“CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 31, 1931

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: OTTAWA (CP) — A
‘strong lobby against changes
to the Narcotics Control Act
is again threatening to sink
promised government
‘amendments to the law.

} Although Liberal, Con-
‘servative and New Democrat
leaders have supported mod-
tification of the law, with
broad support from doctors

insurance

Marijuana

Controversy continues

and lawyers, change still
draws criticism.

Most has come from Ontar-
io, where a lobby of organiza-
tions including police, teach-
ers, principals, parents and
school trustees have urged
Prime Minister Trudeau not
to amend the law until a
campaign to inform the pub-
lic about marijuana’s hazards:

Blind hit hard

WINNIPEG (CP) — Blind ©

:persons are being refused
accidental death benefits by
some life insurance compan-
jes, spokesmen for ‘major
companies operating in Mani-
toba said in interviews.
Most life insurance com-
panies contacted said they
refuse or have reservations
about issuing such policies to
the blind, h there

Most underwriters or
managers contacted said
they could not quote statis-
ties proving the blind are

din more acci

has been carried out across
the country.

The lobby. contends that
shifting marijuana from the
Narcotics Control Act to the
Food’ and Drug Act would

the outraged patrons found
that under the act, the
searches were legal.

of food increases ©

By Judy Creighton

(cP) — Price increases on
fluid milk in several prov-
inces last month raised the
cost of the monthly food bas-
ket, according to a cross-
Canada survey by The Can-
adian Presa.

In addition, 12 cities sur-
veyed for the May prices
reported increased prices on

ant

number of items many famil-
ies might purchase,

‘The latest price checks in
Vancouver show:

Round steak roast was up
three cents to $2.78, oggs one
cent to $1.89, potatoes nine
cents to’ $8.89 and apples 13
cents to 69 cents, Cod was
down 19 cents to $2.19,
chicken 20 cents to $1.55,

. Aspokesman for a Toronto
wholesale produce import
company said in-an interview
Tuesday that last year's
Prince Edward Island potato
crop is depleting rapidly and
this is the reason consumers
are facing increased prices,

Nick Luciano, buyer for
F.G. Lister Co. Ltd. at the
Ontario Food Terminal, said
inclement weather in Florida
earlier this year has ham-
pered the supplies of new po-
tatees which normally are
shipped to’ Canada in late
April and May to offset
expected declines in domestic
supplies.

“The new potatoes didn't
come into the market fast
enough,” Luciano said. “Con-
sequently, the prices on the
old crop have risen.”

Tomatoes, which have
“glutted the market” during
the past two months, were up
in price, he said, “because
many Florida shippers after
losing so much money had to
close up shop.”

PRICES RISING

“Now there are less ship-
ping so the prices are rising,”
said Luciano. “Some of the
shippers lost millions of do!l-
lars and couldn’t' even meet
labor or carton costs."

Beef prices were also on
the rise in several cities —
but this was predicted by a
Spokesman for the Canadian

5 iation ear-

Another pi calls for
a minimum seven-year sen-
tence for those convicted of

use,,
among the young.

Accusing judges of laxity
in dealing with offenders, the
lobby said second offenders
should be jailed and a record
kept of all found guilty of
using marijuana.

MOST DISCHARGED

This might fill the jails
quickly. Most of the 50,000
persons charged annually
with drug offences are given
absolute discharges for sim-
ple possession. When a 16-
year-old high school student
was jailed for one week for
simple ion recently,

than sighted people.

Some referred to consult-
ing’ groups in the United
States and Toronto which
they said conducted such
studies.

for Act ‘ial

appear’ to be no statistics
showing the blind are more
likely to be involved in
accidents.

Several companies offer
benefits, but a blind custom-
-er must pay up to twice the
amount a sighted person
would pay for the same
“coverage.

; Spokesmen for Metropoli-
tan Life, Montreal Life,
Standard Life Assurance,
:Wawanesa, travellers Cana-

Consultants in Toronto and
two other consulting firms in
the U.S. said they were
unaware of any studies on
the frequency of accidents
involving the blind,

One firm which now offers
standard accidental death
benefits to the blind and deaf
is London Life, which
changed its policy after an
investigation by the Manito-
ba Human Rights Commis-
sion.

