4 Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 1 8, 1986 candidates visit Terrace TERRACE — Two men who are after Premier Bill Bennett's job were in Terrace recently, sear- ching out delegates to support them in the up- coming B.C. Social Credit leadership con- vention. Bud Smith and Mel Couvelier spoke to the local riding associa- tion on two separate days, each in an effort to convince members that he’s got what it takes to pilot the party and govern the province. Smith, a lawyer from Kamloops, claims that he knows the Premier’s Office inside out as a result of having been Bill Bennett’s principle secretary for the past two years. “I acted as a listening post for the Premier, a link between the Premier's Office and the party. I know the of- fice, the needs of the system, and its possibilities.’’ Bennett, Smith in- dicated, is leaving his successor in a good posi- tion by having built both a strong provincial economy and a strong “Letters to the editor will be considered for publication only when signed. Please Include your phone number. The aditor raserves the. right to condense and edit letters. Opinions “expressed are not necassariiy those of the Terrace Review. Terrace Review Established May 1, 1985 The Terrace Review Is published each Wednesday by Close-Up Business Sarvices Ltd. Publisher: Mark Twyford Editor: Maureen Barbour Staff Reporier: Michael Kelly Advertising: 635-4339 or 635-7840 Production: Kim Kimble Office: Carrie Otson Accounting: Marj Twyford ‘Second-class mail registration No. 6896. Reproduction of this paper or any por- tlon thereof is prohibited without paer- miasion of the publisher. 4535 Greig Avenue, Terrace, B.C. V8G 1M7 Phone: 635-4339 po party structure. He pro- poses to continue that work with no radical departures, ‘‘What we have to pursue is job creation through a diver- sified economy,’’ he said. ‘“We need a greater and better linkage be- tween trade oppor- tunities, research facilities, and en- trepreneurial drive. The government’s role should be that of a facilitator rather than a director.”’ With reference to his decision to run for leader of the party, Smith said, “IT made the decision after carefully consider- ing the amount of sup- port I could enlist, and whether I had the resources to run and succeed, I don’t do things precipitously.” Smith’s home riding of Kamloops become a two-member seat in the next election due to a redrafting of the electoral map. He will be running in tandem with Tourism Minister Claude Richmond. Mel Couvelier feels that he offers the only real alternative in the field of nearly a dozen declared candidates. Couvelier is presently mayor of Saanich, and he stated during his re- ‘ gent visit to Terrace that he is the only leadership contender who is not directly involved in the provincial government. He argues that his distance from legislative affairs gives him an ad- vantage in objectivity. “I'm in a better position to assess whether this is a real or illusory renewal we're experiencing,’’ he stated in reference to the provincial economy. Couvelier says his direc- tion as premier would be to encourage power and strength at the commun- ity level and get people involved in the political process through local government, He con- tends that ‘“‘we need new policies and attitudes to provide services. Each ‘area of the province should be dealt with in- dividually, rather than in universal fashion by a centralized gov- ernment,’’ Couvelier assessed his primary base of support as coming from .Van- couver Island ridings and municipal government leaders throughout the will province. Coincidental- ly, his home riding of Saanich and the Islands is also being expanded to two seats for the next election. He will be run- ning with Finance Minister Hugh Curtis, The Skeena Social Credit Association will hold its nomination meeting July 5. The B.C. Social Credit leadership convention will take place July 30 in Whistler, B.C. Social Credit leadership can- didate Bud Smith visited Ter- race recently to address the Skeana Riding Association. Letter Cooperative organizations can be inspired To the editor, John Wesley said if you want to shut downa dance hall you must first convert the dance hall girls. He rejected social revolution, i.e. shutting down the dance hall through acts of violence. Wesley knew that it is out of the heart that evil grows; and that revival against pornography, abortion, nuclear war, pollution, etc., centers the Christian spirit in the heart, not the state, or the environment, or even the church. That was Wesley’s method for social change and the Methodist Move- ment was born. Wesley started the first free medical clinic in England, because he knew that the human body is the temple of the living spirit of God, thus developing the first real holistic concept in history. It was this same Chris- tian awakening through Wesleyan revival which inspired and led the abolition of the slave trade, that humanized the prison