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8A the examiner Saturday August 1979 the book page Writer looks at both sides of pet question Mans Best Friend May Be An Enemy By GODFREY Whether he is bugged by ris ing gas prices or beset by in come taxes man can always turn for solace to his best friend the household pet Dogs and cats have held special place in our hearts for 40000 years but only recently has it been learned that mans best friend may also be his worst enemy Dr Brian Cochrane in his book Your Pets Your Healtn And The Law John Wiley and Sons 130 pages $695 looks at this balance and comes to the Impressive credentials for musical TORONTO CPI Since they joined forces I8 months ago Joey Miller and Stephen Witkin have experienced sud den upswing in their entertain ment careers The result of their collabora tion musical called Eight To The Bar was successfully pro duced at Charlottetown Festival ear and has returned 91 festival this summer New productions of the show music and lyrics by Miller book by Witkin are emerging at the Neptune Theatre in Halifax at Festival Lennox Ville the Northern Lights Theatre in Edmonton at Theatre Calgary and at the Gravenhurst Opera House as part of the Muskoka Summer Theatre Thats an impressive list for what still ranks as new show Alan Lund artistic director of the Charlottetown Festival says both Miller and Witkin have great understanding of musical theatre WORK TOGETHER Theres alawys kind of chemistry in successul team says Lund Thcy seem to work great in harmony Lund says both are respon sive to outside suggestions and are just the kind of people he wants to work with at Charlot tetown He says that as soon as he saw how well Eight To The Bar was doing last year he offered the two chance to iii Itiated another project called Ye Gods They are working to bring their shows to Toronto but thats only one stage in their development Broadway is their longterm goal Both have studied with Broadway conductorauthor Lehman Engel at the musical workshops sponsored by the Performing Rights Organizalt tion of Canada Millers involvement with theatre began with his parents who were in musical theatre in Montreal At the age of 18 they thrust him into show as direc tor It was disaster but he surlt vived and learned from the ex perience He recently wrote two songs for classical singer Maureen Forrester who sang them July on Parliament Hill He has also written for artists Grant Smith and Keith Hampshire Witkin says he doesnt haVe showbiz gone in his family But he has been writing and per forming since his teens However writing is hi first love conclusion that the health haz ard the damage to humans and the legal ramifications of pet ownership are almost enough to put to rest any plan to give in to the urge and take home cuddly creature Although he talks of pets the main emphasis in the book is on the dog This fourfooted movlt ing diseaseVector continues to claim piece of our heart while at the same time in fecting our lungs our blood and our skin In the city of Toronto for ex ample there are ap proximately two million people and one million dogs and cats These produce staggering amount of feces and urine which eventually may end up in your drinking glass on your food plate or on babies hands And it isnt just unaesthetic to eat yellow snow Nasty diseases like leptospirosis actinomycosis rocky mountain spotted fever worms flukes viral infections and parasitic invaders all may be passed from his household pet to the owners child Toxocara canis dog worm is present and infective in fully 60 per cent of puppies It may in vade the liver pancreas spleen lungs or brain of the thumbsuckinginfant PLEASURE PAIN And what does man receive from this everincreasing horde of canines Companionship pleasure amusement and oc casionally bite on the ankle or an allergy Dr Cochrane has collected large amount of information from North America and Eu rope on the increase in the pet population Not only are we keeping more dogs but the dogs are getting bigger and more of them are