2 Gyre General Office - 635.4357 Circulation. 435. £35) wf postage guaranteed. daily herald Published by Sterling Publishers Publisher — Garry Husak Editor. — Pete Nadeau CLASS _ADS.- TERRACE. 635-4000 CIRCULATION . TERRACE . 635-6157 Published every weekday at 3010 alum Street, Terrace. B.C. Authorized as second class mail. . Registration number 1201. Postage paid in cash, return NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole capyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written | the _ t \ Permission of the Publisher. ; ' } tent. LETTERS TO. _THE EDITOR Sir: _ Y¥ou call yourself a -" newspaper, First you ex- ” plain how editors don't at- tack letters to the editor writers, then you attack Claudette Sandecki. Then ' you claim you have no biases, despite the evident alant of your reporting. You made the annual meetings of Birthright and the Library Association. Bravo. You published a fine Picture of the Chamber of Commerce. But where have you been for the past few NDP meetings? You missed the last NDP Dinner-Dance with its 200 participants as well. Where were you for the last two Labour Council meetings when 40-50 delegates représenting more than 3000 workers. met? Were the three Nisgha guests at the iast Council meeting simply not im- portant? You also seem to have missed both the celebration of International Women’s Day and the films on El Salvador and Nicaravgua last Sunday. Where are the background stories on the TWU members who areonstrike? You seem to have no trouble taking B.C. Te]'s misleading ada or money. Yours ia not an honest, unbiased paper. Johnston, © Sandecki and the Labour — Council are right - the Herald needs a major overhaul! ] do like the Rags cartoon strip, but Gomer is often a poor piece of anti-labour Propaganda. Barbara Hanley EDITORS NOTE: We alse received a blistering attack for oer news coverage of the walons, particularty the B.C. Tel dispate. “Shame on your pewspaper for printing the taladiess tripe reported te you by misinformed unten representatives..." set the tene of the letler. credibility has disintegrated completely,” slammed the letter, We would have been happy te print the letter ts full if the writer had bethered to sign 4 fer cur Beneiit. Ho-she sald he-ahe wanted his-her same withheld for fear of reprisal; het mogiected te give credibility te It by signing &. The Daily Herald dese net print unsigned letters; however, if the writer still whhes K printed be can rewrke the letier with his signature on H and & wild appear in a future fosue. We will act wee amy mamet. Barbara Hanley cheuld acte thet stories such as the Nishga guetta at Terrace District Comncil appeared ia the Dally Herald. We ashkad if we could cover the Women’s Day . celebration bat were told we could nel attend became we are: men, “Your 1 To the Editor: — Thanks to the stalf of the Daily Herald for being so helpful and co-operative in assisting us with our SALMONID ENHAN- CEMENT project on Thornhill Creek, Sincerely, Suzanne Pelletier Sharon Emerson _ Biology 11 Class of Caledonia Dear Sir: Birthright, Terrace, wishes to thank and to-ap- Plaud the Daily Herald for ita fine coverage cf our recent activities. It is truly en- couraging to hear positive news, Good news has a way of spreading quickly and widely as we have personally witnessed. Due to your article on Birthright on March &, 1981, we have had severa] young mothers contacting our office for assistance. I was personally approached by a young man who bad seen my picture in your newspaper and who wanted to ask for help for a friend. As you can see, we are pot only approached by young Ladies but also by their male friends, or their fathers. There is tremen- dous moral support all around us if we only open our eyes to those who surround our lives, We are becoming more and more aware of this every day. The effects of your fine atticle on Birthright has alse. hed some more far-reaching consequences, Shortly after publication of this article I, personally, received a ‘lephone call from Van- couver. It was the CBC French station asking me to do an interview in French. Because of this interview I know that Birthright has been made more available to all the French-speaking © people around the Terrace area. It is at moments like these that I wish I could speak even more languages ao as to be able to reach more of our own neighbours. All Birthright volunteers wish to offer person to person help, giving love, understanding and all needed moral help and emotional and practical support to every pregnant woman or girl who requests it.. Our office is located at No.3-4621 Lakelne Ave. and is open every Thursday from 9 am. to 2 ‘pm. The remainder of the week cur telephone is capable of giving oul several telephone | numbers of volunteers who. are available to help you. Our telephone number is 635 so. _ Once agaln 1 wish to thank the Dally Herald and in particular Brian Gregg for LETTERS. WELCOME ‘The Herald welcomes iis readers comments All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, relain ‘ie right to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible ’ libel or bad taste. We may alse edit letters for - style andlength. All letters to be considered for publication must be signed. OTTAWA — (CP) Exemptions to the govern- ment's proposed freedorm-of- information legislation should be Hmited to cases where making . the ‘documents public’ would Canadian Bar Association said Thursday. In a 60-page brief to the Commons - justice. com- mittee, association president ; William Cox of