vo “Bilan Crees "Advertising Sales: Terrace — David Hamilton « ‘title epeenet, : - Mike Howlett t “Sports: 7 "Reception. Cassie: . Carolyn Gibson “Circulation: =i. ®. Moria Taylor: . — _ NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright = The Heraii; Fridsy, June 25, 1982 ss nciald == Don Schaffer . _ in any advertisement produced and-or any.ediforlal = = - Or photographic content published in the Herald. . Reproduction Is not permitted without the written permission of ‘the Publisher. CC ceet Ce eee Letters to the Editor _ REE ee Talia frankly ? To Mr. Frank’ Howard } Dear Sit: : : . Mr. Howard, ‘how much of the taxpayers money are you o ; Spending during Parliamentary time taking cheap shots at © the Social Credit ministers, and-I wonder why, | are you * trying to raise a smoke screen? i During the time. the NDP was in office there were trips to - * China and I believe into Russia, complete with entourage. . fjlt was.said during that-time, that: aOoTdrorilater in most = owncachools -and,provide education’ fot * Frany capital city in the world you would see a NDP minister ; + from B.C, And what: about Mr. Levi's $100 million: over run? For. what? That never seemed to be quite clear. Please don't try to tell us that the NDP were a bunchof lily white angels, Of course, all NDP recocds were, I imagine, conveniently removed when they left office. - Constructive opposition ia one thing but obstruction is another, 1am sure the time you and the rest of the NDP are wasting in parliament with your nitpicking: tacties could be: .. pat to better use trying to come up with something con. structive about this depression we are in, T would like to | ‘remind you and your supporters that it is not confined “entirely to B.C. The NDP, the T.V. news media and the Unions seem at times to want to give that impression. - How refreshitig it would be to hear someone say something nice for a change instead of. the backbiting and - “inuendos we bear so much. of. You have been around a long long time,.Mr. Howard. Seventeen years as a federal MP, time as an Indian advisor - under Mr, Barrett, and now again, too long perhaps. We : ‘Sure could use a different approach here inSkeena. Eel are not reac _.B.C. selentists aré concerned that fewer young acience and |.” medical: graduates are’ interested in atepping, into, thelr acho VANCOUVER (CP) ~ @ people are not poming In, in general, todo ihe work t ‘that: I'm: doing because there isn’t, the money,” said biochemical causes of brain’ disedgen.”- » Perry. was slated for ‘retirement: Tant: summer, bit was reappointed this month to continue his work: Often the salaries of young ‘practising doctors outstrip even senior researchers, wha make $60,000 to $70,000. + Like, other B.C, university researchers told: by the . Universities Act to retire at 65, Perry has fought to retain his position, for both his own sake and that oft his work. t the University of B.C.'s Dr, Tom: Perry, af authority in the“ “tf raouces wore avallbi yeci at nt ery god e,.’ said Dy; John Dirks F Unk “of B.C. jane darren rei ving one looking at research . careers ‘hot Predictable, a4 Dry baa bem ihe dem of metiche: ledayaclear soyerament planning sod port of reseatch js needed, and pralses a move by the Medical - sclentists.. Research Souneit: of Canada ta ive: five-year grants to the eouncil, ‘which: provides ‘taast of the funding for." me a medical research in Canada, also announced Thuraday that: _ it-would: give’ first. riorit in’ funding to’ research : ”.., “The bright young people Td be interested in having work t a P . " hs with me say they aren’t interested,” he sald. . . .” Although Perry is noted for ‘breakthrough research of: ‘» Huntington's Disease, he said he cannot interest students in - pursuing his work when he-retires, / ‘The reason is that young graduates setting up medical . “ .. practices in the province eam $70,000 to $20,000 within three . - years — and that's up to double the carmings of a new | " university faculty member. - biotechnology. ~ ploratery surgery, © "1981-82, and believes that expansion In is 80 medical research. ‘Dr. Peter Bois, president’ of the coune!l, ald the: ‘cov’ would ‘consider. any grant application of an ‘accredited researcher, regardiess of retirement ages. .And asked if he was conceried’ that