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Birthdays scarce -

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — ‘the social: complications of

having a baby on Feb, 29 were really the last thing on Kim _Walker’s mind four years ago today, . .. ot “When I went Into. labor, the nurses kept. telling me,

‘Hurry up, hurry up before tomorrow,’” recalled Walker, °..

who lives in Asbury Park and gave birth at Jersey Shore Medical Centre in Neptune. ‘And I said ‘Why?’ And they said that tomorrow: was ‘Leap Year. :

“Well, Ididn’t think about it then, because I was in labor. But afterward I thought, ‘Wow, Bryan’s not going to have a birthday but every four years. Since he was born the day

- after the 28th, I thought maybe. I should celebrate it on the “first. But, he wasn't ‘born in March.”

Most parents don’t want their babies born on that odd day rthat occurs. every four years, but ‘“‘peaple unfortunately .@on’t plan pregnancies out quite that carefully," said Dr. “Anthony Quartell, a Livingston obstetrician."

_- Quartell had two patients due to deliver today at St. :Barnabas Medical Centre, and “nelther one warts to. have :that baby on the 29th,” he said.

‘ONE EXCEPTION °

: “Women simply don't want to have babies on Holidays,” he said, “April Lis the day no one wants to have a baby. This year, I had two patients due on April 1 ~ one already. © ‘delivered very prematurely:'The baby “Ia‘ fhe and! ‘the ‘woman later said, ‘Thank God I didn't have’ the baby on. -April Fool’s Day,’

: “The exception is Dec, 31. On that day, they want the kid ‘out by. midnight.” :

. Doctors say that thelr. Bim to please their patients stops with the calendar, .

“We can't do anything about it,’’ Quartell said. “You

hever, ever want to be in the position to speed up or slow down a labor for essentially a social, decision. Now, ifit’sa repeat or elective caesarean, you have a chance.’* . Maureen Cappuccino of Harrison recalied that when her . ‘son, Nicholas, was born Feb. 29, 1980, “the nurses were kidding that night and saying why. ‘don’t you wait a few" more hours, and I sald, ‘No, no." ' |

“T was in labor tag ina a jong ti time thal, at that point, I ‘didn’t care what day it if was?" "

‘March 1.. ‘HE'S NOT. on

In Minnesota,. Peter Flatten of. Minneapolis gets the opportunity today to celebrate on his true date of birth as he’ turns $6 years old — dr, as he likes:to say, 24. - 00

“He always says. ‘he’s never as old as he really is," said | his son, Darwin Flatten.” ©

As it happens,’ Julius Cnesar invented Leap Year i in 46 BC as the chronographic solution to just such confusion; :

One solar year actually totals not 365 days, but, ag Caesar. figured it, closer. to 365.25 days. St

That means roughly that without leap day, the Beasons would creep out of whack with’ the calendar over a long enough time; in 1985, for example, autumn would start on Feb. 11.

And so time marches ( on; except for today; when it leaps;

allowing Leap Year babies that quadrennial luxury of a. true birthday celebration, . Cappuccino usually holds a party for little. ‘Nicholas on Feb, 28, and says her son can’t figure out why his birthday - “comes once every four years. | ‘ “But we tell him he'll like it when he is 40 and he'will be

only 10. This year, we hada big party last Saturday with all

our family, and everybody wrote Happy First. Birthday on the cards, and on the cake we had a four and a one,” “.

~ consortium because there aren't. enough, benefits’

: For Leap Yea and, their familie the: lifelong . ‘question is vie toh “pha bintday parties on Feb, 38 or

“We usually put 30 percent on!”’

me Ottawa says Canada won't “oir ‘the Euro

to: justify -

; the costs of parti¢ipating in the airliner project, : . "Industry Minister Ed Lumiey said Tuesday the ge ern- , Ment has cut off negotiations with Airbus Industrie, Lit potential $500-million perticipatiod. in thé Europea . Sortium’s 162-seat A-320 aircrafi program, ; - Lumley said industrial and : technological - efits fel] “far short of what’ we had been ‘led:td expect" when ‘de ‘Havilland Aircraft of Canada. Tid: ‘began: negotiallo n. behalf of the government with - Airbus” 18 months, a The; government was hoping for'a: "1O-per-cent stak e -eotisortium building the'sleek A-320 ‘dingle-aisle® ‘Jeti The “aerospace industry was anticipating’ 1,200 new: jobs, -a'new . production plant in Quebec and active participation’ fi the

- devélopment of the aircrait’s systems {echnolbgy, :

