B6 - Wednesday, April 14, 1982 - North Shore News PLAZA International was the scene of a television commercial for ad boards on top of taxis. The boards may soon be common on taxis in the Lower Mainland. (Eric Eggertson photo) A bilingual PetroCan: OTTAWA (UPC) - Petro Canada has improved the use of both French and English in its billing and credit operations but more of its gas stations should offer full bilingual service, Official Languages Commis- sioner Max Yalden says. Forces get OTTAWA — The first pro- duction line propane- powered staff cars were Officially handed over to the Department of National Defence (DND) last month. The Ford Canada staff cars were presented to Minister of National Defence, Gilles Lamon- tagne, by Kenneth W. Harrigan, president § and chief executive officer, Ford Motor Company of Canada. The hand-over ceremony Petro-Canada is a crown corporation and _ therefore must show Canadians it can serve the public in both official languages, Yalden recommended in his annual report. He said bilingual service need not be provided at propane took place at the CFB Or- tawa (South) (Uplands) Air Movements Unit DND_ will purchase between 4,000 and 6,000 propane-powered vehicles as part of its overall energy conservation program. Although a propanc- powered vehicle initially cost more than its gasoline- powered equivalent, the annual savings in fucl costs make propance-powercd travel a viable cconomical alternative. Birth control hazard BOSTON (UPI) - Women taking oral contraceptives may be unusually sensitive to Vahum, onc of the most widely prescribed tranquilizers in the country, and the combination could lead t) over-sedaton, a study from Tufts University reported Researchers said doctors should closely = monttor paticats who are taking both @rugs to determine = the amount of Vahum that remains ino the woman's sysitcm and tf ne ccssary decrease the dosage of the tranquilizer The study «compared cight woman of an average age of 27 who had been taking low dose estrogen pills for more than three months with cight women aot on the pill, said the report in the New Foglanod Meda inc All were given dtaze pam Valium s Journal of gener intravenously The 9 study found catrogen lengthened the drag's half life in the bloodstream by acarly hours on the average “We found peooptc who took birth control pills had aame an climination half hfe of 70 hours, as compared to 42 (for those not on the pill).” said Dr Darrell R- Aber- nethy, associate chief of the Tufts-New England Medical Center Division of Clinical Pharmcology and chicf author of the study “What that means ts that after 70 hours, half ts gone, after another 70 hours another half is gone so a fourth remained ” he said “The tmphcaton of this kind of finding then for the typical clinical situation in which @ person on) con traceptives takes a dose of Vahum once of twice ao day i the amount of Valium in thetr bloodstream would be greater than someone who did not (take Ube pilli he said Reducod diazepam dosage might be required in these individuals to prevont over medication ~ he said Ihe study descmbed in (ravenous diazepam only But since the drug ts rapidly absorbed and none ts lost if taken orally the seme reaction would probably take place with Valium pills the rescarchers said every service station but should be offered at those likely to have a bilingual clientele, as well as at the company’s head office in Calgary. “They are a crown cor- poration, they are subject to the Official Languages Act. they are in my view going to be subject to. the service requirements of the new constitution and there’s no getting away from = it,” Yalden told a news con- ference. “Petro-Can seems to be of the view, although I don't find their policy very clear al all, that in Quebec they probably have to follfbw the charter of the French language. Bill 101,” Yalden said, refering to the law that makes French the | sole language of Quebec “And although they are not very exphort about this the farther west you move the less they see the point of providing service in both languages We beheve that in’ pmncaple they should provide that service business in Yalden said In his report Petro Can had inNOre Yalden said tended to pssucs such as languages because of its preoccupation marketing In Calgary Doug Bowie a Company viacc president tes ponsible for with officval aArtiae Lavy AMO) Pasttrasecg ens Dealer languages, said the company has “made quite a bit of pro- gress in 10 months. We've come quite a distance and Yalden’s people seem to agree with us.” Bowie said the Crown corporation would complete its bilingual sign program this spring for eastern Canada stations acquired in the Petrofina purchase. He also said his depart- ment was considering bi- lingual signs for western Canadian stations located in areas with “a significant number of French-speaking Canadians.” “Our bilinguahsm effort 1s unprecedented for a govern: ment agency. This ts the first time bilingual service will be offered by the government al the neighborhood level ” Service station managers in areas where both official languages were spoken try to hire Dilingual staff. 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