few” medicat graduates sought careers in research, he sald “this is not - new, it’s a matter of choice, you ‘choose a career. a. - Indians learning independence — . WINNIPEG (CP) — The bleak atone buildings that housed Indien residential schools in Manitoba for . Generations stand empty and silent. But for people like _. Ewnice Kirkneas and Rufus Prince, the schools are far from forgotten. Kirkness remembers the humiliation of head-shavings, a practice she describes ae a common form of punishment in . Many Indian residential schools in the 19608. “If you ran_away. they would shave ‘you bald,” said - Kirkness, 29, recalling an incident when three girls tried to flee school. “They brought. all the students into the playroom to watch them. They had long, beautiful hair too, and they just took the scissors and started.” 2 Prince, 62, recalls being locked in a dormitory room without clothing during his days in a-residential school in the 19803, He says he was fed twice a day for two weeks, The residential echeols for Indians were common in - Manitoba until the early 19703, but many of the buildings - M are closed, Only 23 schools operate on reserves in the provinde,- under local control. One. of theni; the Ginew Demonstration School on the- Roseat River Reserve about 55 kilometres south of Win- -“mipes, is operated by the band with its own teachers and school board. - “The ‘curricula tacorporates: native customs, language “and culture into the overall program. The children are _ - taught Ojibwa as a second language, and weekly powwows" Frances Anderson ~ eee To the Editor, : The Kitimat Chainber of Commerce is concerned with the manner in which the District of Kitimat intends to carry out _the Halela-Lahakas intersection reconstruction. In a letter to Kitimat council, the Chamber has expressed concern » that under the reconstruction as proposed, there. will be an ” extra lane going up Tahakas to the hospital entrance, but no - allowance for an acceleration lane for traffic exiting the hospital parking lot and turning right. The chamber con- . tends-that this is hazardous, and that an incident of 8 vehicle spinning out while leaving the fot, ir poor ‘driving conditions, could effectively block the entrance: to the hospital. Alvin Zaharko of Farwest Bus Lines states that ~ one spin out on Labakas could tie his buses up and prevent efficient operation of a major municipal transit route. The Chamber is also concerned that-the median strip oo Haisla Bowevard, which currently prevents a left bird jnto ‘and pipe ceremonies are part of the program. ; Marion Cameron, vice-president of the school which - _gpened in 1980, said attendance is, up and juvenile ' delinquency cases have been reduced ‘s$anificantly, Most students are graduating, a big change from past years. Today, 23 of the 60 Indian bands in Manitoba contral their - “6,1 “BLudents. * d Kubb, education: superintendent foi the ‘Dakota’ ” “Ojibwa ‘Tribal’ ‘Council, said ‘the education syatem for. Indians now has come full circle. © “We've gone ‘through’ the Hudson's Bay- (Company), - through the missionaries and the residential schools and the province and now it’ s at the local level where it should be,” he said. - But many Indian people who attended such schools from the 1920s to the 1960s say accounts depicting happy children. who gang in choirs and learned skills that, would integrate them into the t white nociely @ are fallacy. oO “Tt was Hke a prison,” said: Prince, who attended the. Portage la Prairie indian residential school. during the. 19908. Andrew Pershain, 45, who attended the same school in the 19406, said chicken mesh was fastened to the windows of the | school to prevent students f o “The kids Jost their: “The teachers were like guards, The only thing. it lacked was chains,” . - Stan Myerion, 32, said many native boya suffered such emotional problems as bed-wetting, but they never récelved attention. Instead, adolescent boys who were bed- wetters. were forced to parade through the dining hall in front of other students, holding thelr wet sheets 0 over their heads, > Bill Caskey, 7, a supervisor at the Portage school | during “the late. 1950s, said: ‘Tt seemna.to me at the time they were ‘trying to make white men out of the Indians too fast.” : Jack and Eleanor Harris, administrators