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i In Free Survey
TORONTO (CP:—The Cana- ‘dian Nationa! Institute for the Blind reported Monday that 572 suspected cases of claucoma were found in a month-long sur- vey of 17,883 men and women |in suburban Scarborough
Glaucoma, the leading cause jof blindness, is a condition in | which pressure within the eye is | raised due to a narrowing of the channels that carry away, the| jmorseal fluid constantly being | produced inside the eve. There are no symptoms and no known | cause and there is no cure. It tcan be arrested | Dr. Ellis Shenken, senior oph- : |thalmologist at Scar brough General Hospital. gave up most of his private practice in April to lead the survey. first of its kind in Canada. It was spon-
ation is being financed by Morrison Grain Company of Hastings. Neb It will take
three years to get all the land under cultivation é
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By NEIL A. MATHESON
Previncial-Farm Editor Last week I promised a story about “the most unusual live- stock breeding problem” which I've ever heard. After dis- cusing it with Dr. H- Kelly. di- rector of veterinary service for the. province, I find it’s not so rare asi thought at first, but it's still unusual enough to be of
jective is milk production. and on several occasions cattlemen have had heifers brought into milk. This was done because the
of animals’ breeding indicated they
had considerable potential. and ‘the owner did not want-to suffer the loss of production that would be involved otherwise
Several of these animals have had good lactations ‘and then
four points for each extra bar- row that was put into the test litter. So an extra eight points
ate available if all four are bar- ;
rows. This means the total seore possible is 108, instead of the 100 we normally. accept for perfection.
Mr. Heartz has graded caf- have let down the British re
casses on the rail for many vears and has practical and de-
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sored by the CNIB and the township's public health depart- ment and medical research foun- dation with a $17,000 _ federal grant. ‘EXAMINED FREE
Emphasis in the survey was on ‘persons oyer 40, the age. group usually affected-by the-dis-- ease. Patients in a free, 10-min- ute. visit to the glaucoma clinic were given prelimigary pressure tests and either w ared as “normal” or ‘‘su t.” Nine se-
Canada Asked :
To Announce Viet Nam Stand
Belly-Dancer Is Peeress
LONDON | (AP)
—-.A_ belly- had become a peeress.
She .is Malayan-born Shirin |Berry, 26, who under the stage name of Princess Amina has done her belly-dance in night clubs and cabarets in nearly 50 counties. : | She is married to bongo drum- mer Tony Moynihan, 29, who became the third Baron Moyni- han on the,death of his father. They met when he played the bongo drums for her night club
act. > : ; = TORONTO ‘CP)—The United Their marriage, in 1958, Church of Carada’s interna- caused a society sensation. tional affairs committee Tony said ‘at the time: called on Prime Minister
“So-called ,. friends who are | pearson to define limits be Ls yond supposed to represent the Es- which Canada- will—not—go in
Of 17,883
vere cases requiring. were discovered
The 572 suspected cases are to be recelled for more extensive tests and; if necessary, referred to eye specialists for treatment. In many cases life-long use of drops in the eye may obviate the need of surgery. ;
The CNIB estimates that one in every 40 adults, 40 years: «if age and over, suffers from glau- coma and doesn't know it. That is 100,000'of the Canadian adult population. Blindness is certain unless the disease is arrested.
Loan Companies Reports Given ~
“OTTAWA (CP) — The 79 money-lenders registered with the federal department of insur- | ance under the Small! Loans Act are performing much more profitably to themselves than the six big firms registered \as small .lodns companies. x ‘Data for 1964 showed total in-
come for -all-85—companies—be-—afraid—we'd—get—licked*
fore expenditures and taxes was $129,742.617. This is up 37 per cent from the figure for 1960.
Gross profits after expendi- tures and before taxes was up 5.8 per cent in the five years to $29,865,734. After taxes, the net profits of the 85 firms aggre- gated $15,388,864.
But for the six.big small-loan companies. the gross and net profit positions were actually off in 1964 from 1960.
Their total incomes rose 19 per cent to $63,798,371, but their | gross profits were down 1.7 per i cent to $16,175,334, and their net profits after taxes were down
572 Glaucoma Cases Found New Deal
|On Viet Nam
Surgery -wASHINGTON (AP) — Sena-.
tor Joseph S. Clark +Dem. Pa.) said here the United States should quit its “ aggressive pushing of the war in Viet Nam” and seek an. agreement with the Soviet Union which would contain Communist China. +i ,. But:Senator Allen J. Eliender, ‘Dem. La.) said if the Chinese come into the war, President Johnson shouldn't hesitate to use nuclear. weapons against them.
Clark, appearing on a _ fe- corded television program with Senator Hugh Scott ‘Rep. Pa) contended the United States was
.the first to break the 1954 Ge-
Beva agreement on Viet Nam. The -US-—-did—not—sign-the—agree- ment but: pledged itself to abide by its terms.
