Sh News October 19, 1988 SPECIAL NOTICE ALL STIHL CHAIN SAW USERS FREE LABOR ON ALL STIHL PRODUCTS COLUMBIA SAW & rt 9g bia Ave. in the Ci 365-2710 J Cocaine deaths studied MONTREAL (CP) — Researchers in France and the United States may be close to preventing cocaine. related deaths such as that recently of Atlanta Falcons defensive back David Croudip. “Croudip’s life and that of many others might have been saved had the information we have found been more widely available,” Dr, Gabriel Nahas of Columbia University said in an interview. Croudip, 29, died Oct. 10 of heart failure after taking an overdose of cocaine. Nahas noted a has significant increase in the number of fatal heart attacks linked to cocaine use among people in the United States between 20 and, 30 years of age. “With drugs normally used to treat hypertension, we have produced re- markable results on laboratory ani- mals fed lethal doses of cocaine,” he said. These drugs may be able to save the lives of people suffering from cocaine-induced heart attacks and even help wean addicts from their dependency by reducing some of the more unpleasant side effects of with- drawal, he added. BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210 New insertions, copy chan; accepted up to § p.m. Tu ions for the Castlegar News Business Directory will be month of Novem The research by Nahas, at Col- umbia, and Dr. Renaud Trouve at France's Institut national de la sante et de la recherche medicale, was discussed this week at a combined meeting of the American Physiolo- gical Society and the American Society for Pharmacology and Exper- imental Therapeutics. It involved hundreds of experi ments on laboratory animals over a three-year period, Cocaine use makes the body's central nervous system trigger the production of substances like adrena- lin in large and potentially damaging amounts which can lead to a squeezing of the blood vessels in the heart and brain. 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But Nahas cautioned the drug “must be applied as soon as the first indication of cardiovascular problems in a cocaine user occurs.” Whooping cough vaccine tested WASHINGTON (AP) — A re. search team has found a way to alter the whooping cough bacteria gene-~ tically in hopes of producing a safer vaccine to combat the dangers childhood disease. Dr. Jerry Keith, a U.S. National Institute of Health scientist, said that by substituting one amino acid for another ina single subunit of the ( CasNews Printing Letterheads & Envelopes Business Cards Brochures Business Forms * Invitations Any Printing Don't forget our Web Printing Service. For details, call us. 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We Sell Distinctive Invitations, Napkins etc. COME SEE US AT Castlegar News 197 Columbie Ave. hooping cough bacteria gene, sci entists have been able to eliminate the toxin that has caused side effects in vaccines. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a major disease among children world wide, despite the development of a vaccine more than 40 years ago. There are about 60 million’ cases of the disease annually, with about one million deaths. It generally strikes during infancy. Most children in Canada are vac cinated against whooping cough during their first three years of life. But doctors report a small number of infants suffer some side effect from the vaccine. It is thought that a toxin in the vaccine causes the side effects, which include swelling and redness around the injection, persistent crying and in severe cases, brain damage. Vaccines currently used for whoop- ing cough are made from whole bacteria cells which have been killed, Keith said. “Those cells also contain the per- toxin,” said Keith. You can chemically eliminate that toxin with chemicals, but if you treat it too severely, it doesn't work very well as a vaccine. If you don't treat it rough enough, there could be a little bit of toxic effect left.” The pertussis gene was cloned in 1986 by Keith and his team at the NHI's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Mont. Since then, the group has been attempting to find the genetic source of the toxin that causes the vaccine’s side effects. “The idea was to go in and change the bacteria genetically so it is no longer toxic, but still causes a very positive immunological response,” said Keith. “It turns out that if a single amino acid change is made, that's enough.” Keith said it will take months of testing in test tubes and animals be- fore a new whooping cough vaccine would be ready to test on humans. Down’s syndrome test developed NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have developed a blood test for women that can detect three times as many cases of Down's syndrome as existing tests, without risk of mis. carriage and at far less cost. Researchers say the test could be available for widespread use in about three years, after further studies are done to confirm its effectiveness. Down's syndrome is a chromosome disorder. Chromosomes are micro- scopic threads in each cell that carry genes, which govern hereditary characteristics. The existing test uses a procedure called amniocentesis, in which a small amount of the amniotic fluid sur. rounding the fetus is withdrawn and fetal cells in the fluid are examined for the presence of chromosomal de fects. The procedure costs about $1,000 US and leads to miscarriages in about one in 200 mothers who receive it, doctors said. The new test, done by measuring the levels of three substances in the mother’s bloodstream, identifies women at highest risk of having children with Down's syndrome, said one of the authors of the report, Jacob Canick, a biochemist at Brown University and Women and Infant's Hospital, both in Providence, R.I. The other authors include Dr. James Haddow of the Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough, Me., and Dr. Nicholas Wald of the Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hos- pital in London. In the absence of such a test, doctors assess risk based only on the mother's age — the older the mother, the higher the risk. The new test provides a much more accurate assessment of risk, Canick said in a telephone interview. Amniocentesis is recommended for pregnant women over 35. If it were given to all of them it would identify an estimated 20 per cent of Down's syndrome cases. 