PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Tuesday, March 28, 1978

~ EDITORIAL:
What Kind of News?

Every newspaper has a limited number of .

pages. This limits it to the space it has to be filled
with news, photographs and advertising. To
comply with newspaper postal regulations, the
advertising is usually not more than 60 per cent
— which leaves 40 per cent for the ‘News Hole”.
A ten page newspaper — any ten page
newspaper — would therefore not have more
than four full pages allotted for news and photos.
So, it is easy to see that an editor is forced to be
selective when it comes to fitting in the news.

It is always a temptation for an editor to
succumb to the lure of the wire service and strip-
in news from it to fill a page rather than depend
on reporters to go out and dig for local news.

Usually, people living in small towns —such as
Terrace, Kitimat, Smithers or Rupert are in-
terested in the local scene, and wish to he in-
formed on what is going on downtown, in the
clubs, Church, hospital, theatre, and super-
market. This is news they will not tind in the big
dailies. If they are at all the type that wishes to
be kept informed, they will subscribe to two

-~ a big city paper and the local paper.
they have a high school education or above, they
will often subscribe to a news magazine — Time,
Newsweek, Saturday Night-or similar. This will
keep them abreast of happenings in the U.S. and
abroad. They will supplement all this by catchi
the world news via the electronic media, or fi

‘estate, as the radio and television coverage is

sometimes called.

The rest of one’s news gathering is carried out,
almost unconsciously, by association.

“The children come home from school. Before
they have slammed the front door shut, we are
hearing about what went on there.

We go shopping at the corner store or the .

supermarket, Everyone who stops to talk to us
adds to our daily news. at church, the club,
bowling, curling, beauty parlour or barbershop
— we are virtually bombarded with more. The
telephone rings — and our newsgathering con-
tinues. The postman delivers the mail — and
even if it’s a letter from an in-law complaining
“nothing new has kappened since I last wrote”
we can be fairly certain that something has —
and we will learn about it. Then, whether we
work in an office, a store, a factory or a cannery
— our livelihood is bound to bring us in touch
with others and other news sources, And so it
goes. Our brain, like a human ‘‘wire service”
keeps feeding us a steady scan of news from the
moment we awaken to the time we retire to bed
and to sleep. Having said all that, let's return to
the local newspaper — ours and the kind of
news we want and expect our paper to serve us.
For the purposes of brevity and this editorial Jet

us pass quickly by the subjects of sports, en--

tertainment, and “‘lifestyle’ (once called the
Women's Page), the ads, comics.and syndicated
features, These are pretty standard departments
that nearly all papers will carry — along with the
daily crossword puzzle, TV guide, and
horoscope. :

We shall deal, now, with the local scene, The
current news. Crime. Although it may sound
simple, this is one of the toughest areas to cover.
Itis also the trickiest, and can get'a reporter into
more trouble than any other. You report John
Dumdum Jr. arrested for breaking and entering

at a certain time, date and place. With one-

maybe two-reporters on your staff, you miss
John’s trial in court six months toa year later, At
that trial J. Dumdum Jr. is proved to have been
totally innocent. He hadn't been breaking and
entering — he had merely stepped inside the
building to find out why the door had been left
open, It could have happened to anyone. Only-
you never learn abnout it because pay had not
personally attended the trial that proved
Dumdum Jr.’s innocence,

So — the public — your readers — who have
read about Dumdum’s arrest for breaking ‘and
entering never do find out it was all a mistake
A— that he is as innocent as the driven snow —
BP (before pollution). The poor guy gets a bad
reputation — and it is all the newspaper’s fault.
On the other hand, if you didn’t report D-d's
arrest in the first place, Sam Snively, who got
three days in the cooler for armed robbery and
assault with intent to kill — and was written up in
the paper ten years ago will demand to know w.
you are “covering up” for Dumdum, and

. Suggest you have been bribed.

Or there can be two persons with the same
intitials and the same surname. Such as Horatio
B. Kookenheimer and Horace B
Kookenhymer. One Kook is bound to threaten to
sue the paper if just the initials are used. .

