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Poor
ol’ Joe

By ANDREW PETTER
Herald staff writer
Well pardner, I hear that

Joe Clark is coming to town.

You know Joe-Maureen

McTeer’s husband.

'  He’s the one that got
hisself. elected leader of the
Progressive Conservative

_ Party (never did un-
derstand that name- all it
does is contradict itself).

Now when Joe was
‘elected, folks was asking
themselves “Joe who?” But
now I reckon that most
people is wondering more
along the lines of ‘‘Joe
why?”

You see when Joe told his
party that he was planning

lead them out of the
wilderness, I don’t figure
they knew that he meant to
take them right into a bog.

But that’s what he did,
and now Joe and the part;
are sinking and sinking fast.

What Joe can’t seem to
understand is how a good ol’
boy who is loved by all the
folks down in High River
could have got hisself into a
situation like this.

After all, he’s done
nothing wrong. In fact, he’s
done nothing at all, just like
Dalton and them boys told
him to. i
. Oh sure, he went on some
fancy visit to Europe and
- got his picture took with all
sorts of dignitaries just to
show us at home how im-
portant he was and ail, but

was very careful not to
say anything controversial.

And he was real nice to
them guys and gals in the
press, He shook their hands
and told them what a good

~job--they- were~doing.~-He~-F-*

even got Maureen to go
_along with him when he

visited one place and

another. .

So what went wrong?

Well, at first nothing. In
the beginning everything.
was just Jim Dandy. The
polls were showing Joe well
ahead of Pierre.

It seemed that the less he
said, the better he did. And
with Joe, the more he spoke,
the less he said. -

He wasn't for wage and
price controls but he wasn't
exactly against them either.

He didn’t like unem-
ployment much, but he
wasn't about to let on as to
what he wanted to do about
it. The only thing Joe did
feel really strongly about
was Pierre. He didn't like
Pierre one tick, and he
wasn't afraid to say so
either. .

But then -everything
started to go sour.. For one,
thing, the press were
sometimes downright un-
pleasant, Especially about
that tiff he had over which
riding he was planning to
run in in the next election.

Then, of course, Rene had
the nerve to win in Quebec
and everybody stopped
listening to how much Joe
was ticked off at Pierre,
since they were more .in-
terestedin how much Pierre’
was ticked off at Rene.

And finally, to. add insult
to just bad iuck,.that Horner
fellah gets difficult and tells
everyone how he prefers
Pierre to Joe. Well Joe
thought that was plain rude
and he told Horner so, but it
didn't make n6é difference.

What it all adds up to. is
that Joe is in-one heap of
trouble. Pierre just won a
whole pile of byelections
back east and the polls show
that Joe is fast disappearin
into that bog 1: mentione
earlier.

Pretty soon he'll be in
over his head, which is the
way some folks figure he
started out. -

I don’t know, he seems
like a nice enough fellah:

And it ain’t that he's done _

anything wrong. It just
seems that he can’t do
anything right either.

HAWKERS SAY “YES” _

Prince Rupert porn good for the public

_ PRINCE RUPERT, -b.i
(CP) — The crown attorn:.
in a provincial court por
nography trial asked for .
three-month adjournmer:
Thursday to prepare a reps
to the defence’s contentio:.
that obscene literature ma)
be good for the public.
Crown prosecutor Wintoi:
Derby asked for the ad

journment in the trial of six

ae

with them before. :

great in Watercolor...

He was inspired to take them up
because he saw a flower ina friend’s
back yard. He thought it would look

“Tt was an exciting idea to paint it in |

Prince Rupert shopkeepers.
charged with possession ot.
obscene literature for the
purposeof sale,*so that he
could prepare cross-ex-
amination.
Defence lawyer Don
Silversides based his
argument on a criminal
code subsection which
states that no person shall
be convicted of an offence if

it is established that public

good was served by the =

alleged offence,

Silversides introduced

expert testimony to support.

his . argument that
distribution of obscene

‘literature was in the public

You can take Comfort — |
in these water |

‘By JoANNE AMES a
Herald staff writer .

Dave Comfort has been working with

water colors since October of last year.

He had never done a great deal of work

colors

interest.
Defence witness Dr. Ehdr
Boyanowsky, associate

professor of criminology at
Front page feature .

