Pige 4, The Herald, Thursday, August 16, 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald * General Office. 615-6357 {Circulation - 635-4357 ‘" GEN, MANAGER.- Knox Coupland . EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION. TERRACE - 635-6357 rt KITIMAT OF FICE - 632-2747 “Published every weekday at 3212 Katurn Street, ‘Terrace, B.C, A member of Verifled Circulation, - ‘Authorized as second class mall, Registration number ‘1201. Postage pald in cash, return postage guaranteed. » Published by Sterling Publishers NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The islanders mostly moved to the rainier-than- almost-anywhere isolation of QCI to put a barrier n themselves and the space. They'll fight for t space. i A more violent battle is going on between sports fishermen and the ferry authority over right of way in Active Pass. With millions of dollars in insurance elaim after the grounding of the Queen of Alberni, whether the ship drigted onto the rocks only because it was trying to avoid pleasure craft or as some suspect, there was a problem with the streering mechanism of the craft as has apparently happened before, the odds are the ferries win the channel. . Tt is unfortunate that sports fishermen are going to run out of an excellent fishing spot,-one where strong currents allow salmon to take advantage of smaller bait fish, Unthinking boat owners were defying the bigger crafts right of way the day after the geounded ferry was hauled off the rocks. The sports fishermen will have brought the closure of Active Passio fishing on themselves, It is hard to sympathize with them. The residents of the Queen Charlotte Islands, however, face more incongruous because they already had a nearly acceptable service before the Liberal government barged in and interfered. + The islanders are doomed to inadequate service if they don’t fet the ferry, and condemned to an influx af transients if they da. . Meanwhile, the Alberta couple will probably still have to wait weeks for even the larger Queen of Surrey, because even that larger ship is probably going to be inadequate to serve the increasing tourist traffic. Letters welcome The Herald welcomes its readers comments. All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, relain the right. to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to be considered for Py ‘oblems that seem’ "“Gfandpa gave me his transistor radio.” BoTl of nt . RACIST, VIOLATES RIGHTS? U.S. justice system WASHINGTON (CP) — A group of international juriste are wrapping up a study of U.S. prisons that is expected to support allegations that the criminal justice system in the United States Involves racism and violates human _ Fights. For several weeks, juriste Se ei itn ed bean, South ., ca an iBanepe Hate ‘been touring prisons, investigating charges made in an 600-page petition to the United Natlons last December: that imprisonment for political offences is far from unknown here and that prison con- ‘ditions = generally are inhumane. A spokesman for the. National Conference of Black Lawyers, one of the activist groups that invited » the jurists:he hea ate misalon on Human Rights in Geneva next month. e gowng in the United are gro e Unit States, sparked partly by the reaction to atatements last year by Andrew Young, the sometimes controverslal U.S. ambassador to the _ United Natlons, that there , are “hundreds, perhaps . will, fil " the one planned for the Queen Charlotte Islandany’ 7 | h TORONTO (CP) — How far should a lawyer be allowed to go in defence of a lient? , “Should the lawyer be © allowed to make accusations involving posalbly innocent persons in an attempt to raize doubts about his client's guilt? - It’s a question that most criminal lawyers face at some time and caught public attention in Toronte recently during the county court trial of’ Robert Stewart, a salesman convicted of criminal negligence causing death in the death of dance instructor Judy Jordan, who | died after she was hit by a car. Defence lawyer Malcoim Robb suggested that Mrs. Jordan's death was not an accident and raised the idea that ahe may have been involved In a drug ring along with a dbl-yearold Woman who died Last year and whose killer has not been found. Her relations with her husband and his possible in- volvement allio were discussed. Nothing came of Robb’s line of questioning but he didn't have to be able to prove any of his allegations. As long ashe had something, no matter how tenuous, to back it up he was within his rights to raise them. A lawyer inside a cour- troom, like a member of Parliament in the House of Commons, 1s. immune from bel and jaige bul And es o apec ’ pules otherwise, the news , Media is free to report what is said in court, no matter how damaging It is to a : son's ilfe, career or publication must be signed. . y. ‘says thelr. : ' ea. By GLENN | thousands of political prison- era” in this country. . Young was roundly con- demned by public opinion and was ticked off by President Carter for his remarks, But such groups as the American Civil Liberiles Union believe there is truth in his comments that ‘politically weak groups, such as the poor and minorities, make up a disproportionate share of the prison population. “The juriste’ study is going to back up Ambassador Young’s statements,” a lawyer who worked with the National Conference of Black Lawyers says. ‘What the clvil liberties and other activist groups want Is a new philosophy - for. Cottections, «one. that gireaces more jobs and work- release programs “for people who only commit crimes against property out of survival instincts,” saya Michael Kroll of the alliance called the National Moratorlum on Prison Construction. There is considerable evi- dence that the prisons hold an extraordinarily high Some criminal lawyers fail back on the definition of a SOMERVILLE tack population