Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • 3

TREAT TIIE FAMILY TO Arthur Roses HOUSEHOLD LINEN LAUNDRY SERVICE makes washday easier htAur'Rose Phone 632-3344 tcWNESe) DELIVERY FREE DELIVERY Lome Ave. Chop Suey ISIS Lome Ave. Phone 633-3282 or 632-8782 FRIDAY, JANUARY 17,1975 1 St Blood pressure screening program set for February scheme it will be launched in other parts of the province. Both Mr. Cunningham and Dr.

Wilson said they would like to sample as many persons in the province as possible. The project has been over a year in the making, Mr. Cunningham said, as part of the foundations efforts to bring it closer to the people who fund it through voluntary dollars. Volunteers will be needed, he said, to helptake persons vital statistics and measure their blood pressure. It will also be similar to screening programs done in Edmonton, and one which is to start soon in Winnipeg.

ing high blood pressure it prolongs life and reduces the incidence of stroke, heart failure and kidney disease, Dr. Wilson said. A person's blood pressure, the force of the blood exerting pressure on arterial walls, varies with time and with seasons and other factors. High blood pressure is caused when certain microscopic ar teries clamp down restricting blood flow all over the body raising the blood pressure. Dr.

Wilson said a co-ordinator is being hired to help run the program. Mr. Cunningharp said when the initial project gets under way in Saskatoon, and the problems are worked out of the SPC, workers likely to meet this week i. 4 4 The bargaining team of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEW Local 2067, will likely meet with the Saskatchewan Power Corporation (SPC) before the end of this week with hopes of resuming contract talks Alf Hill, local president of the IBEW, said Thursday. Negotiators for both sides are working under a six-week deadline to bargain for an end to the dispute before a government- appointed arbitrator hands down his final report.

Mr. Hill said the SPC contacted him today to set up a meeting to discuss the back-to-work legislation which became law late Wednesday. A date for the meet X'' ft 1 -7- 'V' yy 4k, J-i and downs Compulsory arbitration favored by delegates Skiing has its ups This youngster, making a day of it actually it's down right easy, but at Blackstrap; finds skiing a bit tough, it isnt so hard getting down, getting up again thats another story. REGINA (CP) Delegates to the Western Agriclutural Conference reached consenus Thursday on what they saw as the need for compulsory arbitration to stop strikes and for international pricing agreements to encourage grain production. But they had trouble putting the grain consenus into a precise policy statement and referred the subject to the executive for rewording and later submission to the two-day meetjng.

On the labor issue, the 40 representatives of western agricultural groups reached virtual unanimity that Canadian governments must set up machinery offering an effective means of settling disputes in those instances when private negotiations break down and work stoppage is imminent. They did not restrict the reference to labor disputes to ones where the public interest would be severely affected. The only opposition to the compulsory arbitration approach came from Carl Wells of the Saskatchewan Federation of Ag I United Way falls short of objective 5 Htaw fc S-P Photo by Peter Wilton tute of Applied Arts and Sciences. (KIAAS) and the University of Saskatchewan. Returns from the general business section total $62,031 or 105.6 per cent, while proceeds from new businesses amount to $17,363.

The residential area showed good returns, with a total of $59,178 collected. Tjiis represents 102.93 per cent of the objective in this division. Government and municipal services and the professional division yielded $62,121 and $65,840 respectively, and donations in the miscellaneous section total $1,565. The campaign, which officially began Sept. 26, was to have been completed Oct.

30. However, slowceturns forced campaign officials to extend the deadline on two occasions. Only 42 per cent of the objective had been collected by the end of October and the deadline was pushed to Nov. 15. It Was further extended when only $80,881 was added to United Way coffers in the two-week period.

Officials were still waiting for returns at the beginning of December and, as a result, More than 10,000 Saskatonians are expected to take part in the first stage of a province-wide high blood pressure screening program sponsored by the Saskatchewan Heart Foundation. David Cunningham, executive director of the foundation, said in an interview Thursday, the planned starting date has been set for mid-February. Dr. T. W.

Wilson, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, and medical advisor to the study, said in the same interview, What we are basically doing is we are trying to identify those people at risk with cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) disease by measuring their blood pressure." When the program starts teams of volunteers will set up mobile screening sta: tions in shopping centres and other public places in the city where people can voluntarily have their blood pressure taken. Dr. Wilson said, when a person is found with blood pressure higher than normal, it will be up to that person's family doctor to determine if the blood pressure is dangerous for that person. At the present time, Dr. Wilson said, the Saskatchewan Medical Association and the Saskatoon and District Medical Society back the experiment, the first for the province.

Mr. Cunningham said some of the operating procedure will not be known until the field work has begun. He said it is expected the testing at the screening centre will take about five minutes of a persons time. The length of time the survey takes will depend on the response of the public. It is being hoped that young children, adults and elderly persons will have their blood pressure taken, he said.

Initial cost of the program has been set at $25,000. There is no question that cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of Canadians, Dr. Wilson said. And high blood pressure is the leading risk factor which predisposes a person to cardiovascular disease. Generally persons do not know they have high blood pressure.