- By the time negotiations broke down, thére would have been a seven per cent share of the. work, 550 jobs, ‘no ew plant and participation only in building part of the airerpi's ’ fuselage,"

‘Lumley: left open the door t6 other Canadian participalion ., with Airbus or other European firms, but said "proceeding with’ the investment would have placed an unfair burden, on the ‘Panadian taxpayer.” me

The country’ 8 lawyeis took’ the firal. atep Tuesday. towards bringing-laws up-to. date. with rapid medica] advances in ‘genetic engineering, téattube bables‘and artificial insemination, cae

‘The Canadian Bay, Association, ‘approved a resol ‘ion : ; “provincial governments to ‘sign’ a néw-

* asking the federal and provinciat law reform. commi to atudy what, if any, rights the unborn have..- ‘And federal commissioner ‘Louise: Lemélin said may soon be granted in. ‘part. : . me The federal Law Reforin Comrniséion’ 's working paper.on homicide, fo be released in the next few weeks, indicates —

_ the commission will have to consider: the status of. the fetus : "Af it wants to examine Jaws’ overning the’ iain of the, :

‘unborn, Lemelin said:.: The Criminal Code now: aneludes the offences af ting an

- unborn‘ child in the act of birth, ‘concealing the body. of a:

child and: procuring a. ‘miscarriage, she sald. a “The commission, is also studying the, question af & ex- periments on sumans and in-the. context, ‘of th have to ongider experiments involving a fe ‘ MANY. QUESTIONS." en ee The lawyers; who held. their four-day rhid-winle esting in this northern capital, said that scientific. advarices in the past five years. have raised numerous ‘Tegal questions Concerning artificlal insemination, womb leasing,’ ‘test. ‘tube babies, cloning and: ‘other experimental. human Breeding techniques. . Association president Robert McKercher said he’ a not’ satisfied there’s the “‘slightest legal obligation" on scien: tists to. pay any attention to the use or disposal of human

, ©ggs and sperm. !

MeKercher said there are sperm. ahd eggs banks in the United States where people can trade commercially i in the “components of future human: Beingsecc, gis cant

“Slavery ended, long ago,” McKercher said. “You can't: traffic: in 1 human: beings 80 why | allow, trafficking: in their’

Hansen blamed

OTTAWA (CP) — _ Information: ‘Gommissionée Inger ©

Hansen ‘agrees she is to blame for a. backlog at the newly. . formed Information Commission's complaints department.

Discussing the eight-month-old. access- -to-lnformation— - legislation with Ottawa Citizen publisher Paddy Sherman. ; at a luncheon sponsored by the Canadian Public Relations Society on Tuesday; Hansen said her careful consideration ~ of each complaint is to ‘blame: for: delays ‘of, six’ months in” Some. cases.

“Tt-has been reported: in the press that this: ‘shorlage of’ staff was causing a backlog in my. office. Ido not think that - is the major reason, The major reason, is that [ am being: - slow .. trying to resolve every case carefully. For what it’s worth re think that- is the better @pproach,"". :

Hansen. ears complaints ranging , from inability to set iN

_ Risimation | to ‘government denials that the information : exists. - .

Orcea complaint has been investigated, Hansen decides. . how to haridle it. But she can only:make recommendations

and they are-not binding on federal departments. '

Hansen’s staff of one permanent and two contracted: -

investigators and 4 director have received 124 complaints:

since the commission was established in July. It has taken. from a few weeks to six: months depending on the com-: plexity of a case to handle about 40 of those complaints.

The full complement of six permanent Investigators will r - soon be filled, Hansen. said.

_ Despite the backlog, Hansen cericouraged 1 more e Inquiries’. ‘and complaints. ~. =

“Tf-it doesn't work, complain ies dividuals to participate not only in making the act work but’ in Gemonstrating what is ‘wrong with the act.” mos

Visit protested

TORONTO (CP) — ‘The head of a Toronto fundamentalist’ a : group Baya its members would g0 to jail to defend “our, a “right, by the grace. of God" to protest Pope Sohn Paul’ 8 visit -

_(to the area, ' “T'm willing to meet him (Ontario Altorney General Roy

“MeMurtry) in the courtroom,” Rey. Frank McClelland of - _ the Free Presbyterian Church said Tuesday: “'T’m willing to. go to jail to protest intolerable erosion of the right to. L