in com- parison with whites. “Blacks make up 15 per cent of the total population, account for 25 per cent of arrests, 35 per cent of the . people charged with serious ; crimes and 50 per cent of the 4 prison population,” observes | Frank Dunbaugh, a clvil rights lawyer and staff member of the House of Representatives’ -sub- committee on crime. He has complied statistics for 38 states with large black populations that show the rate of imprisonment for biacks is nearly nine times that for whites. -Using hig queried | - with veteran backbencher Jack Kempf. As - VICTORIA -— The first session of the 32nd parliament of B.C. has. finally drawn to a close, leaving behind little in the way of highlights. Both the Social Credit government’ -and the NDP opposition seemed uneasy throughout, - and were content to.use the sitting to grade their new “P members,. As a result, the people of B.C. got little in the way af: new ideas from a re-electedSocial Credit government. - ‘Instead, what was delivered was a cautious step bya governmient thatis acting like it was entering its very | first term. 0 . | Premier Bennett's top priority going into this first session, was the formulation of a new cabinet, largely due to the declining popularity of his current set of ministers, He has used the sitting to judge the new and old talent and will likely pass newcomers Angus Ree, - Bill Ritchie-and John Heinrich into the cabinet, along + ‘doubt the premier has‘ noted that Environnient: Minister Rafé Mair’s previously shining star has. begun to tarnish, possibly erasing Mair's chances for “promotion. . ; y you can draw racism in the criminal ‘justice system," Dunbaugh sald in an interview.. He favors better rehabilitation Programs that give poor ‘blacks more educational opportunities rather than - more prisons, “The opposition that is being mountedto'U.S. prison systems was highlighted this ‘ week by the history-making . | oced that he was seriously considering his future, civil suit filed by the fustice department against the city of Philadelphia. ’ It charges Philadelphia . police with violating con- stitutional and civil rights of -every racial and ethnic igroup in the clty through a JUST HOW FAR? leeway questioned findings, the National ‘planned program of “widesp Moratorium on Prison ‘ead and systematic Conatruction claims the , beutallty.” ; theory of “equality under the The international jurists,’ Jaw" no longer exists. led by Trinidad-Tobago; “ Every state Dunbaugh' Chief Justice’‘Sir Arthur studied showed imprisoned McShine, may report by the blacks at more than three end of thia week. When it times the rate for whites, In‘ does, the National Con- 18 states the black im-. ference of Black Lawyers prisonment rate was 10: | anticipates carrying their times higher. The dlaparities- : case to the United Natlona, were greatest In such nor- asking support for a thern “liberal’ states as resolution condemninu.s. Minnesota, New York and / peigon conditions and con- Penneylvania, Dunbaugh'’ demning any political im- found. boa, prisonment. I , + re criminal defence lawyer's | during the 19th century by role, written in: England «© Lord Brougham. . A lawyer, Brougham WINNIPEG (CP) — The throbbing music and flashing lights of popular discos may be health hazards, says an Oshawa, Ont., woman attending a healing conference at the University of Manitoba. “What you're getting is a discordant combination of sound and light to the body at a_ shrieking level,” says Pat Kerr of “You're getting an overloading which, in time, will take its toil,” says Ms. Kerr, one of 40 delegates to the biennial Federation of Healing. The four-year-old organization was formed to encourage under- standing between practitioners of spiritual and more orthodox methods of healing. Fewer than one-quarter of the federation’s members are ‘‘es- tablished healers” auch as ‘physicians, says federation president Jan: Pearce, a British doctor. He says one goal of the federation js to promote holistic treatment methods, which involve a patient's total condition, not just specific problema. Ms. Kerr haa develope theories relating to the effects of color and music and how they can be ENVIRONMENT | MAY BE THE KEY the University of Spiritual : Research, - conference of the World - used opening up now.” wrote, must try to save his client “by all means ... and at all hazi3 ada ad costs to | other peraons ... and in * performing this duty he must ‘ not regard the alarm, the . torments, the destruction in therapy or qveryday 1) which he may bring upon She belleves thé body others.” uses energy -from light: }* But there are some limils and sound to replenish a |-' to what a lawyer may say in person's natural aura, court. . depleted from illness. or some other ‘styess.,") | She says auras have _ been réccrted ‘and “are made up of colors: eerste | eing ao takes ae Orange represents |; Without calling evidence in vitality Pt enotion and |’ -€n attempt to establish the {The profession's. code: of -' ethics in Canada: says a 4. lawyer may not put foward a ‘defence he knows is false. He _yellpw shows the level of facts, ‘Intellect, says Ms. Kerr, George Finlayson, , Aaick person's aura will | treasurer of the Law Society’ the tinged, with grey and. whave “muddy patches,” She says the wavelengths of the seven. - notes of the acale. cor- respond to those of the seven colors of the of Upper Canada, provides the example that a lawyer may not say to a victim ina rape case that- she might have slept with many men and then name a number of men ehe might have slept th. , “If this were allowed, thie jury in likely to be sitting Ms. Kerr says people who suffer from high blood pressure should expose themselves to ob- jocta of a cool blue color and muaic in the key of G, She mainteina that in therapy, the beat curative music ahould have a beat corresponding to