The had acted

ida and

isaid they refuse id
death benefits to the blind.

Glen Chudlay, an under-
writer with Great-West Life,
said his firm offers the
benefits to blind persons, but

‘only with extra premiums,

“We could examine each
individual case separately,”
the said. “Depending on our
findings, we would need a
premium from between 12
:to two times as much. I think
_you'd find that this is stand-
‘ard.”

PRICES
EVERGREENS

%
All OFF

ona

Green, an employee of the
Canadian National Institute
for the Blind, refused acci-
dental death benefits by
London Life last year.

Green said in an interview
he had been refused the
benefits several, times.

“I finally decided I had to
take a stand,” he said.

“I just find it difficult to
accept that in the Year of the
Handicapped I would have to
accept this kind of discrim-

the sentence was unusual
enough to cause a sensation
in Ontario.

About three million Cana-
dians have used marijuana.
In some cities, it can be
smoked in bars without peril;
police do not tend to arrest
users. In others, particularly
in Alberta, users are lucky to
get away with just a fine.

Since the Canadian Medi-
eal Association warned in
1968 that enforcement of the
law was doing more damage
than the drug, especially to
youths saddled with criminal
records, attempts have been
made to modify the law.

All have run into lobbies
that scared the government
off, even though the Senate
in 1974 not only passed a
government bill but made it
more liberal. It died on the
Commons order paper.

The-Narcotics Control.Act

allows powers of search and:

seizure greater than, detect-
ives may use in a murder
investigation,
SUBMIT TO SEARCHES
Ontario Provincial Police
once forced more than 200
patrons of a souther ontario
bar to submit, to strip
in Vir-

But prosecutors have been
preferring lesser charges,
such as simple possession, in
ease where small amounts
are involved.

Saying Canada’s criminal.
law doesn't make much sense
to anyone and has little
relation to reality, Justice
Minister Jean Chretien told
the Commons justice comimit-
tee Tuesday that penalties

. for drug use will be modified

“without ‘legalizing’ or even

a this year.

The survey of the monthly
food basket is conducted in
the same supermarkets. in
each of the 12 cities on the
last Monday of each month.

The survey includes one
pound each of round steak
roast, wieners (not all-beef),

* centre-cut pork chops, Grade

A chicken, medium ground
beef, frozen cod fillets, mar-
garine. in a tub, tomatoes,
drip coffee and apples.
Also included are one
dozen large SEES, one Titre of
it milk, a

20 cents to 79 cents
and sugar 10 cents to $1.87.
Cost of the. basket was
$29,562, down.48 cents from
the previous month when it
was $29.95, Cost one year ago
was $27.46. -

Senior
catches |

intruder

When Phoonix, Ariz.,
Police arrived, Gladys
Kastersmith, 77, was sitting
calmly in her rocker with a
cold beverage in one hand, a
pistol in the-other and a
frightened man at her feet.

She had called the officers
at 2a.m. to say someone was
trying to crawl into her home
through the *doggy-door ,in
her kitchen.

Police said that as she
spoke over the phone she

fired two shots — narrowly,

missing her prey.

Besides the’ 22-year-old
on all fours at Kastersmith’s
feet, police said they also
arrested a second man in a
stolen: car néarby a few
minutes later.

Sawdust can

become food °

for animals
A research group at the

* ‘University of Waterloo has

discovered a naturally occur-
ring fungus which can eat
non-treated cellulose waste
such as sawdust and turn it
into high-quality animal food.
When dried and processed,
the fungus: is 40-per-cent
protein and 50-per-cont
edible starches, plus
amounts of fat, vitamins and

leat ‘of sliced white bread, a
12.

School board
accepts three

resignations
The Castl School

bag of frozen peas,
10 pounds of first-grade po-
tatoees, two kilograms of
granulated white sugar and a
28-ounce tin of halved pears.
SAMPLE IS SMALL

The survey is not intended
to provide a city-by-city com-
parison because the product
sampling is small. It shows
price trends in specific stores
in certain cities for a limited

Only 10 per cent of
the dry weight of the fungus
is in non-edible form.