Halifax said the bill has many admirable features and his group supports its thrust and in- However, Cox said the association, representing 29,000 lawyers, suggests 44 amendments designed to make the legislation “as comprehensive, meaningful and practical as possible," its brief argued that ex- emptions relating to federal- provincial relations, defence, external affairs, law enforcement, federal investigations, personal information, the economic interests of Canada and information obtained from The way the bill is written, all documents in these cate- gories can be kept secret be- cause it exempts in- formation which “could reasonably be expected to be injurious." The association argued that exemptions should be restricted to cases where release of the information, wouki cause ‘‘demonstrable harm" to some person, some company or the govern- ment’s conduct of its affairs, “It ls very important that these exemptions be strictly limited,” said Peter Grant of “Toronto, chairman of the association's freedom-of- information committee. The association brief said ap exemption protecting records relating to federal- provincia] relations “would potentially embrace almost every government subject,” sod ls unnecessary becatwe of restrictions on publication of cabinet documents.‘ ‘the international affairs amt defence- clauses, saying - information falling into these - ’ of the slightest: harm.” This séctlon. exempts” material ‘relating to the RCMP or any of its ‘mem- pe acetates and unwise to ‘give the government carte blanche to withhold all such ' in- formation and thereby totally insulate the RCMP -from any public scrutiny whatsoever... . ; “The discheures of the McDonald commission have | shown the need for public sctutiny in this area.'" The association sald the- section on protection of - personal information would prohibit disclosure of all such information unless the + ») Freedom, of information sought. “j individual consents or unless a cabinet minister decides it ’ should be released. This information should be released “‘if ... the public. ~ interest in disclosure clearly - ‘Privacy that would result," ‘However, it suggested the individual should have the right of appeal to block such . Giselosure and the decision should not be left to a cabinet minister’s discretion. © The association praised. , the bill's creation of an in- ‘dependent information “commissioner who would try to adjudicate disputes and the concept of allowing ju- . diclal review of decisions not t release documents. | However, it urged that ‘sections to be rewritten spell ‘out clearly that judges can make their own decisions on whether information should be released — not, merely determine if government ‘officials acted according to Proper criteria in making Can a large insecure nation regain is : _ sellestins sexual confidence? te Nie, wena’ ON ® ears wah eae on Is susinoes cutting its wo WASHINGTON (CP) — Big business, doing what comes naturally in several corporate takeover deals, is also inadvertently snapping at the hand that wants & feed it with more freedom and federal aid. By flaunting billions of dollars in pent-up profits for unproductive takeover bids, the multinational bidders — American, Canadian and British — any they are simply broadening logically into related fields of en- arguments that - business ‘needs more freedom from regulation and reduced tazes to make the economy grow. President Reagan says deregulation and reduced taxes will leave business companies rather than new ventures, has raised public doubts about whether business really needs the help or would use it produc- tively. Critica of the Reagan plan bave focussed on more than $8.5 billion worth of takeover offers in recent days and question whether business would use more freedom on money and’ growth, or simply to fatten profits. The main takeover bids aid up to almost as much as Standard Oil Co. of California (Socal) offered $4 Hilton for Amax Inc,, a big maining company. Standard Oil Co, of Ohio (Solio), controlied by British Petroleum Co., announced a $1.77-billion ‘purchase f Kennekcott Corp, another miner, Joseph E, Seagram ened * productive Sens Inc, subsiduary . of Seagrams Co. of Montreal, © made a contested bid of $2 - billion for St. Joe Minerals - ‘corp. Gulf Oi Comp an- nounced. purchase of Kemmerer Coal Co. for $325 net and Kratt Industries Inc., itself a recently merged’ food and drug conglomerate, spent $460 million buying Ho- _ bart Corp. out from under a bid by Canadian Pacific Enterprises Ltd. of Mon- treal. Most of the big takeovers . are fuelled by oil profits. One of Reagan's first acts on president was to remove price controls on oll, saying the move would produce ‘more income ip foster new energy supplies. Instead, with awkward timing, major companies. are seen using profits ta buy other com- panies. Economists such as Lester Thurow ofthe - , Maasachussetis Institute of ‘Technology, . denounced the takeover moves as. un- and “incredibly \ stupid." Other critics say the moves illustrate the danger . that deregulation ‘will en- courage. corporate con- pie house will stop all these Injunctions vo picketing sure that centration and monopoly trends arther than in- novation. Reagan says hia proposal for faster tax write-offs and investment credits whick would save U.S. business an estimated $9.7 billion next year, “is aimed directly at providing business and in- dustry with the capital needed to modernize and en- gage in more research and development." The government also proposes to ease anti- pollutuion