. PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, February 8; 1978

~ EDITORIAL:

A Bit

About Us

. It might amuse, entertain - an even help
.. Herald readers to know just a little about how a
very amall daily newspaper works. First - out of
ity or for educational purposes. Second, so

you be able to understand some of the
problems and some of the advantages of having
your own daily newspaper published in the same
amall town you live in. For instance - being on
first name terms with the editorial staff; only
needing to pick up the telephone with a com-
tora piece of news knowing it will appear in
morrow's paper. If you have a complaint -
knowing it not be passed off to another
department; not having to deal with a computer.
wing if you have a strong feeling on any
issue - a pothole in front of the house the City
appears to ignore that is an axle breaker; a
suggestion for Improving the quality of life in the
community that could stand a bit of local support
from the press: an elderly citizen in need;
support or criticism to arouse corrective action-
in a small town with a local daily there is this.
comfortable thought, You can always walk into
the local newspaper office and give your story
direct to the persons who put the news together.
In the case of the Herald - the staff is two)
le. The Managing Editor (Ernest Senior,

i.) and one reporter ( Vallieres), These
are the only two through whom the news must

toappear in print, They can be reached any
Hay excert Saturday between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
; at 635-6357.

, One subject that is bound to be of interest
; Goncerns t hold of libel, One constantl hears
: of persons suing a newspaper, radio or television
‘program. A reporter who. innocently enough
comments on a crime while the case is being
_ tried stands to lose his life savings if he does only
‘that. Years ago a young Norwegian sailor was
‘“‘mugged” by youths in a Northern Hudson Bay.
‘peaport town, where I ran a small paper,
. Relationships between the townspeople - wh
had the run of every foreign shi
warm and friendly, Iran an editorial suggesting
the mugging could adversely affect the
Tongstanding ood relationship, and that the
- town get together to try to make it up to the
young Norwegian seaman. The ma was
‘before the courts” (which I then had no way of
knowing.) I recelved such a blasting from the
local Meg tran for my Son ten - he called me
everydung Irom a de ow journaljst’’ to a
‘“gerigational; racist;.Commio ‘reporter’’'- aid
“referred tom
-fag'’ - that when he was through with me, I
thought I would never publish another issue;
- Fortunately, there was no lawsuit. .

- “Just one point worth mentioning. . Under the .

‘law, in crimes committed by juveniles - in-
clad murder, rape, theft, vandals

‘pot be mentioned; it is extremel:
‘gut the details of their crimes, interview them. -
or even learn a crime has been committed...
without having to resort: to almost a super-
sleu procedure. One that a two-staffer
publication just cannot get the time for.
F’rinstance, this morning I was told of a
sup: incident that may have happened last
week of Terrace juveniles being rushed to
hospital with a drug overdose. Whereas the
story is not necessarily true - possibly even a
fabrication - the chances if true of ever getting it
into print are yery rare because of such legal
restrictions.

..,.And one more thing: Government secrecy at
all levels. When two

Prince Rupert - burned to the ground within five
days of each other 2 years ago - the very day
after a fire department inspection had been
carried out of the premises, I tried to get a co
‘of the fire chief's report - only to learn that fire
inspection r: are “secret” - that is, not
available to the press or the public.

The list of subjects where a similar restriction
prevails covers almost every walk of life.. These
reports by public servants paid by public tax-
payers are considered - for some reason - too

‘dangerous” for the public to read - and that
includes the Press.. oe

Having said this and still barely scratching the
surface - or, as a visitor said, yesterday,
“Having scratched the tip of the iceberg” (how’s
that for mixing metaphors ) we hope this will.
serve as an introduction. Any questions?

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re Seencccen) orl tet Se tigen een Ceo hf ere Can ar Dee DS a eee

— by Richard Jackson.) :

Ottawa - Rememper to write and ask this
“way ‘back when! there paren em “about ‘ca rs
as an Official Inquiry reques s '
into some rather strange the name and date of the

- had been

to my little weekly as an “underground

m - the -

mut - the juveniles are protected a |

ferent waya. Not only may their names .
ficult to find.

goings-on at Camp
Petawawa, and the
report was filed with the
federal government that
among other things:
‘Horses, yes correct,
horses, were on the
Petawawa payroll?
-Some

the CPR spur
transcontinental

scrap dealer?