' (CP) =

Columbia premier said he

watercolours, so that’s where I began.”
The painting will, in fact, be in the show.
~ Working ‘in watercolors is a com-
pletely different proposition than
working with oil paints. With water
colours, the work has to be done right
“the first time’’, because the paints are
transparent, as compared to oils which
are.opaque. - :

Basically, that means you can paint
over a color in oil ad mix or erase it.
With water colors, nothing can be
painted over. Everything is visible.

“You have to plan a lot more,” says
Dave. “I usually get it right the first
time. I very seldom crumple up paper
-and start again.”

“Water colors are much thinner than
oils. It’s a much more delicte process to
paint with them.” -

Dave starts with a sketch. He does
most of his work indoors, in his
basement... He has averaged one
pairiting a week for the last while, and
wishes he ‘had done more.

He decided to have a show because
someone saw his work and asked when

_', frames and Jol
* frami

he would have one, At that point, he had-

BE : 4 fee te
Local. artist Dave Comfort

three paintings. The steady work of this
winter will bring us the total of his work,
3 paintings. —

Most of the paintings are outdoor
seenes ‘or objects. They have been
framed by John and Judy Dickson, Judy,
doing the staining and preparation of the

oing the actual

ng.
Dave Comfort extends his thanks to °
both of them, ‘They've been good to me.
Even the Indian pipe first painted was
growing in their back yard.”

The show will be in the library
basement arts room.

The show will be open to the public

“I~ Gravel and a group of U.S.

beginning Saturday. ,

“NO ALTERNATIVE”-MUNRO

IWA to condu

‘VANCOUVER (CP) —

ct strike vote

Today's High: 14 Low: §
Forecast: cloudy with
showers. Possibility of
sunny periods on Saturday.

The International Wood-
workers of America (IWA)
will conduct a strike vote
among its 43,000 British
Columbia workers before
Jute 15, Jack Munro, the
union’s western regional
president, said today. ;

Munro. said in an in-
terview the union ‘thas no
alternative’? because em-
ployers are indicating they

_ ‘Inay not be willing to pay

even the six per cent in-

crease allowed -under

federal anti-inflation board
regulations, ‘

The union's main con-
tract, covering about 28,000

coast employees, expires
June 15. The Southern in-
terior contract expires June
30 and the Northern Interior
contract expires Aug, 31,

Munro said no date has
been set for a strike vote,
although ballots have been
printed,

“Tt looks like the em-
ployers in B.C., particular]
those in our industry, will.
not negotiate in good faith
this year unless a strike vote
is-taken," Munro said.

The attitude of employers
is “more callous and less
serious than any set of
negotiations I've been in,”

he added. “They are not

only saying they are not
prepared to exceed the six
per cent guidelines, but are
not sure they can give that
much. ;

“Our membership is not
prepared to be pushed
around by the. employers’
tomfoolery. Hopefully we
will now get down to serious
bargaining."

Tuesday in New West-
minster, Gerry Stoney,

esident of the district
labor council and head of the
IWA’s. New Westminster
local, told the council his

‘union has not resolved a.
single contract issue with’
the forest industry em-

Simon Fraser University,
told the court studies that
were conducted in the last
nine years show por-
nography is not ail bad.
He said the 1965
legalization of erotic
ublications in Denmark
s been responsible for a 57
per cent decrease in the in-
cidence of child molestation
in that country, and has

acted as a therapeutic aid to
sexually failing marriages.

Literature becomes a
substitute sexual object to
the potential sex -offender,
he said. '

After Boyanowsky’s testi-
mony, Derby said the
defence had never been
heard in Canada and the
researchreferred to is fairly
new. -

LTerby told Judge E. J.
Cronin he had inadequate
knowledge of the subject to
effectively  crossexamine
Boyanowsky.

“This subsection has
never been used a8 a
defence to this charge and I
think it is significant enough
to bear careful = in-
vestigation.”

