Y Terrace,.B.C.;. by Sterling Publishers Ltd. “ey Authorized. ‘os. second: class! imail. Registration. “Nu 120). Postage pald In.cath,. _ Reith Alford _ Recetin-Chesstieds _ Carolyn Gltson es ~Clreulation: © a . "Marie Taylor a NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT: The Heralds retains full, complete and sole scpytight. oe In any advertisament producéd.and-or any editorial. - or photegraphie content published In the Herald. Reproduction Is.not permitted without the written parmisston of the ‘Publisher. ’ Mothers terrified ‘TORONTO (CP) — About 70,000 mothers of preschool or ' school-aged. children enter the Canadian labor force each year, yet most. companies assume they. arga’t. entitled to miss work to-care.fora ‘sick chitd. © “Thousands of working parents, especially gate support’ mothers, fear repercussions if they. book off work-with an "excuse other than personal illness. But. ‘few resources are © available to help them cope when a child becomes ill.” - Parents’ options. are limited: staying’ hame, leaving the child with a. friend or neighbor, hiring professional nursing ‘help or, if the illness is not contagious, sending thé. child to school or day. care and hoping the staff look the other way. Each option-has.its pitfalls and some are costly. . “] feel uneasy about leaving a sick: child with a stranger, even a qualified: professional, ” said Martha Friendly, Toronto-mother. ‘> A piecemeal: solution devised -when’ her “Qve-yeat-old : daughter. Abigail attended day. care and was- chronically | sick with respiratory problems “WE A disaster,” Friendly’. ‘said. “Either I'd stay home, with her, or. amy husband or @ - . nelghbor. One, f. had avery. ‘important’ meeting and a A : “ic ‘can cost ‘more: than $100 ‘cig depending on the level of professional service. A registered ‘hurse is twice as expensive as a nurse's aid. Visiting ‘subsidy. and the parent tries to convince us the ehild is fine,” Renee ‘Edwards, executive director of Victoria: Day Care. Services in Toronto sald. “They are terrified of losing their jobs If they stay home.” * Some public-sector. unions have bargained: hard -for fo a medical appointment. - . ' Employees of the B.C, government are permitted - a ‘dependent child. New ‘Brumewick have won similar provisions in contracts: “for time off with pay —. ranglig from four to 10 days. an- ‘pually. — to'loek after a sick family. member, |, ““ “The number of women in the work force and thelr higher “profile in unions are responsible for increasing the concern: about parental roles,” says Susan Attenborough, a research — vofficer with the. National Union. of Provincial Government “Employees. : ‘, ; Evelyn Hunter, a fainily-care ‘worker, said employers “becognize that production costs are affected by employees ‘who must look after sick children or who sit at thelr desks -worrying about who is looking alter them. : Hunter tried to initlate: a: program that. could have - | “provided relief for parents with alling children but it hasn't ‘been accepted by industry. - * The Family. Care . Workers Association ° of Ontario \getelvd fedéral | money last year to set. up'a program at : Seneca College in. Toronto to train and certify. home-care, workers with an industrial specialty. . 4 The goal was to convince businesses to hire and assign . ‘graduates to help employees with a’ family ‘health emergency. Loe : 's About 400 employers in the ‘Toronto arca were contacted’ -but many sald absenteeisni due to family iliness is so high ‘that hiring just. one ‘worker. would’, ‘salve the problem, ane sald. ; Lot ee fat . a bbitaned every. wes at 00 katin Street, . veturny postin oe this year, & and moat at expect continued: sagan pane aae ‘homemakers are costly, too, unless a family qualifies fora . Our major: concern Is when children are brought i in sick, ‘parental leave for circumstances thtinclude taking a. child : dnaxtioum of 10 paid days’ oft’ anniually to look after aw ¢ Civil servants in all other provinces, except Quebec and. are detractirig from the program's objectives set out aN Bit few expect | more pram . "Western Europe has been hit andes thi than ‘North ‘kines, and Japan | lesa.'