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'I 4 the STAR-PIIOENIX Saskatoon, Monday, December 28, 1970 i Significant year for research at 1 'ti i Saskatoon campus ious contamination. The re searchers have already established that normal home and commercial processing techniques can substantially reduce the level of pesticide residues in some food products. They found that processes like peeling, boiling, and baking potatoes and deodorizing rapeseed oil are effective in removing residues. The use of chemicals to remove phosphates from sewage was being investigated in the civil engineering department. By using checmicais, it was found it should be possible to reduce the phosphates substantially and also remove or-ganic matter much more effectively.

The chemicals to be tested combine with the phosphates to form an Insoluble compound that drops out of solution. One of the objectives Is to find out what happens to the phosphates after removal. Scientists at the Saskatoon campus expressed the belief other, involving fish, is aimed at finding out what happens to mercury within the fishs body, the levels that are toxic, and how the accumulation of mercury is related to the amount in the environment. A third study deals with the levels of mercury in fish-eating birds and mammals of the Saskatchewan River system. Related to this is research into the possibility of using mercury polluted fish as feed for non-edible animals, such as mink.

A collaborative study by the home economics college and the federal agriculture research station in Saskatoon concerns the levels of pesticide residues in soil, water and food. Prof. A. K. Sumner of home economics said the project includes a close look at home gardens.

He said large amounts of pesticides have been used in backyard gardens for a number of years, but no studies have been carried out to see whether they are causing ser found that when high pressure oxygen is breathed, a chemical compound produced in the brain begins to disappear and convulsions begin. The next step is to find out why the compound decreases and then develop an agent that will prevent the convulsions. A number of research projects in the past year centred on pollution. Scientists in the veterinary college mounted a three-pronged attack on problems related to mercury pollution in the Saskatchewan River system. The college began studying mercury poisoning In animals five years ago and extended the investigation to fish last year.

This revealed that fish muscle tissue in some parts of the Saskatchewan River basin contained relatively high levels of mercury. One of the present studies is aimed at determining the nature of brain damage fn animals from organo-mercurial poisoning and the levels of mercury that cause it. An cause of oxygen poisoning. This is a condition that can occur when high pressure oxygen is breathed in underwater diving and in certain kinds of medical treatment. The unit of measurement of the oxygen is called an atmosphere and if the amount breathed reaches three atmospheres the person will go into violent convulsions.

Because of the danger, the British and U.S. Navies limit pure oxygen diving to depths of less than 25 feet. For the same reason, doctors using high pressure oxygen to treat cardiac conditions, certain kinds of cancer, and carbon monoxide poisoning limit the application to two atmospheres. Discovery of the probable cause of oxygen poisoning was made by Dr. J.

D. Wood, head of the biochemistry department at the of and co-workers at defence research medical laboratories in Toronto and more recently at the Saskatoon campus. They Research and development moved significantly toward at the University of Saskatchewan during 1970, with some projects attracting international attention. A computer system for making maps automatically was one of the most Important. A team directed by Prof.

A. R. Boyle of the engineering department developed the system, and federal government engineers are now applying it to the production of hydrographic charts for ocean navigation. The system can, in a matter of hours, produce charts that would take several months to do by hand. The basic information for hydrographic charts is obtained by survey vessels taking soundings from the ocean floor.

The information is fed into a computer, which sets in motion an automatic mapdrawing device. Another development related to the ocean was the discovery of the probable they would amount to adoption of the American system of judicial review, under which the courts can declare legislation unconstitutional because they judge it to violate prescribed rights. In these instances, he said, the courts would be imposing their will, often on policy matters, over the wishes of Parliament or the provincial legislatures, which would no longer be supreme In their respective fields. Another law faculty member, Prof. E.

A. Tollefson, was doing research into the rules of procedure and evidence in criminal cases. One of the objectives is to compare the English and Canadian rules to determine which work better from the standpoint of the accused and of society. Snow, a major ingredient in total water resources, was under study in the hydrology division of the College of Engineering. The study included such problems as the extent to which snow reflects solar radiation and how this affects the melting rate; the accumulation of snow; the melting process; and the reliability of standard precipitation gauges for measuring snow and its equivalent water content.

