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EDITORIAL Jobs for the jobless

For those who have just graduated from High School, or University and will be entering the job market competition will be stiff, indeed.

One area where there is almost no competition is in the starting up of new businesses to serve needs that are not being met. Here are a few of the types of services and businesses going begging for want of some ambitious person or persons; businesses that can succeed if only the right amount of-intelligence and determination is applied: _

Travelling barber and beautician. Outfit a van with a barber chair and-or hairdresser’s chair and advertise in the surrounding villages that it

will be visiting certain communities on certain days at specific times. Also for shut-ins that need hair dressing and barbering in their private homes. Hair colouring — for men and women as well as hair styling in the privacy of one’s home is also said to be a most profitable business: or sideline. For persons without the training and experience, various methods of financing it and purchasing the necessary equipment is possible.

Team Cleaning. I have mever met a business woman ~ or bachelor — who enjoyed housework. A team of from two to six persons could set upa small business for cleaning apartments — say

‘constani Dp - felt Jack was being taken

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Why does a woman who is beaten stay with her husband? That is a question asked frequently ~ I know because I ask that question too. No man is going to lay a hand on me and get away with it have heard myself say. I will walk out. How many of the women who are now being beaten have said thesame thing. You love the man. Chances are you have a couple of children. The first time he strikes he has been . You tell inking be he nae been

won't do it again ~ but statistics prove you wrong. He will do it again and again,

Mary Jones (not a aa name) grew up in a fa where father made all the decisions. He handled all the money and made all the decisions about the house and the future of the family, Mary's mother was an aquiscent bystander in the

e, Mary's mother constantly told her that being married meant she was to be kept and provided for by her husband, When Mary got married, her husband was also very dominant and possessive.

mistake: One night she ended up in ital and she knew

had to leave. Unfortunately she didn't have any money, Where could she go without money. When her husband found out she was thinking of leaving, he treatened the children. He said he would find her wherever she went and he would hurt the children, She was trapped. Jack Trip (not a real hame) had a wife,who was iy com She

advantage of and was being aver for a promotion ause of his lack of aggressiveness. She wanted abigger house and a nice car Uke the neighbours, She hadn’t had a new dress in a while and her sister was getting married in Ontario and she wanted to go. Jack, feeling very inadequate, started to stop off for a drink before going home. night when his wife was particularly bitchy he struck ber. Not normally a violent man, his frustration coupled with the liquor, was a powerful duo.

A few interesting facts about wife battering. Although no-one has com- pited Canadian figures, in the United States one out of six marriages has a violent

episode. One quarter of all .

marriages has violence of some form. Four percent use a knife or gun in the argument. Of the four percent HALF end up with husband or wife killing each other. Four to five thousand women are beaten to the point of serious injury each

year. A few myths about wife battering. A man is men-

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tally ill if he batters, Wornen enjoy abuse. Wife battering is a lower class phenomena, Being battered is a fom a 3} *

related aggression, which is almost exclusively a male condition. Of the men who ‘drink and beat, some feel that drinking gives them an sympathellcwiten they kaow sympathetic w!

a man has beaten someone while under the influence. Some men have no memory of the beating. Some men know they beat when they ‘have been drinking but seem to be powerless to prevent themselves from doing it. sop those who sad beatiag, stop drinking ? very real help is available

complex, Fear of the un- known, of being alone; where fo go and who will help? Most professionals will encourage the woman to return to the family, Some

women feel their husbands still ‘need’ them. To leave is an acknowledgement of failure. This brings a feeling oi shame, A lot of women are unaware of the alter- natives to being beaten. They really betieve there is mo way out. Some women are afraid their husbands will find them and beat them rea fear petially if’ the eg]

woman doesn’t have the resources to move out of town.

she lays a battery charge, the difficulty is to stay away from her id for three weeks without a further beating. The courts are just not geared to handle the seriousness of the situation. For a woman to move out of the family home is for her to lose out.

Solutions? Immediate

solutions would involve

having an emergency shelter in every community. <A place for the battered to go.

Self-help groups for men and women are a priority. At present there is a group for the men in Vancouver that is working successfully. For the woman to get the protectin. she needs the courts must handle wife battering as a crime and have the handling of the problema strong program in Police training.

Asfor long term solutions - - more research into the complexity of the problem is needed, How widespread?

once a week or every two weeks, to order. Working asa team, anentire apartment could be put in A-1 spice and span order in one hour. Working asa team there is no boredom; jobs can be done more easily; heavy lifting shared, and a more through job performed. Customers can be obtained through newspaper and radio ad- vertising at little or no start-up cost.

This is NOT the same as institutional cleaning, but for the individual single parent who has to work; the shut-in who cannot get around; the bachelor male who looks upon housework as a feminine chore. This has been tried in several

-towns where it has sometimes proved very

successful ~ but it all depends on the initiative of the team, clever advertising — and building up a good reputation,

Have Car Will Travel. This is NOT a taxi service or bus service. The idea is to get the word around by good advertising, to institutions, old age pensioners without cars, shut-ins and handicapped that you are available as an escort

service at so much per hour — wherever possible

by appointment only.

