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The present law governing
abortion is inequitable and puts
responsibility in the wrong place, says
a committee of The United Church of
Canada in a study booklet titled
“ABORTION”, to be released this
week. ,

The study, prepared by a Joint
Committee of the church’s Board of
Evangelism and Social Service and the
Board of Women, elaborates on the
abortion resolutions adopted by the
24th General Council of the United
Church held at Niagara Falls last
January. It is intended, says the in-
troduction, primarily as a guide for the
clergyman-counsellor,

The inequality in the present law
concerns the hospital committee
system, say the authors of “ABOR-
TION”. “The criterion for deciding
whether a woman should be granted an
abortion is inevitably subject to a wide
variety of interpretations, which often
depend more on personal attitudes to
abortion than on medical judgment.
Another serious injustice is the ex-.
treme inequality of access to hospital
committees: The law discriminates

And the lonely voice of youth
said. ..“‘What is truth?”

Already, perhaps, you are thinking
along the lines of another
song...‘‘What’s the matter with these
kid’s today?” Maybe the younger ones} :;.
have started thought on...‘‘The times
they are a changin’.”

Whatever the case or reason for
our mode of living in this twentieth
century...one thing is very, very
clear. Never before has youth stepped
up into the ranks of importance to such
a high level...never before have so
many changes occurred so rapidly.

Ah yes...but these days society
makes a complete changeover in
theme every ten years. Within twenty
years it will be every seven years, far
unlike the slow wheels of progress that
took place some 100 years ago. Today

_ the moon, tomorrow the universe is
not a far fetched thought.

The times they are a changin’.

Many of us distill our minds into
utter chaos and confusion and insist

(perhaps hope) that ‘kids today’ or
‘hippies’ or ‘rebels’ or ‘long-hair
freaks’ will pass in time. This

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against poor and less determined
women, and especially against those
who do not happen to know a sym-
pathetic gynaecologist, or who live in
smaller communities,”’

“Abortion is a highly emotional
topic,’ says the Rev. Arch McCurdy,
Committee Secretary. “It’s a moral
and social issue about which many
people are aganizing in a genuine
attempt to understand the full im-

plications, both for the persons directly .

invelyed and for society at large.

“The United Church did not ap-
prove abortion on demand, as has often
been mistakenly concluded,’ McCurdy
said. ‘‘Nor did it condone abortion as
an acceptable form of population
control.

“It did recognize the value of the
fetus and the right of the child to be
wanted, but nevertheless, affirmed
that abortion is morally justifiable in
certain medical, social and economic
circumstances. The church further
went on to state that abortion should be
a private matter between a woman,
her doctor, and hopefully her partner,’’
he concluded.

Sing for youth.

sometimes hope probably will not
come,

It is often humorous when a long-

haired fellow is approached and ac-
costed by some little (Victoria city

type)‘old lady and the youthful fellow
explains ‘You didn’t like Christ
maybe...either?”

At any rate, that old time
generation gap idea is still with us. It
has been throught that there is ob-

jection to youthful spirit...or perhaps

its only because ‘they’ outnumber.

Of course, more folks associate in
troublesome manner. That old cliche
‘He’s got long hair...she wears
nothing but jeans. ..they must be dope
addicts” is certainly very unfair.

Whatever the case, consider that
these so-called ‘‘adventurers in pursuit
of better ways” are not all bad.
Perhaps we should forget how it was
and give democratic room for
question. That search for new answers
with a possible outcome of Utopia,
something we all seem to so
desperately seek. Ridiculous? Maybe.
But the effort must be recognized.

Nicholson, wife of British Columbia’s
‘Lieutenant-Governor. Proceeds of the
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A Sailor's suicide story ... |
or... How to burn your brains

By RICK MUNRO

Being a Terrace bachelor is
certainly one way of securing
permanent residence here,

The town cemetery is not my
idea of paradise and though I
have seen some more comely
lots in Thornhill, one reaily
cannot be choosey when one is a
bachelor.

If I do in fact remain in the
single status, my life will be
shortlived.

If the sheer loneliness fails in
causing me to tie my boot laces
together and jump far out into
the Skeena River, then the
tomain poisoning will surely
set in. Ct teas

Hither’ "way, ‘the: :-local
undertaker can expectantly
look forward (or look down) to
seeing me in the near
future...(well of corpse).

Ignoring at least the mad
morning scrambles of
existence, we will look at one
evening in a bachelor’s sad life.

Here is what happens just
after a hard day's work.

Our bachelor enters through
the private entrance to his
single bedroom basement suite.
Quietly he descends the
basement stairway and is
carefull not to attract the
landlady’s attention. (This fine
lady ‘already was seen this
morning, screaming for the
overdue rent.)

Just as our bachedlar moves.

through the still darkness and
finds the few remaining slairs,
he accidently steps on a wet
sock, earlier misplaced on wash

y.