at the Portage escaping. “school from 1958 to 1970, said social activities and sports- a thein €2 billion next year, By 1966, the federal treasury ; . “have lost #23 billion in revere, -., Loosely defined, biotechnoledy’ permits study of genetic material and the, human body “without invention”. orex- of belng there,"” he sald: The council funded research to the tune of $00.4 million in . _YIENPOINT by Jum! FULTON Sheena. me : pactoge of tax breaks for oll companies which will ‘The Liberais claim the oll companies need the ‘money to entice them into developing our ol] and But when New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadben biotechnology asked: the E Minister if he would consider sigalfieant that breakthroughs wil affoct. very aapect of tee ving ordinary Canadian a break at the gas pumpe by cancelling the planned July 1 Hike of 7 conta « gallon, Rnergy Minister Mare Lalonde flatly rules it out, % Yel, clearly it 1s economically ‘fair and sensible ‘to "recognize that ordinary consumers; and not. just the ell companies, need money in their pockets to help weatlpr » these economic hard times, “ Last fall, the federal government made a deal wilt -. Alberta-on oll prices, It was assumed that the world price of oll would continue to rise. Only this could justify a continual rise in our own prices way beyond the real cost of producing the oil, Both the federal and provincial governments and the oil companies would benefit from the added revenue. ‘ But something happened which industry analysts and the. federal government should have seen coming: the world . price of oil atarted to fall. : ‘Consequently, we have a situation today where Canadian oll and gas continue to rise in price while prices in the U.S, are falling, There aré two major results of this mistonceived eneryy "policy. First, we have just witnessed. the collapse of the. - esource’ megaprojects' which were to have spurred: programs were designed to expose-the children to ‘aspects - of white ‘society, not make them into white people, . “That was the thing Twas after but I found out later that the Indians didn't want that," said Jack Harris. “They felt it was assimilation. No.way were we trying to assimilate thent, We were just tryirig to get them into the society.” Former students say the stories they now are telling of |. the punishments and. conditions. at the, schools, which ad-. ‘ministrators of thé schools have admitted are true, never. came out because the children hed almost no contact with their parents and because playing therole of happy kids on: visitors’s day was thelr only way to, survive the system. ‘~"But'prodicts of the residential “sthool system “say they, “Sur ‘are bitter about being deprived of a. Fewarding education.” “What I’m bitter about is people losing their whole _-language, their whole culture,” sald George Daniels, 68. ‘'l ‘see that all over.” _ Myerion said Indians who weak through the system paid a high price for reasons he still doesn’t understand. “Tf the school was there for the education purpose, the cost was very, high,’ he sald..“Ef it was there as.a vehicle ‘for assimilation, it didn’t work. It was a hell of a price to ; pay, especially for * people's minds,’ " - Flower children’ S future bleak “OTTAWA (cp) — The flower children living in the hipple communes of the 1960s and 1970s may find themselves. _ yeunited in co-operative households during their old age. ‘The elderly of the future are less likely to have either a spouse or children to provide financial aid, help with, . household chorea, companionship or psychological support, says a study released Thursday. . ‘Satistics Canada said this lack of family support could - + eause the demand for social services by senior citizens to _ grow more rapidly than the actual. increase in the elderly population: - -To- overcome . the . problems ‘of ‘being alone - and " unavailability of support, “households of siblings and ‘unrelated seniors could become more commonplace,” the: study hypothesizes. - ; About,$7 per cerit ¢ of women anid 78 percent of men aged 65 or more lived with a spouse or other relatives in 1976, - . says the study entided The. Living Arrangement af. the hospital rear entrance, will be opened during recoa- _ struction, then closed again after reconstruction is