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ma if What is scoliosis Its disease which pro duces curvature of the spine in teenagers but chances are you wont know that unless your daughter or son suffers from Right now the Simcoe Coun ty District Health unit is ex amining 12 and 13yearolds in public and separate schools across the county in the hope of catching cases of scoliosis before they become serious At that age sa Dr Peter Watson medica officer of health the disease is often scarcely noticeable and brac ing for one to three years can keep it from worsening If you dont do something at age 12 or 13 they can be in pretty bad shape by the time theyre 18 Dr Watson said Tuesday Advanced cases often re quire surgery he said Tests will involve about 7000 students he said and the health unit expects to find scoliosis in about one per cent of those tested Tests are conducted by public health nurses The disease is detected by visual Scoliosis tested fo it DR PETER WATSON check of the back in bent and upright positions The tests the first con ducted by the health unit began last week and will be completed in January Dr Watson said Maximum raise of four per cent Nonunion employees at Bar ries Royal Victoria Hospital will receive maximum pay raise of four per cent next year the hospitals board of trustees decided this week The fourpercent maximum set by the federal government under its antiinflation pro gram will be applied to total pay raises for each of five employee groups Individual increases will vary due to merit and other factors Ted Long assistant hospital ad ministrator said Tuesday Long said nonunion employ ees number about 125 out of the hospitals staff of about 700 The 700 figure includes parttime employees and Long said hours worked by fulltime and parttime employees add up to the equivalent of about 625 full time workers Nonunion employees are in five categoriesMexecutive NO CHARGE UNDERGROUND PARKING Clltliif HOV management technical pro fessional and clerical Long said all hospital employees except about 250 members of the Ontario Nurses Association will be governed by the four per cent federal maximum Nurses negotiations were held prior to establishment of the current ceiling and were based on sixpercent limit Other unions represented at the hospital are the Service Employees Union The On tario Provincial Service Employees and the lnterna tional tnion of Operating Engineers PLAYGROLND BUILT WINNIPEG tCP The 420 students of West Lynn Heights elementary school used to spend recess throwing stones at each other but parents and teachers cooperated and built playground the examiner Wodnadav Doc 14 1971 Spinning fires can explode The scene is familiar one car entrenched in snow wheels spinning furiously while group of random passersby rock the vehicle in unison But then something unex pected happens tire relatively new radial ex plodes Its happening more and more often these days and the reason is not an inherent defect in the tire but rather its overall strength This situation has only started to reoccur in the last two or three years since radials became popular and steelbelted radials became popular Its actually the phenomenon of good tire not poor tire explains Arch Brown dealerowner of the Barrie Canadian Tire store Tires today are so strong that when theres lot of heat built up they dont come apart until they reach cer tain point and then they ex plode Motorists can cut down on the possibility of blowouts by not spinning their tires ex cessively when stuck in snow Watch the speedometer person who gets stuck will sometimes rev the motor up to point where tire may be going around at 200 miles per hour tremendous heat is then built up and theres Appointed director OTTAWA CP Robert OReilly has been appointed di rector of corporate affairs for the CBC it was announced Monday He replaces Barry MacDonald who retired Nov 30 OReilly will be res nsible for daytoday liaison tween the CBC and the Canadian Ra diolttelevision and Tele communications Commission as well as the presentation of CB applications to the com mission at its public hearings OReilly spent five years with the secretary of state depart ment as broadcast policy adr viser before joining the in April ARCH BROWN nowhere for it to dissipate It can be dangerous Brown says The danger of blowout ap parently exists with virtually all makes of wellbuilt tire contributing factor to the fre uency of explosions could we be underinflation of the tires Brown says many motorists today cant tell if their tires are properly inflated and in these times of selfservice dont enlist the observations of gasstation attendants Because of the profile of the radial tire few people to day can look at tire and see if there is sufficient air in it People are not having their tires checked like they used to There are more and more cars with insufficient pressure in tires and an under inflated tire generates heat Dr Al Scarth named chief of medical staff Dr Al Scarth chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital radiology department for the past three years was named chief of the hospitals medical staff Monday by the hospitals board of trustees He replaces ophthalmologist Dr Paul Walsh who is step ping down after five years as Chief of staff The chief of staff is respon sible for the overall clinical organization of the hospitals medical staff He reports to the board of trustees to the medical advisory committee and to the hospital administra tion REMOVALFORUANS The Royal Victoria Hospital board of trustees voted ln day to grant operating privileges to Torontabased group specializing in the removal of organs from organ donors The Metro Organ Retrieval Exchange Team has specializ ed equipment for removal and preservation of organs from dead atients whose organs are to be donated to those who need them Ted Long assis tant hospital administrator said Tuesday ORCHIDS ABUNINHVT More than 2500 varieties of orchid flourish in New Guinea including the giant vandopsis with its threevfoot leaves and 10foot blooms 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