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SINCE 1962

Police
force doubles

OTTAWA (CP)
number of full-time
officers in Canada has almost
doubled since 1962, the Can
adian Centre for
Statistics reported Tuesday

The part of
Statistics Canada, said the
number of police increased
by 92.7 per cent between

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There was one policeman
for every 677 Canadians in
1962 but the ratio moved to
one for every 452 Canadians
by 1975, “indicating that
police strength was growing
at a greater rate than the
general population.”

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Bike varieties
make choice
tough

By ROB CARRICK
The Canadian Press

You thought buying a new bicycle would be easy, but
the beguiling variety of styles and options brings back
memories of the time. you bought your last car.

To narrow the field somewhat, make a decision on
how and where your bike will be used — whether in the
city, on dirt trails or ov gravel roads. This will enable you
to select a suitable bicycle at a price that isn’t necessarily
in the range of a car.

“Bikes range from $99.95 in department stores to a
top end for racing bikes at about $6,000," says Paul
Jurbala, director of the Ontario Cycling
Association. “You're advised to stay away from either
extreme.”

Jurbala says a good bike that will last for years can
be purchased for between $200 and $250. “The main thing
affecting the price is weight — the lighter the material a
bike is constructed of, the more it costs.”

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The newest trend in cycling is the mouptain bike
which, Jurbala says, differs from the traditional sport
bike in that it has wider wheels, fatter tires and a
heavy-duty frame

“If you're out riding in country with steep hills, dirt
and gravel, then a mountain bike is what you need,” he
says

The

expensive.

original mountain bikes extremely

but with their current popularity they are

Right now, the

least expensive mountain bike probaby isn’t any sturdier
than any other kind of bike

Other decisions to be made include how many speeds

at style of seat is most comfortable and

were

now being mass-marketed, Jurbala says

you want, w
whether you prefer dropped or straight handlebars

Most of these choices are a matter of preference. but
if you're using a bike primarily to ride to the supermarket
you won't need anything particularly elaborate, Jurbala
says.

The same maxim holds true for the myriad of cycling
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Jurbala says. “Even in the most minor fall you can bang
your head and cause an injury.”

He says helmets are becoming increasingly popular
with cyclists and likens the trend to the acceptance of the
hockey helmet, which was spurned by hockey players
until they realized it could prevent serious injury

Cycling shorts and shoes are intended primarily for
confirmed enthusiasts and competitors.

Resembling the common running shoe, cycling shoes
have a stiffer sole that provides a smooth transfer of
power from legs to pedals. The grooved sole helps
maintain a sure grip on the pedals.

The shorts, which Jurbala says really do make a
difference on long trips, are light and tight-fitting so as
not to flap in the breeze and bunch up uncomfortably
They're also lined with a soft material that prevents

Costews ?

Whatever equipment you buy, you don't need to
spend a lot of money to enjoy the physical benefits of
cycling

“Cycling is very gentle,” says Bob Duck of
Participaction, the federal fitness agency. “It’s not hard
on ankles, knees and hips and it utilizes all the muscles
that jogging does, except possibly for the upper body
muscles.”

Steady, endurance-oriented activities like cycling are

also recommended by Duck for people who want to lose
weight. “Long, slow activity is the best thing you can do
to burn fat.”

To achieve a significant increase in fitgess, Duck
recommends exercising at least three times a week
“How long you exercise varies according to your goals.”

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SEARO

Lawsuits too costly
says bar president

VANCOUVER (CP)
Taking a civil dispute to trial
has become “far too complex,
lengthy and costly” for the
average person, says the new
president of the Canadian
Bar Association.

People who seek to launch
a lawsuit are often shocked at
the fees involved, Bryan Wil
liams said in an interview
Costs for a two-week trial can
reach $25,000 — with no
guarantee of victory

Other suit deterrents arise
because a trial date is likely
to be set 14 months after
litigation has commenced and
the plaintiff, the person
suing, to undergo a
rigorous “examination for
discovery” by the defen
dant’s lawyer before trial

Williams wants an “alter
native dispute resolution
system,” and backs the es
tablishment of a mechanism
similar to arbitration to set
tle disputes outside the legal
system.

Lawyers should support
such a system even though it
would reduce their volume of
business, he said, because “if
we keep going the way we
are, there aren't going to be
any lawyers anyway because
no one will be able to afford
them.”

Williams, 53, who was born
in Calgary, said another of
his aims is to promote equal
justice for native people

“One measure of a nation’s
civilization is how that nation
treats its aboriginal people,”

he said. “By that, and by

measure, we in

should be doing better.”
WON'T SETTLE

Governments have refused
to settle land claim griev
ances, forcing Indians to live
on reserves in substandard
conditions, Williams said.

