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PORT STANLEY, Ont.
(CP) -- Believe it or not,
Lake .Erie perch is to
Switzerland what caviar
is to Canada.

in Switzerland. When you
order “egilifilet” at a
high-class Swiss
restaurant or specialty
food. stére, you will
receive perch caught in
Lake Erle not much more
than 24 hours before.

. Ray. Canon. has been
exporting yellow perch to

That’s because Lake
Erie - perch, fish’
Canadians _-frequently
throw back, is a delicacy

FREDERICTON oe? treatment —_- centre,
— Dr, Everett ers Chalmers enjoys talking
bas seen it all: the about the days when
revolution of medical doctors ever ‘thought
science from black bag to twice about giving up a
body-scan machine, from weekend of fishing to stay
mystical home remedies with a woman in labor.
to potent antibiotics. feat
he thinks we've FIGHTS DIABETES .
something along the Way. 35 looks the part of the
Chalmers, 798, NOW old-fashioned,  down-h-
retired from his medical ping doctor: heavy-
practice, recently visited browed,. bespectacled,
one of his old patients in yin 4 square and stub-
the modern Fredericton porn jaw that suggests
hospital that carries his toughness and deter-
mination. He has had two
The elderly woman had jeart attacks and is still
just gone through a fighting diabetes, but he's
serious operation and sory and sharp and tells
from beneath a com- thin starles with gusto and
plicated network of in: pumor.. .
travenous tubes and - te was renowned for
electronic —_ monitoring pis skill'as a surgeon and
equipment, she reached hin tenacity asa civic and
out for something she felt provincial politician, but
only Chalmers could give he has also won enduring
her comforting fame for ‘his incredibly.
reassurance. -had language. Doc
Chalmers has always
“T've always been an talked more like a sailor
optimistic guy and I’ve than a surgeon and he
always tried to assure makes no apologies.
people unless Iknew they Once, while delivering
were going to be beat. a clean ad in the
That's especially im- provincial legislature
portant in old people, where he was a Con-
assurance and justa little servative member from
squeeze or something like 1960 until 1978, he sud-
that — you just don’t get it denly stopped, looked up
today.” and said proudly, “There,
From 1936 until his and you .all thought [
retirerhent “in © 1978, couldn't talk* for 10
Chalmers tended the sick minutes without
in the Fredericton area. swearing.”
Hehas become something Most people figure that
of a legend In these parts, was the only time he did.
mown to an entire When Chalmers started
generation of Fredericton his practice in
residents simply as “the Fredericton in 1936, he
doctor." had a lot to curse about.
Sitting in his office in He is a native of
the old Victoria Hospital, Fredericton; but he had
now converted _into..a hot... realized how

Film. triggers day after
. memories for Germans _ cs

r val

KASSEE, Weat Germany (CP) — When The Day
After wad'shown in this industrial city, its scenes
brought back memories of another day after for elder
residents.

However, movie sets depicting the aftermath of a .
nuclear attack, could not match the horror they faced
the morning after 400 Canadian and British bombers
devastated their city on Oct. 22, 1943. It was one of the
largest Allied air raids of the Second World War.

Wemer Dettmar was 15 years old when he and his
family scrambled from the basement of their burning
apartment building that night, looking for another
shelter.

Most of their neighbors were not as fertunate, Some
10,000 people died during the 35-minute blitz and in
the following days from injuries or suffocation under
rubble,

The provincial capital of 200,000 was one of the
German cities selected for blanket bombing,
designed to demeralize the German population and
end the war.

Dettmar, now head of the cultural affairs depart-

Acid. rain study

OTTAWA (CP) —A federal government study that
could pave the way for substantial reductions in acid
rain emissions from mining ameltera could be

released within a month, a government official said ,

Tuesday.

Smelters have been fingered as the major
Canadian contributor to acid rain but clean-up efforts
have run afoul of the dismal financial state of many
mining companies.

A study on the nickel and copper smelting industry
has been prepared by officials in the Energy, Mines
and Resources Department and is now in the precess
of the final approval stage, an official said.

The study examines the International com-
petitiveness of the industry and examines possible
ways of improving producticity’ while reducing
pollution.

The report has been prepared in co-operation with
the Environment Department which believes the beat
way to get industry to clean up is to show them how
they can make more money at thesame time. ‘

Michael Perley, executive co-ordinator of the
Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain, said the study
would likely become the “‘corneratone of a successful
clean-up.”

