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CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 28, 1981

C2 Grand Guardian visits Bethel No. 60

By JEAN SYLVEST

Bethel No. 60, Interna- tional Order of Job's Daugh- ters, received an official visit from Mrs. Elsie Rogers, Grand Guardian, and Bill Brown, Associate Grand Guardian, of the Grand Guar- dian Council of B.C., in the Masonic Hall. 4

Mrs. Bill Brown, Supreme Director of Music of the Su- preme Council, accompanied the visitors. Mrs, Rogers re- sides in Burnaby and Mr. and Mrs. Brown in North Van- couver,

The guests joined Bethel members and parents for a potluck supper, following which Mrs. Rogers met with the Executive Bethel Guar- dian Council and inspected

Julie Higgins told of the Bowling Party held Sept. 27 which was the Princess Party organized by Janna and Kim. Following bowling, the girls were served lunch in the Sy]- vest home.

Sept. 29, the girls were kidnapped from their beds in the early hours to be fed waffles, strawberries and ice cream in H.Q. Janna’s home. Mrs, J. Wickett assisted Mrs. J. Sylvest in welcoming the 30 girls who arrived sleepy- eyed and hungry. Julie Part- ridge made the report to the meeting.

Job's Daughters Activity Council hosted a Rally in Cranbrook on Oct. 2 to 4. Attending from Bethel No, 60 were H.Q. Janna; Marshall

heridan Hill, Julie

Bethel and Guardian Council books. :

In the absence of Bethel Guardian Mrs. Jean Wickett,

Linda King, Kimberley Bel- ton, Heather and Jennifer Peterson, who were driven

ian Mrs. J. Wickett

Mrs.

Past Bethel Guardian of No. 60, assisted by Jack Parkins, Associate Guardian, opened the meeting and Honored Queen, Janna Sylvest pre- sided.

Following the opening cer- emony, the Ceremony of Obligation was undertaken for the visitors.

Shannon Dunaway re- ported on the visit made by Job’s Daughters to the Hob- bit Hill Centre for the pres- entation of a chque on Sept. 25.

Task force to visit Kootenay

By CasNews Staff

OTTAWA — The federal New Democratic Party's oc- cupational health and safety task force will visit Castle- gar, Trail and Rossland Nov. 2 and 3as part of a week-long B.C. tour that begins Oct. 30.

On Nov. 2 the four-man task force wil tour Rossland mine museum and Rossland miners hall and will meet with the United Steelwork- ers of America local 480 health and safety represen- tatives later that evening.

The task force will. also make a special presentation on behalf of the federal NDP caucus to Local 480 in rec- ognition of the

and Mrs. Elaine Higgins. The girls were billeted the first night and shared a sleep-over in the hall with all the at- tending Daughters the sec- ond night.

Bethel No. 60 was respon- sible for the entertainment. Mrs. Elsie Rogers, Grand Guardian, conducted a work- shop for the Daughters and a second one for Council mem- bers. Bethels from Trail, Nelson, Creston, Kimberley, Cranbrook and Castlegar were represented.

Linda King, who was elec- ted treasurer for the Activity Council for the coming year, reported to the meeting.

The first work party for the Christmas Tea was held on Oct. 7 in the home of Guardian: Mrs. J. Wickett. Jennifer reported that dili- gent work was followed by refreshments.

H.Q. Janna assigned work parties to Senior Princess Kim Redisky; Junior Prin- cess Tracey Anderson, and Marshall Sheridan Hill and requested that work begin as soon as possible. The Christ- mas Tea will be held Dec.12, in the Legion Hall.

Amy MacKinnon read a Librarian's Report entitled “Try Again".

A blue daisy money cor- sage, made by Mrs. L. Mc- Guire, was presented to Mrs. Rogers to be used for her special project which is equipment for the Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. H.Q. Janna also presented here with a souvenir program

role in the health and safety field.

