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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

My two cents’ worth ty sy vandoreuctt

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
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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
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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) —

re ic .bmiled.and teld.

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,

Published by
Sterling Publishers

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.”

225 *

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.”

The

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.”

; as?

“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, :