AGE 4, THE HERALD, Wednesaay, July 13, 1977

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- Indigestion
from smoke

You enter the hazy room and squint to make out
the barest outline of objects only a few feet away.
Hesitantly, you feel your nose swelling, your eyes
twitching with the stench and sting of smoke.

Finding an unoccupied corner, you drop,
breathing shallowly through the mouth.

“May I help you?” asks the waitress.

“Oxygen,’’ you gasp.

Eating in Terrace and Kitimat resaurants at
noon hour is the most severe form of masochism.
The goal of a meal is nourishment, replenishment
for the body. But in some of the smoke-laden
eateries in both cities, the air itself, which during
peak hours has a visibility of but a few feet, is not

e-supporting.

It is only conditioning that allows a restauranteur
to operate an eating premise that is utterly
contaminated with hydrocarbons, nicotine, and
carbon monoxides produced by the burning of
tobacco. Non-smokers are conditioned to accept
meekly the discomfort and hazards imposed upon
them by smokers. Smokers, on the other hand, are
conditioned to assume the right to indulge their
habit without consideration for ‘‘innocent
bystanders” who are forced to breathe the
byproducts,

All across the continent people are beginning to
realize the stupidity of eating in smoke-infested
places. It does not require any heightened
‘awareness or expanded consciousness a_ brief
pause to think will suffice. The purpose of eating is

to maintain life and health in the body, but

breathing air which is positively grey with smoke
cannot be seen, even by the febblest mind, as
anything but unhealthy. . Ce es

- — A number of Canadian and American restaurants

have adopted a non-smoking policy. Such a policy —

cannot be said to discriminate against smokers any
more than laws against drinking in public places
discriminate against drinkers. Forbidding
smoking in places such as restaurants and
supermarkets does, however, ensure the right of
non-smokers to breathe air free of the toxins which
‘smokers choose to inhale.

In all likelihood, eating in smoke thick enough to
cut is more injurious to one’s health than eating in
the same room as somebody’s dog. It is odd that
germs too small to seé with the naked eye get more
attention than pollution too thick to see through.

Restauranteurs in the two cities may be reluctant
to impose no smoking regulations for fear of
alienating tobacco users, In the end, however, the
move would likely be jucrative, for non-users would
flock to an establishment that displayed such
initiative.

All other things being equal, there is not a non-
smoker alive who wouldn't prefer a smoke free
‘environment in which to eat.

Bravo!

Kitimat council rejected a motion Monday which would
have required travelling carnivals to meet provincial safety

standards before being allowed to set up in the town,
We say BRAVO, T

Kitimat council has shown the way to the rest of

province, With any luck we coul

smoke on a fun-filled Saturday afternoon.
Bravo gentlemen.

ERMAN

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Critics draw bead Otto La
HALIFAX CP - An almost daily barrage
of criticism is being fired at Transport’
y political, business
and labor leaders in the Atlantic Pracinces.
_ Critics have accused Lang of imperilling
Atlantic Canada by forcing higher freight
rates and ferry fares, planning to eliminate
some passenger trains and charging
“ransom rates” at airports.
ve been Liberal
Premiers Gerald Regan of Nova Scotia and
Alex Campbell of Prince Edward Island, as
well as chambers of commerce, opposition
liticians and the Atlantic, Provinces

Minister Otto Lang

Among the critics

onomie Council.

In a strongly-worded statement last
was “in direct
variance with the truth” when he told

week, Regan said Lan

Parliament the Nova Scotia government
was in favor of removing the Sydney to
Truro passenger train service.

Lang, replying to a question from Bob
Muir PC-Cap Breton - The
told the Commons he receiv
from Regan indicating the province had
switched its position and now favored

Sydneys, had
a telegram

abandoning the service.

dealing

Regan replied that the telegram in no
way indicated he favored abandonment.
Transportation Minister James Morgan
of Newfoundland said it is time for the
Adantic provinces to take the gloves off in
with the federal minister, perhaps

cing as far as “to have the prime minister
toward

to change his arrogant attitude
Atlantic region.”