Then, of course, there is the reporting of
“ugly” crimes — and every town.— ho matter
how small — is bound to have its share. Some
newspapers like to pride themselves on being a
“family newspaper’. This makes it easier for
them-much easier-to concentrate on coverage of
club meetings, sports, church news, arts and
crafts, graduations, births marriages, deaths
and anniversaries. It allows them to leave out
coverage that would indicate (and warn) the
public there are child molesters, murderers,
rapists, burglars, crooked ticlans, inept
5

li
ool teachers — and possibly also bungling .

doctors and crooked lawyers:on their very street
in their own neighbourhood.

“Since that new editor arrived,” I can recall
one clergyman saying in one small town, ‘‘we’ve
had nothing but one crime wave after ancther in
our heretofore happy little village.”’

Far from exhausting the subject this editorial
has only briefly touched upon it,

Kut here too, space has to be a consideration.

And the editorial too has to be “cut to fit’.

course planning
ne Adult | Education of

- Canada this year, Suntours

New Courses In

Community Education

by Frances Long
for

School Board No.
infact they gointo be printed
ey go into t
this week. I have tried to
select courses short and
different from the normal
course offerings of the Fall -
and Winter Sessions.
Courses include some ott-
door sessions for example —
“Natural History of B.C.”
will take you for hikes
through Kitselas Canyon,
and for a weekend cam
trip outside of Smithers, all
of this while learning about
birds, animals, trees and
plants particular to the
Northwest Region.

The training courses mn-
tlude — “Tralning for
Waiters and Waitresses",
taught by Willy Bogel,
Maitre d' at the Bavarian
Inn, [am positive this course
will be beneficial to all those
who take it. -

The Home Skills courses
will include ‘Furniture

Refinishing” — taught by

’ Wayne Barclay, and a

variety of new cooklng
courses such aa “Baking
with Yeast’. “Micro Wave
Cooking”, or for all you
people who come home at
night to eat leftovers or find
thal your meat has spoiled or
our lettuce has wilted
fore you ate it — “Basic:
Cooking for One or Two" Is
just the course for you.
_For those of you who want
help with math, spelling,
reading, are taking
cotrespondence courses and
need a tutor or want to go on
and get your Grade 12. We
are developing a new course
called Basic Skills’ it will
com $12.00 for the entire
course or one dollar per
night —Drop In — Caledonia
Room No. 110 on Mondays
and Wednesdays April 17.
Registration for these and
other courses will be at the
Terrace Arena Banquet
Room, April 8 from 12:00
p.m. =~ 6:00 p.m. i
For more information
please phone me: Frances
Long 685-4931 Local $7.

Think small.
| byjimSmith |

PM i

“Mornings would be okay if they didn’t come so early.”

Politics a

If you deceive people to
get their money, the law calls
it fraud. But if you deceive
people to get their votes,
that’s known as politics. The
only real difference between

_ fraud and politics is that it's

often easier to con the voter.

Confidence men (and, in
this age of sexual equality,
women) play on the victim's
willingness to be deceived,
Greed is the con man’s stock
in trade. And nowhere is
there more greed to befound
than in the way Canadians
regard government,

’ Canadians think of govem-
ment as a cornucopia of free
public benefits, Government
is expected to provide pen-
sion benefits that excéed |
the actuarial value of ‘the -
amounts contributed.’ Gov-~
ermment is expected to pro-
vide income for unemployed
warkers who do not wish,to
work, Government is expec-
ted ta provide education far
beyond the level that is use-

’ ful to society. Government

is expected to provide bigger
libraries, more art galleries,
grants to opera, ballet and
travelling rock bands and big-
ger, more lavish parks, Above
all, government is expected
to do all this for free.

The public hates to hear
the truth. Politicians running
on platforms of fiscal re-
straint have the same odds
on survival as a mouse ina
catfactory,

The best things in life may
well be free —but they aren’t
provided by government.
Only ten years ago, one-third
of every dollar eared went
to government; today, gov-
ernment grabs about 42 cents
out of every dollar. Not only

Suntours New

.. Charter Flights

care este come
request to avi ustry
to. promote tourism within

Limited has announced ‘that
it has applied to the Air.
Tranport Committee for
approval to. eperat: the
following Advance Booking .
Charter flights: .

Vancouver to Toronto —
Pacific Western Airlines 737
jet Saturday day round trip
commencing June 24 weekly
to September 90 offering 7
vand 14 day durations and
selling at $100.

