A4 - Wednesday, July 21, 1982 - North Shore News OTTAWA - Soaring food prices boosted the cost of living by 1 percent in June to an annual rate of 11.2 percent - the lowest 12- month inflation rate since December 1980, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. Opposition critics found little solace in the figures, labelling them a temporary blip = in Canada’s holding pattern of high inflation. ; Higher . food, energy and housing _ prices By UNITED PRESS CANADA Cost of | iving ) up in J n combined. to keep the inflation rate high, but June’s increase in prices was down sharply from the 1.4 percent jump in May which pushed the year-over-year inflation rate to 11.8 percent. The figures are good news for the federal government and its battle against inflation, even though the moderate June increase resulted largely from a sudden price hike in June 1981 against which the June 1982 prices were measured. Whale lovers win victory BRIGHTON, England - The United States and other conservationist nations won a significant victory in their 10-year campaign to ban the commercial killing of whales by nations such as the Soviet Union and Japan. A committee of the 38- nation International Whaling Commission passed by an un- precedented three-four- ths majority vote Monday a recommendation to prohibit all whale hun- ting. The vote was 19-to-6, with nine abstentions. Four member delegations were not present. But the issue still had to be debated and voted on in the full commission later this week. It was the first time in the 10-year battle for a ban on commercial whaling that a_ three- fourths majority had been achieved even in com- mittee. But Japan, the world’s chief whaling nation, said it will continue to fight the ban and proposed, instead, improved measures to conserve whale heros’ while allowing commercial hunting to continuc. Manitoba prof has UFFI WINNIPEG - A chemistry professor who claims ammonia sup- presses the toxic gas emmitted by urea _ for- maldehyde foam says he estimates homes afflicted by the banned insulation matcrial might someday be treated less than $200. \ Hyman Gesser, of the University of Manitoba's chemistry department, said Monday laboratory research which he began in January shows samples of the foam registered reductions of 90 percent or more in gas levels after injections of ammonia. answer The process, so far confined to laboratory samples in cylinders, has yet to be applied to an actual building. But Gesser said news of his findings had already prompted two homeowners to offer their houses for his tests. The insulation, Originally cndorsed and subsidized by the federal government as part of its energy conservation program, was banncd last year after medical evidence showed gas emissions from the foam was linked to respiratory problems in humans \Nuclear weapon talks recessed GENEVA, Switzerland The United States and Soviet Union Tuesday recessed the apparently deadlocked negotiations on reducing medium range nuclear weapons based in Europe. The talks will resume Sept 30 Negotiators decided to call a 10-week break at their 40th session §$ since beginning the talks cight months ago Separate negotiations conunued on curbing intercontinental strategic nuclear weapons Those talks began June ¥) TRAFFIC HANG-UP occurred Tuesday morning when a semi-trailer jack-knifed on the south side of Second _ Narrows Bridge, blocking the southbound lanes to traffic. Vehicles backed up for miles, right up The Cut as well as in lower North Vancouver, all along Main Street and up to Third, almost to Lonsdale. Eventually a crane was brought to hoist the trailer section upright and back onto the road so it could be moved and the traffic snari-up could be slowly untangled. (Ellsworth Dickson photo) | membership only ~ Eni i ing Pools, Enioy: Swimming Sauna Baths, Steam Rooms, Whirlpools, & Latest Exercise Equipment. . Supervised by Trained tructors. . Plus: Aerobic Exercise Done to Music. Broadway Spa addit ional charge N, WEST URREY/ DELTA ~ NORTH SHORE - CAMBIE - RICHMOND - VICTORIA —