HAZARDS ARE ALL AROUND US
It's a hard life, or, bubble baths are dangerous
WASHINGTON (AP) - Living can be hazardous to health. Consider waking up with a cup of coffee. Too much caffeine is bad for health. It causes birth defects in animals, says the Centre for Science in the Public Interest.
Take a vitamin. More than 4,000 cases of vitamin poisoning are reported every year, says the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Bacon and eggs for breakfast?
The U.S. government wants to reduce the amount of sodium nitrite used to cure bacon. Michael Jacobson of the Centre for Science in the Public Interest says: “The fat promotes heart disease, America’s No. 1 health problem. The nitrosamines promote cancer, the No. 2 health problem.”
Egg yolks contain cholesterol and high levels of cholesterol are bad for heart.
A quick cigarette before showering? There are health warnings on cigarette packages and now the FDA wants warning labels on bubble baths because some who use them suffer from rashes and itching.
Be careful stepping into the tub. Twenty-one million people in the United States are injured in home accidents every year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says.
After the bath remember: Aerosol products such as deoderants containing chlorofluorocarbons may be damaging the earth’s atmosphere and the government has taken steps to ban them.
Women taking birth control pills should read the required warning label that says excess doses of estrogen can cause cancer.
Off to work. Does your car pollute? Is your seat belt fastened? Drive carefully. The National Safety Council
says 72.3 per cent of all fatal accidents in the U.S. happen within 40 kilometres of home.
Safe at the office? About one million people in the U .S. may be exposed to cancer-causing substances where they work, says the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. An additional 20 million workers face possible dangers from everything from asbestos to noise and other pollutants. Between 1,500 and 2,000 chemicals are known or suspected as cancer-causing agents.
Consider also:
—Chewing gum containing sugar can cause cavities.
—Alcohol can damage the liver, brain and heart, says the National Centre on Drug Abuse.
—It was suggested this week that certain methods of cooking hamburger may be dangerous. And four Canadian doctors say some people may be allergic to one ingredient in McDonald's sauce.
—Residues of a pesticide (DBCP), sometimes found on
carrots, radishes, cabbage and cucumbers are “an unreasonable risk.” says the Environmental Protection Agency.
—Reducing on a liquid protein diet may be dangerous, the FDA says. It is checking.
—Watch artifically sweetened soft drinks. Large doses of saccharin cause bladder cancer in male rats.
—Ultraviolet radiation from the sun is the main cause of skin cancer.
—Preliminary data shows that two chemicals in permanent hair dyes "are positive cancer-causing agents in rats and mice,” the National Cancer Institute says.
—Each year, about 300,000 people in the U.S. are in hospital with severe drug reactions.
—Some microwave ovens leak excessive radiation.
In 1900, when none of these dangers were known, the average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47.3 years, the Census Bureau says. Today, it is more than 70 years.
Wednesday, May 17,1978 Vol. 22; No. 96
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Prince George. British Columbia
RED ROCK
School site accord near
by JOHN POPE Citizen Staff Reporter
Regional district directors and school board trustees are confident today that a solution has been found for locating the new Red Rock Elementary School.
But they are tight-lipped about details until final approval has been given by the British Columbia Land Commission.
Prince George school district chairman Bruce Strachan says the solution is an “alternate” site.
“We are sure it will satisfy everyone,” said Strachan today.
“But it is still an in-camera matter until the land commission says yes and we have a definite direction.”
At the regular school board meeting Tuesday, the trustees listened to a presentation from a delegation of about 25 Red Rock residents.
The group presented a petition that supported the original 16-acre site proposed by the school district.
Only oneof the Red Rock residents, Steve Chartrand, expressed dissatisfaction with
this solution at the meeting, but he did not give his reasons.
However regional planner Yvonne Harris said today the main concern of residents is that the “bureaucrats" don’t delay the school’s construction.
Harris says she is confident the matter can be resolved without having a delay of more than three weeks.
The oringinal snarl in the school’s development occurred last week when the Fraser-Fort George Regional District rejected the school board's application for the school site on Patterson Road.
After listening to five residents opposing this site, the directors decided the board had. not paid adequate attention to getting public opinion on the school’s location.
Two of the property owners live next to the school site while the other three were residents who wanted the school located closer to the core ares of the community.
Red Rock is a small community of about 400 people 35 km south of Prince George. The residents have been trying
egal pickets pulled off site
by ELI SOPOW
Citizen Staff Reporter
Striking Husky Oil refinery workers confined picketing to the main plant here today after defying a B.C. Labor Relations Board injunction Tuesday to picket the refinery's construction site.
Meanwhile, Canadian Paperworkers Union members are supporting refinery workers by placing an early morning picket at Husky’s bulk facilities in the B.C. Railway industrial site.
Richard King, president of Local 9-817 of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union which represents about 36 workers at the refinery, said construction site picketing stopped at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
King said the point of the illegal construction site picketing was to bring on the attention of the LRB an appeal by the OCAWU to allow picketing of the $12 million project.
The LRB earlier this month
granted an injunction to prevent refinery workers from picketing the construction site.
Contractor Partec Lavalin Ltd. had applied for the injunction.
The union has appealed the injunction which limits pickets to the existing facilities but has heard nothing from the LRB.
King said it was not the intention of his union to push the LRB to the point where contempt of court action would result from the illegal Tuesday picketing.
"We feel we have now made our point with the board,” he said.
King also said the CPU picket this morning was an “on and off” venture where various unions supporting OCAWU in the Husky Oil dispute volunteer picket duty time.
