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The Ottawa Citizen Fit, Dec. 5, 1869 Page 3 Quicfc city surrey Top paid constable $8,560 No major misuse of cold remedy L- ft V' ffltiirtiiiimBi)imw; "'V ''H ym'mifii'jii'inhwm' prone to seek chemical kicks. "There's no demand for it at all." And as far as the alcohol content went, it was not at all unusual. For years, lumberjacks have warmed their stomachs in the morning with a quarter or half a bottle of cough syrup. Another suburban drugstore confirmed that there was no unusual demand for Nyquil.

Pharmacies in two large, suburban department stores said Nyquil was "a very successful product," thanks partly to an introductory offer of one-ounce bottles for a cent when Nyquil went on the market a couple of lii tip! i' i. IP wk 2: hi months ago. 'That's a joke' "That theory's strictly for the birds," said one pharmacist. "That's a joke." Dextromethorphan and ephedrine had been in such medicines for i The pay award to city police announced today raises the salary of a first class constable to $8,560.90 from $7,255. The second-year cadet's salary, formerly $4,137, will now be $4,881.66 and probationary constables, (mandatory for the first six months of empoly-ment) goes to $5,936, from $5,031.

Lieutenants' salaries, $9,207 under the old contract, go to $10,864 and inspectors' pay increases to $11,766 from $9,972. Overtime Pay Police will now receive time-and-a-half for overtime work. Previously they had the choice between straight time and the equivalent time off. The city has agreed to pay two-thirds of premium costs up to $15,000 life insurance. The city had previously paid 50 per cent of the first $2,000, leaving the balance for the employee to pay.

The city's share of the health and hospital premiums will also be raised to 66 23 from 50 per cent. The new contract allows for leave of absence for a policeman to act as executive officer for the police association. The salary of the full-time executive will be borne by the association. More Vacation The policemen were also granted four weeks vacation after 15 years. It had previously been three weeks after the same period.

After that there is a progressive addition of one day until the 20th year on the force when the vacation entitlement becomes five weeks. years. "These things get to be a political football." Most pharmacists said sensational alarms bv people like Dr. Shulman. Carleton okays Arts Tower multiplied by news media, created an abuse which otherwise could more easily be controlled by the Ontario College of Pharmacists with a quiet warning to drugstores.

One noted, however, that the per By Burt Heward Citizen staff writer A survey of 10 pharmacies and two drug-distributing companies today revealed little evidence that teenagers and hippie types were buying large quantities of Nyquil, the sleep-inducing cold remedy, in Ottawa. Dr. Morton Shulman, a Toronto MLA, had warned its effects "lie somewhere between alcohol and taking 'speed because it contains 25 per cent alcohol and the drugs dextromethorphan and ephedrine. As a result, Ontario drug stores have been urged to remove Nyquil from shelves until government authorities decide how its sale should be controlled. "The unusual thing is the 25 per cent alcohol might not be out of line for a the Ottawa Pharmacists Association.

Otherwise, Nyquil contained ingredients common to all the good cough medicines, said Mr. Forhan. And the alcghol might not be out of line for a medicine promoted mainly as a sleep inducer for cold sufferers. Mr. Forhan noted that whisky contains 30-34 per cent alcohol, not much more than Nyquil.

As a result, restriction of Nyquil sales to adults likely would be the outcome of government deliberations. Others similar Mr. Forhan rejected Dr. Shulman's statement that Nyquil was being bought for kicks as it was no more attractive than many other similar products. David Hannah, branch manager of Drug Trading Company Limited, said "good initial distribution" of Nyquil resulted from national advertising and the good reputation of the drug manufacturer, not from any unusual kicks from dextromethorphan and ephedrine.

Both were common ingredients in cough medicines. A smaller distributor said Nyquil "hasn't gone over that big." One downtown pharmacy, however, said sales of Nyquil had been "very, very unusual: It should be off the god-dsm market; people picking it up who shouldn't be drinking it at all." Sales triple Sales were triple what they would be ordinarily, said the pharmacist. He felt it was the combination of alcohol and other drugs which gave Nyquil its extra appeal. "There's hundreds of those out on. the market," said a druggist in a middle-class suburb, the type of neighborhood in which students are more Excavation work begins next week on the site of Carleion's 22-storey Arts tower.

