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VERONICA LOWRIE

Tells Rotary why
she wants to go

Veronica Lowrie, a Grade 11 student from
Calendonia Sr. Secondary, will be traveling to
Ottawa fo see the nation’s parliament building
from May 13 to May 17. ;

She Is the winner of the Rotary Club speaking
contest held recently in Terrace. The following Is
the speech she gave fo Rotary:

by Veronica Lowrie

Why would I like to go to Ottawa?

I wish first to extend my thanks to members of
the Rotary Club for providing this opportunity
for students to compete for funding for a visit to
Ottawa. The generosity of the club Is well-known,
especially In its support of educational prolects:
and the successful competitor will be sure to

‘derive great educational benefits from thls
. award,

Naturally, the educational value of the visit is
the one that Is perhaps most obvious and most
appealing for a person of my age. | have never
seen Ottawa and to see the government through

actual experience would be far more beneficial .

than learning it through television, text books
and from what teachers have told me. None of
these are an adequate substitute for first hand
knowledae. ;

The visitor to Ottawa is bound to be struck by
all that If stands for and all that it. is: a
monument of Canada’‘s history and traditions, a
symbol of its political freedom, the center of law
and government, and the heart of, one hopes, a
strong confederation of provinces.

| am eager not only to be a witness of all this,
but wish very much to learn and understand
more of my country’s history and political
systems by seeing and meeting some of the
people directly Involved. By asking them
questions about current events in Canada and
about our country's future would remove any
misapprehensions and prejudices | may have.

| am sincerely proud to be a Canadian and
hope | always will be. | am concerned for the
maintenance of the freedom for which we are
famous throughout the world, and for the
political Institutions which have been developed
fo preserve that freedom. It is in Ottawa, more
than in any other Canadian city, that one may
experlence and so learn mare of these things.

However, | am not only proud of Canada, | am
also proud of B.C., and Terrace, and would
consider It an honour to represenf this area In the
federal capital. | would be glad to inform others
of the wonderful features of B.C.---l am thinking
here not only of the beautiful scenery of this
province but also of the varied, interesting and
friendly people who are Its residents---and tell
them of Its thriving cultural activities and
business community, some of which no doubt has
sponsored this upcoming visit to Ottawa.

It would be very Interesting to have the chance
to meet students from other provinces and ex-
change views and information with them. | enjoy
meeting people and like working with them as |
am doing this year as vice president of the
students’ council, a position | am thoroughly
enloying and have not regretted a minute.

The experlence of visiting Ottawa, if | am the
successful competitor today, will, | am con-
fident, help considerably with the career | am
hoping to pursue. After graduation | am planning
to go to University and take up firs! Business
Administration and then major in Law. | feel
that a visit to Ottawa would not only be a
valuable foundation for such a course of studies,
but would also give me confidence In pursuing
this career.

In conclusion, | would tike fo ensure you that if
} am chosen, | will try fo the best of my
capability to participate competently In debates
and consider it an honour fo represent our area.

Guarantee proposed
for Canadian arts

OTTAWA (CP) — A
legislated bill of rights to
guarantee the in-
dependence of federal
cultural agencies is being
proposed by John
Roberts, secretary af
state, in a broadcast

election discussion of arts
policies.

Roberts and the
cultural affairs

spokesmen for the Pro-
gressive Conservative
and New Democratic
parties — David Mac-
Donald and Cyril. Symes
— recorded the discussion
for the CBC radio
program, Stereo Mor-
ning, for broadcast teday,
The ‘government has
been criticized = by
political opponents and
some leaders of arts
organizations for moving
towards centralization in
the secretary of state
department instead of
giving more authority to
cultural agencies such as
Canada Council, the CAC,
the Nationa] Film Board
and the Canadian Film
Development Carp,
Roberts, seeking re-
election in the Toronto
riding of St. Paul’s, said
much of the flourishing of
arts and entertainment
activity in the last 20

, years has been prompted

by Canada Council and
other government
agencies, and it is
becoming apparent that
more government depart-
ments ate becoming
involved with cultural
activities.