“We have denied native
people the fundamental
rights of our society,” he
said. “Even worse, we have
destroyed their culture
and we have deprived them
of their happiness, replacing
it with despair.”

Noting courts have been
divided on the right of
government to extinguish
Indian title to lands, Williams
said a better solution to the
problem would be for govern

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ment to negotiate aboriginal
land disputes.

If the courts uphold gov
government's right to ex
tinguish land title, the In
dians simply won't accept a
decision from the white
man’s court, he said.

Williams also said he would
like to see the Supreme
Court of Canada _restruc
tured.

Before 1972, he said, any
one with a case worth at least
$10,000 could expect a hear
ing in the high court, but
now, anyone wishing to ap
peal to the court has to seek
leave and establish why the
court should hear the case

As a result, only cases of
national importance and
more recently Charter
Rights cases are being
heard by the court

Williams said possible
solutions to the problem in
clude enlarging the court and
dividing it into constitutional,
civil and criminal divisions.
Another plan might be to
establish a national
court of appeal comprised of
a senior judge from
province

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CERAMICS ON
LAST LEGS

REDCLIFF, Alta. (CP) — A 74-year-old ceramics
industry that provided hundreds of jobs and attracted
tourists from all over North America is all but dead in
southeastern Alberta.

Underground reserves of natural gas — so abundant
that Rudyard Kipling said nearby Medicine Hat had “all
hell for a basement” — are still here to serve as relatively
cheap fuel. Clay for the potters’ wheel is available locally
and in Saskatchewan.

But the days are over when area potteries were busy
producing everything from umbrella stands to dog dishes
for consumers across Canada and the United States.

Two brick and tile factories operate on a reduced
scale, and Hycroft China Ltd. produces toilet bowls and
basins. But the ceramic and stonewear industry that
flourished here from the '20s to the ‘70s is on its last legs.

‘The only other plant still open, the Redcliff branch of
Medalta Potteries, has laid off the last of its ‘aging pro-
duction crew and sold most of its inventory. The owners
are offering to sell the factory and its two giant 55-year-
old kilns with metre-thick brick walls to contain searing
temperatures of 1,200 degrees Celsisus.

Manager and co-owner Roy Ogilvie, 69, has fielded a
few inquires but holds little hope of finding a buyer.

Ogilvie sits in his dusty office and fields a steady
stream of calls from people trying to buy the last of his
inventory.

USES RESOURCES

In 1912, John McIntyre, a plumber and pipefitter
from Spokane, Wash., saw the potential of combining
nearby clay and natural gas and started the region's first
pottery manufacturing.

Despite several competitors, it was Medalta, opening
in 1915, that blished a national r i

The factory in Medicine Hat changed hands several
times over the years and, following a disastrous pro-
duction move from restaurant dishes and bowls to tacky
earthenware, closed in 1964. The site is now designated a
provincial and national historic site.

The Redcliff branch plant survived under new
ownership, closed after a fire in 1960, and then started up
again a few months later with Ogilvie as one of its share
holders.

A Saskatchewan grain farmer, Ogilvie had exper.
jience making bricks. The idea was to invest in the
venture, not run it, but production problems prompted
his move to Redcliff 26 years ago.

“I never thought Id still be doing this,” he said.

Patiently and politely, Ogilvie tells each person who
calls or drops in that Medalta is closing. The nearest
pottery providing old-fashioned crocks and bean pots is in
Minnesota.

It’s not, Ogilvie says, that Medalta ran out of
business: “The equipment is old and sales were down, but
there's still a viable business here.”

The biggest problem faced by Ogilvie and his
partners, most of them local businessmen, was finding
competent staff. They needed people willing to commit
several years to learning the trade, but almost all were
lured away by higher wages in the oil patch

“People laugh at you when you offer them six dollars
an hour,” Ogilvie said. “But we couldn't afford to pay
more until they were trained.”

Competition from imports and changes in buyer
tastes cut into Medalta’s annual sales, pushing them
down to just over $100,000 last year from almost
$200,000 in fiscal 1984.

Rather than finding a private purchaser, Ogilvie and
his partners hope to convince the Alberta government to
buy Medalta’s machinery and equipment and move it to
the original plant site in Medicine Hat. Now a warehouse
for its current owners, the plant would have to be rebuilt

Ogilvie wants a $6-million museum established to tell
visitors about southern Alberta's ceramics heritage

But Jim Horsman, local member of the Alberta
legislature, says the cost is too high. The province wants
to boost tourism but prefers plans to build an interpretive
centre to explain the importance of fatural gas, which
continues to provide fuel for glass factories and other
area industries.

“Natural gas has a far greater impact on the region
than ceramics ever did,” Horsman said. “Maybe we can
incorporate ceramics into the centre somehow.”