“The largest single component of a Canadian acid
rain control strategy is the: modernization of the
smelting industry," he sald. ;

The Canadian government and provincial en-
vironment ministers have recently agreed to reduce
acid rain emissions east of the Saskalchewan-
Manitoba boundary by 60 per cent by 1994.

To reach that target, significant cuts will be
required from mining smelters which produce about
60 per cent of Canadian acid rain pollution. -

Inco’s Copper Cliff smelter near Sudbury, Ont., is
the world’s largest single source of pollutants that
cause acid rain. Noranda's copper smelter at Rouyn-

- Noranda, Que., is the second biggest acid rain
polluter on the continent.

Two smelters in northern Manitoba, one owned by
Inco, the other by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting;
are also significant acid rain polluters.

Switzerland for 10 years,

He sells.the fish to Swiss
food distributors for §6 to

$7 a pound. At the docks in

this southwestern Ontario

village near London, it
_ Sells for §3 a pound, '

“The Swias produce
heir on perch, but not

Lake Erie. perch-is

enough . for their "own
use,” said: Canon, an

- economica .teacher ‘at a

nearby |. community
college who. tuses the
commercial fishing in-
dustry .as a sideline,
“Thoy also import from
Ireland,. ‘Halland and
Demat, but they have @

- seen it all

medically backward. the
provincial capital was
until he returned from his
training at McGill
University and the Royal
Victoria Hospital in
Montreal],

PEOPLE SUSPICIOUS

There was only a
cramped, 30-bed cottage
hospital in Fredericton at
the time and it was eyed
with great suspicion by
the people who con-
sidered being admitted to
hospital a sure .sign of
near death,

“All the treatment was
done at home; there were
mustard .pouitices, onion
poultices, . linseed
poultices -- everyone had

their own kind of poultice.”

“I remember going
over to Maugerville (ncar
Fredericton) to treat a
woman with pneumonia. .
.» Her family had put salt
herring on the soles of her
feet and wrapped them on
with bandages to draw
the poison out of her bedy,
out through the feet and
into-the salt herring.”

The.woman got beiter
and Chalmers developed
a healthy respect for
some of

’ remedies he encountered.

He once went to a
community on the out-
skirts of Fredericton to
deliver a baby. The
family thought he was
crazy when he walked
into the house carrying

two suitcases filled with:

sterile equipment and all
the . latest medical
paraphernalia.
SLOW LABOR

His equipment turned
out to be useless. As
Chalmers. put . it

the home:

the

wornan’s “labor i)
“dr “and. awful
slow” and he didn’t know
what to do. .
wa the old graniy who
pouring the
chleroformn bald, ‘Doctor,
you're going to have to
quill her.” 1 -said - ‘quill
her?’ — I' didn’t. know
what the hell she ‘was
talking abput, but-I was
kind of curious. =
“Well she jumps up and
kicks open ‘the kitchen
door and I could hear the
old hens cackling away
and she comes back: with
st big. tail feather,
arabe ‘a pair of scissors
and trims it all off except

for'a little tuft on the end. .

She tickles the old. girl up
the nose, she goes ‘ah-
choo’ and there was the
baby crying in front of
me.” .

. Chalmers has seen a
steady parade of: human
tragedy and triumph in
his career, but few things
have concerned him as
deeply as the problem of
aleohol ‘addiction.

He is now chairman of -

the New Brunswick
Aleohol and

Drug
Dependency Commission. ,

He ls content spending
what he calls his “dying
days” trying to find ways
to curb alcoholism, an
affliction that he says has
robbed him of too many
closa friends and
relatives over the years,
“It’s the ‘most  un-
treated, - undiagnosed,
treatable disease in our
nation today,”” Chalmers
says. “If it were a
communicable diseage
like polio, they'd call it a
national crisis.” an

predilection for Lake Krie

‘yellow perch because it's
“much more tender than

the others, not nearly as
coarse a meat.”

The German word for
perch is barsch, ‘but the
Canadian
identified by the distine-
tive term, églifilet

(pronounced: ~. EGG-lee-
fill-AY)..

PASS OFF PERCH :

‘Restaurant’ owners
will often try to pass off
their perch as eglifilet

when it’s not, but you can .

tell the difference," says
Canon. .

