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Dont kill the messenger

Newspapers are accused of creating controversy so often that the suspicion of many people that the media has gotten out of control and become a conspiracy

within itself is

almost

useless to deny.

But what many critics fail to see is that the media is simply reporting controversies, real or imagined, which have been stirred up by other people for a variety of reasons, the most common of which is

headline-grabbing.

A good example of this is last week’s furor over the health and human resources centre we've all been waiting for. Terrace council didn’t know anything about it when questioned at a public meeting. The closest they came to imparting any concrete in- formation was to speculate on the accuracy of various

reports which had

thestatus of rumor.

Interest sparks at any time there is enough con- fusion and in no time ar all we had An Issue.

Nobody wanted to talk about it and nobody wanted to ne quoted. It took an telephone call to a Victoria bureacrat to unearth the information that everything was fine, really, and Terrace would get the facility, as

planned, except that construction would be d

for five months.

Another controversy bit the dust and another mountain is scaled down toa molehill. But it’s our job to report what the power people in this townare saying even when it is the type of petty bickering so prevelent in small town politics.

We cannot chose to print only what appears credible or responsible to us.

So unless it’s the service you're complaing about, don't bliam the waiter if the cook got the order wrong.

ape weet

Citizens urge

moral law

Special to the Herald

A 20,000 signatured petition for the retention of moral law in legal reform is to be presented to the Canadian parliament this fall by the United Citizens for Integrity, a Vancouver- based non-political and non- sectarian organization co- chaired by Rev. Bernice Gerard, a Pentecostal minister, and Rev. Robert Birch, a Reformed Episcopal clergyman.

The petition, supported, h by evangelical church groups fa British Columbia, specifically requests that hard-core depicting deviance and violence be prohibited, that public advocacy and assertion of homosexuality continue under the law to be iHegal, that literature promoting genocide, illegal drugs, and sadism be banned, andthat adult- oriented material be restricted from minors.

ACRAAN

widely the

pornography.

A protest. this summer against the illegal takeover by nudists of several miles of the West Point Grey beach in Vancouver, drew nation-wide attention. to the Citizens. Many credit their influence as one of the strong factors in the recent provincial crackdown on ehild and violent pronography. Two Van- couver aldermen serve on the Board of Directors; Bernice Gerard for Van- couver city, and Stlela Jo Dean of North Vancouver.

“We believe freedom from exploitation is a civil right,"’ stated Miss Gerard,

- “and citizens should not be

have their conscience in-

sulted or their community undermined by the mer- chandisers of violence and filth, We are one of the many concerned groups in Canada and the United States who believe in religious principles of in- tegrity, community responsibility, brotherhood, moral purity, and social justice.”

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“Do you think the current economic policies will do anything fo ease the overall unemployment picture and dampen inflation?”

Good restaurant help a rare find

MONTREAL CP-The biggest problem in the resaurant industry is tinding competent personnel and Montreal restaurant Maurice Novk says “thye’s getlinas rare as the seafood in the sea.”

Novek, owner of the two Pavillion de PAtlantique restaurants-one here and one in Ottawa-says the problem is worse in Ottawa because the restaurnat business there has started to expand only during the last | couple of years.

His Ottaw restaurant opened last year, and thone here in 1969.

Novek,35, went into the business at the agoe of 13 when he had to quit

Business spotlight

schoold because the fanily needed money.

He says the days of grande cuisine are receding, even in Europe, because people will not go into the service industry anymore.

Novek sees a trend in the industry toward specialty restautants and away from full-service operation.

He said the secret behind many successful restaurants is that hey have only have three or four items on the meny.

Novek decided to specialize in seafood after he tool over running the restaurant in the Altantic Provinces Pavilion in 1968, during

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Ottawa Offbeat

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the first year of Man and His World. He also does consulting work and was askeda to evaluate the food

_ concession bids for Mirabel In-

ternation Airport and for the new Calgary Internatiol Airport.

#1 do consulting for the challenge you don’t get in a day-to day operation,” he said.

Novek says people are spending less in restaurants because of th slow economy. .

At the same time, the price of seafood is escalating.

“There are no controls and the product is getting rarer and more difficult to get.”

Asking the inconceivable

BY RICHARD JACKSON

Ottawa- It's just about politically impossible to. question the necessity of preserving and protecting national unity,

at least it is across English Canada.

But it’s equally politically im- possible not to suspect the motive behind the federal government's deication to it.

And both the Conservatives and the New Democrats are suspicious,

It’s not so much that the Liber are merley soft-talking the unit game--but making few moves~while leaving most of the action and initiatives to Quebec Premier Rene Levesque. ;

Although that’s cause enough for wonder.

What really has the Tories and New Dems upset is that while the Liberals are saying little and doing less about unity, they’re doing nothing about the eceonomy.