The food could

replace several hundred mil- .

lion dollars of soybean meal
presently imported into Can-
ada as a food supplement for
farm animals. So far,
however, Canadian compan-
ies have ignored the potential
of the find, says Prof. Murray
Moo-Young, head of the

_ research group.

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Board. accepted notices of
resignation from three em-
ployees at its meeting Mon-
day night.

The letter from secretary
Belle Roberts was accepted.
Roberts is retiring after
working as a secretary at
Kinnaird Elementary School
for 20 years.

Other resignations were
from C. Ireson, effective May
4, and G. Long, effective May
31. Both work at KJSS.

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‘consultant,

planning « ;
working * with’ “the city: of *
Castlegar is to meot with 'the’.’

eity council’: to’ ‘discuss

changes ‘to the final draft: of:

the updated community plan,
: The city council members
voted Tuesday, to invite the
planner to a meeting to dis-
cuss ‘recommendations and
comments about: the plan

made during a public meeting

in March.

G DATESET

HEARIN “s
A lawsuit filed against the

city of Castlegar is’ tenta-:
tively set tobe heard’ in
March 1982, Mayor Audrey
Moore .told’..a questioner
‘Tuesday.

The city’s lawyer has said
the suits are proceeding sat-
isfactorily, she added.

Moore said. that ‘because

the. sults/‘are before’: the |
courts;' no. other details a

Minutes; of he May “5

committee meeting show the
elty’s solicitor has been told

new water line.

Service Tuesday | ;
for Evelyn ' Smith

‘Memorial ‘eervice Isto’,

‘held Tuesday at 11 a.m,’ from
: St. Savior: Pro’ Cathedral :

Church; ‘for ‘Evelyn : Rachal

_ Smith; 81, of Nelson who died

Wednesday in Willowhaven
Private’ Hospital, #
Mrs, Smith resided in Rob-
son from 1944 to 1968, She is
survived by her son, John R.

ev. Canin R Bray, will’

officiate at the service. Cre-. :

mation has ‘taken place, In-
terment will be in:the family
plot at Robson: Cemetery,

New forest deve ore :

tthe Steep: Slope, Commit.
of the: N

‘Cable: systems, -sma
~ evawler, tear haat “flo-
a

forests.

Formed’ in 1975 -by. the -

ministry of forests, industry
foresters and forest research-
ers, the '

nized across: Canada as the
leader in harvesting timber
from steep and critical sites.
The methods.and techniques
developed .by committee

members are now:in use or ¢

under’ trial: throughout the’
interior.

Even Scandinavian’ fore
ters,
world authorities in critical
site logging, have visited the
Kootensys and come away
with ideas to be adopted in
their home.

‘always considered -

d
total area planning methods .

planning.

cere in:the East Koot- ©. 82

the \clty and -se)
resentative to the

‘meeting, saying

told’the hall would-be re
tl

por-
tant throughout the interior
as timber harvesting ‘moves |

The “Handbook for Ground
Skidding and:Road Building:
in’ British Columbia,” | pre-
pared by s. group of \co1
mittee members under the
direction of John Murray,
vice president of Crestbrook

Ferost “Industries Ltd. ins:

now isa

Conventional tractor and:
skidder ground skidding sys-;

tems cannot be used’‘on these
eritical areas due to damage
which: could seriously de-
grade the sites for future

timber production. Unless -
in

‘these areas are |

ule throughout the inter-
ior,:More’ than’ 6,000 copies

ley,
‘mere; Dave Jukes,
Talbot Ltd., Midway; Grant

Smith, Evand Products Ltd.,

Golden; -Pat’ Mills,:. Downie

have been distributed world.:*

“wide by. FERIC.

The: work, of Dr. “Dick”
Smith, forest thi

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District audiologist Janet Holland, top photo, answer!

Questions of an’ inquiring mother; Lower: photo,
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