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Hobbs to return to Idia with measies vaccine By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff Whitby's Rotary Club will again be sending Dr. Ken Hobbs to India to fight red measies. At a luncheon last week, officiais of the Rotary Club announced the project as part of their 75th anniver- sary celebrations. Hobbs, went to India last September with 70,000 measie vaccine shots in the pilot projeet. This time he will with 3½/million shots at an estimated- cost of Mw5000. This projeet will be paid for jointly by Canada Rotary and the federal government. Hobbs will go to Rotary Distirct 707 is Southern India where there is an estimated seven million children. This project is one of only ½/three that were given san- ction by the club's governing body, Rotary International. According to Hobbs,* 18,000 children in the area die each year from red measles. These children are usually between one and five years of age. this Rotary district lies in southern India encom- passing 6,000 square miles with a population of 50 million. According to Hobbs, red j, measles is India's prime killer under the age of five. " Hobbs said that if a Indian family have 10 children, as many as six will die before their fifth birth- day and at least three of them will have succumbed to red measles. The former Whitby town councillor also said that the project will aid in the promotion of family programing in one of the British Commonwealth½'s most underdeveloped coun- tries. "Eliminating the infant mortality rate is the first step towards family plan- ning, " Hobbs said. According to R. Varaclaraj, governor of the Indian Rotary district, "the measles program bas made a tremendous impact in my part of the district." He said that his organization experienced a lot of resistance fromn local doctors and from the public during the early period of the projeet although he is now confident that it bas since faded away. Varadaraj also said that the Indian government is slowly getting more heavily into health care but has been concentrating on other diseases such as diptherea and whooping cough. Hobbs is scheduled to go to India in September where besides running the program he has also planned to meet with various gover- nment officials. Over the last two or three decades, the average life span of an Indian mnan has risen fromn 27 to 54. This compares to 69 for the average canadian maie. Graduate John Francis Loney, age 22, son of Robert and Mary Loney of 85 Thickson Rd.N. Whitby, graduated June 6, (or recently) from Guelph Agricultural College with the Degree of Bachelor of Science majoring in Crop Science. John is a graduate of Denis O'Connor High Sehool, Whitby. He has recently accepted a position with Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd., in the Cambridge Research Division. HepyorHer Fn Help your Heart Fn WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNFSDAY, JUNE 18,ý 1980, PAGE Il TUESDAY Is'PERM DAY SCISSORS AIL PERMS 1/2 PRICE e Redken Prm . .$50 TUESDAY ... $25 e Henne Perm. . . $40 TIJESDAY ... $20 e Zotos Perm ... $45 TUESDAY..125 a Wollo BalSam Perm .......$36 TUESDAY..15 e Schwarzkope P.rm... $30 UESDAY ... $15 fe8.iMO 601 Dundas St. W. 668-1WHITBY TOWN PLAZA S125TH ANNIVERSARY 1855-1980 THE CORPORATION 0F THE TOWN 0F WHITBY TENDERS FOR DUMP TRUCKS Tenders wlIl be recelved until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, JuIy 8, 1980 for the following- CONTRACT W80-22: Two Snow PIow Equlpped Dump Tucks, G.V.W. 35,000 lbs. CONTRACT W80-23: One Tandem Dump Truck, G.V.W. 50,000 lbs. Specif ications and tender forms are aval lable at the Town of Whitby Treasury Department, 575 Rossland Road East, Whltby, Ontario. Telephone (416> 668-5803, extension 54. Lowest or any tender not necessarlly accepted. GAIL GOSLEIGH, PURCHASING AGENT, TOWN 0F WHITBY. 214 Dundas St. E, Whtby 668.7797 HOURS: Mon. - Sat. & Evenings By Appointmmnt Only Roy MacCauley's 5Y BRENTWOOD 2 PCE SOFA SUITE Quality built from start to finish, extra seat padding, high density foam cushions, covered docks spring edge, 100% nylon covers, arm covers. Centre prints. Exqulsite detali, workmanship. MFG List $1 078.00 SALE PRICE $699.00 309 Brock St. S. Whltby Shopping Plaza Establlshed 1952 WH.ITBY 668-2081 "OUR AIM IS TO SATISFY" RENTA 1980,ASPENi SPECIAL WEEK-END RATES: $49" WITH 600 FREE KILOMETERS DURHIAM 200 Dundas St. W., DODGE CHRYSLEIR INO. Whitby 668-6881 1