Prof. Don Gray, chairman of the division, said two of the primary objectives are to predict the rates and volumes of runoff from an area and to determine how much water is going into the ground and is available for crops at the beginning of the growing season. determine, among other things, whether income Is removed as a barrier to service when a medical care plan is introduced and if so to what extent costs increase; and whether utilization fees are a feasible method of controlling costs given the desire to remove income as a barrier. The feasibility of setting up facilities in the Canadian Arctic for the study and treatment of eye disease was being investigated by Prof. F.

H. Silversides, a specialist in health care administration in the College of Commerce. Prof. Silversides said the diet introduced to the North by white people appears to be responsible for much of the eye disease among the native peoples. Eskimo children develop shortsightedness when they are placed in centralized residential schools where their naturally high protein meat diet is replaced by a diet high in carbohydrates.

Law Professor D. A. Schmeiser was given the go-ahead for legal studies related to the North. He is looking into the administration of justice in northern Canada and re-assessing the legal position of Indians and Eskimos in the light of changing government policy. Prof.

Schmeiser was also studying the proposed entrenchment of fundamental rights in the Canadian Constitution. He expressed the view that federal government proposals for entrenchment are a marked departure from past constitutional practice in Canada. In effect, he said, ppK! that' chickens Imported from Egypt may help uncover the cause of inherited epilepsy in people. Their study of a breed, some of which suffer from epilepsy related to a genetic mutation, is the only one of its kind in the world. For the past six years, Prof.

R. D. Crawford of the department of poultry science has been documenting the genetic basis of the epilepsy. Just recently. Dr.

E. C. Crichlow of the department of veterinary physiology undertook research to see whether the genetic abnormality is impairing a biochemical process and thus causing the epileptic seizures. Discovery of the basic mechanism causing the seizures could be important in developing anti-convulsant drugs. The groundwork was laid during the past year for a five-year study of psychological development in adoles' cents.

Between 300 and 400 Grade 8 students are to take part in the study, which is the first anywhere to investigate the development of basic mental functions throughout the adolescent period. Once a year their brain Impulses will be 'recorded. Their modes of perception, thinking and memory will also be checked in a series of specially designed exercises and the results will be related to the analysis of brain impulses. A medical college'1 study involves a variety of problems arising from injuries and diseases affecting joints. One project concerns the transplanting of joint cartilage in experimental animals.

If the transplants can survive in animals, jt may then be possible to apply the method to people whose joints have been destroyed by injury or arthritis. Another project was aimed at determining what happens when a bone is fractured near the joint and how cartilage is repaired after this kind of injury-. Still another concerned spinal fusion, a bone grafting operation often performed in orthopaedic practice when there is a painful or diseased area in the spine. Encouraging results were reported with research in which microwaves are used to identify tumor cells. At present, identification is pro-' vided by microscopic examination of material from surgical biopsies.

But Prof. S. J. Webb, of the bacteriology department, believes that scanning with microwaves might assist in rapid early Identification of tumor material in intact animals. He also believes that in time it might be possible to arrest the growth of malignant cells with microwaves.

Prof. R. G. Beck, of the department of economics and political science, was doing a study of how various income groups make use of doctors services in Saskatchewan and of the impact of utilization fees. The investigation is the first Of its kind involving a public medical insurance plan.

Using Saskatchewan experience, Prof. Beck hopes to SASKATOON tc WHATS ON TONIGHT THEATRES Broadway The Aristocats, 1.00, 3.30, 5.30, 7.30, 9.30. Capitol There Was A Crooked Man," 1.30, 4.05, 6.40, 9.15. Midtown Cinema Lovers and Other Strangers, 1.05, 3.05, 5.10, 7.15, 9.30. Odeon Theres A Girl In My Soup, 1.25, 3.20, 5.30, 7.35 9.45.