“Oh, picking up — and you?” |

] ere’s far too much emphasis placed
on safety in the world today and too little on reckless folly.
e

: » Wit have a horrendous
disaster in Kitimat with half the population going up in

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81977 Universal Prem Syndicate

“4 decided to come in today. The
poolroom’s packed.”

UFO con

By JOHN WALLACE

CHICAGO (Reuter) —
Considering they've
perplexed mankind for a
couple of thousand years,
it’s about time someone held
an international conference
on ‘flying saucers.”

In ancient Rome they
were “flying shields,” in the
Middle Ages “ships in the
sky,’' in the late 19th
century ‘“‘airships,’’ and
today “unidentified flying
objects” (UFO). -

According to a Gallup

ll, 15 million Americans

ve seen the phenomena,
including President Jimmy
Carter. Sightings have been
reported in every country in
the world, at a rate of
around a hundred every
night.

A handful of persons
claims to have had physical
contact with
extraterrestrial humanoids,
and scores say they’ve
witnessed spaceships
landing on earth.

“The phenomenon of
UF Os exists. As to what it is,
we don’t know,” admits
astronomer J. Allen
Hynek—reason enough for
the first International UFO

Smoking on tf,

Congress.

More than a thousand
believers gathered at the
Pick-Congress Hotel] here
the weekend of June 25:

-astronomers, physicists,

psychiatrists, engineers,
educationists, and everyday
folks whose interests
ranscend the everyday.
Ken Arnold was there—-
the original “flying saucer”

guy.

The Boise, Idaho,
salesman and pilot was
flying over the Cascade
Mountains: in Washington
state on June 24, 1947, when
he saw nine delta-winged
craft below him, moving in
formation at incredible
speed. t
They flew “like ,saucers
skipping over water,” he
told a reporter later... The
reporter threw out; that
delta-winged business, and
the modern UFO era was
begun. oo

“Te ’m crazy, Pve got a
lot of friends,” Arnold told
the congress.

Count President Carter
among them, It happened
one night in 1973 in
Thomaston, Ga. In.the book
UFO Exist, Carter is quoted
as describing his ex-

In my opinion ————

ference needed

COMPLAINS OF COST

Morgan complained of the cost-sharing
e federal government insists on in
the $125 million promised by Lang in
highway and airport sid. The
want the cost-sharing to be on at least a 75-
25 ratio, with Ottawa paying the greater

sisted on a 50-50

ratio

share, but Lang has
formula.

Premier Campbell has attacked Lang's
‘department on a different front after
Eastern Provincial Airways threatened to
boycott the new Charlottetown airport
terminal because the transport ministry's

1

announced.

and Saint Jo
the

ovinces

ng

years ago, when user-pay was first

At thal time the government said it would
life a subsidy

on flour shipped to Halifax

n but it created a stormi over

possible loss of jobs, The bill that would

lift the subsidy has not been passed,
Freight-rate increases in 1976 caused

further forore, especially from chambers

of commerce.
intensity when Lang announced last fall
that Ottawa would forgive the St. Lawrence
Seaway debt. ;
That, said regional officials, meant

‘The storm gathered

proposed fees for landings and rentals Ottawa was subsidizing the seaway by
die

would be too high. Campbell said Lang’s
department was charging ‘ransom rates.”
Atlantic criticisms of Lang go back to two

perience:
“Jt was the darndest thing

I've ever seen. It was big, it.

was very bright, it changed
colors, and it was about the
size of the moon. We
watched it for 10 minutes

but none of us coule bmgure |

out what it was.

“One thing's for sure. I'll.

never make fun of people
who say they’ve seen
unidentified objects in the
sky."

Yet many persons do
make fun of UFO
aficionados—the “ridicule
barrier” to serious scientific
study, according to Dr.
Hynek, a professor at
Northwestern University
and director of the Centre
fornUFO Studies in nearby
Evanston. ih

Thus, - respected
profeggionals like Dr. James
Harder, biomedical

engineer at University of
California, ran some risk by
attending the conference
here,

“I started off open-
minded in 1960,” he told
reporters. “But then I ran
ito some cases that were
impossible to explain as
natural phenomena:"

—Strange fragments of

e job

subject of survey

KITCHENER, Ont, (CP)
— People who smoke at
work— who they are and
how many cigarettes they
smoke each day—will be the
subject of a survey to be
conducted by the Waterloo
Regional Lung Association.