Conservative baer Joe Clark and NDP Leader Ed Broadbent both have hinted that what little talking the Liberals are doing about unity is intended to cover up their silence on

’ inflation, unemployment and the fading dollar.

The Liberals are not talking, much less moving on the economy because they’re possessed-no obsessed is the better word for it-- with national untiy.

‘Buffer fund to smooth trade ineq

UNITED NATIONS CP-Establishing a so-called ‘“‘common fund’ to stabilize prices of commodities on an international scale likely will be a long and politically difficult process,

Next November in Geneva, under the auspices of the UN, industtralized countries of the north and developing states of the south will start crucial negotiations for a multi-commodity buffer ‘und.

The basic concept of the fund is simple. It owuld be used to smooth price fluc- tuations commodities-a group of primary products exported heavily by the south.

Amaxmum and mimimum price would be set for each commodity covered by the fund. If a commodity’s market price exceeded the ceiling, the fund would sell from its stockpile of that commodity. If the price fell below the minimum, the fund would buy the commodity.

Agreement in principle to establish the fund was one of the positive results of the 18-month North-South dialogue that exided in Paris last June.

Government: House leader Allan

But not entirely, suspects two- term Conservative MP Stan Darling of. Ontario’s cottage country .con- stituency. of Parry .Sound-Muskoka, because they think unity is in the best interests of the nation.

But Also because it is in the best interests of the federal Liberal Party,

It means power for the Liberals and to them power always have been everything.

The way Stan Darling sees it, Prime Minister Trudeau's recent outburst against the media on the unity.issue—he thinks it is somtimes divisive, and . in Qubec unquestionable it is-and his ob- session with Quebec result from the pressure of the group that so tighly controls the Liberals Party.

And that group, as every election-- except for John Diefenbaker’s two surprise upsets-shows, is the powerful bloc of Quebec MPs.

The Quebec bloc bestows power upon the Liberals, and perhaps as a disciplinary measure, only twice in the last. nearly 40 years has with- drawn it. Quebec Liberals know their power and so does the Party.

It has been Stan Darling’s on-the- spot observation that ever since Rene Levesque won Quebec provincially last Novemeber, the Liberals have been panicking.

Both the power-controlling Quebec Liberal ‘‘tail’’ and the paryt “‘dog’’ it wags across all Canada, realizes

better than anyone that Quebec separation would kill them for all

ime.

Quebec made the “Liberal Party. and the Power” and Quebec can break it. ;

Therefore national unity hecame the instant Libera] bandwagon wa necessity,

A bandwagon to be jumped aboard, buhnmoa bandwagon to. be pushed too vigorously lest that live- or-die-by-it basic Quebec support might be alienated.

On that basis, then, the Liberal motive must be ar least partially self-serving.

The national untiy also serves the national interest becomes for the Liberals little more than a fortunate coincidence.

And a desperate attempt to maintain power. in Ottawa, power born in and captive of Quebec for rul across the rest of the country.

It is Clark's and Broadbent's contention that at least some time and energy be expended in coping with inflation and unemployment.

The way the expenditures of still unaccounted hundreds of millions of dollars to achieve Pierre Trudeau’s aim of a made-over bilingual Canada could be tapered off and English restored to its rightful place in, yes, even Quebec, and in Eastern and Northern Ontario, the National Capital distric, and parts of the West were “French Power” is becoming incresingly aggressively assertive.

ci Interpreting the News

Voice of the readers

~ Tf offended — don’t play

Regarding the writing about Sexism on the Baseball Diamond in Tuesday’s paper, about the inscriptions on the plaques.

Tplayed in the tournament on the weekend. Our team was mixed and almost every team which entered was

mixed. _

Most of these inscriptions wer decided by the teams themselves and were all aware of them at the outset.

Plaques with the in- scriptions like: best-built team, team with the best legs and so on, were not handed to any one girl in- dividually. They were given to the team.

Soif any girl was offended by the inscription, they have been playing.

Another thing, the girls that played in the tour- nament played voluntary to get us out and play_some sports with the guys. I think every girl that played in the tournament had a good

time.

If any of the other female contestants have been hurt or offended by the in- scriptions, please stand up

one, am not.

One Female Ball Player's opinion

Metric change too profitable

Re Conversion Kits’ for some makes of cars.

In recent years issue of the Province, it was stated in an article that dealers were charging a dollar for these little pieces of paper that you could stick on the outside of your speedometer to. show the equivalent of miles to kilometers. It was also mentioned that one dollar was considered a high price. In Sept. issue fo Chatalaine, Motorists were informed that hese. stick-on decals were retailing at a cost of about two dollars in most stores and a grease pencil could be used as a cheaper method.

Why inHeaven’s name, are Ford dealers allowed to

charge $5.89 for this same article, $5.50 plus 39 cents tax? Since its beginning I have seen the Wage and Price controll roll back wages for teachers and many others; they make sure the guide lines are adhered to in Union set- tlements, but where do the ‘Price Controllers’ hide out, or what is their function?