’ freedom of speech,”’. Two weeks ago McMurtry warnéd that people caught " distributing anti-Catholic material during the Pope's visif: . this September risked belng arrested under Laws relating to: _ hate literature and breaching the peace, . oy . The doctrine of the Free Presbyterian Church — a tiny. Canadian offshoot of the controversial Protestant | sect | _ founded in Northern Ireland by Rey. fan Paisley ~ sthtes

that the ‘papacy Is a fraud. Te

“Ina rousing speech at a church in suburban Scarborough

on Tuesday night, McClelland denounced. the ° “visit aa,

“heady Roman propoganda,”

McClelland promised that protests will continue, “bit . on

would not say. in what form. About 90 people attended the. service which was advertised as a “public rally to oppoRe tie Pope's ylait.”” 1

Organizers of the .Pope’s visit have stressed that It is for

' everyone, not just Catholics. One of the highlights will be the Pope's ecumenical meeting with leading area clergy of ,

all faiths in a local Anglican church.

— their orders at the counter: The Bods will then be delivered:

Genetic ‘engineering updated _

’ "WHITEHORSE (OP) —

- comes into force, the association said. : his will'also

. has already been delayed twice because of provincial ob- :

- gp.they reach. their. igth or: ‘ith birthdays,

Tam. trying not to jump to conclusions ‘and I'm, oa

TS farisdiction and the tenure, appointment and Independence

this’is a: way’ for-in-;

~> your local police, Keep an eye on your home untll police .

; _ Terrace, | B.C., VaG 2X7 or 638-0333,

Indusiriette’ Aerospatiale” of Franée pea “Airbus le , ; West Germany British Aerospace: ‘and. ‘Consttuiceiones — Canada’s Be Five banks 16-report/a éubstalhtial drop. in Aeronaiitice ue first-quarter profit, the result of increased provisions for _ bad. Joana. The ‘fourth-biggest reported earnings of $90.3 million for: the quarter end Jan. 3h, down 12 percent from the same ‘1983 pérlod. ~. Consumers Distributing sald under terms of the project it’ Earlier Tuesday, Bank af wean seh tee por will rovide’ catalogue shoppin; fram, som f: the “een in quarierly pro mitiion

ve 00; feo” . Grown filth-ranked Tordnto- Dotninion Bank dald its earnings: were

cotpotation’s ,000. post offices. “+ virtually unchanged:at $25.4 mill mee on, *-Customens would t be able to atop at the ffice rose: ~ win pr goin developments: . a

throu th Cynsumers’ catalogue ~ currently delivered to — Statistics Canada réported industrial sroductton ew tnost Cémadian households or available at more than 200 hy 18:3 per cont last your a d was by ral a just 2 “ree ‘catalogue showrooms in Canada — and place and pay. for’ “gent below the pre-recession: peak set in June. 198i.. -

om It was announced: that. Maurice le. Clair, presi Canadian. National Rallways ‘since 1862, : will ;doub le: as chairman starting Thursday, filling the void created. when ‘Jack Horner was appointed head.of the new v Grain Tran- Sportation. Ageney, bs based. in ‘Winnipeg. ©

oh Consumers. ; ating Co. ‘Lid: said itis Tauréhing a nail piojéet thal © will enables some Canadians tu mail parcels and buy. stamps: while they shop for everything, from toasters ta teddy, bears, -

to ‘the: ‘poat. oltice: fot Pickup... “As for'Cahdda Post, it: “wold get‘a_fee fay seidlng the orders to. the’ company via: computer and a chance to help the ‘Crown’ corporation balance its‘books, .%... “The sekvice,: ‘expected to-be in operation in the next few “weeks for 4.90-day trial period, will be Available at two post offices iri Toronto, a downtown shopping, centre in- ‘Montreal,. Joliette, Que, and Rouyn, ‘Que., as’ well’ a8, the: ‘Ontatig.

“Letters to

mapa Gotefations, are going. io ‘ask i ‘us why we ep to the Editor, ; : Men ars mitted this to go without some kind of guidelines or rules,” -Tattended a public. meeting on Feb. 24th, suoponety to - ‘Thélawyers had their plates:full of controversy this week — disouss the 'Kemano IL Completion Project”.: : * 4s théy: also passed a resolution urging, the federal.and: But it 'was quite: obvious after the roam filled 1 up.4 and'the Aegal ald’ funding - meeting began, that it should have been ‘called the ‘Do We ware Want ‘a -Sinelter In. Terrace”.

; “>. Butimy main concera is the reporting ‘of the’ ttm ~The Charter -of Rights guarantees everyone the right to. ‘our total ‘one-sided’ radio and news broadcasters. - "shire and, retain a lawyer, but many people’ can only exercise | Listening to their news coverage of the event, it was: ‘very that- ‘right through legal aid, ‘said Naricouver lawyer ‘Les .- obvious that they also ald not understand the original latent Little, ae ; So woe the meeting.