The university's board of governors approved the move this week with a view to a September 1971 completion date for the $5,000,000 building. The building, to house the Arts faculty and mathematics department, will have an open ground level in an effort not to restrict the view of the nearby Rideau The board of governors also decided to open its meetings to the public on a trial basis from December to March of next year. The decision was reached after tabling of a report by the board's committee on procedure that recommended opening the second and non-confidential portion of the meetings. The committee reported following a submission from the Students Council requesting the open centage of alcohol in Nyquil might have some significance as hippies had i 1. 1 Provincial ivage parity sought iciiueu iu uriiin aiuumu whu inner medicines containing dextromethorphan and similar "non-narcotic narcotics." Needless publicity would result in lOlt young persons using Nyquil for kicks for every one previously using it, said a pharmacist who "took it off the shelf" as soon as he heard it hit the news in the Ontario Legislature.

More dangerous than the 'speed'-type drugs, he suggested, was the antihistamine ingredient which combined with the alcohol, "increases the effect of either drowsiness or Clerks strike 10 Steinberg shops Ten Steinberg's Ltd. stores in Ottawa, Vanier, Petawawa and Cornwall were struck at midnight last night by the Retail Clerks International Association in a dispute over wages. Negotiations had been held since last June and finally broke down at a last ditch meeting here Thursday night. Link road is closed The short street connecting Nicho The company also stated its offer exceeded the government's anti-inflationary wage guidelines. Stores locked The strike severely cut back shopping at the Ottawa Steinberg stores today.

Some stores locked their doors and only admitted shoppers who knocked on the door. The union claimed the top salary for a clerk in eastern Ontario was $88 a week while it was $113 in Toronto and other parts of the province. The union also said that other supermarket chains under contract here paid salaries comparable to those paid Steinberg employees in the Toronto area. Middle sales facing las Street and Colonel By Drive south of the Mackenzie King Bridge has been closed to allow construction of the new National Defence headquarters building. Traffic will be detoured on a new road opened just north of the bridge, opposite the provincial court buildings on Nicholas.

The dispute was reviewed by a. conciliation officer Nov. 14 and the union was in a legal strike position at 12.01 a.m. today. The union claims there are close to 800 clerks, cashiers, meat handlers and maintenance personnel participating in the strike but the company said the figure is closer to 600.

Loading refused Eight stores in Ottawa and Vanier were hit by the strike and warehousemen in Montreal refused to load trucks bound for Ottawa stores after the strike started. The union wants a weekly pay raise of $20 to $28 according to classification, for its eastern Ontario members in a one-year contract. This would bring them up to the scale paid Steinberg employees under contract with the same union in other parts of the province. During Thursday night's bargaining session the company repeated its last offer of 14.5 per cent over two years. It says the union demand amounts to 24 per cent.

"To exceed our present offer would be irresponsible we would seriously jeopardize our competitive position," a company statement said. higher taxes Tory whip seeks MP pay study By Norman Campbell Citizen staff writer The Progressive Conservative whip in the Commons, Tom Bell, today advocated the appointment of a commission to look into the question of a pay rise for-MPs. Mr. Bell said he had no settled conviction whether or not there should be an increase in either the $12,000 indemnity or the $6,000 expenses. He acknowledged, however, that there have been stirrings among members of all parties since Ontario MLAs were brought to parity with the federal members.

A commission could consider the subject in a far more detached way than could the MPs themselves, says Mr. Bell. "I would think the government might seek the services of some prominent businessman I would suggest J. V. Clyne of Vancouverto head a study," says Mr.

Bell. "A commission of two or three could probably have a report ready in two or three months." (TIT ever TORONTO (CP) Increased sales taxes and higher taxes on middle incomes is predicted by Ontario Revenue Minister John White in an paper prepared for a provincial Conservative convention. Mr. White said there is unlikely to be a guaranteed annual income by the early 1970s. Some of the regressive taxes on property and hospital insurance will be made more equitable, or dispensed with entirely, and their influence reduced through a system of income-tax credits.

