Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 7, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday August 7. 1969 killer pesticide feared contaminating Maine lobster by Don it y Boothbay Harbor. Me. A is the famed Maine lobster on a collision course with the killer pesticide Dot increasing amounts of Dot have been found in the tissue of lobsters Analysed at the state research station Here and in crustacean sent to a fed eral station in Florida. T. Delight of gourmet and tourist alike lobsters from new England and Canada Are shipped by air to All parts of the United states and several european countries. Scientists say they have no reason to doubt that All r u s from the Carolinas to Labra Dor probably contain traces of insecticide sprayed to Battle pests on land. Dot is bad enough but some of the new substitutes Are even worse says Robert l. Dow director of research for the Maine department of sea and Shore fisheries. Some of the new chlorinated hydrocarbons Are so poisonous we practically have to spell out their names in front of lobsters or they will Roll Over said Dow grimly. A lindane dilution of one part in will kill lobsters and shrimp Are even More newsman attacks Kierans by Margaret Barnard Halifax Ftp c. Irwin Mclntosh of North Battleford. Sask., president of the Canadian weekly newspapers association wednesday criticized Post master general Eric Kierans for his dealings with the association Over postal rate changes. Or. Mclntosh told the Cana annual convention Here or. Kierans had not consulted the Canadian publishing Industry before beginning vast changes which would affect thousands of families across Canada directly. Almost cry Canadian family or. Mclntosh said to Hud tried unsuccessfully a number of times to Contact or. Kierans to clarify sections of the new postal legislation. I resented the run around hut More important i resented or. Kierans he said he wrote and wired i the postmaster general questioning the necessity for Licens ing newspapers and for treating j Semi weekly newspapers As Dai i lies and about other problems. The answers he received showed him the Post office department had no intention of considering alternate proposals. Air. Mclntosh said. J my dealings with the Federal i government during the past year have left me wondering just How much importance our political friends in Ottawa put j on having a free press in can j As editor publishers. The Cana members would agree with Thomas Jefferson that if one had to choose Between a j free press and a free govern j ment a free press would be j More desirable he said. J outside of a few major cities Canada is blanketed with j Small newspapers for the most i part devoted to kindling the real i fires of democracy in Small communities from coast to for them Freedom of the press does not mean special rights or privileges for news paper publishers any More than it should mean special privileges for the heavily subsidized electronic Media with which the press Large and Small must compete for or. Mclntosh said. It was a sad commentary on the values of the government and House of commons that in the same year they added Mil Lions to the budget of the Cana Dian broadcasting Corpora they should also so arrange postal charges that Doz ens of periodicals and newspapers were either killed or drastically some 200 delegates Are at tending the four Day Cana an Nual convention. Senator Keith Davry. Who Heads a Senate committee investigating All aspects of mass Media will be principal speaker. He will address the convention Friday. In interview before the convention opened or. Mclntosh said instead of worrying about who owns Canada s news papers newspaper editors and reporters should be worrying about communicating with their readers. K v e r y o n e thinks he can publish a Good newspaper with out realizing it is a competitive and complicated Industry which brings Many professionals to Gether. The problem is Livre Are too Many poorly trained publishers and editors who Don t really understand what Wilwy Are doing. Or. Mclntosh said. Maine s lobster catch of More than 21.000.000 pounds was Worth approximately to the rugged fish Ermen who set traps in the Roc bound coastal Waters last year. Maine s Battle with pesticides is part of a National problem. Arizona and Michi Gan have banned Dot out right. Sweden is the first country to ban the Poison on a National scale. The two year ban is essentially a holding action while scientists try to catch up with the scope of the threat. Scientists have seen the toxic Levels of Dot and other pesticides build up in sea food sharply in recent years. At the same time other Scien lists Are putting out new products to take the place of Dot that Are even More lethal to Marine and animal life. The Public grabs the Spray can with the new Label but it contains the same old problem in s i d e Poison does not break Down and accumulates