" However, the amount of legal aid funds available in many . :Firstly, the Kemiano. pi | Completion Project --and'a provinces no Joriger’ allows for. -complete coverage of ‘ail smelter for somewhere in the northwest are two diferent those. eligible; he said. —: _,, subjects, The intent of the public meeting was to disciiss A federal-provincial ‘agreement, on: ‘funding ‘the new the pros and cons of golng ahead with the Kemano Com- - Young Offenders Act should also be:in place: before the act. ‘letion Project ~ in order fo bulld two new. amelters, in, the ~~ northw ot, "fhe Skeena:Protecticn Coalition was allowed 0 inildutes to show the public it was not necessary to go ahead with the Kemano Completion. and Alcan was allowed 25 minutes to " promote the project - along with. five other interested parties that were on the agenda who had 5 minutes, to speak on the subject, some of which were noteven acknowledged by .our local radio. hews reporters. ~ Thebig headline coming from the meeting appeared Cs be “Terrace Residents want a Smelter”, but if the news media “hada good look around they would have noticed that a good majority of the audience was not representative of ‘Terrace, but Alean's home ground, Kitimat. ee And doesn’t it seem strange, that out of the 800 or “30 people ‘in attendance at-the meeting, that the only people they could come up with to interview was an ex-mayor and HEARD VIEWS . eM ce _ aiderman, who would endorse anything that came along.so Justice: Minister: “viable MaéGuigan flew, into. Whitehorie’ es _fogas ten anced thelr sear teres in the community. ; . from:the*Alberta Liberal: convention in? Edmontoi to Hear’ “Now; because the news media’ did not even. ‘meatich the the lawyet’s views ol his sweepitig triflial Taw retorfi bill” “intent or the mee Ade ied of your Ht the mee t and @ proposed conslitutional amendnient, : did not listen, and those of you that did not attend, I ‘would The lawyers had flattering.’ ‘words. forthe Jegislation, like to try and explain a only one aspect of what the Kemano which touches on everything irom: entencing. ‘to drunk . Completion Project” is all abdut. 4 ote drivers , Contempt, of court, obscenity ‘and ‘computer crime. The main reason Alcan wants to go shead al compl ‘But they were ‘concémed’ about @ provisions:for “‘seize- Phase I of ue Kemano project is to bn ‘a more powet Bo antd-fréeze"’ orders and plan-to discuss it further at their that there will be sufficient power in € future to ia ‘the -annnal meeting in Winnipeg next ‘August. -" ~ Teast one and maybe two do this, en emeuhere iam The bill would allow police to seize assests they believe a ‘orthweat area. Nov to the Na ‘nike, cutting the flow of t eau t used vr nee a crime or sequired ‘aS 2 water by 62 per cent, resulting in a major loss of _ghinook Upon conviction the courts will have to decide whether to : and coho rearing wall be taken away “einai i Ee oe fe serene he the individual or turn themover to the. cent load of side ‘channela and poole, which are critica ‘+ Justice. Department ‘officials: say, the: provisions : -are rearing arena fo Salat pee a eamen. The “aimed at drug traffickers and organized grime, but Toronto important steelhead river in B.C. - and historically con: "criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan said they're so brondly tributes up to 40 per cent of the total Skeena River chincook “worded they could be used against snyorie, ~ salmon stocks. For the’Nechako River, Alcan is proposing e lawyers also asked MacGuigan and the. provinces to

to extract 40 per cent of the present annual water flow. . © dete a: proposed constitutional amendment dealing. with, ‘Now, because those opposed to the Kemario Completion ~ sprovinclat. administrative tribunals.

pot -project-are talking about siving the fich, there waa'the —

1; They-felt no changes. should be-‘made- cuntil a. Hiorough expected ‘intellect’, that is usually in attendance at fnost - dtudy: has’ been made of related issues, such as court ' ‘ meetings, got up and said, ‘‘the hell with the fish-what about _ the people") and as expected he got the usual whiatles and support from the ill informed in the audience. “This man I _putinthesame slot as the one that sat behind me all during “the meeting. chain-smoking, These types obviously do not give a dam about their fellow man or women, only whiat’s best for them. -

Atone time, no so long ago, the fishing industry’ was one of the major employers in B.C. If the ‘gentleman’ that got up and made this’ statement took.the time to read the " ‘newspapers or listen to the radio(?), then he would be well

“aware that the fishing industry . is in’ very: deep trouble.

