$3 86 Castlégar News February 27, 1985 Economy slows down OTTAWA (CP) — Econ omic indicators continue to point to a further slowdown in the economy although there is some evidence it may be nearing an end. Statistics Canada’s index of leading economic indica tors declined for the fourth consecutive month’ in No. vember, the agency said Tuesday, but much of the de cline was due to a sharper drop in two of the 10 com ponents of the index. “The rest of the compon. ents seem to be firming up a little bit,” said Darryl Rhoades, of the agency's economic analysis division. The index, which monitors underlying trends in the economy, is still pointing to- wards a “restrainted econ- omy,” Rhoades said. “But there does seem to be fragmentary evidence at least of a firming up in the economy — not a lot of evi- dence at this time, but there are some signs beginning to Four consecutive months of decline in the leading in- dicator does not necessarily signal a recession, he said. Such decline have, at times, signalled only a sharp slow- down in economic growth. The index is composed of emerge,” he said. “Part of the job at the present time is to distinguish between a marked slowdown in economic growth and re cession,” he said. “Given the fact that some of the seem to be 10 which tend to rise in advance of 4 period of economic expansion and fall in advance of an economic slowdown. The in- dicators include the length of the average work week in manufacturing, the level of pointing to a bit of firming up, I think it’s too early to say that the (leading in dicator) is signalling a reces- sion.” Recreation news instru ac tivity, furniture and appli- ance sales and stock market prices. The index declined by 0.7 per cent in November, about the same rate of decline ex- perienced in October. Much of the drop was due to a 2.6- per-cent decline in residential construction and 0.2-per-cent decline in the profit margins. of manufacturing firms. This was offset by more moderate declines in other components and a slight in- crease in furniture, appliance and new auto sales. Priest visits Nelson diocese A Nicaraguan priest ar- rived in Castlegar Tuesday Any students interested in becoming a lifeguard or swim instructor and possibly ob- taining a summer job at the Bob Brandson or Robson Pool should start on their qualifi. cations now. The Nelson and District Aquatic Centre is sponsoring various Leader- ship Training Courses. If you are 16 years of age or older and have your Bronze Medallion the Bronze Cross is the next step. A Bronze Cross and Senior Resuscitation course will be held the weekends of March 16 and 23. A NLS course will be held in late March. If you are interested in these cour- ses and would like more information phone 365-3386. Irish Fun St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner and. this year the recreation depart ment is sponsoring a senior citizen's St. Patrick's Day Dance on March 14 at 1 p.m. in the complex hall. Enjoy an afternoon of polkas, Irish jigs, old-time waltzing and refreshments. The Music Machine will be providing the music. All seniors are wel- come to attend. The cost of the dance is just $1. Hockey Action If you are sitting at home tonight and are looking for action, why not head down to the arena-complex for some fast exciting hockey. Trail is in town to challenge the Reb- els for the West Kootenay Jr. B. Championship. Help cheer the Rebels on to the East- West final. for a ith-long visit to the Nelson Catholic Diocese. Father Augustin Sambola was invited to the area by the Nelson Diocesan Council of the Canadian Catholic Organ- ization for Development and Peace (CCODP) to partici- pate in this year's share-Lent campaign. Sambola is a Carib Indian whose far-flung parish of Rosita is on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. Among his 30,000 parishioners are some 10,000 Mesquito In- dians who have been reset- tled there from the Rio Coco region. The purpose of Sambola's visit is to speak on behalf of CCODP’s annual Share-Lent campaign. The objective of this campaign is to promote international co-operation WIN *1000 Use your Kootenay Savings Cash Card at least three times a month and ¥ you could win one of four $1000 term deposits! Details at all branches. Kootenay savings* and solidarity through the funding of socio-economic projects in the Third World. Presently CCODP is sup- porting 537 such: projects in over 60 countries. The success and continu- ation of these projects de- pends largely on educational programs in this country, ac- cording to a news release. In the past, the participation of Third World visitors has en- hanced the Pp to the 75 YEARS . . . Kinwood Bell Girl Guides show 75th an- niversary cake, during annual mother-daughter banquet, held last Wednesday and attended by 109 girls, Psrents and special quests. Girl Guide organization has been in Canada for 75 years. appeal by providing personal, first-hand information. Catholic parishes. across Canada recently donated more than $5 million dollars for Ethiopian relief. Of that total, the Diocese of Nelson forwarded over $93,000 and contributions are still coming in. Sambola_ will travel throughout the diocese until March 21. He will address a public meeting in Trail on March 19. Cominco declares dividend Cominco Ltd. deelared a quarterly dividend ‘of “four cents per share on the paid-up common stock pay able on March 29, 1985 