It is estimated that 10 to 15 per cent of the population have high blood pressure and half of those persons do not know they have it, he said. When found, the disease can be treated effectively and relatively inexpensively, and there is excellent evidence in treat- they announced the campaign would continue indefinitely. Mr. Ryan said, while returns were slow, canvassers collected about $11,000 more this year than during previous campaigns. We are pleased we collected the amount we did, Mr.

Ryan said. It does knock some of the critics' who said we would do so The 1974 campaign committee will hold its final meeting sometime this month and it is expected a new campaign chairman will be appointed in February. Due to the fact the objective was not met, the allocations committee must also meet to decide where cutbacks to United Way agencies will be made. I dont know how they will.approach it but there will have to be reductions in some areas, Mr. Ryan said.

"Because we failed to reach our our agencies will not receive the amounts they requested. Twenty-seven agencies in Saskatoon receive funds from the United Way each year to help meet operating costs. In the past, he said, many dog owners have vehemently opposed the implementation of the bylaw which allows authorities to shoot and destroy stray dogs. It is a terrible thing for a three-year-old boy to be torn literally to pieces, limb from limb, the mayor said. There was a trail of blood right down the street.

La Ronge has had four or five dog-catchers since the passage of the bylaw, but they have quit their jobs under pressure from some citizens who have called them dog-killers, Mayor Houghton said. He said Thursday's incident will ensure the bylaw will now have citizens support. Under the bylaw all dogs in the street must be restrained by a leash. An RCMP spokesman said packs of stray dogs are a problem throughout most of the north's The spokesman said the aggressive behavior of the pack which killed the boy may have been provoked by a bitch in heat. There is a $25 licencing fee for all unspayed bitches in La Ronge, but Mayor Houghton said no unspayed bitches have been registered with the village in recent years.

The dead boys father, Dr, McNeil, is the medical and health officer for the department of northern Saskatchewan! DNS). By Rosemary Williams of the Star-Phoenix The United Way has fallen short of its 1974 (campaign objective. It has failed to reach its goal of $555,555 and has concluded a prolonged campaign with a total of $514,570.77 collected. Campaign chairman Bill Ryan released the official figures Thursday, noting the total amount represents 92.62 per cent of the target. The payroll division garnered the major Oil tax protested ing has yet to be sett but Mr.

Hill Shid it would be very soon. About 1,200 striking IBEW members returned to work Tuesday, anticipating the passage of legislation which included the threat of fines for non-compliance. The legislature was recalled for a special sitting Tuesday to introduce the legislation in reponse to the strike by electrical workers which began Saturday. The legislation appoints District Court Judge Benjamin Moore of Swift Current to settle outstanding contract differences with binding arbitration if an agreement has not been negotiated before his report is filed. riculture, who said he was concerned the; conference might be making a recommendation that has no chance of acceptance in vie of the strength of the labor movement.

He said he suspects that under such a system labor would feel the cards are loaded against them. He suggested the conference hold discussing with labor groups on the issue. Albin Pearce, the first representative of" the British Columbia Federation of Agriculture to attend one of the annual meetings for about a decade, suggested that greater use of profit-sharing plans could also reduce strikes. But Dobson Lea, president of Alberta's Unifarm, said we have found that in Japan that arrangement hasnt worked very well. In an Interview later, Mr.

Pearce, grains chairman for the federation and a Peace River district farmer, said he did not know the background to the federation's decision to send him to the conference, the lack of activity in the oil industry has reduced most service companies in the province to foremen and supervisory personnel. He blames the problems of the oil industry on Bill 42, the provincial government's oil and gas legislation which was introduced when oil prices rose dramatically more than a year, and the combined effects of the federal government's legislation which does not allow ed companies to deduct provincial royalties when calculating their federal income tax. He had a dismal outlook for the service industry in the province in the future unless changes are made in legislation. He said he could move his company to Alberta, but added not all companies could make this move because Alberta could not absorb them all. Mineral Resources Minister Elwood Cowley said following the meeting some companies in the service industry obviously were experiencing financial difficulties, but said the circumstances varied considerably between companies.

He said the representatives feel they are the odd man out in the federal-provincial government dispute over resource taxation. He repeated his earlier announcements of assistance to the oil industry amounting to about $20 million and said additional help will be announced shortly. A decision on whether to extend the assistance program to the service industry will be made "as quickly as possible, but the government must first determine whether it has been of any benefit to the industry and how high the demand for the program is within the industry, said Mr. Cowley. He described todays meeting as a good discussion between the two sides, and said the companies had achieved their objective of presenting the industrys case to the government.

Labby La Berge, past chairman of the Canadian Petroleum Association (CPA), said Wednesday the shutdown in the oil industry in southern Saskatchewan would be only the beginning of the end for the Industry in the province. As a result of the government legislation, the oil service and supply Industry is unable to function to its full capacity, he said. Dick Spicer, general manager of the CPA in Regina, said today the oil industry cannot use the service companies as much as in the past because we don't have the money. Suspect sought in child abduction La Ronge child killed by dogs ity of proceeds, with a total of $169,321 or 92.14 per. cent of the objective set for that area.