Prices are still allowed to run rampant, while wages, disability pesions, govern- mental public services, etc., are curtailed.

If some dealers can sell thises for $1.00, then the wholesale cost must have been less. 100 per cent mvk- vx is outrageous, but 500 per cent or more? Itstinks! !!!.

Pipeline no benefit

From the announcement

. ‘of.the details of the Alaska

Highway pipeline it is ob- vious that the Provincial Government has failed to negotiate any long term benefits for Northern British. Columbia and that.

this pipeline will be yet:

another instance of a one shot .effort which shall benefit primarily Southern Canada and the United States. The Provincial coffers will expand greatly from the various provincial taxes which will be egvkedd this money shall then be paid into general revenue where it. shall be spent mainly in the southern portion of this province.

Of the juobs to provided by the pipeline the .vast majority will be providide to southerners who will flock to the north by the thousands and a requiement of union

membership will ensure that few norhterners obtain employment.

It we are to prevent this pipeline from being yet another instance of northern exploitation for the benefit _ of those ‘voters residing in “ the lower mainland then the « elected officials of the north upon the following: - (a) That the province from the millions of dollars which will be received, establish a northern development fund to protect northern minicipalities, from the cost of the pipeline and to en- courage long term northern development; (b) That the B.C. Government guarantee that a percentage of the jobs available will be reserved for northerners. Your very truly, ANDREW P.SCHUCK Mayor Fort Nelson B.C.

Grand piano

Our Vanderhoof Com- munity. Grand Piano. Fund Committe is sponsoring. its second. annual Oil Time Fiddlets’ Contest on Saturday; Septmeber 24th, Tegistrationat 3:00 p.m. The grand piano.was pur- chased three weeks ago and we need funds for con- struction of locked storage and also for its tran- sportation from Vancouver.

" We would be grateful if you would publicise our old

time fiddlers’ contest, it was lots of fun last year and we hope to do as well this year.

In return for a donation to the fund, large of small, supper. will be served by the committee in the hall.

Fiddlers planning. to at- tend should sendtheir name address and telephdéne number to Cynthia Thompson, Box 510, Van- derhoof. B.C,... V0J-3A0 telephone 567-9028.

Thank you for your help.

uities

MacEiachen of Canada, co-cjairman of the North-South talks, sald at an the UN on Uesday .that he found it somewhat bewildering that the developing countries generally did not appreciate how far the North had gone in agreeing to such an important step as the common fund. “Before it had been reached, it was held up as one of the great requirements of the new international economic order,” MacEachen sald. ‘But nice the decision

was made that we will have a common -

fund,. it has lost its importance as a priority.'”

In his speech to the UN General Assembly the same day, Mac Eachen warned. the developing nations that if positive results achieved in Paris' went recognized, “the political atmosphere in the future may not be conducive to further positive steps.”

The forum of the common fund negotiations in Geneve will be the UN Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD, dominated by the poor nations by virtue of thelr numbers,

At Paris, the buffer-fund issue was

seen. Norhit’s willingness to take major steps to help overty-stricken nations of the Third World. In Asia, Africa and Latin America, there aresome 50 million prople barely able to stay alive. At least 10,000 people die in the world each day from stravation. . A

. There obviously are pitfalls in any commondity agreements, and many such schemes have failed.. In general,either too little money is available to protect the orice floor, ot the stock of commoditites is hold the price celling.

The major long-lasting agreement of this type has been the international tin agreement. But several times in the last 2u years, the price of tim has been so low that it put the fund’s cash reserves in danger. Supplementary export controls were needed. Now the.problem is on the upside. The buffer’s tin stock ahve been exhausted for months, and the tine price

above ceiling.

But Washington supporters of the ida say the new buffer would work better than the others because it would cover far fewer than the 18 commodities to be covered,

-Tmulti-national

Supporters claim the fund would be able to reduce the volatility of commodity prices and in turn encourage investment in commodity production. .. In thier eyes, it also would lessen the likelihood of a big surge in commodity prices, such as occured in 1972-74, and thereby help to moderate inflation. — But Citibank, a major New York a bank, says in its Sep- tember economic newsletter that this line of arguement disregards the chief cause of the pressures of the 1972-74 commodity

m. “Most of the pressures that produced that exposion stemmed nor from the

_ supply side but from runaway demand-

triggered by the rapid acceleration in growth.of money stocks in 1971-73.

“(4 disregard for monetary factors also mars the arguement that a buffer would lead to more investment in commodity production. The fact is that, in the last few years, investment has slaskened around the world in many industries. This slackining is due to excess capacity in some secotrs. But it also reflects the uncertainties caused by erratic monetary: policis pursued by major mations.”