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“EDITORIAL

Te:
Cdladonia Senior Secondary School we
offer our congratulations on achieving
its” milestone in your _ iife.

Over the past few weeks you have
prbbably heard how the future is yours
andcheny 14is marks: the beginning of
your. Ié as a responsible adult. You
nave atid will be told how decisfons are
now your hands -and you must accept
ino consequences of vour actlons..

Greauation is only a symbolic rite of
intfiation, however. You have had an
effect an ine world since you were born
and have seen the cansequences of the
part you clay in it-all along. That will
aivaph: Waerease, '

Geitiig thraugh 12 years of schooling
is notvé magical, and transforming
experiance, You witl neither receive new
powers nar leave problems behind. Life
iS an ongaing process and the part you
will play i the affairs of the world may
not be ellher revolutlonary or even very
significant, bul you are part of it. We
uvae you iu cominue fo play an ever
increasing part, slowly take on more
raspansiGiities as you feel you can and

work foward your Ideal of a better world. |.

Our comraurltty AAffon’ahd civilization Is
only the coliection of the people in It. No
matter haw you view this life, you are
part of tf and for better or worse,
responsible for it.

AALA’s REPORT |

by Frank Howard

wale

The current session of the Legislature is a resump-
ton of Lhe sessinn which commenced earlier this year
and which was interrupled by the provincial election
af May 30, Seme uf the players are the same and, of
course, sone are different,

But, the subjects heing dealt with are the same as
they were last spring. It was the same Throne speech,
even though sliphily different in wording. It was the
same budget aud the same pieces of legislation.
arising from the budget. Nothing new, except some of
the faces.

There is one important matter that needs com-
menting upon, though, and that is the relationship
belween governnient and the legislature. One of the
inylhs which has been spread far and wide goes
something like this: Elect a member of the govern-
ment and your area will benefit. The converse is
obvicusly thal if a member of | he opposition Is elected
then the area will suffer.

This lhenie is O.K. for attracting votes, but has no
place in the aftermath of anelection, After an election
takes place il is ihe duty of those elected, whether in
the cabinet or nol, to-carry out thelr obligations on
behalf oof all the people in the province.

There are those, not in the legislature, who continue
9 spread the theme that it is only a member of the
aabinct who can really get things done, That , of
conrse, is nonsense for we have proof every day in the
week (hal ridiugs represented by opposition members
dul fair ant fais cunsicderation from government, On
he other juind, if these who continue to spread this
kind of fuise invpression actually believe it then they
ace saying! thal government is vindietlve and will
punish ridings that de not elect government members.

simply du not believe that our present Social Credit
vovernnieat is vindictive or that Lt will punish ridings
in BC. who happened ta elect NDP MLAs.

J would late bo think that government in this
enliphtened da and age would Lreatsome ridings with
Ings favor (isnt others just becnuse the vote was une
favorable lo the Government,

There aru same projects, like the proposed port
develujpnent at Sitimal, which al no tlme received
any favorable consideration from governmant and
that project will be a hard nut to crack because there
has breath consistent provincial government refusal
ta look wpati ik.

‘There csv other projects, like the upgrading of High-
way 37, which have reecived positive provincial
support anid Unk will continua,

The next phase of aclivities here in Vietorla will
involve (hi celinidtes of expenditure of all government
departinent: and that will be the place, In addition to
individtial yepreseatations, where loval matters can
be raised puteedy.

ONT Te crop "
PLws = hema ting S
teeny worn WSTIAO OF eft
ACH ae

Sa gan aUnTETINBTI f

ae =

“Another attempt by’ the m dia to panic the public _ can you imagine the odds of

“being hit by a chunk of Skylab... .Otis?...”

