PAGE 4 ED VAN DER LEELIE MANAGING EDITOR GORDON HAMILTON PRODUCTION P.O. BOX 399, Published five days a week at 3112 Kalum Street; Terrace, B.C. A member of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publisher's Association and Varied circulation. Authorized as second class mail Registration number 1201. Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed, 3712 KALUM STREET TERRACE, B.C. the herald==—_ PUBLISHED BY NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED GEORGE T. ENGLISH ASSISTANT EDITOR MARY OLSEN ADVERTISING Telly not dead yet In its controversial report on the mass media, the Senate committee, chaired by Keith Davey, con- cluded...economic laws inexorably favored...an evolution towards open or disguised monopoly situations ir the daily newspaper field... The committee added in the case of Toronto this sybiline observation which today appears prophetic: ‘‘The only factor which, in itseif, could destroy a newspaper like The Telegram would be that advertisers come Lo believe that The Telegram is a second newspaper in many homes. In such a case, they would refuse to ad- vertise at a high cost in Fhe Telegram and its slice of the advertising market would without doubt crumple pitiably." George McCullough and John Bassett had dreamed of producing a high quality newspaper, in several respects, success crowned their ef- forts... . Notwithstanding this progress, The Star continued, under the vigoraus direction of Beland Honderich, to in- crease its lead over The Telegram... The Telegram in 1969 and 1970 was hit with losses of the order of $1 million a year. A deficit at least as great was foreseen for 1971, Faced with these facts, John Bassett...decided to cease publication soon. One can deplore the unilateral, sudden, apparently irrevocable character of this decision... In a foreseeable gesture, the president of The Star deplored the news and declared his own newspaper acknowledged the added responsibility which falls on it. These propositions cannot take the place of the guarantee of liberty and diversity which the presence of two rival organs in the same field of activity represented. The Telegram has not yet closed its doors...Before the decision is put into effect, is it not possible at least to give its contributors, as well as other groups, a chance for a_ last examination? : For the Montreal public, this development in the richest region of ihe country invites reflection. ..How long can the three French-language newspapers which compete in the morning field continue to suffer the fragmentation of revenues and ar- tificial multiplication of costs which derive from this situation? Claude Ryan “Yankee We've never said it before, and as a generalization we wever will say it. But specifically to John Wayne we gladly say: ,: “Yankee go home,” 7g The king of the phoney wars sails his old warship into Victoria and anfidunces that the proposed Amchilka nuclear blast is none of Canada’s business. What rubbish. Mr. Wayne needs a new script-writer. We nominate John Donne. He's not contemporary, but his message is. In the sixteenth century he knew, as Mr. Wayne apparently does not yet, - that no man is an island, and‘ that what diminishes one man diminishes us all, Instead Mr. Wayne prefers the dated rhetoric of the Cold War. The Amchitka blast must go ahead because the U.S. must be “better prepared than everyone" lo deal with ‘the Commies,” . How much ‘“‘better prepared than everyone” must the U.S. BE? It can already wipe out the world, as the Russians can. Nothing official from the Atomic Energy Commission or the U.S. Government tells us why the Amchitka test is essential to anything. There is enough evidence available that the +e ‘fenerated by recent French tests in the South go home’ Amchitka test, while bigger than the last there, is smaller than many the Russians have carried out without.serious damage. aan ., Buried far indéreround, the explosion will not a ‘oduce the sort of radioactive air pollution Pacific. And while it is possible to praduce a theoretical case that an earthquake may be triggered, ora - tidal wave, or leakage of radio-active elements intotheocean, computer studies, checked and rechecked, show the possibility is infinitesimal. To those who have done the most study, it is unthinkable that there will be major immediate results. But in a world that seems genuinely, if slowly, gearing for disarament in a world that soon expects to be rid of the Vietnam war, there is a strong moral objection to continuing such elaborate weapon tests. Somebody must take the lead in signifying that the world has now developed past this barbarous age. . President Nixon should take the lead in this. He should ban the test - not because of the - hysterical talk of earthquakes and tidal waves, but because of the moral stature he and his country ‘would thus gain throughout the world. MaryEtlen Redd of Terrace. ' PEACEFUL AND SERENE, this creek just outside Vander hoof as captured 7 ‘ an celluloid by. TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. _ TUESDAY, SEP"EMBER 22, 179 +e - = |. {f) ; : ! Ke ul . acnr) - ; | : Nyy ! LA ‘ Ls, hy a Mt] - a) a “ ioe Tag aey # ' ‘ ( an £4 : . m F . ay DIS y , b> < fant = wD ie — wr &) A PEN Hl ES j a hay }: a \ ‘ {} a i ef; oP \ . " malt ; i fi — =! on - i he ii ve ad al i OAR I ie! Je E ju We. 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