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 8, 1985. A dividend of 81.25 cents a share was declared on the $3.25 Cumulative Redeem- able Preferred Shares Series D payable on April 1, 1985 to holders of record at the close of business on March 8, 1985. Bulk food laws not strict VANCOUVER (CP) Bulk food sales need to be governed by stricter regula tions that are uniform throughout the province to protect the public from food poisoning and contaminated food, a group of public health inspectors say. In a formal statement re- leased Wednesday, British Columbia members of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors claim that existing regulations govern ing bulk food sales in the romimesane inadequate and put ‘the public at potential health risk. “We are not trying to do away with bulk food sales —we see it as here to stay,” said Rex Eaton, chairman of the bulk foods committee for the public health institute. “We just want the govern ment to make regulations to deal with bulk foods that en sure uniform levels of sani tation across the province.” Scoop-out bins, in which enough? the customer reaches into the bin to serve himself, are the biggest health concern, he said. “They allow the easy transmission of disease or. ganisms such as bacteria and viruses as well as vermin.” Food can be contaminated if, for example, a person has not wahsed his hands after toilet use or covering a sneeze, he said. “(It can be contaminated) by flakes of skin that may drop into food from the face or scalp; by discharges from the mouth, nose, or throat while sneezing or coughing. These are well-known routes for the spread of diseases such as salmonellosis, staph: ylocoecus and hepatitis A.” Statistics show an esti mated 15,000 people in B.C. suffer food poisoning annual: ly, Eaton said. “It may not be more than an inconvenience for a healthy adult, but it can kill a child or an elderly per: son,” he said. (2 SUE 2 DIRECTORY) 914 Columbia Ave. Family Bible Hour :45 a.m. Sunday Worship Service liam. . Bible Study & Prayer 7 Tues. 7:30 p.m. Pastor: Tom Mulder Phone: 365-2281 Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. Robson Church 2nd and 4th Sundays 10 a.m. Rev. Charles Balfour 2271 a SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Cliff Drieberg 365-2649 2224-6th Ave. 1% Blocks South of Community Complex Robson: Ist Sun., 7 p.m. 3rd Sunday, 10 o.m. Rev. Ted Bristow L 365-8337 or 365-7814 mam 713 - 4th Street Worship Service 9 a.m. unday School 10:15 a.m. Pastor Terry Defoe Office 365-3664 Residence 365-7622 Listen to the Lutheran Hour — Sunday, 9 a.m. on Radio CKQR Si me Columbia Ave. Phone SUNDAY SERVICES Sunday School 9:45 a.m. ‘Morning Worship 11:00 Evening Fellowship 6:30 Wednesday: Bible Study and Prayer 7:00 p.m Thursday: Youth Meeting 6:30 HOME OF CAS Prayer —— CALVARY BA —CALVARY BAPTIST _ 809 Merry Creek Rood Past Fireside Motel Pastor: R.H. Duckworth Family Bible Hour 9:45 a.m. Women’s Institute holds meeting Kinnaird Women’s Insti. tute held its monthly meeting Feb. 20 at the home of Phyllis Phipps. Members answered roll call with magazines for the local hospital and Pennies for Friendship. Members have been hold ing craft sessions at their homes and are well on the way of making a quilt in the fence rail design. Next craft session will be at the home of Muriel Heagy today. It was decided to buy a new wheelchair for the loan cupboard. The Institute plans to hold a garage sale in April. Health and Welfare chair. man Marge Brownlie distri buted pamphlets on the human heart. Publicity chairman Phyllis Phipps and three other mem bers enacted a skit on “How Not to Spread the News.” Refreshments were served by Marge Brownlie and Mil dred Brady. Irene Shelfontiuk won the hostess prize. Plant may operate in Kootenays By CasNews Staff A drug-processing com pany which extracts products from deer antlers, may set up shop in the Kootenays. The proposed operations will extract, process, and package several biochemical products such as steroids, testosterone and thyroxin — used in pharmaceutical produets for humans and ani mals, according to a company release. Canadian Bio-Scientific Consultants Ltd owna-based research com. pany — will be advising the. new enterprise. The company plans to con. sider locations in the Koot enays, the Okanagan, and on Vancouver Island, in addition to the Lower Mainland. The plant is ex to cost more than $1 million, and will provide work for 55 people. The release says ‘several W 00 a.m Evening Praise 6:30 p.m. Y NIGHT P the plant will pro- duce will be extracted from the antlers of deer. — a Kel" “The extraction procedure is based on the discovery that relatively high residues of steroids and other naturally oceurring biochemicals _ re. main in the antlers once they ossify (turn to bone). “We have developed a pro cedure for the economical extraction of these residual chemicals,” the release says. Super Loto numbers The four $1 million num bers drawn in Sunday's Su per Loto lottery are 2148755, 1834199, 1144231, 3840404. The five alpha winning numbers were 799A342, 732C870, 504B919> 175A226, and 293B855. There are no subsidiary prizes for the $100,000 numbers. In addi tion, 500 Alpha numbers were drawn for bonus prizes of 500 cars. There are no subsidiary prizes for these bonus numbers. Study & Prayer — 7 p.m Church 365-3430 Pastor 365-2808 PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE ——— 767-11th Ave., Castlegar tor Rev. Ken Smith Assistant Rev. Phone 365-5212 Sunday Morning Services at 8:15. a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Christian 9:45 o.m. 