Calgary to Toronto ~~
Pacific Western Airlines 737 |

anyone and selling for
169,
‘Edmonton to Toronto —
Pacific Western Airlines 737
Saturday day round trip
+dune 24 weekly to:
September 30 offering 7 and
14 day durations and selling
for $0, ,
Edmonton to Vancouver —
Pacific Western Alrlines 737
jet offering 7 and 14 day
durations, Friday flights
from June 23 to September 29
and selling for $79,
in addition Suntoura
Limited has applied for the

nd Fraud

* is government spending more;
it’s spending a larger share of
what we earn. “

The real costs are enor-
mous, Private businesses have
been absorbed by. govern-
ment: Workers know the
state will keep them if they
can’t find suitable employ-
ment so business has trouble
recruiting competent help.
Higher taxes to pay for fam-
ily allowances, pensions,
health care and unemploy-
thent benefits lead to higher
prices and wages as employ-
ers and employees struggle
to protect themselves from
shrinking profits and take-
home pay packets; under
these conditions, it doesn't
take Jong for Canadian busi-
ness to price itself out of

world markets. Worse yet,
the majority.of government
spending schemes are index-
ed so that costs increase
faster than tax revenues, The

. federal deficit for the next

year will be about $14 billion

— and there’s no relief from.

the deficit budgeting in sight,

Recently, the Canadian
Federation of Independent
Business submitted a brief on
Canada’s industrial future to
the federal and provincial
governments. The message
was simple: Canada cannot
become a strong industrial
nation until all Canadians

once again become more self.

reliant, free from the depen:
dence on government “gifts”.
The unfortunate part of
a welfare state is that adult:
as well as children believe
Santa Claus,

“Think small” is an editorial
message from the Canadian
Federation of lndapendent —
Business ‘

following series. .
Montreal to Vancouver

-Quebecair 727. | Friday

overnight flight out and
Saturday back commencing
June 23 weekly until Sep--
tember 29 offering 7 and 14

day durations, Expected to .

sell at $219 round trip,
Toronto to Vancouver —
‘Quebecair $707 . Friday
overnight flight leaving June
24 weekly to September 30
with 7 and 14 day durations
and selling for $190. ‘.

Apr. 2nd, - 8 1978

can’t tell you what I was:

Letters to the Editor 7 ee:

Saved By

Seeing that picture in the baby and had had to give it
paper of the bridge where up. Anyway. There I am,
Rose was found and her body figuring it all out. How I'm
at the bottom like that made going to do it and-all that.
me think of a time some Nobody weuld even know.
years ago. The bridge had Lots of people go in the
just been fixed. I think there Skeena and are never found.
had been a bad accident. It I wonder how many are not
waa high water. I was even missed. Some they
standing right about the might say good riddance..-
dame spot she must have (Well along comes this
been on the boardwalk, I horse. He’s a big kind of
white horse, I don’t even
notice who is riding him. As
he gets close to me and goes:
to pass me, he rolls his eyes

thinking. Maybe you could
guess. I know I did not: want
‘o live eny more. Ihad had a-

You know what lonely is? Do you really want to
know? Lonely is, every time you see an older
person or couple go by, you ask yourself — could
that be my mother — that guy my father — that
couple my parents? Because you don't know.
Lonely is — having an abortion — then won-
dering every time you see a good looking kid —
did I do right? And sometimes crying in the night
about it — and hating yourself — and hating Him,
. Lonely is — wishing you had a telephone so it
would and there would be some guy on the’
other end; then getting-a phone — and it never

Lonely is — seeing other people happy, going
in and out of places at night — always in couples
or together — when you are not.

Lonely is — wondering what it is like to be
married, and wake up in the night — or in the
morning — and having somebody to talk to.