There just is not enough [ish in our rivers to go around. Now

“does it make sense to dem: a’ major fish rearing river, put

our fish stocks in jeopardy, and put even mare people out of

work, to create Work for others? - when we who oppose the 7 * Kemane Completion project know that it is not necessary, ~ aid that there are. other alternatives open to Alcan for

“Police | power sources to run their proposed two new.emelters. If - - the audience had taken the time to listen to Alcan, they did - admit, this fact, but that it was .,., much cheaper for Alcan

Be at o to have and own their own’ power source, then buy it from, . + for example, B.C. Hydro, who have excessive power that

“sy they ate now selling to the United States. i ;

‘Unfortunately, all this was lost in the blind attempt of

“moet of the audience to applaud a smelter for Terrace. ‘It must have been quite a shock to ail those’ that were not. -

Interested itt listening tothe intent of the meeting - when the

‘represéritatives for Alcan Bot lip aiid stated ‘that they liad " at thia polfit in tithe, ‘No inténtion of building a amelter in

"Terrace; ‘uF at best; if it'did ‘happen would be at least 10 to 12

years down the roid,” "- In fact, during the evening, they had

“to mentidi'this fact séveral times,

Alcan has stated that they are committed to ‘no net losa” of the fisheries resource, and yet when asked how they “vould go Abgdt thls coniimitment by my husband, Jim Culp, " reeréation: ‘tishery” advoor for the northwest division, ~ department of fisher es hey could riot give him an answer.

There will be public hearings coming up in March and April, to discuss the émano 11, Compietion Project. ‘Hopefully, by that time, thé reporters for the local radio station will do some homework on the subject,.and if they - attend the hearings; hopefully will give full news coverage to-all participants, and wil not be one-sided In. their coverage. -

Infact, all of you oul there who: are endoraing the Kemano - Completion : ‘Project, without really knowing - or’ ut- derstanding the consequences, [ ask you to also do dome ‘research Into what you aré ‘éndoraing,:- and remeniber, Alcaii does have other alternatives for.theiy power supply, - water is the only alternative for fish, -- - vem as clu Shitley Culp

’* Concerned Citizen

“agreertient “without. further. delay." mo “NOT COMPLETE -

Proclamation of the ‘act, passed. almost. iwo years ago, |

_Jections. ao

. The provinces Bay it will cost them million’ of dollars to. bulla new prigons and courts which will be required when” the act Faises the maxiumunt juvenile age to 18:.

Most provinces begin to treat young people in trouble ‘with. ihe law as ‘adults undér the harshér Criminal Code as soon

. The act, now scheduled to'come Into effect April 1, also gives juveniles -the right tobe represented by a lawyer.

The bar association said this will mean a further drainon -- legal aid funds ‘unless the two levels of Bovernment come _ forward with: more magney.. a nn :

of judges.

« MeKercher : announced: the association has’ recelved -Gotside funds to conduct its.own research in this area.

* ‘The association, recognizing the new and weighty: responsibilities: the courts now ‘have to ‘examine laws in - ght of the Charter of Rights, has formed two committes to -study judicial independence and the method of appointing. nih is

efew resolutions that slipped by Tuseday with no doune: “approved : pians to hold ‘next-year’s mid-inter meeting 3 in a more favorable climate _ "Barbados. :

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2: “What. eqlipment ‘must i have on my motors to. make it “street legal"? ; OAD A motorcycle isa “motor véticle" as defined by the * Motor Vehicle Act of British Columbia. This.méans thatit — must .be properly equipped td comply with the ‘British . Colimbla Motar Vehicle Act Regulations, if it is. bo be - _ Operated on a public highway. . a ” MVAR state that a métorcycte must have the: istiowing equipment: 1. a headlight with a high-low beam and in- ‘ dicator; 2. brake lamp; 3: an SAE approved tail light; 4.4 ‘ licence-plate light; 5. a bom and rear view amirror;, 6.

: Adequate . fenders; 7. DOT approved tires, ‘highway. ap- proved, not "knobby"; and 4; front and rear brakes, .- Prand’of course It must be properly Ilcenced and: fnsured, thus bearing a B.C. licencé.plate on the rear. of the’ "motorcyele. ‘These réguldtions are {n effect day and night,

A bf home is broken ditto, what should I do?

We vane you go ta .a nelghbour’ 8 home and ‘contact

- arrive and then you may enter with them. . If. you have any .questions “piéase’ contact: . Crime > Prevention Unit, Terrace RCMP, 8215-1, Eby, Aree,

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