A2 - Sunday, June 12, 1983 - North Shore News outside... OTTAWA - Canada’s unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage point to 12.4 per cent in May with 1.49 million Canadians out of work, Statistics Canada reported Friday. In May 1982, the unemployment rate was 9.6 per cent and there were 1.2 million out of work. The jobless rate last month for students plann- LONDON - Prime Minister Margaret That- cher, re-elected in a land- shde and backed by Bri- tain’s largest parliamen- tary majority since World War Il, pledged Friday to provide a “strong, clear, decisive” Conservative government. Mrs. Thatcher’s victory Thursday quadrupled her party's majority in Parlia- ment, dealing a severe blow to the main opposi- PARIS -NATO | alhes Friday drafted a warning to Moscow that they are ready to deploy US. nuclear missiles in Europe if agreement is not reached = at the Geneva arms talks, but they were divided on the issue of East-West tradc, officials said Conference sources said NATO — foreign ministers delayed = the conclusion of their two BEIRUEE, Gunmen Israch Lebanon ambushed = an patrol an south Lebanon Pnday killing of wounding soldhers. Israch pobce in the region said seven he ambush ins the southern village ol Abassych occurred deapite stepped up sccurtty following a car bombing in Beiret Wednesday that killed Slight drop in unemployment Maggie promised ‘some changes‘ NATO allies warn Moscow More killings in Lebanon ing to return to school in the fall was 20.7 per cent, an increase of 4 percen- tage points from a year earlier. New Democratic MP Cyril Keeper noted the - sight drop in unemploy- ment from April to May but said it was still more than 12 per cent. Keeper. said the government must con- centrate on creating long- term jobs. tion Labor, which suf- fered its worst showing since 1918. “The Great Maggie Massacre,” headlined the tabloid Sun Friday. Moving with her whirlwhind speed, the 57- year-old prime minister promised a reshuffle of her Cabinet within the next three days. “There will be some changes,” she said. “Peo- ple expect a new look.” day meeting because of a dispute over a clause in their final communique on commercial dealing with the Soviet Union The 16 NATO coun tnes issued a firm warn ing to Moscow that plans to deploy new nuclear weapons in Europe will proceed if the Soviet Umon and the United States fail to agree on a formula for climinating medium range nuciear weapons allogether Israch soldiers and wounded two others In Tel Aviv) the army said a group of terrorists opened fire with light weapons and rocket propelled grenades at the patral The patrol returned the fire and pursued the at tackers but no one was captured the saad two malitary The Isracts pave ao casualty figures In a province like British Columbia, where the business of cutting trees is our big- gest industry, the news that trees can talk should have caused panic selling at Mac- Millan-Bloedel. As a columnist at the North Shore News, I must confess I am struck dumb with despair. If trees can talk, that means they're a heck of a lot smarter than we used to think. And if they're smart, for heaven's sake, what am I do- ing having my words printed on their poor skins? I mean, let’s face it, if trees can talk, they should at least be allowed one phone call to their lawyers before the chain saw goes into ac- tion. Maybe you missed the story. Two American scien- tists, quite reputable by the looks of it, recently reported their finding that trees com- municate with each other through airborne chemicals. Don't go away. Them’'s the facts, m’am. According to Dr. David Rhoades and Dr. Gordon Onans of the National strictly personal by Bob Hunter Science Foundation, trees have been shown to emit chemicals that convey infor- mation to other trees and set off responses. It seems that certaim vaneties of trees change the chemical composition of their leaves to ward off in- sects and disease. When under attack, such trees as sugar maples and oaks downgrade the nutntional content of their leaves or else raise the levels of toxins to discourage pests. What this means is, as Dr. Orians said, “you don't have to have brains to be clever.” He admits that scientists are going to have to re-examine their opinion about trees, long underrated in terms of complexity and sophisticated behavior. For instance, while under attack by western tent cafer- pillars, the wily Sitka willow changes the nutritional value of its leaves so the cater- pillars go somewhere else to feast. And it’s not just that the willow takes action to de- fend itself, it communicates the information about what to do to trees as much as 200 feet away, which imitate its activity. 1 mean, gag me with a spoon. But not a wooden spoon, please. The fact that scientists are going to have to revise their estimates about the intellec- tual capacity of the wise old oak doesn’t impress me anywhere near as much as the thought of the kind of readjustment loggers are go ‘Tot-load' increasing A GROWING NEED for daycare centres in North Vancouver District persuad- ed council Monday to allow a child care facility to in- crease “tot-load” from 8 to 17 children. 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In good comscience, can any of us condone the felling of a tree in the forest when we know that even if there isn't any ear to hear it, there is sull a sound, after all? And what is the sound of one palm yakking? There are something like 70,000 species of trees in the world. There isn’t enough information yet to establish the relative intelligence of an arbutus Compared to a birch. Do the broad-leafs look down on the softwoods? Are the walnuts content to rest on their laurels? There are questions that wait for the future to be answered. But one thing is clear: The barbaric slaughter of trees will have to stop. Yew know? yas 1 seit sage ee Postal Code beweww ea aeawoaee