system and brought about penal reform and laid the foundations of popular education. It also in- spired the many modern - Forest People are the main cause of forest fires and are responsible for about 57 percent. Lightning causes 43 percent. To report a forest fire, dial “‘Operator’’ and ask for Zenith $555, philanthropic and social service movements of which national groups for the prevention of cruelty to children and the Salvation Army are only two. . The Wesleyan move- ment also faced in- dustrial strife by chang- ing men who, at that time, brought vast im- provements to the coun- try’s entire industrial system and who caused England’s industrial slaves to be set free. In addition the revival brought about the sup- pression of the practice of the use of women and children as fodder for in- dustry, saying that ‘‘women should be educated to raise homemaking to the stan- dard of a Christian art or skill.”” This resulted in innumerable friendly and benefit societies (organized by women), and a hundred self-help and co-operative movements, as well as workers’ institutes, temperance guilds, literary and debating societies. The Christian Heritage Party has been newly formed and registered. If Christians do not rally behind this party, it will be aborted. It is time Christians stop- ped asking: is this Catholic, is this Pentecostal, is this Bap- tist, is this Anglican, is this my church? The par- ty is a Christian Heritage Party, and that is enough. . Brian Gregg, Terrace, B.C. ~ Conference on midwifery held Over 250 midwives, physicians, - childbirth educators and concerned individuals met in Van- couver recently to ex- press solidarity and a renewed commitment to legalized midwifery for Canada. Attendants came from all over the world, including the U.S., Japan, Great Bri- tain, Chile, Germany, Australia and Nicaragua. by Marianne Brorup-Weston Terrace Contributor Topics addressed in- cluded the politics, economics and ethics of midwifery, along with uses for ultrasound, death in childbirth, mid- wives in other countries and the safety of midwife-attended homebirth, midwife- attended hospital birth and physician-attended births. Dr. Duncan Farquar- son of the Grace Hospital in Vancouver and a Professor of Obstetrics at UBC made it clear that ultrasound has an important place in high risk pregnancies, but has not yet been pro- ven safe. ‘‘I am more concerned about the much larger doses of ultrasound used in elec- tronic fetal monitoring than a single dose in a diagnostic ultrasound scan done for a specific reason,” he stated. Most parents are unaware that ° minute for minute, the dosage is equal between a fetal monitor and a diagnostic scan. When questioned, he eleborated that this way a woman in labour can receive up to 72 times or more ultrasound in a labour monitored via continuous fetal monitoring (EFM) as compared to a one-time scan, Dr, Marsden Wagner, a European epidemi- ologist, told the par- ticipants that no study exists which proves that home birth is more risky than hospital delivery, in a screened ;#opulation. Using statisties, he also showed that in 1983, over 500 babies had died in hospital in B.C. Economist Robert Evans made a presenta- tion on how to incor- porate midwives into our health care system. ‘Make no mistake about it. The issue is not safety, The real issue is money, There is no reason why a professional group should willingly want to turn over a lucrative area of income to an entirely new group.” He stated that midwives had two avenues open to them, either autonomous mid- wifery -or nurse- midwifery within the present system. ‘‘Mid- wifery will become a reality, because parents are demanding. it. The question is, do you want to co-opt and incor- porate, hoping to effect change once you are in, or do you want to fight a tough battle to obtain autonomy.” Midwives from Nicaragua and Chile made those present aware that the struggle takes many forms and that .we are very -for- tunate’ in many ways compared to third world countries where mid- wives, although legal, practise at risk to their own lives and with inade- quate supplies and emergency help. Par- ticipants left with a sense of unity and resolve to bring birth back into the hands of caring and ex- perienced women. X-rays Chiropractic patients in B.C. now have access to their x-rays. Until recently, the B.C, College of Physi- cians and Surgeons pro- hibited medical practi- tioners from allowing release of patient x-rays for use by chiropractors. As a result, many pa- tients had to pay for duplicates to be taken, said Terrace chiroprac- tor Dale Greenwood. However, as a result of persistent appeals by patients and the B.C. Chiropractic Associa- tion, the College has revised its position, Greenwood explained. Now, when requested by a patient, and when the MD and radiologist agree, the patient’s x-rays may be made available to the patient or to other practitioners. The understanding is that the xrays will be returned.