This will require special licencing and in- surance and compliance with various jaws. Sometimes arrangements can be worked out with a charter bus line or limosine.

The persons operating the service get a double reward, once it is operating smoothly ~ the knowledge they are making shut-ins and han- dicapped persons happy, as well as earning a

Is it increasing or just; living. beco There are all types of “personal services” where a little ingenuity could pay off.

ming more visible? More public education — especially through the school orkabsps, Dodiars have ta Ww le ve be educated on how to handle

going to have to be paid to children of viglent homes so they im turn do not become abusive parents.

We are going to have to realize that the Mary Jonea and Jack Trips are very real as is their problem and there is no way the problem is going to be swept ‘under the carpet!.

AP writer describes visit to U.S.S.R.’s Arctic Hell

The Assoelated Press TWZHNO-SAKHALINSK, USSR. (AP) —

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appyoaghed,,..the.. biggest Spproae de: the Russian island of Sakhalin.

it’s an island rarely seen by

foreigners since the

Russians took control after

the defeat of Japan’ in the

Second World War.

After a bumpy ride to our parking spot—the runway was made of large blocks of concrete instead of pavement—the plane was swrounded by guards. But there were no signs of guns.

We had stopped en route from Anchorage to refuel at Kushire, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. We also picked up Swichtchov and feltow-pilot Kourko Kan- Stantin for the 86-minute last leg of our flight.

Swichtchov, the younger of the two men, told us he had guided the U.S. presidential aircraft, Air Force One, to landings when former presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon visited Moscow, -

gear Airport terminal for lunch.

Our hosts took us—the craw af the third and last Alaska International Air flight carrying computer

‘to. Sakhalin—to

this city, and a pair of radar domes crowned a nearby mountain.

From 1881 until 1906, the

the island, known a3 “the land of

We were then taken to the heart of this city of 120,000, travelling along a wide boulevard that ended at the new soccer stadium, an arena with a seating capacity of 10,000.

‘CALL ME JANE’

Our interpreter, who said, “Call me Jane,” told us there are 22 Japanese families on the island and “all of them have become Soviet citizens,’’ The southern half of the island, called Karafuto by the Japa- nese, was occupied by Japan until the end of the war.

The island’s northern tip is at the end of the Amur River, which serves as the Sino- Soviet border along much of its length. The island, 40 kilometres north across La Perouse Strait from the Japanese island of Hok- kaido, also is in a strategic location for monitoring radio communications in Japan,

Antennas could be seen in

‘Island:

the damned,” was a Russian .

penal colony for murderers, robbers and political exiles.

In 1890, Anton Chekhov visited Sakhalin. He claimed: fo have spoken to every resident in preparaton for his only nonfiction work, The A Journey to Sakhalin. He told a friend in 1895: “I have seen Ceylon, which is paradise, and Sakhalin, which is hell.”

In 1905, Japan defeated Russia in the Russo- Japanese war and occupied the southern half of the island.

The Soviet Union regained the southern half of Sakhalin in 145 as part of the agreements of the Yalta. conference, That pact also granted the Soviet Union the Kurile Islands and an occu- pation zone in Korea in ex- change for agreeing to declare war on Japan within three months of Germany's surrender in the Second World War.

Nobody questions this world’s

strongest man

MONTREAL (CP) — The GreatAntoniois so huge that when he says he is the world's strongest man, one doesn’t question the in- formation for fear of being sent to the next room— through the walls, .

Antonio Barichlevich is 52, stands six feet four inches and weighs 510 pounds, He earns a living by

six wrestlers at a time or, as happened recently in Tokyo,

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eating 25 chickens before a

crowd of awed Japanese. He lives in Montreal ne

spends mu e tray

and performing throughout

the world. Proof of hia

travels is contained in a

-plack of news clippings in

various languages, The newspaper photograph shows the Great Antonio in a boxing ring. through the air about him are three Japanese wrestlers who attempted to grapple with the giant. “They were small: boys,”’ he said. “They weigh ... ch... pounds.”

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Born: in Yugoslavia, the came to Canada in 1946 and has been performing feats of strength ever since. He ia brimming with projects, ane of which is to fight Muhammed Ali, but he hasn't been able to set up a match, | KEEP MOVING, ALI

“Ht I fight I catch many. punches, he said in a thick Slavic accent, ‘All fast but nat strong. lf T catch him, I

He doesn’t like ta talk about how much money he has earned, saying only he is ‘very rich.’ A recent acquisition, he said, was a $14,000,custommade Japanese tuxedo,

In the last Few years he has apent much time performing in Japan. He aid that during

one show there nearly four million people had to be ‘turned away at the gate.

“No strong men there, They crazy for me, They can’t find a man like me anywherein world. They pay $16 a ticket to see me.”

In the near future, he said, he will begin work on a movie in India and will play the role of the abominable snowman, His eyes, light up

as he speaks of the movie, .

which he ls convinced will be a box-office hit.

