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prompt medical attention Use of the suite carries a surcharge over and above the normal Alberta medicare payments for et ch type of operation, but there have been few grumbles about this. The success of the surgery shop is such that there is already talk about another onr opening in Calgary, while doctors in several other provinces have become intrigued about the possibilities for such clinics in their cities. that before it opened he had a backlog of over 100 patients. Vet he was lucky if he could get an hour at a time in the operating room of Calgary's children's hospital. With the new concept of what Is really a mini-hospital, he finds he can actually operate for several hours straight and look after as many as half a dozen patients in a day.

The surgery suite has four operating theatres and a large, well-equipped recovery MCK HILLS Southam News Services CALGARY Four doctors in this city got so fed up with llu; chronic delays in medical care caused by overcrowded, overworked hospitals that opened their own "surgery shop." The Palliser East Surgical Suite, it is called, is a medical development causing room supervised by nurses. After a patient no longer in need of supervision, he can rest in a post-recovery room until he's ready to go home. The average patient stays at the clinic only three hours and so far people aged from 14 months to 70 years have made use of its very special kind of medical care. It opened last January. By the end of the year, about 1.500 patients are expected to have passed through, taking some quite significant pressure off hospital beds in the large hospitals.

What makes the surgery suite so effective is that it is opsn to any doctor or dental surgeon in the city; not just the four who set it up. An outside doctor uses the facilities through a booking system and then is billed for the time he uses later. The clinic has also shown that people are prepared to pay a little bit more fur and also to housewives who have babysitting problems and can't afford long waits in a hospital for a 20-minute operation. But it is also a great breakthrough for the surgeons themselves because with many of their patients, they no longer have to fight or wait for operating-room time. Dr.

Jack Derbyshire, a dental surgeon who helped finance the surgery shop, said bunion removed, a breast enlarged or several hyper-active wisdom teeth pulled might have to wait months to get into an ordinary hospital. With the surgery shop, the patient can make a quick appointment at his own convenience and be in and out within three or four hours. Jt is a particular boon to businessmen who travel a lot and might not lie in town on the day a bed became available for them in a hospital; waves of interest across the country. It gives people who need minor surgery the opportunity to have the operation almost when they want it; and it also eases the pressure on hospital beds in the city's major medical centres. The surgical suite specializes in some 50 different kinds of minor surgery which simply have no priority at a general hospital.

A patient who wanted a monton 3wtriwl More Canadian teachers urged for universities i FORECAST: SUNNY i it 1 tjT i ill USX' ft.t ra v-' Uv DAN POWERS Of The Journal Alberta universities should make a better effort in hiring Canadian professors and encouraging Canadian courses to counter pervasive American influences, a provincial inquiry has found. This is a central conclusion in the 139-page report of the Moir Committee Inquiry into Non-Canadian Influence in Alberta Post-Secondary Education released today. The inquiry, commissioned in 1971 by the former Social Credit government and guided by Edmonton lawyer Arnold Moir, resulted from an outcry by manv academics over EDMONTON, ALBERTA, It 1- 5- i Or Where lo Art Kvans 19 24 iii Ann Landers Barry VV'estgate Births, Deaths. Marriages Book Reviews Bridge Business, Stocks 12-16. Charles Lynch 30 72 35 B4 4 Classified Ads 31-; 51 Comics.

Features Comment Crossword Puzzle Entertainment 79-Family Section 21 Focus on People Health Column 50 25 27 6it to (lanada foach Harry Simlen presents leam stealer 84 PAGES He reminded reporters that almost no one had ever heard of Spiro Agnew when Richard Nixon made him his Republican running mate four years ago. The Southern governors had wanted Sen. McGovern to choose Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. They used as a parallel, liberal John Kennedy choosing Texan Lyndon Johnson for More DOOM McGotrcni calls jor re-1 to revolutionary ulcals. story on rage 29: F.utileton profile on 5: otlier convention stories Page 27.

Trudeau hopeful Hull will play for Canada ARTHUR BLAKKLY Southam News Services OTTAWA Prime Minister Trudeau said yesterday that lie is still hopeful that perennial all-star Bobby Hull will join other Canadian hockey professionals on the team that plays Russia. Of Hull's reported exclusion from the team because he abandoned the Chicago Black Hawks for the WHL's Winnipeg Jets, the prime minister commented: "Well. I don't think it's a final proposition, that we will be playing without Hull. I am not sure but I understand that negotiations are going on and 1 hope we will manage to 10c 15c with Th Casdaf, and Color Cormr. Battle rages in c.