Canon, 55, works - with
Larry Jackson, who runs
L.R. Jackson Fisheries in
Port Stanley. Jackson has

two boats and a.

processiong plant.
Perch are shipped to
Switzerland either fresh

or frozen, depending on

the specifications of the
Bix food distributors
Canon deals with. -
Crates of fresh fish are
trucked to Toronto and

loaded into a refrigerated

“species is.

- LAST YEAR POOR

‘compeirtment ‘on =a
Swissale’ -mixed-cargo
DC-10 bound’ for, Zurich.
It takes. 24 hours for a
shipment: of one tonne of
fresh yellow berch tobe in
bands | Swiss
ere wo
Shipments of frozen fiat
are gent to ‘Toronto,
Montreal or New York
and go by ship to Rot-
terdam, The 15-tonne
containers are the: taken

by rail or truck.to Basel,

Switzerland. .
. Canon says it costs fla
pound to send fish by air.
and about 20 cents by sea.
Swiss consumers can
the fish in stores for about
$9, while the price in
nearby London Is about #1
eas,

Last year was ex-

-tremely. poor for : the

perch industry,

In 1981, Canon was
exporting up to 1.9 tonnes
of fresh fish a week, and
shipped three containers

or 45 tonnes , of frozen

filets.

Th h fishing season Lake Erie, iith-tangedt :
“rpms mid-August to lake In the world, has the

late December, and

Canon and Jackson have.

just shipped their first

container of frozen fish

caught in December.

in better years, Canon
says, Switrerland’s
largest food processing
company has bought all

its Lake Erie perch from
Jackson's | fishing
operation.

Canon makes a 10-cent
commission on every
pound of fish sold. “I
normally spend three
weeks-every summer in

buy SwitzerJand talking to our

buyers’ from one end of
the country to the other.”
Mike Petzold, a marine

_ biologist with the Ontario
' Minlatry

Natural
Resources, says last
year's poor results were
due fo efivironmental
factors as well as over-

fishing during the good
Ontario

of

‘year. The

government is examining
a quota system, he saya.

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world's largest fresh-
water fishery. In 1882,
27,300 tonnes of fish were
caught, with a total value
of $28.2 million. Perch.
pales were worth $15.6
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The Canadian market is
not big enough to con-
sume all of the Lake Erie
harvest so most of itis’. -
exported. The Jackson
operation exports 90 per
cent of ita yellow perch,
yellow pickeral and white
bass,

The United States buys
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mient for Kassel, had been conscripted along with the
rest of his high school class to man: anti-aircraft
batteries. defending the city, but happened to he olf
duty that night.
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“I was jealous of my comrades who could help,"
says Dettmar. of that night. ‘I couldn't understand
how everybody in the cellar could be afraid.” .

But then the group was forced to flee the burning

' apartment block during the night, and Dettmar faced

the reality of war.:

“I was shocked at the sight — the fires, the

devastation, the bodies,’ houses falling. When mor- —

ning came, 1 asked myself for the first time — why?”

Despite the shock, Dettmar the boy gunner was
fascinated by how 400 bombers could be assembled
froin all over Britain, travel 1,600 kilometres round
trip at night- and hit a pinpoint target, using
rudimentary navigation techniques.

Years later, Detimar began to research the event
“to make a memorial of the Kassel bombing, so that
it would not be forgotten." ;

When the London Public Record Office opened its

war archives to the public 18 years ago, he was able to -

contact a few veterans of the air raid. One of them, a

navigator, Sgt. D. Richardson, became a friend.
“The first thing he wanted to know was where his

bombs went," says Dettmar. “He ‘wanted. to know

they didn’t drop on me.”

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With detailed, flare-lit photographs taken ty each

aircraft as it dropped its lethal load, “I was able to

tell him his..bombs dropped four- miles: (six —

kilometres) off target,” Dettmar says with a chuckle.
“He wag very glad”.

Canadian créws: manning the four-engined Lan-
casters, Halifaxes and |Stirlings belonged to the No. 6
‘Group, RCAF Bomber Command, based in York,
northern England. The group was composed of 15
squadrons of 20 alreraft each. —

On the 40th anniversary of the raid, the City of
Kassel and Dettmar assembled an exhibition ‘of.
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accounts, bombs and other memorabilia of that night.

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alphabetical order of 6,000 identified victims. The
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says, he believes the British tactic of bombing

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