“I will be numero one actor in color picture. All theatres around world fill up when this movie comes out.

knows me. Elvis Presley or Beatles never draw big crowds like me.”

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person with a good camera willing to go door-to- door to take colour photos of children then return later with proois to take orders for them. The door-to-door window-washer, with a ladder on his truck, willing to do” all the windows at a flat rate. (Everyone hates window washing. Few willsay “‘No” -- if the price is right and the jobis good.)

Dress-making and suit-making will always be in demand for the man or woman with a flair for fashion and handy at cutting a pattern. Making children's clothes is another field for the person with a good eye, steady hand, and ability as a semptress.

Did you ever try to get a perfectly good, ex- pensive mirror re-silvered? I did — and was told it would cost more than a new mirror would be worth. There used to be people who would re- silver mirrors and do a splendid job — and at a competitive price. The technique is not supposed to be that difficult to master - and the field is great. No one in the entire Northwest does re- silvering, as far as I know,

The government has published a book listing all the various types and classifications of jobs there is in the country. Quite possibly Em- ployment Services could locate such a list, if asked, or the public librarian would. To getsuch a list, and then check it out against the services that are available in Terrace and Kitimat would help in compiling a catalogue of needed services that are unavailable. One could then narrow down the list to what would appear most prac- tical and rewarding and for which one would be best fitted. It might be a local fish and chip shop, a comic book exchange, a second-hand book store -- or even a luggage repair service! But whatever it was — if it helped provide em- ployment for at least one person for whom there was not a job for, before - it would be well worth- while.

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Ottawa Offbeat

by Richard Jackson

Ottawa,- It had to happen.

As long as Conservative Leader Joe Clark

allowed himself ta be perceived by some sup- ‘porters as associated -- or at least sympathetic ~ .

with the “‘Red Tory” wing of the party, he was asking for trouble, ° .

Or if not exactly trouble, then complications.

The spiritual leader of the ‘‘Red Tories’’ is Flora MacDonald, two-term Conservative MP for the Eastern Ontario riding of Kingston and the Islands.

She and David Macdonald, MP for Prince Edward Island's Egmont riding, and a handful of other “Red Tries”, appeared to dominate the Conservative Parliamentary Caucus through the leadership years of Robert Stanfield.

Stanfield supported the Trudeau government on bilingualism; abolition of capital punishment, and initiated the guaranteed annual income and “Deux Nations” as party policy. —

These four positions gave small ‘‘c” con-

‘servatives little, really, to choos between

Trudeau and Stanfield. .

The “Deux Nations” disaster is gone but not forgotten, since the politically inventive Liberals are working with some success to identify the Conservatives with the Partl Quebecois on the Ottawa-Quebec sales tax issue.

While Joe Clark has never identified himself as a “Red Tory,” neither has he stood noticeably apart from his party’s activist and very vocal left wing. ;

So it comes as no shock that a life-long Con- servative, Lex Miller, proprietor of an Ed- monton chartered accountancy firm, 55, native of Alberta with roots going back two generations, happily married man with three grown children, good-looking, gregarious, and an altogether attractive candidate, has come out with the announcement that he’s opposing Joe Clark in his riding of Yellowhead.

He's running as an “independent” -- actually an independent conservative -- claiming right- wing support from his cwn party, disenchanted Liberals, and leaderless Social Credit.

Joo Clark’s first serious challenger

"“Thave been a Conservative twice as long as Joe Clark,” hesays, ‘And I am running because I feel we don’t have a leader — or even a party -- that stands for the sort of conservative principies to gihich Thave always been committed.”

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“Unqualified support for free enterprise, less. government involvement at all levels of ad- ministration, and a reduction of taxation.”

“I am convinced,” he abserves, ‘that Joe Clark and about 20 of the MPs around him are left not only of a lot of Liberals but even of some New Democrats.” ;

Lex Miller’s credentials are impressive.

He is a successful businessman -- “Joe Clark has never had a reai job outside of politics,” he notes - flew more than four years of World War Two with the RCAF, is an active clubman and a keen sportsman. ;

He cheerfully agrees that he’sa “genuine right wing conservative ~ and there are a great many of us around, especially in Alberta - disa pointed and disillusioned with Joe Clark,”

There is what he describes as ‘‘a great deal of unease in the Western business community -- and I suspect in ihe aa, too i. about the com- . mitment of the party’s leadership and ruling clique to basic conservatism.”

What makes Lex Miller more than your or- dinary long-shot independent. -- and more like Len Jones, the successful independent of Mone- ton -- is his'dedication to what he calls “majority rights,”” _ i.

So it follows that he is a director and a driving force of the “One Canada Association,” which Makes hima spiritual ally of James Richardson, the former Liberal Defence Minister. who ‘quit the Trudeau Cabinet in a rage to head up the

Canadians for One Canada Organization’’ with offices in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Toronto and ~ ottawa. h -

all shapes up as a right-wing unilingual English revolt among both the Liberzls and the Conservatives, :