Meanwhile, an LRB spokesman here said it is not known yet if any action will be taken against the OCAWU for Tuesday’s construction site picketing.
to get a new elementary school for the past 12 years.
The group of parents who support the original site told the school board Tuesday they did not attend the regional district meeting when the site was rejected, because they didn't believe there would be any problem getting the site approved.
Trustee Steve Sintich told the group and other trustees Tuesday he was “very disturbed” with the rude treatment given to school district secretary-treasurer Mac Car penter at the meeting.
Carpenter showed up late at the regional district meeting and was not allowed to speak.
Sintich said regional district chairman Harold Mann should have allowedKCarpenter to speak.
“Our chairman always al* lows everyone to speak and they should have done the same.”
Meanwhile the school is almost empty today as six parents and about 25 of the 47 children in the old school are visiting the school board and regional district to find out what is being done.
Chaplin
body
recovered
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The body of Charlie Chaplin, stolen from his village grave the night of March 2, has been recovered and police have arrested the two alleged thieves, a Pole and a Bulgarian, police said today.
The two men were arrested Tuesday after allegedly calling police demanding a ransom for the return of the comedian's body, said examining magistrate Jean-Daniel Ten-thorey.
He said the body was found near Villeneuve, a small town at the eastern tip of Lake Geneva about 18 kilometres east of Corsier-sur-Vevey, where Chaplin spent the last 25 years of his life and where he was buried last Dec. 27.
Tenthorey, the Vevey district examining magistrate who directed the 2Ms-month investigation, said the body was recovered early Wednesday morning. He said more than 50 police investigators took part in the final phaseof thesearch.
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lled Rock student Kevin Chartrand ponders the future of the old elementary school.
CitUrn photo by Tim Swanky
PIPELINE JOBS
Priority promised north
Residents in northeast B.C. have until June 15 to tell the federal government what they want from a natural gas pipeline passing through the province.
However a 340-page government report says Yukon and northern businessmen will have first chance at jobs and contracts.
The report, released today, is a draft of pipeline regulations proposed by the federal government’s northern pipeline agency.
It details terms and conditions to lessen the social, economic and environmental impact of the Alaska Highway pipeline, scheduled to run from Alaska to the United States.
Both federal and provincial opposition party members have been critical of the B.C. Socred government for not demanding more in return for the line crossing B.C.
Although the agency’s re-
port details ways to soften the impact on the Yukon, little benefit is being felt by B.C. except in the collection of taxes.
In two documents, the agency proposes special job preparation for Yukon people, widespread social programs to soften the $10-billion project’s impact on the territory’s populations and stringent regulations to preserve the wildlife and environment.
Specific regulations block southern workers from going to the Yukon in search of jobs, ease formal working conditions to accommodate native lifestyles and limit discrimination against natives in jobs and housing.
Meanwhile, Foothills Pipe Lines (Yukon) Ltd., sponsor of the Canadian section of the pipeline, is studying the proposed regulations on how the project is to be built through Canada.
The documents, detailing specific environmental and socio-economic conditions, have been given to the pipeline companies, provincial and territorial governments, native associations, environmental and other interest groups. Deadline for their response is June 15.
Foothills has approval from the federal government to build the project’s Canadian sector.
A revised draft of terms and conditions is scheduled to be completed by August and will be reviewed at public hearings in the Yukon and British Columbia in the fall prior to construction regulations being made final by the agency.
The agency set tight environmental and socioeconomic guidelines for Foothills and its sub-contractors to observe.
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The forecast for Prince George today is for sunny skies with some late afternoon cloudy periods and isolated showers. Thursday’s forecast is for mainly sunny skies and warmer temperatures.
The expected high today is 17, the low 3. The high Tuesday was 16, the low 4, with .3 mm of precipitation. On this date last year the high was 11, the low 2.
• A local wit says he has a talking bicycle. While fixing a front wheel, it “spoke’.’ to him.
• A local four year old felt hurt when her father told her she had given him her cold. “I couldn’t have because I've still got it,” she told him.
• A letter from Prince George-Peace River MP Frank Oberle on a Liberal government program was filed by an unimpressed city council. “We can defer this,” Mayor Harold Moffat said. “The election isn’t until next year."
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Baby Frances Voges, 826 pounds, was billed as
the Queen of the Fat Ladies.
CARNIVAL QUEEN
Fat lady dies
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Baby Frances Voges, at 826 pounds the Queen of the Fat Ladies, was laid to rest Monday in a shroud made with 11 xh yards of frilly pink lace in a double-wide pine box.
Baby Frances, as she was known for 25 years on the carnival circuit, where she was billed as the world's fattest woman, died May 6 of the flu at the age of 57.
The coffin was trimmed with silver handles for the 16 pallbearers but the pallbearers were never used. The family decided on a graveside service, fearing the handles might pull out of the wood.
Baby Frances was buried 23 metres from the grave of her daughter, Darlene, who weighed 402 pounds at the time of her death a few years ago at the age of 20.
The Guinness Book of World Records once called her "the closest approach yet to the spherical woman" and said she had lived longer than any other person more than 800 pounds. The book says the fattest woman ever recorded weighed about 880 pounds.
Baby Frances, who suffered from a pituitary gland malfunction, was slightly over five feet tall, had a 73-inch waist, and 64-inch calves. Her arms were 31 inches around. Her hips, which she called her "merry-go-round," measured seven feet, 4*2 inches around.