. 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? TERRACE daily herald | General Office - 635-6357 Circulation - 635-6357 Published by. Sterling Publishers PUBLISHER... Don Cramack MANAGING EDITOR... Ernest Senlor Published every weekday at 9212 Kalum St., Terrace, B.C. A member of Varifled Circulation, Authorized as second class mall. Registration number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright Inany advertisement groduced and-or any editortal or — photographic content published In the Heraid, Reproduction Is not permitied without the written |. permission of the Publisher. . . | be he 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. ”.