‘Some. relatively self-reliant poor countries, such’ as. ‘India, ‘have been: partly insillated. But others that ‘survive: ‘from day today by selling’ sugar,- copper: or - whatever raw. rinaterial to the great manufaetiring nations . “ are desperate. PALMERSTON, Ont. ACP) — About 300° ‘farmers zur- -. prised bank officials Wednesday ‘after they gatheted at’ farm auction; took’ it’over,’ and purchased an. n estimated $100,000 ‘of farm equipment for about $20. ; nae fe The surprise. ‘penny auction”: took place at the farm. ‘of John Otto, 29, who owes abou! $400,000 in loangon a 150-head beef operation near thie town 50 kilometres. northwest’ ‘of Kitchener: : os apa Those who: bought the 2 piecea of equipment paid prices Nke $2. >i for B' $40,000 tractor, ‘$5. 20 for a track and $1.for hay wagons, Although there was some confusion about the: ‘of the. sale, Canadian Farm. Survival “Aseocatan members: put: It at: about $20. > The equipment ' was moved off Otto’s farm, by piirchasers _ who plati to return it in‘the spring when he: ‘will need it. . “We can't let: -vultuires in here to grab. up this ; guy's equipment. at rock-bottom: prices,” said: Robert King, a survival, association’ member from Kent County.’ aE ihey . get his: ‘machinery, how ls he supposed to plant a crop nest spring?” 7 . Shortly after he receiver's “duction ‘begin, “guuctlorieer ~ - Murfay, Gerber was asked to ‘stand aside. He was quietly asked to leave’ ‘by one of fo on the: BCENE... Anderson of the "Listowel ae said.. “No one on to gel into: any “confrontations: No one. is: -tiipwed: to; remove ~ anything." wits ‘The auction was then taken’ over. by Tom Shoebattom, ‘a “survival: association member from Middlesex County. . The low bidding, the latest tactic. by the militant farm “survival assoelatlon in ald, sof farmers, unable, ‘10 pay thelr Kidney failure | OTTAWA (CP): ~ The ‘number of people being treated for _ kidney failure has more:than' doubled since 1976 ‘and thé” ‘vast majority. of thent: ‘seem wo have’ responded; well: to _ treatment, - , Areport published Wednesday by the federal. fBenment and the Kidney Foundation of Canada showed 5,719. people on the kidney-failure: registry as of Dec. 31,. 1981.. Of those, 2,362 patients underwent transplant. operations successfully and 3,357 were undergoing regular dialysis § fo. remove poisons ‘from their blood:. - A similar survey five years ‘earlier chowed : 1,083. tcan: splant patients and 1,752 dialysis patients for.a total of 2,785, The registry was set up.to collect detalled inforniatiot. : - about kidney patients from. 66 Canadian, medical: centres. Project director Dr. G. A. Posen of Ottawa Civic Hospital said data oni the long-term suivival of patients in’ Canada are ‘not, yet available,. but informal. reports. suggest’ most patients‘can be treated successfully. for years. Young people tend te respond best 4a treatment, whether . transplant or dialysis, Posen said. « °-. “If you ake a 20-year-old in kidney failure, ay do wall no matter what,’ ‘you do with theni.” a . 1n'1981,-1,163 names were added to the reglater andall but. a handful were- treated Initially by some. form of dialysis. Of those, 117 died‘during the year.: Most of them were. older peaple, and many’ died of heart - attacks: or other causes not directly related to-kidney ‘problems. Meanwhile, 103 transplants were performed during 1981 * and all bu! 18 were successful. ‘Three‘ofthe 18.patients died - from complications and the- rest survived by. switching: to. some form of dialysis. .. Two basic types of, dialysis have been used with reat: . WINNIPEG (CP) — epuid -be. in Jeopardy, an association: “spokesman maid Wednesday. - Helgi Austman, ‘asaletant chairman. -of the. ‘non-profit international organization-in Notth:. America, said ln‘an . interview.the Employment and Immigration Department's “attitude is causlng Canadian farmers. to, drop out of the _ Brogram. “The real ‘problem, ‘ipthat the program ‘tends to be’ “categorized as a. labor, ‘program, whlch ie isn't,” ” sald: ~ Austman,_ of Gimll; Masi | A woe, “We'd like to co-operatively work: iit artangements; ‘with. Mr. (Employment Minister Lloyd) Axworthy's department: - to have this prograim. categorized for what it really is—a ¢ : cultural training and. apprenticeship type of program,"!. Axworthy's department, which seta allowances ‘trainees, receive; has classified the project as a labor: program and. ruled the minimum allowances pald trainees -follaw : regulated farm labor: wages. - wa! Last year, host familles in Canada. péld trainiees yas a. Month, an inereage of 38 per cent over 1981,’ Austinan ald. the allowance this year. could climb lo $99 a month. - month plus room and board, ee said the Chraian qovramtit's igh inudard Je-counitry, association's: ‘guidelines. ; - “Traingés say the allowances ‘ire thd ‘high, , ‘aid, fi haa ths effort of them elig very. obligated remainon a oe et ‘the 19608, growing’ at’ ‘an’ average of 5.5 per cent.a year, and ; a ‘pushed shead af a 4.9 per-cerit-a-year rate in the mid-19708,- i" simply. stopped growing in’1961-82, Industrial nations.may~ | - inch.ahead in the né .