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BUSINESS

By CasNews Staff

Cominco Ltd. announced a loss of $600,000 for the first quarter of 1985.

This compares with an unaudited consolidated profit of $4.5 million for the com. parable period last year, Cominco chairman Norm An. derson said last week.

The 1985 loss was despite a gain of $9.4 million from the sale of the corporation's equity in Pine Point Mines Limited.

The first quarter loss was 21 cents per common share, on sales of $337.1 million, compared to earnings of 2 cents per share on sales of $370.3 million in the same period last year. These fig: ures are after dividends on preferred shares were paid and before the Pine Point sale.

Cominco’s Mining and Inte-

grated Metals segment had a

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A of $6.5 million in the same

quarter in 1984. This was due

to lower prices for zine, lead,

Toll-free reservations from Alberta locations after silver and gold, according to May 1st: 1-800-552-8008 a company release.

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Cominco loses money in first quarter

U.S. dollar also continued to limit price increases for all metals, although the weak- ness of the Canadian dollar has “had a favorable impact on earnings,” the release says.

The Chemical and Fert- ilizers segment earned $8 million compared to $13.4 million in the first quarter of 1984. Sales of potash and ammonia were lower than last year, when early del- iveries of fertilizers and a strong potash expott market caused sales to rise above normal! levels.

Other Cominco operations — mainly metal products and electric power distribution — earned a profit of $3.2 million compared to $5.6 million last year.

FORECAST

The zine outlook for the balance of 1985 is for im. proved prices and consump- tion due to a gradual weak- ening of the U.S. dollar, and strenthened western world economies, the release says. Lead prices, however, will likely continue at low levels.

Increased fertilizer sales are forecast in 1985. Prices for nitrogen and phosphate ferti rs are expected to remain at present levels while potash prices, weak- ened by oversupply cond- itions in United States mark- ets, are expected to improve by mid-year.

Cominco also declared a dividend of $1 per share on the $2 tax deferred ex- changeable preferred shares series A payable on June 1, 1985 to holders of record at the close of business on May 10, 1985.

Dallas goes big - business

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It sounds like a plan that would make J.R. Ewing chuckle and lean back at his desk. Dallas is going whole-hog commer- cial, from perfume to desk calendars.

Lorimar Productions has created Lorimar Licensing to handle the Southfork Dallas Collection. It was master-

vice president of Lorimar censing. Simon initiated a li censing program for Dynasty when he worked for 20th Century-Fox.

Fans of Dallas will be able to splash on Southfork Woman perfume or South. fork Man cologne sometime in late May.

Fairview. The pair are employed at the new plant which opened last week. CosNews Photo by Chery! Colderbonk

. New concrete plant

By CasNews Staff

A concrete ready mix plant has opened on the south end of Fairview. Richie Geronazzo, a major shareholder in the operation, said the plant opened nearly a week ago.

Two people have been hired to work in the plant.

Geronazzo said construction for the plant began last August. He added that the 11-hectare piece of property was already zoned for a gravel pit and rock-crushing operation — which operates under the name of West K Sand and Gravel — and it was just a matter of obtaining a building permit.

“T just felt that Castlegar didn’t have a true plant of its own,” he said, since McGauley Ready Mix Concrete Co. Ltd. haul: material from Trail and is only open part of the year.

He added “confidence in Castlegar growing” and in part that led to his decision to open the ready mix plant.

Geronazzo noted that the plant is equipped to operate throughout the winter.

He says his company has already hauled a few loads of cement, although he explained that West K Concrete Ltd. wants to get off to a slow start because there's “always bugs” to get out of a new plant.

He noted that West K Concrete can deliver small

loads with its three cubic yard mixer or larger loads with its eight-yard mixer.

He added that he hopes to obtain a second larger mixer once the operation is rolling.

Geronazzo added that the plant can produce about 45 cubic yards an hour.

“I would be happy if it could produce 20 (yards) an hour steady,” he added.

The company was the subject of complaints from Genelle residents, who felt the plant's dust would cause pollution problems.

In fact he said he has obtained a permit from the pollution control board.

He said he supposes there is some dust when the silo is filled with cement, but because there is a dust collector “there's next to no pollution whatsoever from this plant,” he said:

Geronazzo noted that there are other partners in West K Concrete who want to remain anonymous.

Geronazzo has been in the gravel and excavating business in Castlegar for many years. In 1948 he and his father started Kinnaird Transfer.

He currently operates Geronazzo Holdings garbage disposal service and West K Gravel.

MEDICINE

Vaccine may help prevent cancer, AIDS

By CALVIN WOODWARD The Canadian Press

A vaccine designed to ward off the feline leukemia virus has entered clinical use in Canada, raising hopes of a break- through in the fight against a host of insidious diseases in cats.

Leukocell is claimed to be the first vaccine to prevent cancer and acquired immune deficiency — or AIDS — in

Ith its rek in for any species other than cats has not been established.

But the vaccine, introduced in Canada earlier this year after gaining regulatory approval in the United States last fall, is being greeted with interest by veterinarians.

Feline leukemia virus, known as FeLV, causes leukemia, other cancers or associated diseases in an estimated one to three per cent of all cats, proving fatal in most of those cases within three years. Because it is transmitted by contact with infected cats, the risk is higher among those that prow! outdoors.