the human pulse and should | slept with some of them,”- Finlaygon said, - In any case, Toronto. litigation - lawyer Joe Goldenberg sald a lawyer can’t hesitate to raise an issue just because it's un- be played softly. Oe. Kerr is resigned to Pe Samiimes you fall flat the skepticism of most ‘ bout her theories on your nose and sometimes doctors al er eS | you strike it rich out of the and research results but | mouth of a witness, . saya, ‘These are coming “But when you limit eroas- things and we have doc- tors who five years ago wouldn't Usten but are examination, you are treading on very dangerous ground, because it is the weapon that protecls the accused,” - the conclusion that there ts The session coincided with the distribution of shares, in the B.C, Resources Investment Corporation, and early trading on the Vancouver and Toronto stock markets show the scheme to be a success. With #416 -Mhillion in immediate cash collecting over $1 million a waek in interest, it is conceivable that the share distribution alone could re-elect the Socreds three years down the road. It remains to be seen, though, who will profit ~ from the corporation. ‘Two of-the most noted of the Socred promises made during the ‘campaign. were. the elimination of discrimination in ICBC rates, arid the implementation of a Denticare plan. Under a cloud of confusion, and disagreement between a number of ministers (Grace McCarthy, Bill VanderZalm, and Bennett) the ICBC legislatio#i.Was ;introduced, The Denticare scheme, however Jayyetito become a reality. . ' ee ay ee eT a ry THELK' wash hoticebble change in ttie behaviour of members on boll sides af t the floor, with the. usual rowdy action going into hiding throughout the sitting. Opposition “Leadér Dave Barrett ‘provided ‘a rare > moment of excitement when he was ejected from the : Rouse for calling Deputy Premier Grace McCarthy ned | $ | also may not say that * y - and listen to that nolse,” ant me “pao neon fy (yh , Barrett also had H bet “\. an- and may leave politics to become a radio talk-show host, The former premier promised to have his mind made up by the Labour Day convention of the NDP, but there is already speculation that he was merely testing the water. ’ . The first session also saw the MLAs vote themselves a hefty raise in pay, one which is every bit deserved. . Our elected representatives will now receive $32,000 per annum, Cabinet ministers and the leader of the ie aaah eo paid .. $55,500, while, the premier i PRTC al IR. GM aden olay Fhe closing of ‘the seasion was highlighted by the emergency recall of the members after Victoria NDP MLA Charles Barber discovered that Seaboard .In- surance Company had been mistakingly declared non- existent by a government bill. The company, with $400 million in assets, was not amused. ; There is a good deal of difficulty in judging the government after this summer session. They have. acted rather jumpy throughout, and are apparently quite unsure of their fotting. With the NDP hovering so Hlosely, th y will have to find ~ it....soon. 4° ce rs ee dado fay The Woodstock — generation ages BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — Alfalfa greens, the rolling fields and the dairy cows are back. . Theonly traces of the mammoth stage and towering banks of speakers which amplified the music of Joan Baes, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin are a rotting wooden beam and some crumbling concrete anchors at the foot of a 40-acre hill. Ten years after half a million people jammed onto Max ‘Vasgur's farm for the Woodstock Festival, local farmers say the only invaston is by reporters looking for anniversary -. stories, © The three-day featival — Aug. 15-17, 1969 — is a vivid ~ memory. for those who promoted it, those who opposed it, those who performed there and those who alept in the mud. Mirlam Yasgur Maas still owns the hillside that served as an amphitheatre. It is for sale as farmland. Much of the sur- ’ rounding property has been sold dince 1073 when Max Yasgur died of heart failure at age 53. . “The Yasgurs were stunned by the number of people coming down their rural road 10 years age. - “We just assumed very few people would want to come out Mrs. Mass, With roads blocked and a crowd more than five times what anyone had expected, promoters and police resorted to helicopters to ferry in emergency supplies, The drug culture flourished openly and hundreds were treated for overdoues. bers everyone remem the weather, Rain and winds kept up for most of the weekend. at “‘It was asea of people,” sald Arlo Guthrie, one of the fea- tured frirformers. ‘It was like a disaster zone. I wondered how we all were going to survive, , “In hindsight, though, it was the culmination of so many things, It justified the whole pesce movernent. The thing that media Woodstock Woodstock was the spirit of the people. It “Nelghbors remember the gathering. , remem 6 gath , but not always fondly. William Filippin|, 76, wasliterally caught in thentddienY there saying she must have » 84 his pond that became a communal bathtub, his tand that * became a campground, When the winds blew tents down the cam his chicken house, barn and pit aeinabberdred The New York City promoters originally wanted to hold their music featival near Woodstock but local opposition And thousands of tickets had been sold when the town of Wailkil passed an ordinance banning gatherings of 5,000 or Enter Max Yasgur. . : “At that time we had had very little contact with the hew wave, with the protest movement,” Mra, Masa recalled. ‘We were very conservative, It started out as a business propo- lon. . Promoterssaid the Yasgurs got $50,000. Mrs. Mass adit eh contract called for about 36,000 to 40,000 people apread owe told each oth ld be i i" “We told each other we wo ' Lf 10,000 would ahow up,” ahe sald. urprised ws ay ‘DATELINE | |. a a ra a