There probably will be increased use of multiple rates of retail sales tax, established on new definitions of luxuries, and the sales tax will have been extended to a wide range of services. A guaranteed annual income as a replacement for a "hodge-podge" of social welfare transfer programs will ultimately come, but "I rather doubt that we shall have such a program in the early 1970s." Gun-toting youths rob Ottawa woman Ottawa police are looking for three youths who held a young woman at gunpoint at her 217 Sandford home and escaped with a small quantity of money shortly before noon. Mrs. Irene Powers was confronted by the youths who entered through a rear door and escaped in the 1960 Chevrolet described by police as in "beat-up condition." In the past Brights fine Canadian wines had no snob appeal. The self-styled neighbourhood "wine expert" would gush over a wine with an imported label, automatically sneer at any wine with a Canadian label.

Lately an interesting new phenomenon has arisen: reverse snobbery. The same "wine expert" has suddenly discovered Brights fine Canadian Weather: Sunny, cool wines He will tell you now, readily, that "there is something to be said for them" They may be "pretentious" but they're "very Welcome to the Club! Minimum and maximum temperatures to 7 a.m.: Ottawa IS 76 Dawson 10 15 Edmonton 38 38 Calgary 21 45 Reglna 22 35 Winnipeg 23 27 S. S. Marie 9 Toronto 20 29 Montreal 20 26 Quebec 12 20 Frederlcton 12 33 Saint John 23 35 St. John's 46 44 Minneapolis 18 30 Chicago 23 37 Boston it New York 28 32 Washlngon 28 38 Tampa 37 Miami 51 72 St.

Louis 21 38 Tucson 42 53 if. $15,000 log house destroyed in fire Fire early today destroyed a $15,000 log house in Aylmer while the owner was away. Gordon J. (Jo) Pearson, 57, who lived alone in the 22 Forest St. structure, was staying with friends in Ottawa when the blaze broke out Shortly after 4 a.m.

Aylrher-Lucerne police received a report from a passerby of a fire in the Forest Street area. Twenty-two firefighters, led by Chief Roland Guertin of the Aylmer-Lucerne department, fought the fire for more than two hours. Police are investigating the cause of the fire, believed to have started in a bedroom. 1 A "cellar" with a newly-developed snob appeal: President Champagne Canada's prize Champagne President Burgundy A great dry red table wine President Sautcrne A delicate light white wine President Sherry Ideal before lunch or dinner PS Jlv' WK President Extra Dry A dry white wine of quality President Port A distinguished dessert wine, 11 MA I arm it lew For "people who have A gift of a President wine "cellar" will open their eyes to what they may have been missing. City 15 and 25, Sherbrooke, La Tuque, Chicoutimi and Ste.

Agathe 10 and 20. Toronto, Hamilton, Lake Erie, Niagara, Lake Ontario regions: Sunny with a few cloudy intervals today. Saturday mostly cloudy and mlder. Winds northerly 15 today, light on Saturday. Ottawa shies: Sunset today is at 4.21 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow is at 7.28 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow is at 4.14 a.m. New Moon Dec. 9 Prominent Star: Aldebaran in the east at 6.46 p.m. Visible Planets: Saturn high in southeast at 7.13 Mars sets at 9.36 p.m.; Jupiter above the moon and Venus rises at 6.31 a.m.

Noon readings: Citizen thermometer, 17 degrees. Relative humidity, 68 per cent Barometer, 30.13 inches, rising. Synopsis: A large high pressure area covering the Great Lakes is slowly building eastward. This will result in generally sunny weather for the next couple of days with temperatures near or slightly below normal Forecast: Sunny with a few cloudy periods today and Saturday with little change in temperature. Winds northwest 15 today, light tonight and Satur-day.

Low tonight and high Saturday at Ottawa 10 and 30. Montreal regions: Clear with a few cloudy periods today; little change in temperature; winds northwesterly 15; low overnight and high today at Montreal 15 and 25. Quebec City, Eastern Townships, Laurentian, St. Maurice and Lac St. Jean regions: Cloudy with clear periods today; a few light snowflurries over higher terrain; little change in temperature; winds westerly 15; low overnight and high today at Quebec "Second class mail registration No.

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