Paramount Love Story, 1.15, 3.20, 5.20, 7.25, 9.35. Roxy Hey There. Its Yogi Bear, 1.00;; The Man Called BINGO St. Peter and St. Pauls Parish Hall 7.45.

FRESII SNOW GIVES WEIRD LOOK TO but holiday chinook took care Eskimos look to politics to gain power BOOKS GREATLY REDUCED Shelf-Worn Copies Wide Variety For All Ages Star-Phoenix Photo points to the taxpayers' jnoney spent on northern housing, education, job training, health and communications In the last 15 years. The sum may approach $2 billion; a comparable outlay In the United States would be $20 billion. The department also underscores efforts by it and by the territorial government to encourage home-rule in Indian and Eskimo settlements. By EDWARD COWAN c) New York Timet Service INUVIK, Northwest Territories Western Arctic Eskimos have organized a political movement that is calling into question the dominant role of white Canadians in governing and developing the REDUCED 212 3rd So. 242-3136 Death of delta may be averted c0; premise of Ottawas northern-development policy: that the largely untapped mineral riches of the far North, and the revenue they will produce, belong to all 21 million Canadians, not just the 50,000 inhabitants White, Eskimo, Indian, mixed breed of the two northern territories.

Taking a cue from the native Alaskan people, the organization asserts sweeping, but so far unspecific, claims to land and to anticipated oil revenues. Its leaders are closely watching the bill approved by the United States Senate in July that would give $1 million and 10 million acres to the Alaskans. The president and driving force of the Eskimo organization is a tough, humorous 59-year-old woman, who is half Indian and half white and is the manager of the government-owned retail outlet for native crafts in Inuvik. The secretary is Mrs. Nellie Coumoyea, 31, manager of radio-television station here.

Also half Eskimo and half white, she is a cool, no-frills sort. Another goal of the organization is training and employment in skilled jobs, now mostly held by whites from the rest of Canada, and of the Arctic environment. The latest tactic of the leaders, as expressed in a resolution adopted Nov. 21 at a conference in this western Arctic town, is to insist that there be no construction of an Arctic oil or gas pipeline until ownership and entitlement to the land of the Northwest Territories and Yukon by native people is recognized, and a fair, just and legal settlement is made." A few months ago COPE helped the Eskimos of Banks Island force Ottawa to write Mrs. F.

Waite rites Tuesday Mrs. Florence Waite, 74, of Cedars Villa Nursing Home, died Thursday. On March 20, 1969, sihe was presented with a 50-year scroll by the Saskatoon Diocesan Board of the Womans Auxiliary of the Anglican Church. A resident of the city for the past 30 years. Mrs.

Waite was born In West Hampshire, England and came to Canada in 1909 to Bounty, Married in Bounty in 1912, she farmed with her husband at Ardath until 1940 when she moved to Saskatoon. She is survived by one daughter Mrs. Henry Penner of Saskatoon, one son Kenneth of Saskatoon and one brother, Harry Weldon, also of Saskatoon. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday from St, Johns Cathedral with Park Funeral Chapel In charge of arrangements.

CANADA LETTERING of it special regulations to reduce the risk of environmental damage from seismic tests for oil. The organization, which has only 650 members, hopes to reduce the feeling of alienation that grips many but not all Eskimos. The theory of aboriginal rights to the land and its riches asserted by COPE and by the National Indian has been rejected by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His approach, in dealing with French-Canadian nationalists and with the indig-neous peoples, has been to say, Lets forget about the past because its impossible to disentangle history, and try to build a just society. An associate of Jean Chretien, the minister of Indian affairs and northern development, says that aboriginal rights will be one of the biggest questions of the nineteen seventies, a question the people of Canada will have to give more thought to.

There is no indication that Trudeau wishes to encourage or give direction to such a debate. Chretiens partment T. J. Waters died Friday Funeral service for Saskatoon businessman Thomas John Waters, 75, of 834 6th north, who died Friday, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday from St.