The task force will then wind up its visit of the area the next day with a tour of Cominco.

Included on the task force are Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristianson, Sid Parker, Jim Manly and Erek Blackburn. Ressland-Trail NDP MLA Chris D'Arcy Will also be part of the local tour.

from her i

Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Brown addressed the meet- ing, both complimenting the girls on the manner in which they exemplified their ritu- alisted work.

The Closing Ceremony con- cluded the meeting, following which refreshments were served. Grand Guardian Mrs. Rogers and H.Q. Janna cut and served the Official Visit. cake. __

BETHEL No. 60, front row, left to right, Senior Princess Kim Redesky, Honored Queen Jonna Sylvest and Junior Princess Tracey Anderson. Second row, left to right, Mrs. Elsie Rogers, Grand Guardian Patty MacKinnon, Amy MacKinnon, Heather Peterson,

Shannon Dunaway, Julie Higgens and Jennifer Peter- son. Back row, left to right, Julie Partridge, Joanne Liber, Leanne Sylvest, Guide Kimberly Belton, Linda King, Sheridan Hill, and Marshall Shannon Hill.

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People explosion wildlife's threat

VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. provincial museum dir-

ector Yorke Edwards says wi

wildlife in B.C. is doomed.

Edwards, a former wildlife biologist and park naturalist with both the federal and provincial governments, told a meeting of B.C, naturalists that any attempts to save the province’ wildlife will just delay the end.

He said that B.C. is one of the world’s last wildlife fron- tiers, but even in B.C. natural animal life is being slowly wiped out by a “people explosion.”

“The wildlife of the world is being destroyed at an alarming rate, and even in B.C. people pressures on the

land are at an accelerating rate of increase,” said Ed-

ards.

He said the only forms of animal life to survive will eventually be those which can live with man and those which can live in man's wastelands.

“There will be no more wild lands and no more wild- life." Edwards was the open- ing night speaker at a two- day wildlife symposium spon- sored by Simon Fraser Uni- versity, the Federation of B.C. Naturalists and the B.C environment ministry.

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Edwards said those types of wildlife that can't survive human encroachment are

those that need clean water and oceans, and those that need established grasslands and forests.

He cited B.C.'s Caribou as an example of a species which is dying out because of hu- man encroachment. Caribou feed on lichen growing in old forest valleys, he said, adding that logging’has eliminated most of the Caribou's forest habitat.

“Eight thousand years af- ter the retreat of the last ice age, the people invasion is wiping them out.”

He said wildlife perser- vation techniques are not en- tirely useless, as they can slow the rate of wildlife de- cline, but added those meth-

ods can't solve the problem of.

human encroachment on wildlife habitat. “It's high time we stopped kidding ourselves. We need more recognition of our long-term problem — the people prob- lem.”

Edwards said a recent en-

couraging trend in wildlife ]

management, the purchasing of lands by governments for use as wildlife preserves, does not solve the problem as parks,

“Every time we go look at them (wildlife) we're prob- ably kicking them down a bit more. We tend to avoid the fact that we are the prob: lem.”

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Criticizes having limit set on injury awards

VANCOUVER (CP) — Im- position of an upper limit on awards for pain and suffering in Canadian personal injury = suits is “a flagrant offence to

the right of citizens to be compensated,” an American lawyer said.

David Shrager of Philadel- phia was commenting on the Supreme Oourt of Canada’s ruling which sets a limit for pain and suffering at $100,000.

The limit was set in 1978 in the case of James Andrews, 21, who was, rendered a quadriplegic in a motor ve- hicle accident.

Rejecting the notion of

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Shrager and a number of Canadian lawyers criticized - the decision at a seminar

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Drug costs rising rapidly

By Eileen Morrow

HAMILTON (CP) — If your arthritis is painful, wait until you see what you'll be paying for relief.