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The $785,000 average pay was up 23.5 per cent from 1986, when the top 100 earned an average of $633,000. The increase is partly a re- flection of a good year for the industry, which saw the top 200 electronics companies’ sales rise 7.4 per cent and profits soar 53.6 per cent, said Linda Stallmann, senior editor of the magazine. The 17 million-dollar earners, as listed in the Oct. 15 issue of Electronic Business, are: Apple's Sculley, $2.14 million; Unisys chairman W. Michael Blumenthal, $1,549,000; Com- puter Associates chairman Char. les B. Wang, $1,431,000; Compaq Computer president T. Mitchell, $1,354,975; Seagate Technology senior vice president Douglas K. Mahon, $1,274,120; Seagate Technology chairman Alan F. Shugart, $1,263,951. Also, Unisys president Paul G. Stern, $1,195,920; Hewlett-Pack. ard chairman John A. Young, $1,198,300; and Computer Asso- ciates president Anthony W. Wang, $1,188,000; Xerox chair- man David T. Kearns, $1,165,465; Advanced Micro De- vices chairman W.J. Sanders, $1,057,080; Unisys vice-chair- man Joseph J. Kroger, $1,029,337; Litton Industries chairman Fred W. O'Green, $1,022,510; Honeywell chairman Edson W. Spenser, $1,014,185; NCR chairman Charles F. Exley, $1,001,200; and Convergent Technologies chairman Paul C. Fly, $1,000,000. Proposed sales tax creates suspicion By ERIC BEAUCHESNE Canadian Press OTTAWA — There's a lot of suspicion about the Conservatives’ proposed new sales tax. That suspicion was demonstrated by reaction to the recent musings of maverick Tory MP Don Blenkarn that a tax on all goods and services, such as exists in New Zealand, could raise an extra $10 billion a year in revenue. The Commons finance committee chairman's com- ments, while not really new, became front-page news with one television newscast describing them as a potential election “bombshell.” The opposition leaders pounced on them as evidence of a hidden Tory agenda. And Prime Minister Brian Mulroney took them seriously enough to briefly pop out of his election campaign bubble to say only Finance Minister Michael Wilson speaks for the government on tax policy. A tax of some form is coming. It will take back what the government has so far given out in lower income taxes for Canadians under tax reform. In fact, Blenkarn, a loose cannon who never has been —and probably never will be — allowed to speak for the government, was merely expanding on a eight-month: old Commons finance committee report on the New Zealand sales tax. That report noted that New Zealand's tax on all goods and services raised $4.1 billion in its first year. Since Canada’s economy is 10 times the size of New Zealand, Blenkarn calculated an identical tax here could raise 10 — $40 billion, or $10 billion more than is raised by the current federal and provincial sales times that amount taxes. He ignored that Wilson had already said food, pharmaceuticals and public \institutions —which are programs taxed there — won't be taxed here and that the proposed tax won't be used to raise extra revenue. SUSPICION AROUSED Nonetheless, there's still suspicion. The new sales tax and the multi-billion-dollar social remain the most likely vehicles for a post-election attack on the annual $28-billion federal federal debt. deficit, which has generated more than $300-billion Unless the Nov. 21 election produces a minority government, another attack on the deficit and debt is coming sooner or later from whichever party is elected. Probably sooner if the Tories are re-elected with a majority government, as polls suggest they will be. Probably later, if one of the opposition parties wins, which at the moment seems unlikely. Consider that: The buildup of federal debt under the Tories from $170 billion to more than $300 billion has been greater than in any other four-year period in Canadian history. e Despite greater-than-expected revenue-generat ing economic growth, repeated tax increases and attempted spending restraint, the government is still going $28 billion deeper into debt each year. e Roughly 25 cents of every dollar Ottawa spends goes to paying interest charges on that debt. Many economists now fear that, with this year's unanticipated rise in interest rates and next year's forecast. or spending. expected slowdown in economic growth, the rate at which the country slides deeper into debt will soon begin to accelerate, not decelerate as Wilson has Those are good reasons to brace for bold actions by the government after Nov. 21, whether it be with taxes Credit union day Thursday Thursday is International Credit Union Day and one of the area's local credit unions will be celebrating with refreshments in its branches. Kootenay Savings Credit Union was established in 1969 by an amal- gamation of the community credit Fruitvale and Bril- liant. Now there are a total of nine KSCU branches in eight West Kootenay communities and KSCU boasts more than 23,000 members with assets of some $154 million. “We acknowledge the many con. unions in Trail, tributions which volunteers and pro- fessionals provide today to credit union members around the world,” KSCU says in a prepared release. “We look to the future with optimism and confidence that credit unions will continue to serve the needs of gen erations of members.” . JI e | FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP (A.C.0.P.) 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