Lonely is — not having somebody who really
needs you — like fix his clothes, take care of his

‘laundry, fix him a lunch. Get drunk with, maybe,.

once in a while. Come home to.
' Lonely is — feeling so down you look in your

- GOMMENT - Reprint from Crown Zellerbach

Someone asked recently why we're rapidy moving ahead

with a $250 million modernization of our coastal operationsin |

B.C. when some other companies in Canada have been

"dosing mills

The question almply underlines the fact that any plant or

operation has a life cycle that begins and ends depending 'on-

the Sconomic environment that applies to an individual

company, . CS , oo,
To survive it not only needs efficient machinery but also -:

led people to-rum things; proximity to raw: materials,
supplies and low-cost energy; access to transportatlon
systems that rapidly move products to markets, and; of
course, markets that want the plant's products. . ~~
Those factors get out of balance as a ‘plant oges, and
eventually a point is reached where the operation can
become inefficient. . ‘ . ;
As that time approachea, a company has to examine its

own particular economic environment: and determine .

Whether to modernize or go out of the business,

CZ has found some happy solutions for old age creeping
of dollars.

Into lta operations by spending hundreds of millions

on retoollng plants and mills,

But that's only because our own unique economic pleture .

. World Health
. Day-April7 -
National health week,
orderéd throughout

of publie attention
to all problems of health —
‘with particular emphasis on
prevention. © — ;
The Health League of
Canada for more than 59
years has promoted a
programme of health
education, to the support of
the work of theofficial health

, has for its objective

National Health Week = .

departments. and to all
possible co-operation wilh
other national voluntary
health organizations, abesity,
You, the individual citizen,
can be active along. with |
voluntary associations and.
official health departments
— in dolng everything |
possible to perfect Canada’s
ealth,

What is happening in your
coramunity? .
Self-imposed risks causing
Wwinecessary sickness . and

and drug dddiction, cdgarette

freedom — promisculty and
carélessness leading to
venereal disease, oat,

a

‘ evonomile factors. .

death: accidents, ‘alcohol
- Smoking, malnutrition and

revolution in sex attitudes
and behaviour: greater .

es

horse came by. If it hadn't I’
guess maybe I wouldn't be.
here now. I wouldn't be.
writing this letter. =,
What I'm saying, ,
sometimes it takes only. a,
little thing to change your
‘mind at a time like that, At,
deast it did me. I know wa
who was riding or was there it means — being lonely and;
uyone sitting on the horse all that. Lonely and cold. ..
when it went.past me that - Loveisbelng warm. Weneed.,
time. I don’t know for sure. more love. We don’t need |:
Alotof things happened to more lonely. — oat
me since then. Some bad. | ign me,
Some good. I'm glad that Thanks Mr. Horse... 3

round to the side and stares
at me, Just for a moment.
Maybe one second maybe

more.
It’s likehe is saying I know
all what you're . But
don’t do it. Don't do it.
That was some years ago.
Now I can’t even remember

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mirror just to see another face near your own.
‘Lonely is — being in a crowd yet it’s. like
there's no one else there, Lonely is — like being
in a store or a restaurant or beer parlour — and
its like no’ sees you at all, Lonely is when
everyone else is talking — yet none of it is said to
you, eo
Lonely is — like being in w world full of people.
where everyone else is blind or deaf. Can’t see. .
you, can’t hear you. Like you're the invisible’.
man, oe

Lonely is ~ having to go to the Welfare, and.

- you know they’re going to ask you the same.;
- questions — and you know you're going to have.;:

e@ Wrong answers, and th
you papers to read and to f
going todoit ere

Lonely is — waking up in the night and wishing
you didn’t. . ayy

Lonely is — when all the food you eat tastes the.,
same, ie
' Lonely is — not wanting to wake up — ever. oat

I know. : : tk

are going to give.;;
out and you're not...

“dh
There have been other times when the economics: .
eurro ounding CZ operation made the risks of modernizi ng. |

-We found our markets for exotic hardwood ‘plywoods
‘dwindling in the 19608 and, realizing tat models tion”.
Wouldn't help, we closed a small manufacturing operation in‘?!
oa . . hobs aac hd

permits us to do this, Ook

r a host of other reasons, and despite 5 z millions
of dollars on m tion, we also came Die Sacer?
in the early 1970s that we could no longer operate Ocean Falls": -
in the ‘black’. It no Longer fit our economle environment, Yet;’Y
it survives today under a different owner and different: set of 34

‘What. we're doing now: by ‘Thodernizing our “coastal
operations ia adapting to our own economic environment,

ensure the eurvival of these operations
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