Under the United Way payroll deduction plan, employees agree to have a nominal amount deducted from their regular pay cheques. Figures representing the amounts received in other areas show the education division with 90.95 of its objective collected, or $77,147. Donations here came from public and separate schools, as well as Kelsey Insti- older model car drove up, and a man endeavored to induce all three children into the car. He finally forced the nine-year-old girl into the car. Deputy chief Fraser said it is still vague what happened to her between that time, and the time she was picked up in the area adjacent to the exhibition grounds by a person driving a half-ton green truck.

He said the person who picked her up apparently dropped her off at her home, but did not report to her parents. Deputy chief Fraser said the man is requested to report to police with any information he has about the incident. Deputy chief Fraser said' the girl claimed to have taken an object from the abductors car which could lead to his identification, However, she apparently lost the object between.the time she was put out of the abductor's car and the time she was picked up in the truck. Deputy cfiief Fraser said "a bruise on the girl head may have been caused when she fell or lost consciousness after she was released by her abductor. Police are searching the area in an attempt to locate the exact spot where she was dropped off, and to locate the object she took from the car, Police sAid the girl's description of the abductor is vague; but more details may be available when she recovers from shock.

The man is described as being in his 20's or 30's tall and thin. The car may' have been cream-coloured. Police ask all parents to ensure that young children are accompanied at all times by an adult. The girl was released from hospital about 3 a.m. today following medical examination.

Mure local news Pages 4, 20 REGINA (Staff) Oil service industry trucks blocked the road to the Saskatchewan legislature building today as an estimated industry workers milled through legislature halls in a protest over government taxation of the oil industry. However, at a press conference following a meeting between service industry representatives and cabinet ministers, the president of the Southeast Saskatch- ewan Oil Field Service and Supply Or- ganization, Fred Priestly-Wright, Said he received no assurances from the government that changes would be made. The Workers, representing more than 100 service companies according to Mr. Priestly-Wright, carried signs stating, Let's produce our oil wells throw away Bill 42, Oil feeds our families and pays our taxes, Government tax hogs. Mr.

Priestly-Wright said he learned from the meeting the government still appears to consider the current impasse on resource taxation to be a political situation, and there will be no fast action taken by the provincial government. He said the services of his company to the oil industry have been withdrawn as of today, and added he expected a number of the other service companies at the protest to take similar action. The industry spokesmen said this action by the service companies, if continued, will eventually shut down the oil industry in southern Saskatchewan, which he said represents about 80 per cent of the province's production. He said he is disappointed with the government's reaction to today's demonstration. "I personally felt xthey were not aware that we can shut down (oil) production.

They seem to think it a big game on our part. The protestors also came to find out if the governments disruptive circumstances assistance program to the service industry would be continued. Mr said he was told by Mineral Resources Minister Elwood Cowley today no quick decision can be made on whether the program will be extended into this year, since the government has had no time to assess its effects. The government will have to review the financial statements of all the service com- panies before making a decision, he said. Mr.

Priestly-Wright has said previously Police are searching for a male suspect who abducted a nine-year-old girl Wednesday night. Police said the girl returned home in a dazed condition about 1 hours after her abduction, and subsequent medical examination showed she had not been sexually assaulted, but had a red mark on her throat. Deputy police chief Hugh Fraser gave the following account of what police believe occurred. At approximately 9 p.m., the girl was returning home from functions at her school, accompanied by an eight-year-old brother and six-year-old sister. An Stray dogs pose problem Only three communities in northern Sas-katehewan, La Ronge, Creighton and Uranium City, currently have bylaws governing dog control.

But in recent months, problems with stray dogs have become serious items of discussion in several other northern communities, including Ile-a-la-Crosse and Green Lake, according to Lawrence Yew, chairman of the northern municipal council (NMC). However, Mr. evi said, because the thorities and jurisdiction of local community authorities have not been clearly defined, many communities are uncertain about bylaw enforcement. He said the NMC is outlining draft bylaws which can be used by the communities to govern such things as dog and snowmobile control. Mr.

Yew said the dog problem will definitely be discussed at the next NMC meetup in February. By Geoif White of the Star Phoenix A three-year-old boy was killed by a pack of stray dogs in La Ronge Thursday morh-ing. Sean Douglas McNeil, son of Dr. and Mrs. Maitland McNeil died after being dragged and mawled by the dogs in the -street in front of the familys home.

The boy had been crossing the street to play at a neighbors about 9:30 a.m. when he was attacked by the dogs. His mother attempted to rescue the boy but he was dead when she reached the scene of the mawling, about 150 yards from their home. There were about 10 dogs in the pack. La Ronge RCMP said Thursday they have proceeded to shoot and destroy' ail stray dogs.

A special meeting of the La Ronge village council was held Thursday afternoon to discuss the dog problem and, following the meeting, Mayor Harry Houghton said village councillors had supported him in demanding the strict enforcement of the' village's dog bylaw. Mayor Houghton said the bylaw states you simply eannot have a dog run at.