Belfast 6 dead BELFAST (AP) Gun battles engulfed the Northern Ireland capital early today as the British army shrugged off its politically-imposed "low profile" and launched a major offensive against guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. Shooting raged in all of Belfast's key Roman Catholic citadels after three battalions of troops invaded the IRA "no-go" district of Andersons-town to quell gunmen who had pumped intensive fire at an army command post for four days. One soldier died in the Lenadoon Avenue skirmishes and two other troopers and three civilians died elsewhere during the night of violence. The army reported four soldiers wounded in the gun battles, none of them seriously, end insert The invasion of the Suffolk area of Andersonstown was carried out on the express orders of Britain's Northern Ireland administrator, William Whitelaw. army headquarters said.

It marked a significant reversalat least temporarily of Whitelaw's policy of reducing military activity in an effort to wean grassroots Catholic support from the IRA. Whitelaw told a Conservative party meeting in London Thursday night he would "soldier on" with conciliation, but added if gunmen were ferocious "we will retaliate with the same ferocity." That retaliation came at 11:15 p.m. Thursday. A sandbagged army fortification in Lenadoon Avenue, the flash-point which brought the end Sunday night of the IRA's 13-day ceasefire and scene of continual violence since had been under heavy IRA attack with guns and bombs for five hours. At ore stage, a rocket launcher was fired at the post, but the missile missed and hit a neighboring house.

About 30 soldiers inside held out grimly until columns of reinforcements moved up in armored personnel carriers, if ore IRISH Page field's status has improved since then, said per cent and 37 cent feel it is nn changed. On the other hand. 55 per cent felt Prime Minister Tru-deau's status has worsened. Some 60 per cent thr Liberal party status has worsened, while 4i per cent felt the Tory stock has improvpd. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1972 Trudeau find il Horoscope Keith Ashwell June Sheppard 33 74 21 4 70 71 2-fi7 75-711 fi Letters to The Journal Music News Digest Patterns Sport TV.

Kadio Wayne Overland Mainly sunny today Saturda'v with highs and both 50-55. days near 75. Lows Details on Page 2. ictcd e( REYKJAVIK (CP) An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's protest against his" loss of Thursday's second world championship chess game by forfeit. The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Sehmid to award the game to Boris Spassky of Russia lecause Fischer failed to appear.

Andrew Davis. Fischer's lawyer who arrived this morning from New York, was in the ante-room when assist- referee Gudmundcr Arn- laugsson of Iceland announced the forfeit would be maintained. Asked if his client would play the next scheduled game on Sunday. Davis replied: "I can't comment on that." Fischer is demanding that game he forfeited inurs-night. when he failed to up within an hour of the be replayed on Sunday the third game is sched-Fischer's failure to ap-set a precedent in world championship history and left him trailing 0-2 in the 24-game series.

The 29-year-old challenger boycotted the second game because of a wrangle over the positioning of television cameras around the stage. Thirty-five minutes after his clock was set in motion for him. the More FISCHER Page be by Canadian business, and only 5 per cent felt foreign interests should be involved. A 57 per cent majority felt Alberta's surplus natural gas should le sold to the biglK-st bidder, and oidy 33 per cent felt il should be reserved for eventual use by Ontario and Quebec. A total of K7 per cent pre Fischer's forfeiture 115 1 have Bobby Hull in the lineup." But the prime minister's impressions were not at all the same as those of Health and Welfare Minister John Munro, Ottawa's closest approach to a minister of sports, or of Doug Fisher, the former CCF-NDP parliamentarian for Port Arthur, who is now chairman of Hockey Canada.

Neither shared Mr. Tru-deau's optimism that the Hull affair would be straightened out in plenty of time for Hull to join the Canadian team for the eight-game scries with Russia. All of the comments were made here following a series of meetings arranged before the Hull affair hit the headlines at which the new controversy soared into the political stratosphere. Hockey Canada executives like Doug Fisher, Alan Eagle-son. Harry Sinden and Lou Lefaive had separate meetings with the prime minister, with Health Minister Munro and with officials of the department of external affairs.

Fisher indicated, in the prime minister's presence, that the Hull question would lie reopened only if the NHL took the initiative. He pointed out that Hockey Canada had an agreement with the NHL. "If the NHL undertook to reopen it and if we could More PM Page (tlicr reXrts, pictures on Page 62 Some 79 per cent felt the million spent by Ottawa on bilingualism programs was not worthwhile, while 50 per cent and 63 per cent respectively looked favorably on the $50 million Opportunities for Youth spending and $150 million I.oeal Initiative Program spending. Four tenths of those reply A Southerner votes for Archie Bunker MIAMI BEACH. Fla.