finished, leaving the hospital with only one effective entrance. The __ Chamber feels that the Haisla entrance should be left open as an emergency entrance in the event of traffic problems. on Lahakas, With Lahekas blocked, the only other way that emergency traffic approaching from Kildala, Service’ - Centre, and the industrial area could reach the. hospital would be togo up Haista, past the median sitlp, make a U- turn in the middle of Halala, and come down the hill to the . Haisla entrance This is not only hazardous in bad weather , “+ -fput itis egal to pull a U-tuim on Haisla. The Chamber has received a reply to its letter to Council ‘from municipal manager Ben Dekleine, stating that the. - _final design has been completed as originally proposed, and the contracts let. At the reqular monthly meeting-of the Chamber én . Wednesday, June 16, the membership In general expressed ‘ite dismay ‘at Coimcil’s decision . not to include, the ac- celeration lane and make a second entrance available. A ‘ _hogpital spokesman stated thatthe hos tal board has of- fered guificient land, free of charge, | accommodate the acteleratioa lane. The ae . ‘support the hospital's ‘position that, in a felerhtion lane ‘being provided on Lahakas,\d , should be left to allw 6 an alternate tran ergency traffic. ‘open & eee Frage a a aalasiecd sti ae Gr rereneetet - Canada’s Older Women. . -. “The increasing incidence of childlessness or one-child . families; the increasing rate of divorce, the high rate of mobility among young adults and recent increases in the..}- - ; labor force participation'of women, all tend to add to the — |. “probability that an elderly person in thé futire will have Jess opportunity ‘for ‘family support than present and previous generations of older persons.” - “The resulting anticipated strains on ‘social services will: be further: increased because.a.growing. Praportian, of the — elderly are women. In 1978, there were 131 women to every 100 men as years. of age or older. By the year 2001, there will be an estimated 450 women to every 100 men in this age group. The gap is - even higher for the oldest people — ~ the ‘group needing the j-. 7 ; € most help. . Older women, especially: widows, are more likely, to be’ poor than their male counterparts because they thay never “have worked outside. the home or. worked at.a job that “ provided them with little,.if any; pension | benefits. : _ Widown are widowers. . Studies. show elderly’ ‘widower are more “ney tL. _ remarry because they:have a greater pool: from which to - —_ Choose a new spouse, do not suffer the: stigma nesdcialed- ° 2." with older women hunting for a husband, and are leas Mkely. m to want to) tain a home’on their own. a Tho g . co-authored ‘by Susan Fletcher. and Leroy - Stone, also cites some factors that could cause the future - élderly to be better off than their. Grandparents." a The baby-boom. generation will be more likely to enter" old’ * age wlth More education, superior ‘finances, better. health. and more experience with independent living than. thelr,” ; ‘ grandparents did. The anticipated abolition of mandatory retirement, laws . Could also bea ood harbinger for better standards of living,” in old ages o. . a () addition, although the baby-boom generation may not have as many’ children available for support as did present The : a and previous generations. of elderly,: they will have more siblings.” =. Brothers and sisters may ‘thus start living together or ~ move in with friends. - _“Hf these kinds of households involve sufficient numbers of elderly persons, they could significantly reduce _ pressures on formal support organizations. aan ay thought I told you yesterday ~ _ you can’t conie in without | ~ wearing: a tle.” oa “Letters Welcome : - The » Herald welcomes {ts readers comments, All tetiors to. * the. edifer of.generai public Interest will be printed. They: should ‘be submitted 49 hours In advance: of desired . publication date. We do, however, retain the right tretuse fo print fetters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We: may ‘also edit letiers for style and tength. Ail tatters ta be considered for publication must ba signed. it Is impossible oe to print a tetter’ submitted within 2 hour of desired ' . ~e : eT baal 1 . . . ve a $ "East week. a, second