Scott said that ‘nothing could be more wrong” than Clark's contention. But the Democratic senator said.the United Staies ,had “backed away from the commitment™to have free elec- tions because we .were
“The second break was when
we put. in violation of _ those agreements, massive . military forces in South Viet Nam,”
MP Critical - Of Report On House Vote
OTTAWA (CP)—Social Credit MP H.A. Alson has _ criticized The Canadian Press for say-
wording of the motion. steadily. Output per man-hogr Non-confidence motions were also has increased, but at a for the purpose of defeating or substantially lesser rate.” sustaining a government and Blough said government [ig- nothing else, he said. The word- ures show the industry's aver- ing of the motion made no dif- age annual rate of increase “as ference and both MPs and re- two per ceat from 1957 to 1963. porters knew this. “However. during the same
The vote Thursday was on a period, hourly employment cost New Democratic Party motion | for all employees in the ‘vel criticizing .the government for | industry increased at an ver- not increasing basic income tax age. annual rate of more tian exemption levels and the old age four per cent.’
Pegsion. “The gap ‘between output and employment cost is a threat to steel's competitiveness and job-
Steel Corp, —_misine" cena * | Steel wage bargaining. “te
Sa C Ga said, is complicated by confu-,.
oays ost [PD sion'in the "ranks of the United
. | Steelworkers of America. re-
Pos Th t ‘sulting from a hotly-contested es FECT election of officers, and “by
| substantial wage settlements in
CHICAGO (AP)—Roger M. other industries.”
Blough, chairman of U.S. Steel ie
Corp., told the giant firm's GM D id nd
shareholders Monday a “gap Iv e
between output and employ-*
\ment costs is a threat to see's Ie Declared mae
competitiveness and: job-provid-
ing capability.” oe as .
' The shareholders’ meefing NEW YORK ‘AP)—Directors
here was the first outside New of General Motors Corp. de-
Jersey since U.S. Steel was Clared Monday a quarterly div-
founded in 1901. idend of 75 cents.and a special
Blough said the United Staies dividend of 75 cents a share on steel industry as. a whole set common stock.
a record in 1964 with shipments The actior had been anxiously
_Of 84,900,000 tons without set- awaited by Wall Street and by
.ting any profit records in terms the No. 1! auto-maker’s nore
of returns on sales or equity. ~ than 1,200,000 shareholders.
Competition. from imports | There--had--been the was one impeding factor, he directors might split the stock. said, and vast expenditures re-| The quarterly and the special quired for technical research dividends bring. to $2.25 the and new plant took a. larger amount paid by GM, the world’s share of, revenue. . biggest gmoney - making com- “The average hourly employ- pany, for the first six months of ment cost for all employees in | 1965.
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tablishment in this coyntry have gone. out of their way to be -ut-_ etrly offensive. They think I
tocracy.” | Tony had secretly
Supporting United States policy in Viet-Nam. -
A letter sent to the prime min- ter asks him to inform the U.S. that the Canadian govern-
12 per cent to $7,872,719." The 79. money-lendezs, on the
ing in its report of the non-confi+ 4 dence vote in the Commons ¢ other hand, had a 58 per cent Thursday “Social Credit, Leader z climb in five: years in their bus} Thompson and his three West- ¢ néss income to $65,944,246. Grosg |¢® followers voted against the ¢
Basilica Recreation —
married |men will i |profits were up 55 per cent to’|increase in exemptions and old ¢ general interest. finite evidence to back up Bis actress Ann Herbert i men will‘not continue to sup-| Pp P pe
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I was visiting Stirling Willis at Kingston when I came across the story of the “Scotch” sow he has in his pig barn. She's a large Engl White—the breed correspoi to our Yorkshire—
r=» »-»-~and_she developed a litter of _lit-
tle pigs. and her udder was fill- ed with milk. but she never far- rowed them. Stirling had talked te many -of the leading. Swine {breeders across the country in recent vears— he’s president of the Canadian Swine Breeders Association—at—_present—-__ but none of them to whom he had talked had heard of the develop- ment. Mr. Willis told me.
Stirling told me that veterin- arians had told him the animal “absorbed” the little pigs, or “piglets” as they are sometim- es called. Livestock officer Har- nid Heartz. Canada department
of agriculture. told me later the .
term used is “mummified foe- and Dr. Kelly confirmed that information vrs
It's not common, but it's not so rare either. Dr. ““Hammy” tells me. It occurs more often with cows. He has seen a num- ber of cows that have reacted that way. The foetus shrinks to one half the usual size, the tissu- es are absorbed by the mother’s body. the flesh and skin shrink around the bones, after the foe- tus has died and become sterile.