joining stray packs RAN FOR FOlR YEARS The Sound of Music ran for four years between 1959 and 1963 on Broadway He himself is an obvious dog lover although allergic and attempts to rationalize the pleasures and pains of petting While admitting that little is being done about the problem the stoopandscoop plan is not successful he has several ex cellent suggestions for avoiding disease contact and for the proper housetraining of chil dren in contact with pets rigid enforcement of ex crement control particularly in public parks and thorough program of deworming and other prophylactic measures would reduce some of the thou sand cases of infection RISK TO KIDS If his rules were followed there would also be radical drop in the number of children who lose the top of their scalp or the tip of their nose to the bite of German shepard most commonly or beagle least commonly One look at the pictures of lacerated children should coni Vince any parent that if he is going to have pet in the house it may only be after deter mined education program Not only should the child be taught respect and care in han dling pets but that education should include knowledge of the fact that the petowner is wide open to lawsuits The dear old lady who jumps back in fright at your dogs bark can successfully sue for damages for her resultant bro ken leg The partially obscured warning Vicious dog sign may not be sufficient notice to protect you in civil action by the salesman who invades your castle and ends up with bloody calf Many of these fine legal points are made knottier by dif ferent provincial statutes and different particular circum stances all of which means that housing pet may mean feedingalawyer Recalling the day Noted historian examines ByIAN McDOUGALl To fully appreciate the significance of super Pipe by Earle Gray Griffin House 255 pages $795 it is necessary to realize one or two things about its author Earle Gray is himself some thing of an institution being the foremost historian of the fana dian oil and gas industry He has been involved in industry both as journalist and as senior executive in charge of public relations for Arctic Gas Pipelines Ltd He thus brings to his subject the advantage of years of knowledge and experience and the liability of firmly held pre conceptions as to the value of new development projects Super Pipe describes deci sionmaking process that has quite clearly gotten out of con trol and has prejudiced the abil ity of anada to make timely dCClSIOIIS to avoid uncontrolled energy shortages in the future But while Super Pipe accu rately describes an inadequate decisionmaking process it is also less realistic in presenting case that the Mackenzie Val ley pipeline project of Arctic Gas was the major victim For anyone well versed in the many deficiencies of the proj ect this is bit hard to swal low Yet over all the book is an important addition to the book shelves of any person in terested in one of the most significant events of recent Canadian history TWO VIEWS Many this writer included during the course of the north ern pipeline debate held views that were at most times dia metrically opposed to those of Earle Grays Indeed ultimately the Na tional Energy Board the Ber ger Commission and the Gov ernment of Canada felt that the Arctic Gas Mackenzie Vtiiley Pipeline project was undeserw AWARDS SET FOR TORONTO The 1980 Juno Awards tele cast has been set for April in the convention centre of the Harbour Castle Hilton in To ronto PINSENT TO OSTAR Gordon Pinsent will costar with Ellen Burstyn in Silence of the North an $8 million outdoor adventure movie to be shot in Canada this fall Edward Murphy Jr former executive officer aboard the captured spy ship USS Pueblo displays his book recently in San Diego The book is an account of the ships capture and his time spent as prisoner in North Korea AP Photo ing of support In this context the analysis of Super Pipe as to the weak nesses of the Arctic Gas project and the socalled major role that the various publicinterest lobbies played in its