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship Sunday School 9:45 a.m Morning Worship 11 o.m Sui Family Fellowship 6:30 p.m Home Bible Studi Evening Service — 6 p.m Midweek Study and Prayer on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. ‘Christ in Heart & You in Mind — ST. RITA’S CATHOLIC Rev. Hermon Ph. 365-7143 Saturday Night Mass ‘ 7 p.m Sunday Masses at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. DR. HACHM! HAMMAMI M.D.-C.S. (P.Q.) - F.R.C.S. (C.) D.S.U.L. (C.H.) - A.B.D. (U.S.A.) Ophthalmologist (Diseases of Eyes, Surgery ond Laser Vision Examinations) The office is now open at 203 Victoria St., Nelson. Appointments can be made through your Doctor or by calling 352-7737 i S.C. (B.C.) Fetren 718 CasthigiarNews » Children's deaths examined CHETWYND (CP) — The inquest into the death of the first of two children who died within weeks of each other after being anesthetized for dental surgery began Monday with contradictory testimony concerning drugs administer- * ed and the timetable of events climaxing in the girl's brain death. : Three-year-old Murran Bedell entered Chetwynd General Hospital on the morning of Nov. 1 an i MeNab flew to Chetwynd Nov. 1, after efforts to resuscitate the child at the hospital failed. She was flown to Vancouver Nov. 2 and died there Nov. 6. Under prompting from Askey, McNab said her death could have been caused by a number of factors that bined during the jon: low pr caused by the anesthetic drugs, lack of sufficient oxygen during the jon or i jon ( of a : but healthy child who needed extensive dental work. By 2:30 ; p.m. she was effectively brain dead, the jury was told. Jurors also heard disagreement betweep the doctor ; who gave the anaesthetic and a nurse about the child's treatment immediately after the surgery. In addition there was a conflict in testimony between nurses who said the : child was not left alone for any long period and her father, who said he and his wife were alone with her for about half an hour. The deaths of the two children are the subject of separate inquests but they involve the same doctor, Laurens Neiboer, who administered the anesthetic to Murran and 14-year-old Julie Ann Heagy, who died three weeks later. Vancouver pediatrician Dr. Andrew McNab testified Murran died from lack of oxygen and lack of blood to the brain. pr with breathing tube in the throat) at the onset of surgery. The evidence showed there was no check kept on the child's blood pressure or body temperature during the time she was under anaesthetic or in the post-operative period. Only her pulse and rate of respiration appeared on the records. Neiboer, who has trained in the use of anesthetics but is not @ ialist, said he ini the drug Ni il, a narcotic pain killer three times — once before the operation, once during and once after to calm the girl who was thrashing around. He said he saw no signs of alarm during the time he attended the child. Askey showed some concern Monday that Neiboer had given too large a dose but Neiboer said he had given that dose level before and felt it was appropriate. Nisentil depresses the respiratory system and Askey wanted to know why Neiboer hadn't taken the child's blood pressure either during or after the operation. Neiboer said he couldn't because he had both his hands occupied but that he kept feeling the pulse on her temple and that indicated her blood pressure was fine. a .\ After the operation, the child was taken to the post-operative room. Nurse Martha Rainey testified that Neiboer told her to administer Narcan, which is used to counteract the effects of narcotics such as Nisentil. After this, the child sat up and began tossing and turning in bed, Rainey testified. “She whimpered, she didn’t talk, her eyes were open and they looked normal,” Rainey said. Neiboer denied he ordered the nurse to give the child Narcan, saying it wasn't in his The nurse said she didn't record it because she considered that period to be “anesthetic time,” meaning it was Neiboer’s responsibility to keep the records. However they did agree that, after the child’s thrashing around, Neiboer administered more Nisentil to keep her quiet. At 1:15 p.m., Neiboer left the room. He said the child was sitting up in bed crying and appeared to be recovering. Later, MeNab testified that these symptoms are also i. deiion “an chek jod ‘when brain damage patients appear to respond and be aware.” But he added: “I've never seen a child go from being ee to being brain dead in the time interval we have Allan Thackry, counsel for Neiboer, said records kept by nurse Pauline Shields showed that at 2:30 p.m. the child's breathing was noisy and her skin had a blue tinge. Thackry said the records show the doctor wasn't called until 2:55 p.m. and he sped to the hospital from his home, arriving at 3 p.m. “From the record you've seen, could the ultimate end have come out differently if you have been called at 2:30,” he asked Neiboer. Neiboer replied: “The tendency is to think so.” However, McNab said by then it was too late. When Neiboer returned he put another airway down her throat. An X-ray would later show this tube to be incorrectly placed and part of her lung was collapsed. 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