Preperations underway .:

managed to turn Skylab |

OTTAWA (CP) —
Federal emergency
planners, geared for the
flery re-entry of the
Skylab space station next
month, have assembled a
control centre here In
case pieces of the
bungalowsized eraft hit
Canada. ;
Lesley “Lynn, « a
spokesman for
Emergency Planning
Canada, sald at a news
conference Thursday that
provincial and federal
officials with hellcopters
and = radio-telephone
communications are
ready for the - U.S.

apacecraft’a plunge to

earth.

Mme. Lynn said there
now is a §8-per-cent
chance that the 79-tonne
station will fall from its
decaying orbit between
July 7and 17 and a 50-per-
cent chance it will come
down July 12,

SKYLAB LANDING

By DAVE ROONEY

. Skylab orbits the earth
once every. 67 minutes
and Is over ‘southern

Canada for 22 minutes .

each day. Major cltles in

its path include Van .

couver, Calgary, Win--
nipeg, Toronte, Ottawa*

and Montreal,

Mme. Lyn sald that if
alerted by the North
American Air Defence

Command (NORAD) that
’ the station will fall on

Canadian territory, the
dut:
mediately alert
emergency planning
officials in the reglons
and citles involved,

Although Skylab will
break into about 500
pleces, only eight large
chunks, weighing bet-
ween 8 and 24 tonnes, will
likely survive the searing

officer will im: .

“+ but-a

heat of re-entry and be
scattered over a path,

6,200 kilometres long and

160 wide.

There are no plans for.
evacuation of urban areas
ortable military

hospital will be available
‘fn case a city is hit. Pilots
and sailors in probable
impact zones will also he
warned by air traffic con-
trollers and ship-to-shore
radio.

Space controllers at the
National Aeronautics
Space Administration
(NASA) and NORAD in
Colurado and ‘Houston,
Tex., constantly track the
Btatlon but cannot ac-
curately predict ita re-
entry or where it will
come down until 24 hours
before. .

NASA space controllers

aideways Wednesday in a
manoeuvre they hope will
allow them to steer it
away from inhablted
-APeBS.

Although it is nota sure
thing, the manoeuvre
may help controllers
stabilize the craft as it
nears re-entry and would
permit last-minute course
changes If necessary.

Skylab was put in orbit
in 1973 and was used for
sclentifle experiments by
three crews of astronauts.
The station has been
abandoned since the last
team left in 1974 and
unlike the Soviet Union's
Cosmos 954 satellite,

“which broke up over |

Western and Northern

Canada a year ago, It is -

non-nuclear.

The odds that it would
hitany human being were
estimated at 600 billion to
one,

Women in training

FARNHAM, Que. (CP)
— The morning sun beats
down on 18 women in this
rural town as they
prepare to begin a 24-hour
test that will see them
cover an abstacle course,
ride a cableacrosa a rivar
and wade through a
swamp at midnight.

“Here we have the
feeling of really being in
the army,” says Nicole
Rompre, 24, a trainee
from the Canadian
Forces school at St, Jean,
Que, “It’s not boring, like
our course,”

One watching the five-
foot-two Mins Rompre
witl have no doubt that
she Is enjoying herself as
she yells ‘‘whoopee,”’
while hanglng by her
hands from a cable over a
river, Along with her
Khaki ault and black
boots, she wears a 13-
pound backpack and an

N-Ci rifle,

"I dropped out of school
when] was 14,” she says,
She-worked In a factory in
her home town, Trois-
Rivieres, Que., before
Joining the army.

"I always wanted to
join the army, but my
mother discouraged me
because she sald it's no
place for a woman.

“A factory Is no place
for a woman."

For her and others {n
her platoon, the army js
home.

COMBAT ROLES

It gives hope,
camaraderie and a
feeling of belonging to
women from rural
backgrounds, many of
them with high-school
education or less, says
one officer.

In 1972, there were 1,500
women in the forces.
Today that number has
reached! 5,000,

The expanded role of
women in the forces
began in 1072, when the
Royal Commission on the
Status of Women opened
all jobs — except combat,
sea and remote postings
— to women, .