Greenwood gold
mine on track

By CasNews Staff
Kenar Resources Ltd. has

ton and 4.8 ounces of silver
per ton

announced it has settled a
long-standing dispute with
Solex Energy Inc. and has
begun to haul ore from its
gold property to a mill at
Roberts Mine, both located
near Greenwood.

In a prepared news re
lease, the company says 200
tons of ore have already been
shipped to the mill with more
expected this fall

The ore has been assayed
with results ranging from
0.34-1.15 ounces of gold per

In addition, Kenar has
announced exploration is
continuing on its No. 7 gold
property near Greenwood

The company is reopening
its 300-foot-level adit so that
work can begin sampling and
mapping the No. 7 vein, the
release says.

Kenar expects to outline
additional ore reserves with
in the old workings as well as
develop by underground

B.C. TEL

New system

ready to go

B.C. Tel has installed new
computerized switching
equipment in Castlegar to
meet growth and upgrading
requirements in the area.

Effective 12:01 a.m. Sept.
28, about 5,000 subscribers in
the Castlegar “365” exchange
will be served by GTD-5
digital electronic switch.

“The GTD-5 is considered
one of the most advanced
digital switches on the mar-
ket,” B.C. Tel says in a pre
pared release.

It will allow B.C. Tel to
improve its quality of service
while controlling costs.

“For subscribers, the new
switch means better quality
of service and eventually,
access to a wider range of
custom calling services, such
as call forwarding and speed
calling,” said Public Affairs
Administrator Ed Clark.

“The GTD-5 has many ad.
vantages over the electro-
mechanical equipment it re-
places,” he added. “It's also
flexible enough to be adapted
to existing central office
equipment, or it can be used
as replacement ‘equipment.
Plus, it can handle both long
distance and local calling.”

The GTD-5 is actually
family of switches controlled
by a computer. This “family”
consists of modular systems
that can be arranged in dif-
ferent configurations to meet
current or proj needs.

Each family includes a base
unit to serve a large metro-
politan area, remote switch-
ing and line units to serve
smaller, outlying communi
ties and multiplexers to
serve sparsely populated
areas. The base unit itself can
start at a few hundred lines
and expand easily to accomo-
date up to 100,000 lines.

Because the remote units
use the computer power of
the base unit, subscribers in
more rural areas can have &@
modern telephone stem
with features previously
limited to more populated
areas.Through the base unit,
such cost-efficient pro-
cedures as centralized billing.
maintenance and administra-
tion are possible.

“With the GTD-5 in ser-
vice, customers will be aware
of better service, quieter
lines and faster connection
times between exchanges
served by: electronic
switches,” the release says.

“This digital technology
will permit a broader use of
the telephone system, and
allow B.C. Tel to continue to
meet customer needs,” the
release adds Prime ° pure

The release also notes that
for telephone customers in vegetable
Castlegar, the conversion to a
electronic switching means
improved network mainten. oil
ance through continual com
puter assessment of switch
ing functions, as well as
faster completion of calls and
repair service.

In addition, electronic
switching now provides resi
dents with sophisticated
optional custom calling fea
tures such as Call Alert, Call
Forwarding, Speed Calling
and Three-Way Calling

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line that another call is
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Tainted ham reported
from Gainers plant

EDMONTON (CP) — Fed.
eral health inspectors are in
vestigating production at the
Gainers Inc. meat-packing
plant in Edmonton following
reports in New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia of three
cases of food poisoning be
lieved caused by tainted ham
from the strikebound plant.

Bob Moir, a meat hygiene
spokesman for the federal
Agriculture Department,
said that tests showed the
ham — cooked, sliced and
vacuum-packed under the
brand name Eversweet —
had extraordinarily high
bacteria counts.

“We're taking more
samples from the plant and
looking at production to see if

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anything went wrong there,”
Moir said.

He said the ham is not
deadly, but the bacteria will
cause nausea, vomiting,
diarrhea and_ intestinal
cramps.

More than 1,080 members
of the United Foot and Com:
mercial Workers union have
been on strike at the Gainers
plant since June 1. The plant
has been kept open by non
union workers.

Moir said a national recall
of the ham is premature until
the cause of the contami
nation is known.

“Most of it seems to have
been bought, although I can’t
say whether it has been con
sumed or thrown out. I don't

know why anyone would
have eaten it. It must have
been well on its way to smel
ling awful.”

He said extreme tempera
ture changes appear to have
caused the contamination,
but it isn't known if it
occurred during transport,
storage or at the Edmonton
plant.

_ Gainers spokesman Doug
Ford said 4,224 packages of
ham in the shipment went to
the Atlantic provinces. He
said he doubts any tainted
meat is in Western Canada.

Fred Coates, union presi
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spectors, said the tainted
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