CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 20, 1981

New television package offered. Otte

Rural communities and so-
cleties should organize now
to provide themselves with
the new Canadian-content
television and radio package,
says Kootenay West MP Lyle
Kristiansen.

“If we're to retain local
control over communications
in this region in years to
come," the MP said, “we
should take the initiative now
to distribute the CANCOM
satellite package in our own
villages and towns,

“T'll gladly work closely
with any village or TV
society that wants to under-
take distribution of CAN-
COM."

Kristiansen explained that
CANCOM is a package of
three Canadian television
stations, a French-language
station, six FM radio stations
and two Native-language ra-
dio stations. These would be
added to the CBC service
already available almost ev-
erywhere.

“These Canadian stations
are the highest-quality in the
country, as they compete
directly with CBC,” the MP
said. "They all carry the
maximum-allowable 40 per
cent American programming,
so there's a good mix, and the
radio stations are not even
available to urban cable sub-
scribers.”

Available with the pack-
nop which will be on the air

by the middle of July, are
CHAN-TV_ Vancouver
(BCTV), CITV Edmonton,
CHCH-TV Hamilton, which
has Toronto as its major
market, and a French lan-
guage television station. Ra-
dio stations in the package
are CFMI Vancouver, CKO
Toronto, CIRK Edmonton,
CFQM Moncton and CKAC

and CITE, both of Montreal.

“The deadline for the first
round of hearings before the
CRTC to distribute CAN-
COM is June 17," Kristiansen
said, "I don't see why a half
dozen Kootenay West com-
munities couldn't have appli-
cations in by then and’ be
sending this package of pro-
gramming out by late sum-
mer,

“We could wait for the
next round of hearings, but
that would mean another
six-months delay in providing
the service, and a major
company might slip in ahead
of local groups and be ap-
proved as the distributing
agent. There’s a risk in
waiting.”

Earlier this year, the MP
noted,.the Regional District
of Central Kootenay board
sent a letter to the CRTC
objecting to a proposal from
B.C. Telephone to wire 70
B.C. communities with cable
to distribute CANCOM.

“That was a good move,
because now the CRTC has
already been told that local
sympathy is that we want to
do it ourselves, which we
certainly can," Kristiansen

pram ach)

SPACE EAR — If Kootenay West MP Lyle
Kristionsen has his way, satellite anten-
nas such as this one will dot the riding,
bringing a new Canadian-content
television and radio package to rural

Here Kri:

said. “I have

oh ry

forms and i jon ready
to go at my constituency

pee

ish which — story.

the
saw action last year in Meadow Creek —

an experiment by the government to see
how such systems would work. It
worked just fine, and now the MP wants
locals to set up such dishes before large
corporations
squints into trol and profits out of the area. See
d from a

lo it for them, taking con-

office, and p y re-
search has been done,”

‘The MP explained there
are several options in pro-
viding CANCOM service in
rural areas, Existing tel-
evision societies could con-
tract with CANCOM, the
CTV-spensored company,
and set up a satellite dish.
Then the signal package can
either be re-broadcasted, as
is already common locally, or
a cable system can be put
into place.”

GPs must intensify
efforts against VD

By Steve Keratetter
QUEBEC (CP) — Family
doctors must intensify their
efforts to identify, treat and
prevent

Several kinds of sexually-
transmitted diseases can en-
danger a baby at birth, es-
pecially if the delivery is not

diseases in their patients, the
College of Family Physicians
of Canada was told.

. Dr. J.C. Katz of Sherwood
Park, Alta. his col-

. done by section.

Even if gonorrhea and sy-
philis no longer existed, Katz
said, there would still be
problems from other kinds of

leagues to give special atten-
tion to their young female
patients.

“Just because you de-
livered the girl 15 years ago
and have watcher her grow-
ing up, don't be blind to the
fact this little girl, even at 15,
may be very sexually active.

“Don’t lose that oppor-
tunity to let her know she has
a friend who will honor her
privacy and discuss birth
control and VD and sexual
responsibility with her, and
hnot tell her parents.”

Katz said gonorrhea now is
the most widespread infec-
tious disease in the world
after the common cold. Fed-
eral statisites show some 200
reported cases of gonorrheaa
year for every 100,000 Can-
adians,

Most sexually-transmitted
diseases could be easily
brought under control if indi-
viduals would have sex with
only one partner, said Katz.

Testing for gonorrhea is
especially important among
young single women, because
an estimated 80 per cent of
those with the disease have
no obvious

d dis-
eases.

Herpes I has attracted
publicity recently, but most
of the others are little known
to the géneral public.

One of these others is
non-gonococcal urethritis. It
is often without symptoms,
difficult to diagnose and can
cause complications to a baby
at birth.

Bodies change as they agé

We all just fade away

TORONTO (CP) — Like
old soldiers, all of us year by
year fade away.

Dr. Ronald Cape of the
University of Western On-
tario told the Ontario Medical
Association how the body
changes tissue by tissue as it
ages.

He said there is a physical
loss of tissue mass varying
from seven to 30 per cent
until it becomes true, at age
85, “the old man is only half
the man he used to be.”

Muscles reach full matur- ©

ity in the mid-20s. Those
who've been physically ro-
bust, done manual work or
athletics, will maintain mus-
ele size and strength into
their 603.