Not pausing to ponder the
unusual location of the sock, he
looses his footing and comes
crashing down the remaining
stairs...Not feet first, .not
bottom first, but noggin first he

goes.

Alter regaining
consciousness, he manages to
stumble into the cubbyhole

which he soshamefully calls the

kitchen.

This raom, actually quite
, large in structural size but
made small by strewn about
-artides (including dirty dishes,
brim-full garbage cans, several

- jiving
. stumbling into the bedroom.

pieces of a complete football
suit and bits of unemptied this
and that) is not your average
kitchen. .

Extra letler o’s should be
incorporated into the spelling of
this so-called room, for the
stenchand face-wrinkling odour -
of the place would bring the
sound of pain to anyone's
lips...‘ooo000000...."”

Head banging from the fall
down those stairs, aur bachelor
fumbles through last week's
dinner left overs in order to
discover the bottle containing
ASA headache tablets.

“Ah ha,’ he cries, finding
the pills suspended in the roast
beef gravy.: ~

Using the cleanest available
kitchen utensil - a peanut butter
covered paring knife - he frees
the bottle of pills.

Pills in band, he then replaces
the insert of gravy.

Then trying his luck at
opening the safety designed
bottle lid, he again looses
control of the situation,

Pills begin falling from
heaven. As a result of the
unsuccessful opening, each pill
lands some distance from
another.

Some, however, meeting
sticky acquaintance with the
ceiling (believed to be an overly
flipped flap-jack), fail to land at
all

Our bachelor at this point
would have then taken ‘the
paring knife and smeared
peanut butter all about his neck.
Due to the dirty condition of the
knife, the latter circumstance
could not have been avoided as
our bachelor attempted to slide
the knife’s blade from one side |
of his neck to the other.

In our observation we note —
that this unfortunate attempt at
suicide would undoubtedly have
occurred had the paring knife in

mention not vanished in the - |

pudding.
Without exageralting one

single point, we see our half-

bachelor slowly

Sleep apparently is the only”
cure for his ills...the only sun in
a dark world,...

He partially —_ lies down on

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the bed, but locking around,
cannot lovate the bed sheets and
blankets. After giving up the
search, he plunks his head down
- right on to the other misplaced
wet sock, (What a pair they
make.)

So you see, the bachelor is a
misfit. Have you ever head of a
married man say “gosh, if T
were only single again.” Well
don't believe him, Tam sure the

-man has either forgotten ‘the
hassles and tribulations of
bachelorhoad or either his
intellectural level of
competence has slipped down a
few pegs over the years.

Take the case of our bachelor.
After finally getting to sleep he
is shortly awakened by a
nightmare, in which dirty pots

and pans keep being hurled his
way. The days of counting sheep

for him are gone; the days of °

counting dirty, unwashed pieces
of underware are here.

Watch our bachelor. he
somehow makes his way
through the basement mess and
reaches his landlady’s section
of the house.

Never before has the bachelor
seen sucha degree of ugliness in
anyone’s daughter, but never
before has he acted with such
swiftness.

“Landlady,”’ he pleads, “I'll
marry your daughter, I cannot
bear to live the life of a bachelor
any longer.”

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 19718

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home

‘Mrs. Don Thomson of Scot@®
- accidently

’ object

Harriet # :

A local source this week ga
a press release concernin
Harriet, the Terrace Turtle. .
According to the release
believed'to have come from

Avenue in Terrace, Harriet was
found - ‘afte
reportedly being missing forg
three months.. : ;
_In the release — dated
September 18, the followingy
statement came: .&-

This afternoon while shaking Bias
a dusting cloth off the porch ota
the back of the house, Mrs.
Thomson reported seeing ale
strange green object making i
it's way through the jungle of]
the uneut lawn.- On closerg
inspection the small cookie jim
shaped creature turned cut toza®
be Harriet, the pet of Miss Vikki ia
Thomson, now residing inj
Rimouski, Que. ac

Mrs. Thomson was - S0-@%
surprised that she didn't believe iam
it and calmly returned to the Siam
house to put away the duster.. Hay
This accomplished, Mrs. T. @
returned again to the site of the
sighting, and sure enough the Bay
appeared - again,
struggling manfully on.

This time Vikki’s mother
decended to the lawn and
scooped up the errant turtle, ia
and placed it in it’s old home Gia
together with some fresh raw Sag
hamburger.

The turtle was famished and
ate heartily, after which it
enjoyed a long sleep submerged
to it’s. nese in water.

At last report the turtle had
awakened and was eyeing the am
remains of the feast with new @&
interest, _ ;

The FINDING OF HARRIET ;
is remarkable in that she had J
been missing for nearly three
months, and. since turlles im
cannot swallow out of water, Baia
and she was nol neara stream, 2
she probably has not eaten at all |
inthat time. Since Terrace had . 3
a remarkably dry summer
Harriet probably went into
hibernation, and was awakened
by the recent tain, and when
discovered was probably in #%
quest of her first square meal in 2
months, _ 7

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