§wo. years, forecasters say, bul at at te : Poa * the Third World countries cannot pay their debts, or vet: =. In the United States, host families pay. a tralnee Ms a “healthy”. pace, . Unemployment: At least 0 inillion Workers are e without : : jobs. in, 24. ‘Western. ‘industrial ‘nations,’ ‘three: times: ‘the. number of unemployed in the early 19706:. That :does-not - include the uricounted millions of Third: ‘World jobless and penniless... The 10,8-per-cent D. s. ‘unemployment rate is expect to dip. slightly by. 1984... But, ‘Western . Europe's’ 10-per- expected ‘to-Ins Creage. Agricultural exchange jeopardized The future of Canada's’ involvement _ ; in the International “Agricultural” Exchange’. Association the-farm and not take advantage of various cultural oF portunities. in the community.”” Because host families taking in irainoes are forced to’ pay program, the added.- hoat-families have been dropping ‘out of the. program, .and trainees ‘now awaiting apprenticeship confirmations in. Canada are not, being: given definite’ responses. 033. * Under the program; young people’ with: ‘agricultural backgrounds and interests from: Canada ‘and other ‘par-.-. - . , dleipsting countries. travel to each’ other's‘ homeland: to" _apprentice in.a foreign country and exchange, educational -and cultural values... “HESS » Most families, who must train their boarder nd. provide -, Oni-the-farm experience, also are: reeponaible’fa =the: person the chance to exploré a few: “piltabete: 3 Austman said the association has tried five times in the? ‘past, 18 months» to meet with Axworthy to: discuss "the. “problem, but only senior advisers havetalked o association 7 . Fepresentalives each time... David Geddes, president of. the Canddian Host Family - Association, said Axworthy’s dltice has not replied to the * ,assocjation’s latest queries about the problem. : review of: the Program promised for 1964... -Neit week, ‘world fepresentatives. of the aasocialion are " ote ne _ ee Oy a et ae ae ae . a oe nx boom, has begun contracting. \. ; ie three’ months. “a : “oent in 1983, a “The countries ‘of the: Third: World ‘owe madre: than. $600 *}illion to’ forelgn banks and goveriiments, debts thai have _almost Goubled in four years + de stati i indiahs However, the department has said jncreases in: trainee i allowances may be kept to six. per: cerit. thie, year with a eet fo Denmark for their annual meeting and Austman : éaid Cansin'e standing within: the program Ukely will be" de} ’ World ‘trades Iif Yn West Germany; forexample, and other goods shippedio the ortd fell1 Econotnists.- expect ir ern { Another itatiatic. is ‘the most ‘chulting | f = Such big! borrowers: aB Brazil an lassic economic aqueeze: | When ‘world:interest rates rose in - fecent: years, the payments. ‘due on:their:loans ballooned, iit those same high rates’ slowed economic activity. in: the m Western: industrial nations, which consequently iio longer - needed: ‘as.much. Mexican oil: or ‘Brazilian sugar and then . “only. at. lower: prices... 7. “Without. more dollars, German: “marks, Biltish pourids, in extreme cases — feed their. people... . The Third World's problems hacklash. on: the industrial ; countries, pushing world trade. deeper. into ibs downward. ; viral. : ay PTH Mexicans, for: example, aré no. longer the: ‘hungry customers they once were for U.S, goods, US. exports’ to - Mexico are estimated to have dropped to bed billioh: last “year, from: $18 billion In 1981. re . The recession illustrates how intertwined he world’s rod gy that. ” poe -Some world prices: ‘were 16 rising sharply in ine early 1970s te traceable to U.S: overspending for the Vietnam War and overproduction of dollars. But the quadrupling ‘of oil prices intensified the inflation and pushed the world into the’ 1974- 75 recession. ., High‘ inflation persisted into. the Inte 197s, when: a new " redoubling of oll prices kicked it into double digits. Western leaders decided to fight high prices by restricting money . supplies. The “dearer’™ money brought down. inflation, from an dustrial West. But. the -tight-money