

rules for

Government approval for construction a an Bteaiel Care Unit and maintenance shop for the
Castlegar and District Hospital has been granted the hospital's board of trustees.

Spiderwort has the
potential of being made a
powerful symbol by their op-
ponents.

—/ The Bierman Bite

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Artificial Insemination: Efficient but Costly

-Test-Tube Babies Old Hat to Cattlemen-

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import one or two animals the
first year he tries. My neighbor
was lucky first time around. In
1970—at which time there were
federal facilities for quaran-
tining few more than 600 ani-
mals—he acquired his first
Maine Anjou bull.

He was able to breed it to
some Herefords and the follow-
ing year had some half-breeds
that were worth no more and
perhaps less than their moth-
ers. In 1971 the Cattlemen's
Association failed to come up
with his name but the next year
he had permission to import
four Maine Anjou heifers.

HEHADSOME TROUBLE
securing the quality of animals
he required and the cost was
considerable—$4,000 to $7,000
for a registered heifer in
France. However, he found the
four heifers he wanted and

consigned them to the French
island of St. Pierre in the St.
Lawrence. There they had to
stay for three months in
quarantine before being sent on
to a Canadian farm for another
three months’ quarantine.

When quarantine was over
he sent his bull and four heifers
to Alberta Livestock Trans-
plants, near Calgary.

SHORTLY BEFORE BE-
ing bred by the expensive bull,
the heifers were ovulated. That
is, they were injected with a
drug that encouraged the for-
mation of ovules. After being
bred, the fertilized eggs were
washed out of them.

The eggs had to be kept
warm while they were exam-
ined for fertility under a micro-
scope. There were dozens of
eggs, not all fertile. The fertile
eggs then were implanted, one

each, into willing foster-moth-
ers where they developed un-
molested.

THE LIMITATION TO
this astoundingly rapid increase
of Maine Anjou or any other

kind of cow appears to be the’

number of available foster-
mothers that happen to be
willing when the cow is ovu-
lated. However, the fertilized
eggs can be kept in incubators
for days before being implant-
ed.

It sounds like a profitable
business and so it was for my
neighbor at first. His most
successful reproductory explo-
sion was 16 eggs from one
ovulation transplanted into 16

cows. His best’ sale was three*-

calves at a week old at $40,000
each.

THE SNAG IS THAT
such reproduction is much too

efficient. No longer can there
be a rare breed of cattle for
long. And the costs of quaran-
tine and of transplanting re-
main,

Also, you need a bit of cash
to get started, and Canadian
banks are reluctant to go live-
stock-farming. American banks,
my neighbor tells me, are more
speculative. The secret of suc-
cess is to be early. There is
money in the first test-tube
baby. Of any species,

MRS. JOHN BROWN IS
said to have been paid $565,000
by London's Daily Mail for her
story, and she should have
interesting things to tell. I do
hope sh; sk ‘is more articulate than
my neighbor's cows. Otherwise
The Daily Mail may wish it had
speculated in the cattle import
business,

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