But eventually ‘ muscles
waste away and are replaced
with fat.

“It compensates for the
loss of bulk, but it may create
new bulges in unwanted
places,” he said.

Between age 30 and 80, the
total weight of muscles, liver,
brain and kidney drop by 20

* to 80 per cent.

The body’s water supply
has dropped by the mid-60s
by 13 per cent for men and 10
per cent for women.

Flight union claims |
errors being made

MONTREAL (CP) — The

nored our complaints and

union striking
Nordair flight attendants
says replacement attendants
have made several serious
errors since assuming what
the union calls strikebreak-
ing duties.

Nordair has put 155 non-
union office workers through
a federally-approved safety
sourse as replacements for

Katz also called for routine
testing among male homo-
sexuals, persons who go to
their doctors with concerns

di who began a
atile Thursday.

“The federal department of
transport will have to take

about VD, and all
women.

ip for
happens because it has ig-

pp! the training. given
the personnel -taking ‘out.

‘places,” Ginette St. Roch, an

official with the Canadian Air
Line Flight Attendants Asso-
ciation, said.

Nordair spokesman Ah-.

med Galipeau denied any in-
cidents other than a collision
May 14 between a Nordsir
jet and a deer on a runway in
Pittsburgh, Pa.

There were no injuries
when the Toronto-bound Bo-
eing 787 carrying 87 pass-
engers aborted its take-off
after hitting the deer.

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The weight of your liver,
brain, heart, kidney, spleen
and pancreas slowly -goes
down with the liver having
the most dramatic drop. By
age 90, you've lost 40 per
cent of your liver weight,

Cape said Wednesday that
bone loss begins at age 39.

Your lungs don't lose
weight but less air is moved
in and out of them when
you're 80 than when you
were 20 which is one reason
your pace of activity slows.

Your brain achieves its op-
timum potential between the
ages of 16 and 20, after which
time it starts losing cells. It
slowly declines to age 60.
Beyond that the decline be-
comes rapid.

How early the signs of
aging occur depends on
genes, Cape said.

Studies of twins show
identical pairs are likely
likely to live about the same
length of time while

VICTORIA (CP) — The

B.C. government haa little
choice but to accept the ten-
tative agreement on medi-
care fees its negotiators have
reached with the 9,700 fee-
for-service doctors even if it
is too rich for the taxpayers,
said Social Credit whip
George Mussallem, on Tues-
day.

Mussallera sald the gov-
ernment does not intend to
scale down the agreement,
which calls for increases of 41
per cent over two years over

Government has little choice

for the doctors, and the B.C. *

Medical Services Commission
which negotiates for the gov-
ernment.

Health Minister Jim Niel-
sen said on the weekend the
agreement, if accepted, will
Mean a 80-per-cent increase
in medicare premiums —‘or
about $4 a month for dn in-
dividual. The government
also will have to come up
with an additional $80 millign
in the first year. + «

Earlier, Premier Bill Ben-

r must be approved

nett hinted the government
may not accept the proposed
pact because it could destroy
the medicare system in Can-
ada..

Under the previous con-
tract, which expired March
81, the average pre-tax sal-

ary for doctors was esti-
mated at $64,000.

Both Nielsen and Bennett
have stated the government
will proceed with legislation
outlawing the surcharging of
patients by their doctors.

the 1980 fee schedule, be-
cause U the “situation has gone

owe, ‘already have seen the
force and power the doctors
have and we can't afford to
jeopardize the health of the

people of B.C.,” he said in an -

interview.

“I guess the people of B.C.
have got to pay through the
nose. The doctors have used
a big club and when any or-
ganization can act stronger
than the government, then

it’s asad day for our society. *

“It is unfair and unreason-
able for the doctors to as-
sume they have the special
right to charge whatever
they like.”

Meanwhile, in . Kelowna
some of the city’s 120 doctors
began extra billing’ of pati-
ents but Dr. Terry Johnston,
president of the: Kelowna
Medical Society, said some
doctors were rethinking their
earlier decision to proceed
with the extra charges.

Last week, Kelowna doc-

tors had voted overwhelm.’

ingly to start levying the ex-
tra charges today, but soci-
ety communications officer
Dr. Bill Arkinstall said there
was some confusion over how
many would extra bill.

twins, whose genes are dif-
ferent, do not.

Just as there is a wide
range among children in
growth and rate of maturity,
there is a wide range among
people on the way down.

“As a result, there are

“individuals at age 90 who

constitute a biologically elite
group, still within 10 per cent
of their optimum function
while others of the same age.
have lost more than half oF
it,” he said.

and backbench
er Jack Kempf (SC - Omin-
eca) say the proposed con-
tract “is far too rich for the
public purse.”

The doctors are to vote
during the next three weeks
on the new fee schedule
which would provide them
with an average increase of
$38,000 compounded over
two years,

The provincial cabinet”! “has
yet to approve the tentative
agreement reached May 7
between the B.C. Medical
Association, which bargains

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time-worn slip of paper. The -
handwriting was foreign yet
still comprehendable: It ap-

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April 10, 1842

“Can it possibly be?.Are.
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spring finally here? ‘Dear,
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so, It has been a hard winter,
at Amherot, on all of us. Poor

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article over and over until
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brown, leather-bound

one of many -found-in‘a li-
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