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SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday December J I BBS with a miniature Santa while Investigating a full Christmas crafts at the Show la it Sunday IMana w looking over the goods be ing displayed by Cathy Dimity and Lorraine available a raft Show Herald Bailey left and Pat centre gel id to take the tint ride In the newly Installed elevator at Georgetown Church on Main iouth last Sunday Custodian William Stone In ready to do honors after the new elevator which will handicap ped and member ol Ihr church officially opened Alliance Church pastor Paul little laid Mils a longtime member the con promised the ride in the new elevator Herald produces new custom vehicle to sniff out drugs White vans with an orange flashing light on top may toon become a familiar sight and an unwelcome tight for some at Canada a airports Corrigan Instrumentation Ltd of Georgetown Is now making the druguiifflng van In response to a growing need to help Canada Customs deteel Illicit drugs entering the country through airports The Ford Econoline vans ore being modified to include theart technology to aid Canada Customs officials in their search or Illegal drugs Aside from the orange light on top the new machine looks Just like any other van but whats Inside is what drug smugglers fear They Canada Customs wonted that looked fairly much like a sta van They don want to attract attention to it said Cor Ion Callbeck a mechanical engineer Canada Customs signed a million contract with Corrigan late last year after they and the RCMP used prototypes of the vans during the Calgary Olympics said Norm Calwcll the vice president of marketing Corrigan a firm own by Georgetown resident Joe Cor By mid January 10 vans will be stationed In Canada a major cities ready to search for Illegal drugs at a moment s notice The vans contain highly advanced ray equipment catted Scan Each van has two foldout television monitors one color and one a touch sensitive black and white to ray baggage fed through the side door Canada Customs and the often receive tips about possible drug shipments said Mr When a suspicious shipment comes In on an airplane the white van can roll right up to the runway and run the baggage through the Scan before it gels Into the hands of the passengers The color screen separates organic materials from materials made from steel by color Drugs which are organic will show up as a shade of orange on the screen white anything mode of steel such as a revolver will show up blue If someone attempts to hide either in a lead casing the screen will display as green anything the rays can t penetrate A simple touch of the finger on the black and white screen and that portion is magnified By a process called grey on the black and white screen the operator see through steel almost half an Inch millimetres thick Scan uses the atomic numbers of materials to determine Ihey are steel or organic said Mr Organic materials with different densities such as sugar and cocaine will show up differ en shades orange on the screen so a trained operator will know what to look for said Mr Calwell The van can be operated with one or two people off Its own gas generator and con be set up In Just three minutes It the first entirely portable drug sniffing unit made available apart from Ine 1 rusty canines to Canada Customs sold Mr Calwell Canada Deputy Minister Canada Customs Ruth Hubbard will officially unveil the van at Pear son International Airport at a press conference lomorrow Thursday The van represents a new step for whose employees make walk through metal detectors for airports and quality control X ray detectors for food such as chicken and potatoes at the ft plant on Sinclair Avenue marketing vice president Norm rum a suitcase through a new drug van developed by the GeoTRetown firm The new vans can be set up to operate thru gal generator by one or open tors In Just three Herald photo Norm left vice president marketing snd tin mechanical engineer Corrigan In run a test a new 150 drug tan being developed at the Sinclair Avenue plant The Iwo monitors offer a color and black white Image the Interior of packages or baggage and they con deter mine organic such drugs by the color the Image on the screen making vans for Canada Customs They will officially be unveiled a conference at Pearson International Airport tomorrow Herald photo SALE SAVE 30 o Off Everything In The Store Thurs Dec 8 Fri Dec 9 Sat Dec 10 Only Stcdmans 8532741 17 MILL ST E ACTON ONT