(AP) Archie Bunker got a vote for vice-president at the Democratic national convention early today. It came from a South Carolina delegate. Archie Bunker is the television character portrayed by Carroll O'Connor in the television program All in the Family. V-P nomination fails lo end aura of doom foreign influences in the province's universities. Although sharply rejecting the idea that American influence "has ways been bad." the seven man commission says it was "impressed by the large numbers of non-Canadian citizens" to be found at the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Le'hbridge.

Forty per cent of the academic staff at the of A is non-Canadian, 55 per cent at the of and 43 per cent at Lethbridge. In the public colleges, between 7.7 and 27 per cent are non-Canadians, the commission found. But the problem is one to be handled essentially by the universities, not government. "We are interested in encouraging Canadians, not discouraging non-Canadians." the report says. The commissioners refuse to support the imposition of quotas on appointments of non-Canadian staff, tosses aside the suggestion of non-university watchdog committees to screen appointments, and describes the idea of granting tenure only to Canadian citizens as completely unworkable.

The other commission members were: Richard E. Baird and Howard A. Leeson of Edmonton: John M. Pierce and Frank MacKinnon of Calgary. Lome Dick of Medicine Hat and Elizabeth Pedersen of Standard.

Competence, their report says, must be the main consideration in university recruitment. However. Canadian applicants should receive priority in fields where a high Canadian content is present. In fields, where the competence of Canadians matches other applicants, it is not unreasonable that Canadians be given preference. This may already be common in hiring policies but it should become practice, it says.

And in appointments to junior positions where no experience is required, preference should be granted to the Canadian even if he is only the range of competence" of the non-Canadian. Advanced Education Minister Jim Foster said he "whole heartedly" supports these recruiting recommendations and for the time being will limit his comment to that endorsement. of A President Dr. Max More REPORT Pag Report satis it would be a mark of iiigratitii'ie aiid bad manners for Canadians to make foreign-horn professors to feci unwelcome, story on Page 71. ferred a return of capital punishment for murder, and only 14 per cent supported complete abolition.

The RCMP sign issue is still around: 79 per cent rejected the Liberal government's move in replacing RCMP with the word police. At the same time, 62 per cent rejected the solicitor-general's idea of an fl M. Put on a suimv smile ikend tor weeKe Cnbe.ievable. The weatherman today predicted for the first time in six weekends a Saturday and Sunday bathed in sunshine. Saturday icoks like being a bit windy, with sunny skies and temperatures 70-75, he reports.

Sunday should be "pretty well the ith temperatures about five degrees warmer. The weekend it goes according to prediction break a string of that began June 10-11. But if you're camping in the Foothills areas, 'vatch tor winds gusting to 10 miles per hour. The bad streak of wet weekends has been due to the normal rhythmic pattern of co low fronts just catching us at week's end. the st reports.

Pensioner dies after heating CALGARY (CP) An elderly pensioner who was beaten in his downtown apartment July 8 died today. Thomas Bucklage a found on the floor of his suite by two acquaintances. Police said a man has been arrested in the slaying but no charges have been laid. independent secret security police force. Support was given (68 per cent) for the suggestion of compulsory wage and price controls.

The Conservative par t'y 's political stock has risen since I3. say the voters in the northeastern Alberta riding. Tnrv leader Robert Stan- the day turn protest rej 'J) Sparky ing felt the OFY and LIP programs should be continued, and 16 per cent and 27 per cent respectively felt they shoidd even be increased. Some 51 per cent rejected the Village Lake Louise idea for Banff National Park, one third said any development should be undertaken by government, a third felt it should i 9 1 I I tf i I ni fit I rti I 1 iff when uled. nwar Itv KAIUIUIIARSON Southam News Services MIAMI BEACH George McGovern's surprise choice of Missouri Sen.

Thomas Eagle-ton as his vice-presidential running mate has done little to quiet the criticisms of those Democrats who fear disaster in the November election. Sen. Eagleton is a moderate liberal cut very much in the McGovern intellectual and philosophical mould. At 42, he is also eight years younger, comes from the moderate sized city of St. Louis, is a Roman Catholic, and was a Muskie supporter.

He savs his relations with labor leaders of the AFL-CIO are good. These factors separate him from the man who heads the ticket. But they scarcely complement the McGovern qualities enough to strengthen the ticket very much in areas where the presidential nominee could be in trouble. So said virtually ev ery Southern delegate and a good many in other states on the convention floor Thurs-dav night. Sen.

Eagleton. who said he was "flabbergasted" by the call he received from Mr. McGovern after returning to Washington Thursday, admits with disarming candor: "I realize I'm not exactly a household word. Spiro who?" Athabasca poll rejects bilingualism programs Only 15 per cent of 2.000 people surveyed in the federal Athabasca constituency think the government should continue its bilingualism programs. And not one of these surveyed by the riding's Conservative MP, Dr.

Paul Yew-chuk. feels the programs should be increased..

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