Since then, out of 127
trades, §1 are open to
women, including the
male-dominated areas of
alr-traffic control, auto
mechanics, vehicle,
weapon and radar
technicians and the
military pollee,

As well, this year for
the first time women will
be allowed in ‘‘near-
combat?’ roles,

Only one duwing
recrult training do
women get a chance to
experience a combat-like
situation, -in a 24hour
endurance teat.

"i they get this far
they usua ly atick it out,”
says Sgt. Diane Gorrili, a
career army woman, Her
booming voice resonates
in the woods, and her no-

nonsense demeanor
makes her look and sound
like one person who can
indeed stick uut.

But she has no desire to
0 6vinte) «combat = 6 and
loesn’t think any woman
could take it for more
than 10 minutes.

In the barracks at St.
Jean, there are two
women per bedroom, 20

* per barrack, Servicemen,

on the other hand, don't

have ‘bedrooms, but
rather 20 beda in one long
dormitory row.

Even so, women have .

trouble getting along,

says Master-Cpl, Elaine

Forcier,

"The first five weeks
they're on the base,
they’re alwaya getting
Into fights.”

Adds Miss Gorrill:

“They alsohave trouble
setting used to
yelled at all the time.
Sometiman It makes them

¢q ’

"Caut you have to do it,
yf ou get her attention

ght away by a yell, it's
going to scare the pants
off het and she won't re-
peal the mistake,”

Capt. Bleena Davidson,
who has a degree in
paychology and biology,
says most women who
join the forces are more
serious than the men

recruits, area little older, —

being .

now

and have a slightlybetter
education.

Although the forces
have become a shade
more tolerable in the five
years since she joined,
rules still require that
women not wear tght
uniforms, jewelry or
gaudy makeup.

Sex is not allowed on
base, Although women
aren't put Into detention,
they're punished If
they're caught “frater-
nizing,” especially with
someone in a sentor rank,

But men and women
will fraternize, despite
the rules. At the Canadian
base in Ismallya, Egypt,
there are 60 women and
300 men, Recently one
woman was sent home for
fraternizing’’ with
Egyptians, as wellae with
the Canadian contingent,

Since 1971, When
restrictions for married
women In the farcea were
lifted, a new community
of Mr.-and-Mrs, groups
have sprung up around
Canadian army bases,

Miss Davidson says she
would never leave the
forces,

“While I war at
univeralty 1 worked in a
bank for a summer and I
was treated like dirt.

“Here, I'm completely
free. Not even the
privates are treated like

tr a

OTTAWA OFFBEAT

BY RICHARD JACKSON

Ottawa, With nobody anxious to rush into an elec-
tion—least of all the opposition parties--Prime Minister

love feast with his Conservative caucus, and a time to

| ‘amooth ruffled feathers, salve hurt pride, to kiss and
‘4. make up with those among the party faithful who think

they have been stood up.
' And some have..

set number of parliamentary secretaries and other

and contributed to the victory.
After only four years aa Opposition Leader Joe
Clark comes to the power and glory with a lot of chita
outetanding, markers for services and favors done for
him in his years in the wilderness, falling due for
yment when the Great Day dawns as lt so dazzlingly
has for the second time for the Tories in 44 years.

How to aquare accounts? .
Oh sure, the troops can be rewarded with public

‘constituents, . ;
. But that's not very PERSONAL.

Clark will be enjoying a political honeymoon, a sort of.

For there are only ao many places in the cabinet, a-

It doesn't answer the pressing question: “What's in

posts of reward for the deserving who won thelr seats 8

works goodies for the constituencies and job favors for _ ‘

~ {t now for me that you've left me out of your cabinet | “*

me unremembered on the back benches?"
How can Joe - show . his

‘ternational conferences. ~
- Two right at hand.
The economic summit in Tokyo.