Another
hustler
unoccupied

electrical applicanes?
-Recreationally-

some of
Reserve,

and hunting cam
all the comforts

- sAnd
approaching,
the ranks’ build

their children?
Big.scandal, what? -

and what the.
Advocate General's 6

military events.

enterprising
entrepreneur had torn up should have remem-
ck from the ber

main But memories slip, and
ling into the camp and anyway,
peddled it to a Montreal

imaginative facts, nor is the depor
stripnet the ment of theDepartnent) -
“married of National Defence their:
quarlers in the camp of res
stoves, fridges, and other

anda well-appointed morning
‘meas? .- » 7 2 Sow

with Christmas. Stanley Knowles,
other in- course,
ventive staff officers had around almost as long as

ony- Dief, which is get
sized habby horaes for be somewhere tis side.

- Never-to-be-forgotten forget,
uproar in press. and

public? ; Bt
Well, would you believe
that the Public In- memory. Never one like
formation Services of it before or since.-
National Defence ‘swear.
they never. heard of it, he offered,
much legs know Wry file down the hall in th
@ e inquir ;
vestigation was c in a minute.”
Non claims the Judge ‘Call back he did.
could they recall such a George S. Currie the
bizarre verles of un- Official Commissioner.

Even the Historical December .2, 1962."':

it's all news to his staff.
‘It. was just ordinary Hles
curioalty that prompted ‘a scene, a

investigation.

Easy, what?

Should be no sweat to
find . out...

Matter of fact, having
covered the investigation

at the time and come out] . .

with the story headlined
“Horses on the Payroll,”

ed. Just like that.

newspaper,
eople aren’t exactly
ng cabinets for fadin;

nsibility,

It is the business
though, you’d think, of
Defence Headquarters,

minded staff officers put which’ maintains a
the ranks - heavily staffed Public
work, deep in the heart of Relations, Historical and
the Petawawa Forest Judge Advocate General
safe from
prying Public eyes. sue’ Histories! people
va ng the

minting with undertook ?
home it, and did within a

divisions.

-to “research

- It. was news.
ho to ask?

who's . been

forever. .
“Never thought I'd
‘“‘confesse
. “It was the
eatest OF ficial Inquiry
my parliamentary

“Tl find out, though,”
feelin
challenged, “I've got it 0:

“The Currie

Filed his repor

ough - an
wenn le

cha ed with: truancy for . of
awing-his children.

with
froma public school, was
found not guilty Monday
in provincial court. © -
t was. a: test: case. in
proceedings ‘against 45
parenta who had: with-

drawn: their. children bi
from a public school near -

tels - one the largest in Linden

, Alta, and
established their own
private, unauthorized
school

The
members of
damentalist -
sect of The Church ‘of God .
in Christ, said they
disagreed with the
pro cial = curriculum. .

wn Prosecutor Roger
Smith. told reporters
shortly after the decision
was handed down that
trials for the other
parents may be post-
poned or dropped.

In his 67-page hand-
written jJudgment,. .. .
Provincial. Judge | H.G.

Mennonites,
the -fun-

| Archi dish 0p Says” .

* ‘The subject of this news

- item, the Archbishop ‘of

Canterbury, the spiritual

- head of the An lican d

communion, will be
coming to Terrace this
Summer to take part in
the Centennial
celebrations: of the

Anglican Diocese of -

Caledonia, This. news
item, therefore, may be
of-significance to Herald
readers - even those wha
are neither cans nor

' Homan Catholics, Dr.

Cofgans visit to Terrace
will be covered by the
World Religious Press, on

this rega
said

Holdeman .

“Bill of ts guaranteed
the Mensouites freedom

religion.. : .