“We are concerned
here with a mixture of
creative and commercial
objectives, and the de-
partment of the secretary
of state is going to be
more important as a
clearing house for in-
formation and for per-
suading the other
government departments
to adopt policies favor-
able to the support of the
arts,"’ Roberts said.

“That doesn’t mean
that the role of the
cultural agencies will be
diminished or changed in
comparison to what they
have done in the past.

“In fact, I am anxious
in some legislative way to
.. provide a kind of bill of
righis which guarantees
the independence of
decision-making in the |
agencies,

Roberts WAS in-
terviewed in the Toronto
CBC studics by program
host Terry Campbell,
while MacDonald and

Symes spoke from CBC
Studios in their home
areas, Charlottetown and
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

MacDonald, the Con-
servative candidate
seeking re-election in
Prince Edward Island's
Egmont riding, advocates
setting up a new cultural
industries development
organization and giving
more résponsibllity to the
provinces.

Symes, whose New
Democratic party has
been concentrating on the
need for more Canadian
film and publishing
outlets, said the country
has been losing hundreds
of millions of dollars
annually in profits ‘ta

foreign owners of
publishing and film
distribution chains,

He sald the east-west
flow of artistic and
cultural activity is
breaking down because of
the pull of American
ownership,

Symes, seeking re-
election in Sault . Ste.
Marie riding, said federal
funding for the arts
should flow steadily and
not be turned en and off
like a tap.

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Newspaper told it -

can not intervene

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP)
— The Bellingham Herald
has no legal right to
become a parly in the
Kenneth Bianchi murder
trial, the. Washington
Supreme
unanimously today.

The high court agreed
with the defence and
prosecution in the case
that the newspaper
should not be allowed to
intervene in the case,

Whateom County .
Superior Court had held
that the Herald could
intervene on a limited
basis to insist on freedam
oF the press. ’

The supreme court said
the newspaper is within
Its rights to press* for
First Amendment -
guarantees, but that
“Intervention in a pen-
ding criminal proceeding
is not a proper means of
securing such a forum.’*

Bianchi is charged with
the murders of Karen
Mandic, 22, and Diane
Wilder, 27, both students
at Western Washington
University in Bellingham.

Authorities in Los
Angeles also say they will
charge him with the so-
called Hillside Strangler
murders, {

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After Bianchi was
charged in Bellingham
earlier this year, both the
prosecution and defence
moved to have sealed the
records showing the basis
of the charges, The
Herald then moved,

- successfully, to Intervene

for the limited jose of
contesting that order,

- “In deciding to allow
the Herald to intervene

for limited purposes, the ©

superior court appears to
have been primarily
motivated by a desire to
provide a forum for the
Herald to assert its First

Amendment _ rights,"
wrote Chief Justice
Robert Utter.

“We agree that the
press has important and
valid reasons for seeking
access to records In
criminal proceedings,

“Tt is generally through
the news media that the
citizenry is kept informed
as to the conduct af the
judicial system, including
the administration of
criminal justice,”

. Freedom of the press
must be weighed against
the right of a defendant to
afair trial— but that Isn't
the issue in this case, the
court sald. The issue ‘a
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properly assert its rights,

Intervention is net the
‘proper way sinca “

F r rule, statute or
precedent in this state

. thet would allow a

party to intervene in @

criminal proceeding,”

Utter wrote.
“The only purpose of &

criminal trial is the legal

determinatlon of the
defendant’s guilt or io
nocence. The Herald has
no direct interest in this
determination to justify
its intervention and the
disruption of the pending
criminal proceedings
inherent in the in
tervention process.”

The newspaper must
lake separate legal action
to assert its rights, the
court said,

The court suggested the
paper could seek such
other actions as seeking a
ruling in another court on
the legality of the
Whatcom County ruling
sealing the records, or
appealing the lower court
ruling. The justices
‘praised all parties to the
gwit and the Herald for “‘a
sincere commitment" ta
bench-barpress

guidelines, ‘especially in.

view of the great potentlal
for sensationalism." .

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