Pauls Cathedral. Bomin Kingston, he came to Saskatchewan in 1920, He operated a confectionary and restaurant in Asquith, then in Colonsay before coming to Saskatoon to operate the Waters Coffee Shop in the Sutherland Hotel for 20 years before retiring In 1965. He Is survived by his wife, Madeleine; one son, William of Swift Current; and two brothers, McKagues Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Life-time resident dies J. Arthur Gendron, 67, of 437 Ave, north, a resident of Saskatoon all his life, died In hospital Saturday.

A graduate of Nutana Collegiate, he joined the Saskatchewan Co-operative Creamery In 1929 and was with the creamery until his retirement in 1970, Mr. Gendron was a member of the priesthood of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints. He is survived by his wife, Florence; one daughter, Mrs. D. Cicansky of Regina; two sisters and one brother.

The funeral service will be held at 3.30 p.m. Tuesday from Park Funeral Chapel. Northwest and Yukon Territories. The organization, barely a year old, calls itself COPE, for Committee for Original Peoples Entitlement. Still financially weak and lacking in technique, it has nevertheless challenged the basic political of them artificial could provide the answer.

B.C. would have to be convinced to release more water through the dam in the spring and to construct a rock-filled weir or dam down-stream near the delta to recreate the natural damming phenomenon that floods the area. But the success of such a plan also depended on nature the natural runoff in tributaries below that dam that feeds water toward the delta. If the volume of water fed toward the delta from spring runoff was low the plan would not work. A federal task force has been set up to study the Bennett Dam-delta problem, with B.C.

and Saskatchewan invited to join. Alberta has already done so. Councillor resigns KINDERSLEY Councillor Andy Baribeau has announced his resignation due to a promotion in employment and nominations for the four-year term will be accepted Monday, Dec. 28. Mr.

Baribeau said he had no indication prior to election that a change in employment would occur. He will take up his new duties with Federated Co-operatives in Saskatoon as director of retail sales development and co-ordination in February. Four face charges Four motorists appeared in magistrates court today charged with impaired driving during the holiday. While four were apprehended, nine other motorists were suspended from driving for a 24 hour period on suspicion of consuming alcohol. During the three-day holiday there were 52 accidents on city streets Involving five minor Injuries.

HOUSE OF COMMONS Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence Hearings on FOREIGN POLICY FOR CANADIANS The House of Commons has referred to the Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence the policy papers entitled Foreign Policy for Canadians recently published by the Government. The Committee is now reviewing the first of these papers which sets out the basic principles which the Government considers should determine Canadas foreign policy. The Committee believes it important that' individuals and organizations should have the opportunity to submit their views on these basic principles to the Committee, and therefore invites written submissions from all those who are interested. Such submissions should be mailed not later than January 30, 1971. If possible, forty copies should be provided in English and ten in French.

The written submissions and all related correspondence and enquiries should be addressed to: EDMONTON (CP) It may be possible to save the Peace-Athabasca Rivers delta from the effects of the W. A. C. Bennett Dam, A1 Davidson, assistant deputy minister for water in the department of fisheries and forestry, said Saturday. Although conclusive data still is required, he said in a telephone interview, it is not beyond comprehension that with nature's help the spring floods that are the deltas lifeline can be recreated artificially and the death of the delta averted.

But the federal, Alberta and British Columbia governments must cooperate. Mr. Davidson said much more study has to be done by federal and provincial specialists but it appears a solution must be found no later than by the spring of 1972 that there must be flooding in the delta by then. Otherwise the changes in the delta's ecology that now were taking place as a result of lack of spring floods would take many years to erase, if they ever could be, he said. Mr.

Davidson said a combination of three factors two Heavy damage at farm Approximately $20,000 damage, including the loss of about 400 pigs, resulted from a fire at the farm of former Saskatoon mayor and commissioner John McAskili Sunday night. Fire department officials said the barn, an adjoining furnace room and an old house were destroyed in the fire on the farm, which is located about 10 miles south of the city on Highway II. The property was covered by insurance. No cause of the fire is known. Nino Travella, Clerk, Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence, House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada.

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