The judge referred to
cases involving the.
Canadian Bill of. Rights
and said that in man

instances the Alberta Bill .
of Rights ‘could be sub-

definition for freedom of
religion: “There are no
Canadian precedents. (in.

>” the judge

PRESERVE BELIEFS

de evidence of. a.. long
history of the struggle by
the Mennonites. to
reserve their ’ fun-

“damental religious »
principlesiqnd bellefs,: ...

- Mennoliltés who
testified during the trail
attested to the vital role
their religious beliefs:
jaced in the education of
eir children and in the
continuing survival. of

their community, he said.;

wi.

- T.V., radio, newspaper -
as well-as by Church
publications of many
enominations.. The
_ BLEiM. Lee Theatre has
been booked by. the
Diocese for the 3 days
day of the Terrace visit.

London (Reuter) - Dr,
Donald Coggan, the
Archbishop
terbury and spiritual
leader. of the world's 65
millon Anglicans, em-
phasized. anew Sunday
night the ties between
this church’s goals ‘and

those .of the . Roman

. and

stituted.for. the national- re
Ie. es AR order-inscouriell
He: pondered about a “by

Judge Oliver said there -

petite Lr eer acne

of. .Can-:

7 ; * oo
f % * MO

a

tatty ergs

“He wants to speak to our Proofreader, Says we made a. mistake...”

ke ‘$50 million “Human Error”
on Trans-Alaska Pipeline

Alaska (AP) - In the
aftermath, the five men
n the pump house at
Pump Station No. 8 on the
trans-Alaska oi] pipeline
that muggy summer day
were incredulous - that
such a thing could hap-

“ thing had been
tried und tried and tested
and tested,”’ Herbert
Robson recalled, “We
had done nothing else for
the past 10 weeks but
heck the system out.

ae

July § when a valve that

‘was supposed to be ‘kept

cloied was opened by

mistake, 7

i ae
ure spra

eon. Within

the in Alberta

couraged by >

Canadian government. to
immigrate to Canada and
that promises were made
okenand confusion
was created in their

ained for."

signed in“1873 "by Prime

fer John A. Mac-
donald and Giv.-Gen, Lor-
Efferin. did not grant
Mennonites’ freedom .of
religion throughout

Canada. as they had

believed.

‘REFERRED TO

MANITOBA- a

But Judge Oliver said
the order-in-council
referred to the province:
of Maniteba and had no
force In other provinces.

There are about 8)
members of |
Holdeman sect in Alberta
and 10 breakaway.
Mennonite schools in the.
province. oe ,

Jn Canada, there are..

Mey
ape AP Be
ood

’. Speaking onthe. eve of.

the 500th anniversary of |

the birth of Sir Thomas:
More, a’ British lord:
chancellor whose loyalty:

-to the Roman Catholic. :

faith led to his executilon, *.

Dr. Coggan linked Sir ~ pj

Thomas to -his con-,
temporary Protestant
biblical =. translator,
William: Tyndale, . who
was declared a’ heretic
and burned at the stake.

Both were martyra for
truth as they saw it, Dr.
Coggan said, but opposed

to each other to,the point

feee

plosion and flames.

One man was killed.
Robson and four others
were injured, The flow of
oil through the 1,280
Kdlometre (800 mile) line
did not start againfor 10
days, with Pump No, 8
bypassed, I

t has taken more than
seven months, but now
the_reconstruction work
on p No, 8-ls almost
complete. It. should be

operation pushing
oll through the.$?.7-hillion
line next month. .

‘Coan Noridnawy:,”
“hii, Pind
Co coat

ce
of replacing the
house and ome damaged

Manitoba has 10 .Hold-
eman: schools, teaching
about 350 children,

In 19u, che County of
Stettler tried to prosecute
parents of 40 Mennonite
children for truacy, but
that case was dismissed

a procedural

on.
technicality and’ was

never resolved. .