demise is not very strong Gray appears to dismiss most of the publicinterest groups as leftleaning or Marxistoriented lobbies concerned at root more about revolutionary change than the pipeline itself For small number of northern based groups this is rather untidy simplification EVENING 600 e3 NEWS HOLLYWOOD SQUARES DEFINITION POLKA DOT DOOR 628 NEWS 630 NBC NEWS GLITTERS SPECIAL CBS NEWS GETTING IT TOGETHER ABC NEWS NEWS in PARTY GAME CUCUMBER 700 DATING GAME CROSS WITS MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW TIC TAc DOUGH DONNA FARGO NEWLYWED GAME STORIES AROUND THE WORLD ED GONG SHOW MOVIE HORRORDRAMA Dr Jekyll and7M3rbHyde 1968 MATCH GAME MAJOR LEAGUE BA SEBALL MontreaIEnpos vs Philadelphia llies Stirs NEWLYWED GAME GONG SHow GRAND OLD COUNTRY Guests VernGosdinRobinYancyDebhieFlemIngMeI is Repeal ab OCEANS ALIVE MAGIC SHADOWS Little Kid pers Part III BOB NEWHART SHOW 800 REAL PEOPLE nightclub leaturIng male strippers an Interwew With Space Ship RuthieandbasketballplayedwhilerIdingdom are spottIghted Repeat 60 mins DOROTHY Sinqerrcomedienne Dorr othyLoudonportraysthelivelymusmanrtdrama teacher at slutty Eastern girls school There she lmds herselt much more in tune W1th her if diEIs than with the pompous headmaster EIGHTISENOUGHWhenlighIn inq flashes thunder claps and the power 1dll5 theBradtardchildrensviyidimaqmationstrans lotmlhe Oldhomcsteadintoahystericalliaunt house Re eat 60 ruins VEGA 19 INTROSPEC La Drogue etle Spurt 22 WHOS WATCHING THE KIDS 830 PROGRAMMING TO BE ANNOUNCED TELEFESTIVALEOuandonecauie les Enlants Touriie darts IOS cadres de Iemis 51011 Tele Festival qu atteignait par satellite trons localites du Nord ouest ontanen cnt epi sode donne la parole aux jeunes de Mani touwadgequi parlent de la telewsron de Irur $tage Iranco Ontarien et de leurs Ioisirs SPECIAL EDITION 900 MOVIE OF THE WEEK sOmmms Watchinq Me 1978 Stars Lauren HuttonDavxd apyWEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE The Kllllf Elitn 1915 Stars James Zaan Iivall wfij CHARLIES ANGELS Tm An qels are looked upon ii prison Iarm when the wrirrion uses the women QnVICIS in graft weme Repeat iOtmnS iii CAROL BURNETT AND FRIENDS EB QUIZ KIDS SHOW 930 PROGRAM UNANNOUNCED An encounter With dreamy IV director IS almost turned into nightmare by jealous warlock 1000 VEGAS Dans boyhood triena returns to Las Vegas as hit man With orders to Iii1 both ilina and phllll¥IR01h Repeat 60 ruins LIVE AT HE FORUM anlrmoSdm JohnForit LUIPY NEWS UPDATE NEWS 1001 83 MERV GRIFFIN Guests out Sim Rotmrl Ellis Smith Lheliloii Shniknt 1030 96 THIS WEEK IN BASEBALL IE GRANDEUR NATURE 1100 oomce NEws CBC NEWS CTV NEws EDUCATION OF MIKE MCMANUS MOVIE ScenesFromAMarriage Parts III and IV 1974 northern pipeline project And most of the publicinterv est objections in the southern part of the country were di rected by persons who wouldfit more within the middle to middleright of the political spectrum Indeed many advocated rival programs of development with sortie openly supporting El Paso Foothills or the Alaska Ilighway alternatives to the Ar ctic Gas proposal Ultimately the politics of the left provides little in the way of explanation for the failure of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline wednesday 1120 NEws 1125 NEWS 1127 NEws 1130 THE TONIGHT SHOW Host Johnny Carson Guests LuCilleBallAnthonyNewley mins YOURTURNLETTERSTOCBS NEWS MOVIE HORRORDRAMAI Curse Of The Undead 59 STREET TALK NIGHTMUSIc NanCyWhite 145 THE Two RONNIES 1200 QMOVIESCIENCE FICTION orath 1962 CBS LATE MOVIE SWITCH One 01 Our Zeppelinsls MissingJoan Blondellguest stars as the head at tarnily specralizing in extortion Repeat KOJAK Was Happy Where Was Stars Telly Savalas KeVin Dob Repeat iii MEDICAL CENTER 82 MERv GRIFFIN CONTINUES 1210 CARTER COUNTRY 1215 CUCKOO WALTZES Its onus Hawthornes day 011 Fliss suggests they go shopping this afternoon and spend the evening at home Chrishasa better idea to stayathome this alternoon and go shopping tonight EDI sode 1230 89 MONTY 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