Dr. Doug Alexander, chief of the federal regulatory division that approved Leukocell for use in Canada, said he was impressed with the results achieved by a team at Ohio State University and Norden Laboratories of Lincoln, Neb., which produces the vaccine.

“It certainly seems to be a major breakthrough,” said Alexander, chief of veterinary biology in the animal health division of Agriculture Canada in Ottawa. “Time will tell, but we're very, very hopeful this will be a useful product.”

At this stage, enthusiasm over the vaccine is tempered with caution.

TESTS RESULTS

With Leukocell not long on the market, veterinarians say it is too early to declare the vaccine as effective in clinical use as it appeared to be in the laboratory.

In tests, 80 per cent of vaccinated cats bombarded with abnormally high doses of the virus remained free of disease and 92 per cent did not develop tumors.

“Leukemia has such a broad base and there are so darn many things it causes, that what we're doing is cutting down the odds,” Norden scientist Bob Fanton sai: a telephone interview from Lincoln. “Everybody would like to say it protects 100 per cent of the cats, but it won't.”

Leukemia is one of the rarer diseases caused by FeLV, scientists say. The most common result is lymphosarcoma, or cancer of the lymph nodes, spleen or lymph tissues.

The vaccine is said to develop antibodies to the virus itself and also to attack the part of the virus that suppresses the cat's immune system.

Although it has not been shown to cause cancer in humans, scientists say more work must be done to determine whether there is a link.

Dr. Lynn Webster of the Pembina Veterinary Hospital in Winnipeg and Dr. Ron Abrahams, president of the Nova Scotia Veterinary Association and a practitioner in Dart. mouth and Halifax, are among the many Canadian veterinarians who have begun using the vaccine and telling cat owners it is available.

But they, like others, are not’putting on the hard sell.

“We're not going into it gung-ho,” said Dr. Bernie Pukay of the Bayview Animal Hospital in Ottawa. “The company says it's a good product and we have every reason to believe it is, but right now we're taking a wait-and-see attitude.”

Test tube program moves

IN_CHILDL WOMEN

IUD may cause infertility

BOSTON (REUTER) — A childless woman who used an intrauterine device as a con-

traceptive doubles her chance of becoming infertile, say two independent medical

research teams.

The findings, published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, said some types of IUDs are relatively safe and the de- vices do not seem to cause infertility when used by a woman who has already borne a child.

“To the woman who has never had a child and is at- tempting to choose a con- traceptive, it should be em- phasized that use of an IUD may double her risk for tubal infertility over the risk from use of other methods; said infertility specialist Daniel Cramber of Boston's Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Cramer led a team of 11 doctors in the United States and Canada that

IUD ‘was 11 times greater than normal.

The Dalkon Shield, made by the A.H. Robbins Co., was recalled in 1974 after being used by more than a million women, Of all IUDs, it was said to have the highest level of problems.

Initially used in. Germany more than 50 years ago, IUDs are odd-shaped pieces of plastic or copper that are implanted in the uterus. They work by preventing a fertilized egg from attaching to the walls of the uterus.

Because they are effective more than 95 per cent of the time and do not require any

Study

MONTREAL (CP) — Ac- knowledging they and other researchers “are in the dark,” McGill University epi-

i ists are ing a

one of the two studies.

RISK MULTIPLIES The second study, led by Dr. Janet Daling of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, found the risk of infertility among users of the Dalkon Shield

study to discover more about pregnancies that end in mis- carriages before women even learn they’ve conceived.

No one knows how many so-called unrecognized preg- nancies — which begin and end within a single menstrual

once ii they became popular. How- ever, they can cause bleed- ing, infection or (if a fertilized egg does implant itself) spon- taneous abortion. SPREAD BACTERIA

TUDs have string-like tails that are used for removal: But studies have shown that those tails give bacteria a way to get into the uterus, increasing the risk of in- fection.

One type of infection, called Salpingitis, can dam- age the tubes that bring eggs from the ovaries to the uter- us. The result can be infer- tility.

miscarriages

cycle — occur, said epidem- iologist Abby Lippman, who designed the study being carried out with the aid of a $140,000 federal grant. Some tests ilable com-

est type, carried only a small

Because IUDs do not seem to cause infertility in women who have already had a child, the Cramer team said: “For the woman who has had one child and desires another, the use of copper devices may offer a relatively safe, if not risk-free, alternative to other methods.”

a substance produced by foe- tal cells.

The studies to date on early pregnancy loss have produced differing results,

mercially detect pregnancy about 24 days after fertil- ization. Lippman’s group hopes to identify pregnancies seven days after fertilizati

that ers “are still in the dark,” said» Lippman. RESULT IN BIRTHS Between 15 and 20 per cent of di d end

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VANCOUVER (CP) — The province's test tube baby program has moved from the University of British Colum- bia campus to Shaughnessy Hospital, where new facil ities, designed specifically for the program, will allow it to more than double its annual capacity.

The hospital said in a news release it has a special oper. ating room for embryo trans.

fer, adjacent to a laboratory where the ovum or egg is fertilized after removal from the mother.

In the first year of oper- ation, the in vitro fertilization program treated 100 couples.

Head of the in vitro fer. tilization research team is Dr. Victor Gomel, head of the department of gynecology at the Univerity of Shaugh nessy.

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