BOWS TO PRESSURE
Bennett scraps |
-~budworm spray —

‘ COURTENAY, B.C.
The British
Columbia government has
postponed its controversial
spruce budworm spray
program for at least a year.
In an extremely unusual
move, Forests Minister Tom
Waterland was overruled by
his cabinet colleagues, who
decided Thursday a new
pesticide act is needed
‘ore the program can go
ahead. ,
Despite numerous
protests from en-
vironmentalists, the
‘government had planned to

spray 52,000 acres of mber

BARRETT-TO ALASKA =

NDP oil initiative

VICTORIA (CP) — Op
position Leader Dave
Barrett announced today he’
will hold a three-day
meeting in. Acnhorage,
Alaska, with public officials
and leading citizens. to
discuss transportation of
northern resources,

The former British

will meet with former
governor William A. Egan
and former United States
Interior Secretary Walter J.
_Hickel and other members
of the Organization for the
Management of Alaska
Resources (OMAR) Friday
to discuss pipeline, con-
struction.

Barrett said he will also
meet’ with Senator . Mike

congressmen who are
members of the House Spe-
cial Investigating Com-
‘mittee for ska and the
House Subcommittee on
Indian Affairs and -Public
Lands. .

He said the overall theme
of the meetings will be “a
modified way-out
program,” the discussion of
ways to move natural
resources, especially oil and
natural gas, by rail instead
of other methods. —_ss-

The New Democratic
Party Jeader, who will be
travelling ‘with Bob Skelly
NDP—Alberni), his party's

ployers..
Workers want a

are not prepared to wait for
a contract in the hope

’ Stoney said he believes a
settlement is Possible by
July 1, but added that the
record of recent settlements
in the province has proved a
strike vote is necessary to
make employers bargain
seriously.

Stoney stressed he was
making an unofficial report
on forest industry
negotiations and was not
speaking officially for the
union.

on the east sidé of the
Fraser River valley bet-
ween Boston Bar and Yale
with two chemicals—Sevin-4
oil and orthene.

Waterland told a preas

conference here after a

special cabinet meeting he
ie highly disappointed with
the decision and firmly.
believes the spraying should
still go ahead. .
“Another year’s damage

to immature timber will.
have to be accepted in order .

to provide for appeal
pr to be set out in
the new pesticide act,” the
minister said. -

environment critic, said he
will be presenting a

“detailed, thoroughly re-
ific brief proposed Kitimat pipeline to

searched and
to the Alaskan leaders.”

FEST

Environment Minister
Jim Nielsen said the
decision wasn’t based on
environmental aspects of
the program, but rather on
legal concerns.

He said there is currently
no legislation setting out
adequate appeal procedures
whereby concerned groups
can officially register their

objections to such
programs.
. A pesticide act, as recom-

ended by a royal com-
ion on herbicides and
pesticides, will be in-
roduced in the legislature
later this year, Nielsen said.

He said it would only take
10 trains a day from Alaska
to equal the capacity of the

Edmonton,

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The six merchants were
charged in mid-March after
a series of raids by city
RCMP.

Selgeant Gordon Mac-
Dougall, head of the general
investigation section,
: that the raids
followed citizens’ com-
plaints about the display of
obscene literature.

As recently as Tuesday
Waterland told'a small
group of demonstrators
protesting the spray
program in Victoria that the
spraying would go ahead.

jelsen told reporters
Thursday that the protests
concerning the program had

no effect on the cabinet’s
decision.
The spraying was

scheduled to go ahead this
month. .

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ATTEMPTED
RAPE CHARGE

The RCMP have charged
a 24-year-old Terrace man
with attempted rape after
an. incident involving a 16-
year-old girl.

The alleged offense took
place last Sunday a few
miles west of Terrace.

Charged is Gerald Sims.

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wage controls will be ended. ~

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‘ Meet our carriers

Debbie, Lisa and Dwayne Ellwood
(left to right) are three of the 94
_ youngsters who deliver our paper.
The girls deliver in the Skinner,
Walker, Simpson and Clore areas.
‘Dwayne delivers in the Hagen and
Mist areas. Like Fern Marchildon,
who was featured in yesterday's

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paper, they have been having
problems with dogs. Residents are
requested to tie up their dogs or the
carriers will not deliver the papers.

Subscriptions to the Herald are $3 a
month and carriers will begin to
canvass next week. They receive $]
for each subscription they sell.

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