rules and to trim back the budgets and ac- tivities of federal agencies that- gourd against business . concentration and police ‘preduct safety. These, Budget Director David Stockman; said this week, “form an integral part of the ‘adminstration’s efforst to redirect regulatory policy in order to reduce the burdens that misguded efforts have impoaed on the American economy.” The takeovers have made it more difficult for the government - ing our court The emple orto are union they'll heneer oar line rh th so whe geoana type the wam bers, outweigha the invasion of the injunctions! VANCOUVER (CP) — Racerelated incidents at city distributing leaflets at several school yards, and about 45 per cent of the city's elementary school children Speak English only o5 a Asa result, s¢hoo! officials are becoming ‘increasingly concerned about schools becoming a breeding ground for racial conflict. . Aa a first step, the Van- couver achool board recently banned the distribution of bate literature on school grounds, has hired a full- time employee for its committee on race relations ‘ and is starting programs aimed at reducing racial misunderstanding and tension. "Some teachers say racism is an ugly and negative word; but raciam: is not what happens in Detroit, it’s in Vancouver," says Ed May, the board's employee on the committee. _ “It's ethnic jokes, name- calling, discriminatory hiring and = promotion policies and the racial bias in school textbooks, We have to face that it exists bere before we can fight it." There have been several recent outbreaks of racial trouble at Vancouver-area . schools, such as Queen Elizabeth senior secondary in Surrey, southeast of Vancouver, which hes a varied ethnie mix, including about 100 Indo-Canadian students in a total of about 1,200. Usually peaceful, it has been beset lately by racial conflict. The school may have mis- handled recent racial con: Leukemia’ Schools report more. racism flicts, says princiapl Ron Mesi, including . the suspension of an East Indian student following an incident apparently instigated by a racial insult from. a white student. “No one’s perfect, but we're trying to learn,” It invited several anti- racism speakers fo a teachers’ professional day recently. : Masi concedes children from visible minority groups aren't getting as thorough an education as white students, “I?m just starting to ‘realize, partly from talking to East Indian kids, that the kids feel insecure in the school, So they can’t. keep their mind on their achoolwork, which means we aren't doing our job. That worries me.” Fear of the Klan, whieh ban mounted a media presence in B.C., distributed keaflets at several schools | amd threatened te open a storefront office in Van- couver, may be fuelling the conftict. ‘Terrorized by a group .of whilesstudents and? non-atu- denis many East Indian stu- denis have begun asking older siblings or parents to tate ,hem home from sehool Charan Gill of the B.C. Or- garization to Fight Racism says only through a series of meetings with parents and students has he been able to, calm students and dissuade them ftom demonstrations or violent retaliation. Gill prevented some students from calling in members of the East Indian Defence Comittee, an off- shoot of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist- Leninist) whose heavy rhetoric {fs laced with references to ‘‘necessary self-defence.” - otite’ is now working TORONTO (CP) — Qne . year ego, Brian Smith en- tered Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto for a bone-marrow transplant, an experimental treatment for the killer blood cancer called adult leukemia. Today, the 35-year-old bachelor feels fine and, like his doctors, hopes bone- marrow transplants will turn out to be a cure for adult leukemia. Adult leukemia is fatal for most patients, says Dr. John Curtis of the hospital's trans- plant unit. “The potential for this treatment is to restore people to normal life. Of the past 17 leukemia patients given a benemarrow tran. splant and discharged, 14 are alive.” Dr. Hans Mesaner, another physician in the unit, ssid: “Conventional chemotherapy does not give you the same long-term resuli uae Leukemia is characterized by a‘péollferation of white blood cells that don't provide the protection from disease given by normal white cells. There are two main types of leukemia — acute, which progresses rapidly, and chronic, “a fairly benign” disease for some people but often turning into the acute type within several years, About three Canadians in every 100,000 deyelop acute leukemia. Dr, Michael Baker, & researcher at Toronta Western Hospital, said the average survival is jess than a year, although chemotherapy can prolong that to an average 1% years, “The tricky question now for the transplant unil is to find out if bone-marrow transplants influence the rate of survival’ by com- paring the lifespan of those who receive trangplants with those who don't, sald Baker. Smith learned be had: chronic leukemia in Win- tipeg in 1977. He was treated - with drugs and had never been put in hospital, yet be knew the chronic condition could turn acute and kill him within months, ‘That’s why when he moved, to Toronto he was willing to risk a treatment described to Nm as experimental: and “The doctors painted eng as black as.tar He went into hospital Feb. 17, 1980, for chemotheFapy to lower his resistance to a foreign graft and -had the transplant Feb. 2. Henest Roscoe we had ne -™ ideo the girls sould walk out | lock up your pa Some where! . paycheque. re i }