Places as Canadian representatives at scores of in-

‘There'll have to be a parliamentary team of ad-

visers, to back up the Canadian diplomats backing up

External Affairs Minister Flora MacDonald.
Then there are special “missions” and ‘assign:

_ nents” ‘abroad at which Parliament will require

“observers,!’ co
And always the United Nations even if it is run by
the Third World busy blackmailing the Western

democracies through. OPEC~whild eccepting a $1

billion plus in Canadian foreign aid~and playing the

Soviet's game. -
But.. don't let the politicians kid you. ~
A junket is a junket. ,

_ And you as taxpayer are picking up the tab.
_Who says so?, ue

‘A well-qualified authority, Willlam Winter
Hamilton, MP,-former deputy chairman of Britain’s
Labor Party, speaking as a junketeer himself.

He was speaking right hore, in these hallowed: “"

marble halls at a Commonwealth Conference.
So he wasn't talking through a mouthful of sour

grapes, because with all the rest of the delegates he -

was enjoying the touring, the dining, wining and the
living the good life all provided courtesy of the un-
suspecting taxpayer.

jo expense ls spared because these courtesies are
reciprocal. ir .

ee pe “late lo otatlh
.- |Shdw "ema géod tine here and they'll try to oiridosa

the hospitality when it's their turn.
So who cares how much [t costs-or whether the
mission matters any more than bothering to turn out a

eo
Vii

and its backup parliamentary team and instead left, . “

appreciation? =
Well, there are expenses-paid journeys to Faraway

The Commonwealth Conference in Lusaka, Zambia. \ “a

Mle aE

wie

»

i
W

standard “free and frank discussions" communique- |

they're not paying the shot. ;
Spoke up Mr. Hamilton on the subject (God bless

| him): “The junket isa political racket,” he announced

at

for one and all to hear, ‘for a free globe-trotting tour

at the taxpayers’ expense.'’ ;
_ And as if that weren't enough to more than horrify
your friendly neighborhood MP, Mr. Hamilton's

companion, Charles Pannell, former Works Minister . :

in the Labor Government added:

“I needed a change of scene from London, and I
thought it was about time I saw Canada, so this inter-
parliamentary conference seemed a reasonable and
ridiculously Inexpensive vehicle to catch onto,’

Now. you know.

ATRILL THINKS

by Thomas Atrill
Statistics can be fun.

Thave always been Intrigued by the use of statistics

and graphs in discusalons to prove a point. Correctly

used and interpreted, they are a valuable tool, part of

the give-and-take of debate. ;
The fun begins, however, when we draw the wrong

conclusions from these facts and figures and trends,

Some examples;

“Ford cars are involved in more highway accidents
than are Bricklins." (There are probably fifteen
million Fords to. every Bricklin — car.)

~~“There are more home accidents than any other

kind. (Makes the home seem a dangerous place until
one asks where else people live.)
“More doctors smoke Camels than any other
cigarette.” (Ihavenever bean able to figure that one
out. .

“Consolidated Can Openers Ltd, increased sales by -

300 per cent during 1678." (‘They sold one carton In
_1977 and three in 1078.)
“Workers recelve 29 per cent wage hike.” (9,7 per
cent year .equals the rate of: inflation.)
“Seven hundred thousand unemployed in Canada.”
(How many are unemployable because of personal
problems, and how many would rather Hve as hippies
or welfare bums?) ;
“Business failures on upswing,’ (Business
openings may have been ontheupawing, as weil.)
“Gold rises to new highs.” (Gold value remains
relatively constant; the world’s debauched currency
does the fluctuating.) .
‘There are a hundred catsin thegarden,” (Just one
cat, making enough nolse for a hundred.)

“The new Heapmobile is better, in elghteen ways, -

than last year's model.” (And may be inferior in
twenty ways, as: wel].) hry Coat

“Number of farmers declined 8 percent this past
decade,” (Farm production, per capita, increased 10

percent.)
As I said, statiatics can be fun, and they canservea -

useful purpose if properly gathered and interpreted.
They can serve the cunning demagogue; and
undercut his propaganda,

Have fun.

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