At acost of almost $1 a pill, you could pay $80 a month for the newest, one-a-day ar- thritis treatment, Feldene. ”

«And if the price gives ‘you ‘an ulcer, forget it. The single source ulcer drug, Tagamet, costs from $29 to $84 a hun- dred.

After a short respite dur- ing the early 1970s, consumer drug costs are rising rapidly, trade sources say.

During the last two years, the average prescription cost (now $8 in Ontario) rose faster than the inflation rate and drug costs for the On- tario Drug Benefit Plan, un- der which druggists are reimbursed for prescriptions to the elderly, poor and dis- abled, increased faster than total health care expenses.

Ministry of health esti- mates put drug cost in- creases to the province at 185 per cent over the last five

years.

Inflation and high drug de- velopment costs account for the increase, drug manu- facturers say.

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“The average cost today is over $70 million for each new drug that comes out and it takes an average of about 12 to 14 years,” says Bob Ev- erson, director of research for Pharmaceutical Manufac- turers Association of Canada,

“That's just the research costs alone.”

A’small number of drugs support the industry, Ever- son said. Total cost of pro- ducing Tagamet, for exam- ple, was about $300 million over 14 years, but the manu- facturer, Smith, Kline and French, has doubled its re- search with the profits.

Everson dismisses con- cerns about drug costs inflat-

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“By replacing more expen- sive health care costs like hospitals, you'll find that on a cost benefit basis, the in- dustry is actually helping to INTRODUCED LICENSING © ~ To bring drug costs down — after the federal gov- ernment found in the 1960s that drug company profits were double those of other manufacturing industries — compulsory licensing was in- troduced. Companies could import a patented drug and produce it more cheaply than its original owner. ““Tmitating, or generic drug manufacturing, brought price competition back and a study for the Economic Council of Canads said prices on drugs with generic competition were reduced 20 per cent.

But large companies’ who produce oridinal drugs would like to see compulsory li- censing stopped. They say it’s hurting business and the development of .drug treat- ments.

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The $100,000 rule, which applies only to non-monetery losses, such as pain and suf- fering and loss of enjoyment of life, has been bitterly criticized by B.C, lawyers since its inception.

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Unlike other provinces,. where the rule is applied flexibly, the B.C. Court of Appeal has held that it must apply in all personal injury cases, not just to those in- volving quadriplegia.

Lawyers complain that, because of the appeal court’s ruling on the $100,000 limit, trial courts prorate non- monetary losses, with a youthful quadriplegic at the upper end of the scale.

They say victims with little to claim for loss of earnings suffer financially because the award for pain and suffering is limited.

Lawyer Russell Stanton complained that the appeal court's application of the rule deprives trial judges of their discretion to make approp- riate awards according to the evidence.

Because of the rule, he said, some trial judges now instruct juries in personal injury cases that this cannot go beyond the $100,000 limit, and say that the limit applies to a youthful quadriplegie.

The result is that the jury looks at the upper limit and divides the sum accordingly, he said.

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Consumer advocates sus- pect higher costs for new and single source drugs is a way for ical P ies to get around the li- censing

Dr., Ted English of the Tears! “economic policy committee Of McDonald, saya the situa.,, the Ci ' A tion is being d but of Canada says the industry he knows of no prosecutions

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“I mean, for something you need, you've just got to pay the price.”

An Economic Council. of Canada study on p! i prices published in May found no detrimental effects. to the drug industry as a re- sult of compulsory licensing and recommended the regu- lation be maintained when review of the Patent Act is completed.

The consumers’ association would like to see enacted the council's study suggestion that pharmacists should be encouraged to bécome more competitive.

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He said many victims are young, physically active per- sons whose future earning capacity is limited because their education wasn't very advanced.

Referring to the indignities that many paraplegics suffer every day, particularly be- cause of the loss of bladder or bowel function, Parker said it . puts the adult back into the position of a two-year-old.

“How do you put a dollar figure op that?” he asked.

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