A22-Wednesday, June 25, 1980 - North Shore News AS KILLER BEES BECOME DOCILE... By ALAN JAY VICTORIA (UPC) - North American apiary circles are buzzing with reports the dreaded Brazilian “killer bees” are becoming tamed on their slow spread nor- thwards through breeding with mild-tempered South American honeybees. . It was particularly sweet news to British Columbia expert John Corner, Canada’s foremost authority on the honey bee and the provincial government's official apiarist for the past 30 years. For the last three years, he has been trying to breed a new “super bee” and says he is close to success. If the killer bees ever reached Canada, he says, his strain of bee could have been wiped out before it had a chance. “Like most apiarists im Canada and the United States, I have been keeping a close watch on reports that the Brazilian bees, called the ‘killer bees’ because of their ferocious mature and aggressive tendencies, have been heading north,” Corner said in an interview. “We became alarmed when the bees started leaving the jungle in enormous swarms. “The news that breeding with milder honey bees has produced a more even- tempered bee less keen to travel and more prone to swarming, that is, staying in one area, is good news for all apiarists.” Bee expert Professor Anthony Raw, a specialist at the University of Brazilia, reported recently the killer bees were losing their aggressiveness. Breeding with local honeybees had slowed down their spread northward from their jungle home and “considerably reduced” the threat of an mvasion of North America. A barrel of oil doesn’t exist But there are 42 gallons in it WASHINGTON (UPI) Fact! There are 42 gallons in a barrel of oil. Also fact: the oil barre! really doesn't exist. The standard barrel is merely an arbitrary unit of measure, said Henry J Lartgue Jr.. Exxon’s pubbc affairs manager “It's a holdover from the infancy of the oil business,” he explained “Oil ts) not shipped in 42-gallon units ” “In fact, the = standard barrel may never have existed, at Jeast in the same literal sense as the ubsquitous 55 gallon drum In the carly) days. customers carted their purchases away in them own barrels, which = probably varied widely ino size Lar tigue said In 1866 some West Virgimia producers dec md to end the confusion peat . oye a JOKE R bb a picture shows and nocds a home one year old black and agreeing to seel “no crude oul by the barrel or package, but by the gallon only”. “An allowance of two gallons will be made on the guage of cach and every 40 gallons in favor of the buyer,” they decided. Thus the 42-gallon “barre!” was born, although the 55-gallon metal drum became the standard container Today, large quantities of ou like Saudi Arabia's production are regularly measured in mythical barrels, while small quan tities like a tank of gasoline are talhed in gallons A Shell executive, exasperaicd by news reports. once asked why the media always oceports ob price increases by the barrel, but measures otf spills by the gallon PET CORNER - ute Dated aflver Malamate who bs strong, tn perfect health, and as the Shop , ts very good looking He loves people H you can give bim onc picasc phone Dorts Orr at 987 9O1S NEED A LAWYER? 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His special program in- volves selected breeding of over 10 million bees in 175 hives, located in three key breeding areas — Powell The birth of superbee is near River, Cloverdale and Vernon — each picked for its rural environment and climactic conditions. “We have been breeding selected strains of bees using open mating and artificial insemination methods,” Corner said. “What we are trying to produce is a strain of honey bee that is even tempered, swarms in one place and is capable of producing about 40 per cent more honey than any bee is capable of right now.” West Vancouver marks Canada Week Canada Week will be celebrated in West Van- couver June 25 to July 1. In making the proclamation, Mayor Derrick Humphreys urged citizens to “strive to know our country better, by flying our flag and displaying our symbols.” Special festivities in honor of Canada Week will take place at the West Van ice arena this Saturday at noon. Mayor Humphreys said at the council meeting Monday evening. 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