policies: also dl : investment, big. trade deals, new | short, ‘they slowed world economies. : A further. complication:. Money created In: the: 19706 ‘in _flation was moving in vast, uncontrolled streams around raged businest to consumers Ir _ the warld. Much of it poured into U.S. dollar investments, because. of lucrative. interest rates and: other. .con- siderations. This made the dollar more valuable relative-to pther-currenciés, And‘that meant a. Japanese automobile that once costa U.S, consumer $10,000 now cost $8,000." That, brought . pressures. from U.S. automakers: vand “workers to keep out cheaper competition: Such protec- - tionism,. repeated around the world, drags down . ‘world: trade still more. te The argument about who or what is to blame for the world " recession goes on but at the core of the debate is a quandary expressed plainly by: The- Times of Landon: - “The main problem of the industrial. world is that it fas aa fio way of reducing inflation without raising unem-_ AERTS TENA NR: The British should know. Inflation has fallen to its lowest . abt art point in 13 years. But at the same time almost one in seven British workers is without a job. one a ost! ‘Ideas: borrowed OTTAWA (CP) — A Commons committee studying the troubled relationship between Canadian Indians and the federal government may borrow some “very progressive" ‘ideas from the us. says/ committee chairman Keith ; Penner. ' The ‘aill-party. committee ‘returned from . tive. days in. Washington and New Mexico Jast week wilh several ideas “that: should. be studied for application in Canada, says Penner, Liberal MP: for the Northern Ontario riding of . . Cochrane-Superior. ; : The visit came just days after U.S. “President Ronald . Reagan announced an Indian policy. that strongly endorses granting Indian governments greater powers to. enforce ' tribal law, develop their resources and administer health care, Social services.and education. a - Penner’s committee on Indian self-government is wrestling ‘with the same issues, underlining the. mutual problem: of both governments.’ Indians remain the poorest minority. Too many, die too _young from ill health, alcoholism or suicide. And they-are suspicious of any: new- legislation because governments have tried for centuries to assimilate them into non-Indian 7 ‘society. But the twa governments are addressing the issue in different ways. i ~InCanada, the seven’ MPs. and three. non-voting ‘native 1 representatives on. the committee are crles-crosaing the ; country: conducting hearings, The ‘committee is to report to Patliament t this September with recommendations for gutting or scrapping the Indian -Act and replacing it with something both workable and politically palatable. Reagan ‘issued .an Indian policy statement in mid- January which calls.for Improving the lot of about 735,000 Indians living on reservations by encouraging strong Indian . “governments... them so much, they: also think af- the Project as a labor 7 “ . ““xdessive “regulations - and. self-perpetuating bureaucracy have stifled tribal decision: jmaking," paid a - As-a- result, Austinan said, in the past. ‘year, Canadian ‘ white House : summary of the policy. -: “> However, Reagan's ‘ringing endorsemedt of ‘Todi self- - government" is undermihed by sharp budget cuts-in.| many ‘programs affecting the poor and native people, several U S. Indian, leaders:told Penner. | Andian ‘Altairs Minister John Munro also, Says govern: ment: inter tere: ton, 6 path In the lives of Canada’s 300,000 ae +. . Bul i ld théapecial committee Tait Deceinber that ‘iaiie an ‘separation is certainiy not the. answer." - ‘ *“Pétiner’ says Canada could develop 4 native pésple "'s credit Union, or, trust” ‘company slmilar. to thé: Ameri¢an Indian ‘Ages whlch ‘provides | low-coat. Tome, to ‘many trib : He also- commends the U. S. for assuring” Indian trast accounts, yield the maximum interest podsible. ‘ne ~Many Canadian bands say their’ government trust rs comnts yield interest’: several points below. competitive -. rates, Penner ays. - ‘In Canada, thousands of Indians have oat: thelr right to : federal: benefits ‘through amhartriage- to. non-Indians ‘or because they failed to mest: the. governinent’s arbitrary definition of who-is an Indian. Canada could institute a “plood-quantura” formula to determine eligthility for federal benefits and allow. bands to _ Bel thelr own erica for band membership, F Penner: says, | that ‘suddenly are: not we