Social Credit, ¥ " economic growth in the 1980's. Second, if we stubbornly " ¢lingto the Liberals’ pricing schedule despite world trends, — our inflation rate will continue to rise while our trading... partners are able to reduce thelr production’ costs’ and living’ costs. Thus, our ability to compete for export markets, and to rebuild jobs in ow’ manufacturing sector, will further deteriorate... . Clearly, if we are to rebuild our economy and strengthen our dollar, then we are going to have to pick up the pieces of our shattered manulacturing sector and make Canada once * again a-nation of producers. VICTORIA — REPORT by FRANK HOWARD Skeena MLA *Ayndmen ‘on the hot seat over | expense “account Spetiding. This time, Bob McClelland is tn the glue for a night on t the - town he spent in New York City, June 11-12, 1980. New York is, of course, known as one of the en - - ‘tertainment capitals of the world. Who has not heard of ' ‘Times Square, the Plaza Hotel, the Statue of Liberty and _ Broadway. | McClelland. says -he went there on business — to hoid meetings with news media and financial consultants, The expense account records." show he had at his disposal at air-conditioned, chauffeur-iriven cadillac Limousine. ‘It _ shows that some $925 of taxpayers’ mioney was spent on - tickets to the Broadway burlesque show “Sugar Babies”. -. For an evening.on the town, this one proved even more ~~ expensive than Peter Hyndman's dinner at 11 Giardino di Umberto retaurant in Vancouver.. On February 20, 1961, . Peter Hyndman and his wife hosted two other couples: They spent $184 on liquour, $57 on a time and $133 on food, ~ blamed “the system”, He said his bills. were paid without _ hig s -for a total bill of $374. ” Hyndman has relerred his expense claims to thie Audits’. : General for” ‘examination. He has refused to make any comment or answer any questions, even to eonfirm or deny McClelland, on the other hand, went on the offensive, He ‘his ever having known. _. To say this is an astounding d development ipa massive understatement. "Yo say that such davish expense account __ living is initiated, consumated, billed ‘and paid without the. | .- reciplent’s knowledge certainly. atretches the imagination a of most. people. vt ~ McOlelland and othera in the ‘goverment: = = = notably MY soa _ Preniier Bill Bennett and Finance Minister Hugh Curtis — use a consultant by the name of Nicholas Coolidge to. make _ cettain “arrangements” when they ate in New York:City. The government always receives the bills for’ thees tripe; Fot his services, Mr. Coolidge was paid some $40,000 during -. 1980-81, the last year for which accounts are available..." 1 It could be conceded that Mr, Coolldge’s taste in high * living caused these expensive arrnagements to be made, , *Yerhaps even without the minister's knowledge. 4 i . ‘This {s unlikely, but, it could have happened, - But, when the" hills Yietoria, it jaa. diteret - story. Financial management éfficlals are d to go over each account submitted. ‘They have to de whether the goods or services were ordered by ‘omecne: with lawful authority, They have to determine whether the we can expect, . peice charged:is fair or reasonable or in accord _ If as was the case with Broadway Bob McClelland, the gervices were received outside of Canada, the only way to determine that they were received is to ask the principals. .. duty"of the financtal management asthe neMécleliaad And determine that fie had in proathel RR a nae ay in thls regaird, Me- them; - : 14 = Introduce réasortable ‘guidelines for cabinet ministers’ spending on hospitality, entertaininent, and travel. Since ‘without limit’: ‘They are allowed reimbursement -or payment” for jactugl expenses Incurred. and . ‘tot simply “reasonable” as under the previous NDP policy: “Ata time when nearly everyone, including the preseat government, volces Chet need for restralal this u us the legat ’ tn ; with the -. -- egntiact, And, most importantly, they have to certify. that “the goods or services.were in fact received. Ty ‘imausine service, accommodation at the New Te and. and lity tothe Brosway, burleozue sham, The NDP. ishoping that these rovelations will serve to re: i" 1978 ministers have heen allowed by Bill Bennett to spend o "Gland as ied raed serious allegation naioat of