The - Linden |
congregation is the
largest of the Holdeman
sects in Canada with 625
members and the third-
largest sect communcty
in-the world. =

In late November, the:

provincial government
J over prosecution of
the sect parents from the
Three Hills School

a y charges.
Lawyer William .-
Pidr y o£ Edmonton
was appointed a friend of
the court” in: December
when the sect refused to

lationships Improving
Catholic Church,” of prolonged bitterness,

- Dr. Coggan said that:

people today -rarely: kill
each other !.because of
religious ' differences,
“but divisions. persist,
separations continue,
terhess — sometimes
develops and God’s heart
of love is grieved and the
cause is

Dr. Coggan said: ‘See
that you. love one another
fervently. . Not sen-
timentally,- but with the
love of brothers in Christ.

Bela MAS Pe tye ny

. operations contro.
a

“was a

_ more tolerant person, but

a ee PP ae
aska's Nor’ C]

marketa in the lower 49 minutes tohalt the flow of
ataten. oil along the entire | th
‘alasea had planned to @ line, out oy

be runni 3 million “me flowing oil had
barrels of crude a day flooded what was left of
through the ine by last the pump house and
fall’ but with Pump No. 8

rivers of fire flowed from
down the flow has been it.
held to about 700,000 to
760,000 barrels a day,
Investigators found
that through “human

Fire engulfed con-
struction equipment and
burned through a birch
error’ a valve that had andspruce forest, The alr
been closed while Robson smelled like burning
and his four co-workers rubber.

bb
were cleaning a strainer... Reconstruction. starta
so fe ae gen a
pumps at the station was Hnued through ' the

ned, _ winter ‘moni
roll spurted into the

temperature here, about
pump room, vaporized 50 lometres southeast of
and ignited. Robson and

Fairbanks, often dips to
the others got out before 40 or more degrees below
the pump house ripped T°. oe
apart. A manile of snow now.
Shock waves were felt masks the age
more than 15 kilometres caused by the streams of
away, and black smoke burn The
was visible for twice that
tance,
pervisor at Pump No, 8
BU sor at Pump No.
shouted over the
telephone to the pipeline
centre
Valdez, “We've had a
hellof an explosion.

Woman Firefighter
Hassled A Lot |

Detroit (AP) - Sand
Kupper says she will
hang on to her $14,700 a

by a new structure.
After another period of
trying and testing and
checking’ crude oil from:
Prudhoe Bay will soon be
flowing again through:
Pump Station No.8.

‘DID MY JOB'- .
“But I survived: 1 did

, my job, and that’s what

year job despite the counts. Now it’s my turn.

occasional ios" of a Anybody that hassles me

ellow fire r- such is going to get hassle

as cutting ath i rt beck.” 6 ssled

ig the

her oxygen. igh
Miss Kupper, 20, was
esented badge No. 1497 Probationary period at
t week, signif Ing she €hdine company 32, Miss
had surviv the four- EKupper says she was
month probationary siven some bad times,
period that followed Such as having her mask
graduation from the ‘ipped off when fighting
department’s fire " a dense smoke fire. Once
someone tutned off the
air supply on her back- -

academy last September,
She is Detroit’s first pack oxygen tank during
ahouse fire, -

female firefighter, but
says-she does not : ae
accepted by most of ‘ihe “Some of the guys may
men in the department, have thought that -was
“Tt was-a tough time ‘wnny-butitscared... me
that’ 1+ . wouldnt and made meangry,” she!
Sera a jwant to-'re- said. oo
peat,” she said, s
of her probation, peaking
80 a teaching ex-
Derlence - how to a-

Her only injury of con-
sequence “in fighting

also. more aggressive... .
“Being the first woman - while crawling outa hed.

at the company, I went nye _
through a mess-of ' “Naturally, - evéryone
hazing, wanted to" see the

‘heard at least 5,000 bad ©

‘Jokes, and had several’ Wound,” she said.

ought about showing it
them—but changed my

very uneasy times while - to
- min

out on fires,

Hunters should wear lite
Jackets, NEVER stand up In
aboa. '

Les ohasseure devratent por-
tor un‘gitet de sauvelage: at
he JAMAIS se matire debout
dans une embarcation. ”.