Pam Nancarrow,
program coordinator, said

e study will also try to
learn about the reactions of
smokers’ co-workers who
don’t smoke.

Smoking: on the job has

never been studied, she

said.

“There have been studies

done on smoking in schools,

public places ... everything
ut smoking in industry.”
To fill this gap, 3,000

people in five industries in
the Waterloo Region will be
uestioned this summer on
eir smoking habits and
atfitudes to smoking on the
job. ,

The sample includes food
and clothing workers,
management, labor and
industrial nurses.

The study is financed by
the national health and
welfare ministry.

Ms. Nancarrow is
interested in the costs of
‘smoking—not only to the
employee but also to the
public and the employer.

In the United States, $800
million is spent annually
helping people who have
illnesses directly related to

smoking, she said.
Comparative figures for
Canada are not available,

Carbon monoxide, one. of

the byproducts of tobacco .

smoke, “goes straight into
the blood stream," said Ms,
Nancarrow.

“It knocks the oxygen out
of the blood stream, goes to
the brain and then starts
reacting on you," she said.
“The person becomes less
efficient, less productive.
Some people get giddy. The
ultimate reaction is death.”

In addition to the time lost
lighting and smoking the
cigarette, studies show. that
smokers are off work up to
15 days more each year than
nonsmokers, she said.

metal found at purported
UFO landing sites in Brazil
and Sweden in the late
1950s; -
—A curious metal ball
found in Florida in 1973.
It's those few cases that
also perplex Dr, Hynek, who
admits most sightings can
be explained by natural
henomena: weather
alloons, satellites and
such.
“It's those few
unexplained ones that we're
interested in,” he said—
those that can’t be kissed off
as “swamp gas” and “mass
hallucination.”

COME IN ALL SHAPES .

,,President Carter's
ambiguous UF'O description
is little better than most eye-
witness reports. UFOs, it
appears, come in all sha
and sizes: shiny footballs,
luminous | jellyfish, big
pancakes, beautiful flowers,
and even Christmas tree
ornaments. :

“Yes, some of it’s pretty
farfetched stuff,” said Dr.

Hynek, ‘

But don’t tell that to Betty
Hill. She. and her late
husband Barney were
Griving along a deserted
New Hampshire highway in

1961 when, she swears, they ~

were abducted by a UFO.

“They. came to check us
out to see if we are advanced
enough to be friends,” says
Mrs. Hill, a rather plump,
aging matron and one of t
star speakers at the
conference.

“They” were humanoids,

about 416 feet tall, who took .

the Hills aboard their
spaceship for a, physical
examination,

The aliens “erased” the
Hills’ mefnories of the
experience, but a
psychiatrist ‘revived . them

rough hypnosis.

“Come ta New
Hampshire. I'll show you
where they’ve been” said
Mrs. Hill.

Rumors whirled at the
meeting ‘that by year-end,
the government will make
some remarkable
disclosures about UFOs,
with much of the infor-
mation coming from the CIA

and the FBI.

ritimes.

several billion dollars w
pay to its competitors in the less-wealthy

applying user-

Interpreting the news

Defence cuts
divide Britons

LONDON (CP) — A
British Labor party
committee report,
advocating defence cuts of

&1,5 billion ($2.7 billion), is.

causing debate and

dissension within the party

and, to some extent, within
the government itself.

- Opponents say _ the
roposals, if fully
im lemented, would reduce

Britain's nuclear deterrent

and air force and slash by.

onehalf the country’s army
contribute to NATO forces
estern Eurepe.

The cuts also would result
in an =upsurge 1n
unemployment, they add.

The Labor party
committee, appointed by the

rty’s national executive
and including two cabinet
ministers, spent three years
studying defence costs and
suggested the government
has these options: .

_ Phasing out of the Polaris
muclear submarine forces
ing off four major Ro
Navy ships; cutting the
Army of the Rhine to 30,000
men from 55,000, and
cancelling two versions of
the Tornado multi-rote

combat aircraft.