The animals..soaffected_are recommended for the packers, as they are not considered suit- able. for further breeding: But String Willis has bred his “Scotch” sow again and is awaiting results. It's a spirit of curiosity. that_ has prompted the Willis move. If she does have a litter— and that is doubtful — Ill tell you about it in a future column.
Also interesting is the fact that heifers are sometimes brought into milk without hav- ing a calf. Dr. Kelly recalled about. one-half-.dozen he had brought into milk that way. In cattle, of course. the main ob-
~ently:-—-The~—foetus— was
proceeded to calve and produce in the normal manner.
Before I leave this part of the story. I recall that Daniel Mac- Lean, North River had a Guern- sey heifer some vears ago, that had the mummified calf. appar-
from the animal and she was brought intosmilk and actually qualified on ROP ‘Record of performance) but. as I ‘recall, she was disposed of sometime later. as she did not prove to be a satisfactory breeder.
And here's another —unusual cattle story, Dr. Kelly told me. Three or four heifers owned by a Marshfield man some _ vyears ago began to milk—they were on pasture—four or five months be- fore they were to calve. The owner naturally became worried as he feared he might have had a case of abortions. But Dr. Kelly examined the heifers and found they were’ carrying their calves. The e planation is sim- ple, and yet I had never heard about it previously
The heifers had been sucked by several calves that were in the field. “and this will bring young heifers into milk in this way.” Dr. Kelly told me
My friend Harold Heartz dis- agrees strongly with the idea that the present practice of al- lowing four ‘extra’ or ‘“‘free} points for extra barrows should he_discontinued when sows are om advanced registry tests ‘ROP) for the slaughter test score .
I quoted last week men like Stirling Willis and L.W. Roper, former livestock director. had said definitely the practice should be discontinued :
Four pigs from a litter are placed on test. to qualify the dam and normally two gilts ‘fe- males! and two barrows are used. But it was found that the gilts normally grade out much better when slaughtered. than the~barrows do. So the practice
was developed. aftef extensive.
testing. of allowing an extra
ideas. : uc :
So now we have the opposing points of view, I'm not an ex- pert either way but, as I told Mr. Heartz, I just cannot ac- cept the idea that a score of
taken--more than 100 should be possib-
le. I think. also. of some letters? other symbols that should in my opinion, identify a slaughter test seore-where_the ‘‘free’” or “‘ex- tra’ points have been added.
For example a sow could qual- ify with a slaughter test score of % which is still a creditable score, and only have a real score of 37, and few swine breed- ers would give recognition to that score now. I am assuming, of course. that there were four barrows in the test litter. and the sow was credited with eight “extra” points. I just don't like the idea. But it means nothing to me personally, so ll leave jt at.that. It did provide some interesting discussion though
Back home again from the Canadian hog conference which was held last week at Ottawa Stirling Willis tells me that some of the discussion centred on the use of electronic equip- ment development to make hog carcass judging more accurate in future. Additional research is needed. apparently. but the grading experts of the Canada department of agriculture feel that even in slaughtered Cartass- es, where the finished carcass is visible to the crader. the elec- tric probe will tell a more com- plete story..It can measure the percentage of lean in the car- cass, and that is important to the people who: eat- the -product, a acceptance. of pork products on their tables is one of the ‘‘musts”™ for the fu- ture of the. industry.
FESTIVAW
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The Shakespearean Festival at Stratford, Ont, has grown from 42 play performances. in
1953 to 129 dramatic and 73 mu- sical performances in 1964.
SUING FRENCH BIOLOGIST ‘
Rene Guynemer, left, of Montreal and his attorney, Rene Floriot. arrive at the Paiace of Justice in Paris
se
Monday for the opening of Guynemer’s lawsuit against Gaston Naessens| Guynemer charges that Naessens promis-
ed to cure his son of leukemia The boy died soon after the start of treatment. (AP Wire- . phote via cable from Paris)
e ! _in_ 1955. port its policy if it involves in- Their marriage was dissolved im yasion of North Viet Nam, air November, 1958, and a month raids on the civilian population later he married Shirin. .- (or the use of miclear weapons. They have a young daughter. The letter was sent by com- mittee chairman Harry C.
COLOR TV INCREASES Smith following a _ resolution
| $13,690,400, and net profits were age pension rates and in support ¢
up 30 per cent to $7,516,145" in
| 1964 from $5,010,519 in 1960 Among the small loan com-
panies, the largest net profit—
| $4,354,476—was made by House- “‘complete and’absotute misrep-
| hold‘ Finance Corp. of Canada,
__.There are about 3,000,000 color adopted Wednesday night by the | after paying taxes of $4.575.000_ The /on total income of $38,037,185, said during the budget debate
TV sets in North America now, com mittee, which expressed
and the total may reach 5,000,- “‘moral concern at the worsen-|with total expenditures before ;the way a party votes in a non- ¢
000 by the end of 1965. —~# ing situation in Viet Nam.”
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