Over the years. At the same time Dow and other researchers arc finding a buildup of Poison in lob sters other state experts in the Extension service at the University of Maine in Orono Are recommending Methoxychlor and malathion for mos Quito control. Both Are fatal to Marine life if transported Down streams to the coast in sufficient quantities. Maine has a pesticide control Board but it has no funds no enforcement Powers not even a Telephone listing. It is a Loose aggregation of various department Heads. Dot has been found in fish taken from every major Lake in Maine. In sch ago the source of Portland s water Supply the Dot accumulation in Salmon was the highest of All. Sebago. A popular resort Lake Lias the longest history of spraying to control mosquitoes around the numerous cottages and summer Camps. Maine Bias h u n d r c to s of of indented Shoreline v. Asked twice a Day by Hie tides of the Atlantic Ocean or the Dot problem would prob ably have become acute years say scientists. Coho Salmon planted in Lake Michigan three years sewer water rates show Sharp Rise Winnipeg s combined sewer and water rental Rales have increased by 123 per cent since 1960, w. D. Hurst Winnipeg City Engineer declared in an inter View wednesday. I commenting on the new higher water Bills for the first week of August or. Hurst remarked we knew All along All Heck would break Loose when the Day of reckoning came. And that Day has now what the Day of reckoning Means for homeowners with a six room dwelling is that they will be paying s52.47 per year 1 on the combined rate which amounted to Only in 1960. He enumerated three major reasons for the increase. I metro which Sells water j to the City on a wholesale basis launched a Large sewer and water program in the past eight years which resulted in an increase in the wholesale costs of water. Consequently the i City s sales Price had to Rise i along with metro recovers the Tost of open sewage treatment plants and facilities by refunds from line municipalities. Municipalities get their Money by adding a surcharge to their water Bill metro has had a very Large program of building sewage. J treatment plants in past eight years and reducing pollution j the Money had to Bej obtained from a surcharge on i the water the City itself in opera Tion of the sewers and water system has along with every body else had to increase wages and pay More for All the j supplies it uses in the maintenance of the system. That has to he recovered through the water in summation he said the Price increase is a combination of the water system expansion i program the sewage expansion pro ram and Chr rising Cost of living translated into the increase amounting to si.80 quarterly for the average six room Home consists of s1.40 for water and 40 cents for sewer rental. Metro handles All sewage treatment facilities and Sells water wholesale to the member municipalities while the City of Winnipeg is responsible for the Insl Allilion of water Mains and services including meters and the maintenance of the distribution system. Ago were caught by Commer Cial fishermen this april fur the first time. The first ship ment was seized by the food and drug administration be cause the Salmon contained 13 to 19 parts per million of Dot. . Government tolerance Levels for Dot in meat has been set at seven parts per million. Robert h. Finch Secretary of health education and welfare recently declared five parts per million As the maximum acceptable in fish. The Coho Salmon like the Maine lobster is at the end of a biological food Chain. Big fish eat smaller fish and so on Down the ladder. The 25 to 30-Pound Salmon took on All t h e Dot accumulated in every fish of the food Chain. Maine for years has sprayed Dot to control Spruce Bud worm in her vast Forest s. Potato Farmers sprayed to control pests. Spraying in the Forest lands came to a virtual halt in Many sections when Trout turned up dead in Many streams and Ponds. Since the Ocean is the ultimate drainage poisons end up in the estuaries and Saltwater Marshlands that Are the Nur series for the millions of Marine creatures that Start the oceanic food Chain. It in t surprising that lob sters and other crustacean Are particularly t o says Dow. The pesticides were developed to kill insects and crustacean Are re lated to in recent years food stores in Many Sta is have featured live lobsters held in tanks. H is almost routine now for Marine biologists to hear of in stances where a clerk Spray ing a cockroach at one end of the store killed a thankful of lobsters at the Oiler end of the store. Maine s problem with lob sters reflects a worldwide concern. Scientists Point out that Man at the end of the food Chain is storing up Dot in increasing amounts every year. Mother s milk has been found to contain More Dot than the acceptable level in cow s milk. 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