SEEKS INFLUENCE

- Left-wing party members
q the -recommendations

ii] influence government
defence policy but sources
close to the situation say
Defence Secretary Fred
Mulley is unhappy with the
document and is likely to
oppose it at the party’s
national executive
committee meeting later
this month.

_ Rumblings of opposition

are being heard from
service chiefs, NATO allies
and the opposition
Conservative party.

In support of its proposals,
the committee says the .
current level of expenditure
is placing an unacceptable
drain on the economy and

‘that Britain’s contribution

to NATO is unjustifiably
higher than that of other
members.

Reduced spending, the
committee argues, would
mak .‘‘a . positive
contribution to lessenin:;
international tensions an
may therefore actuall
increase internationa
security.”’
TAKES ROSY VIEW
The report says it seems
unrealistic to fear that the
Soviet Union, with burdens
in Eastern Europe, ‘‘would
wish to compound these
problems by taking on the
additional problems of a
conquest of Western

“Defence cuts,” it says,
“might contribute to 4
policy of emphasizing ¢o-
operation, rather
hostile elements” in East-
West relations. to

The depth of dissent
a tele rty itself. is
dudica introducti
tothe report which
expresses regret at- ‘the
relative lack of co-operation
from the ministry of defence
in preparing this
document. -

At one stage, the report
says without giving names,
differing “views were
expressed about the various
options considered.

Madison -bike
capital of U.S.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) --
You see them everywhere,
zig-zaggin through
downtown traffic, parked in
long shiny rows on campus
and even whipping along the
edges 0 40-m.p.h.
thoroughfares.

Madison, where two-

wheelers outnumber
automobiles, may he the
bicycle capital of the United
States. And the city may be
showing the way for othr
communities trying to cope
with the energ crisis.
- In Madison there are kids
on short bikes with tall
handlebars, bearded
students on rusty onespeeds
with balloon tires and
businessmen who stra
briefeases to  slee
European’ racers, —

There are even pensioners
pedalling sedately down
shaded residential streets
on big tricycles. _.

“We figure there are
somewhere between 120,000
and 150,-600 bicycles in
Madison,’ said Jerry
Tomezak, bicycle control
monitor for the police
department in this city of
170,000. ‘‘That’s three
bicycles for every two

S.

He said the University of
Wisconsin campus, with
nearly 40,-000 students, is
responsible for much of the

‘boom which has seen the

number of bikes in town
double since 1969. :
MAKE BETTER TIME

“For a lot of students, it's
all they can afford,” he said.

However, other portions
of the community are also
beginning to rely’ on
bicycles.

“Besides the cheaper
cost, it has become a Jot
more popular for energy
reasons. And some of it has

. engineer who will

to do with the traffic. You
can make it a lot faster
around town on a bicycle
than ina car, and you don’t
have to worry about
rking.”’ Lot
Tom Walsh, a city traffic
disburse
up to $300,000 on_ biking
improvements this year,
said surveys show that 68
per cent of all city residents
are regular bicycle riders,
and three of every four
weekday bike trips are for
work, school, shopping or
some other non-recreational
purpose. |
Tim McDowell, 22, &
salesman at a large family
bicycle shop, said riders
who bought’ 10-speeds in the
past are getting better
icycles as they come to
depend on them more.
this ve had more interes
his spring in the $200 to $300
bikes than ever before,” he
said.
FATALITIES FEW
Officials said perhaps °
4,000 bikes.a year are stolen
in the city and there has
been an average of two
bicycle falalities a year in

‘the 1970s. .

‘The number of bicycle
accidents ig only two per
cent of the total number of
accidents in the city,”
Walsh sald, “but about 90 .
per cent of. the cyclists
involved suffer injuries."

He said it's still safer to
bike than drive a car .
because the gdds of gettin
in'an accident are so much
less. .

“It should also be .
emphasized that bicycles
are subject to the same .
vehicle traffic code 48 |
cars,” he said, noting that is
not unusual. for cyclists to
get tickets for running atop
signs. Sob te ale