PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Thursday, Wctoper zu, 1977 General Office - 635-6357 (Kitlmat) - 632-6209 postage guaranteed. Publisher. \ —\the herald) Circulation (Terrace) - 635-6357 PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE MANAGING EDITOR... STU DUCKLOW Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St. Terrace B.C. A member of Varifled Circutation. Authorized 7s second class mail. Registration number 1201. Postage pal. «cash, return - NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertizement producad and-or any’ editorial or photographic content published in the Herald. Repraduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Published by Sterling Publishers Honesty but not action Though the final word won't be in until Finance Minister Jean Chretien’s speech tonight, no major economic changes are expected. Aside from indications that wage-price controls won't be lifted until next spring, there wasn’t much new in the throne speech delivere by the Queen Tuesday. The government will strengthen tax benefits to big business, that't about all. The government seems to be telling us that it realizes its own economic olicies ‘‘appropriate to simpler times” are partly responsible for the high unemployment and inflation its seems unable to lick. But rather than carry this long-awaited honesty into imaginative and tough legislatjon, e speech puts the onus on the masses to tighten its collective belt. It looks like the Liberals are beginning to claim responsibility four our present dilemma, but are still failing to come to grips with the problems. Nearly 400 murdered - Mafia gangs battle over territory REGGIO CALABRIA,. Ital (Reuter) — Mafia gangs are locke in a bloody battle for control of the poverty-stricken Italian province of Calabria and anyone who gets in their way is a target for a bomb or a bullet. Nearly 400 people have been murdered in the province in the last four years. It is one of the poorest in Italy and has a high illiteracy rate. Authorities say the area, on the toe of Italy, is overrun with Mafiosi and their methods are getting more vicious. “There is a new, unscrupulous generation of Mafiosi fighting to take over the province,” police spokesman Ninni Cassaria said. This younger generation, re cruited from the thousands o unemployed in the towns anc villages of the area, ignore even the dubious code of honor under which the | Mafia previously opeated, he said, “They kidnap women, shoot at children, stop at nothing.” LABELLED BARBAROUS This year alone, 45 persons have been killed, 65 wounded and nine kidnapped in Mafia vendettas, with what the local Roman Catholic bishop described as ‘barbarous criminality.” Shopkeepers, householder: business groups, evenstreet vendors pay their dues. Or they suffer. Two recent attacks are illus- trative. A Milan constructioi company, which twice refused to pay off the Mafia, had installations lown up and a street vendor was gunned down for failing to pay. Even major industry has come under ‘Mafia control. Sub-contracting work on the province's two highways and the construction of a major new port at Gioia Tauro fell into the Mafia’s hands, Cassaria said. “As well as the street gangster, we have the respectable Mafiosi who appear to be just ordinary businessmen,” He and other policemen say they are powerless to halt the Mafia. HAVE HIDEAWAY The region, which is dominated by a thich-forested mountain range, provides a perfect hideaway for gangs. The local inhabitants .are tough nie aut Dany : | ere and they fear the Mafia more than the police. The police view is that the Mafia is only partly their responsibility Local politicians agree. The regional parliament, which rules Calabria and two othe: provinces, concluded recently that only long-term economic develop- ment could solve the Mafia problem. Politicians describe the Mafia as a state within a state; and one local judge, Carlo Macri, said recently the lafia operated as if the official state did not exist. The judiciary often complains that it is impossible to prosecute, either because juries are intimidated or because key witnesses withdraw their evidence. Instead, hundreds of suspects are held under a form of house arrest and continue their criminal ac- tivities almost as before. The central government in Rome has repeatedly promised investment for the region, and there are a number of industrial project: planned or under construction. But as yet there is no new major source of employment, and no sighte of an end to the Mafia’s stranglehold in Reggio Calabria. - percent - [VOICE OF READERS Kill the myth O this, the second an- niversary of the A.LB. the cost of living is rising at 8.3 which by coin- cidence happens to be the national unemplowment rate, A spokesperson for the Canadian Manufacaturets Association has just said that because the cost of living is rising so fast the overnment should take arastic action, namely “stiffer controls on wages. Canada,please don’t. Surely after two years of rollbacks and severely limited wage increases the myth that Labour causes everything from Inflation to “ring around the collar must he dead by now. The time has come for everyone to recognize that Inflation will not be resolved by simplistic polices which attack only one part of ‘society. Government, Management and Labour must sit together and all shoulder the responsibilty and burden for controlling inflation and getting Canada ‘pack to work. Either we work together to resolve all of the economic dilema ie. in- flation, unemployment, etc., or we will all share the responsiblity for hte chaos that will come. The C.L.C. has told the government that it si willing to enter immediately into such _ discussions- governments and management, where are you?. R.A. Davis Terrace, B.C. Former Bantams “The Bantams” were a special force recruited b e Canadian and britis! armies in the First World War, It was composed of soldiers who were well below average height. _ Iam a professional writer engaged in researching a book about these men. I would be most grateful if some amoung your readers were able to give me any information on the subject of the 216th Battalion well worth being set down. Hopefully, some of your readers may be able to help me to gather additional information about this unique piece of military history. I would welcome such aid--personal reminiscences, family anecdotes, photgraphs, letters, diaries, book references, or regimental histories. 1 can promise to take the greatest care in returning any material offered to me regarding the (Toronto), the 143rd_Bat- What Canandians are crying out for is honest, decisive SA ’ ) Banta government that is ot afraid to take firm steps to solve what talion (Vancouver). ne ms. we preceive as a dismal combination of problems that are oun tie ww Bantam A eon or the Sincerly 1 ' getting out on control. The facat that the government was OnE PandLesy able to reverse its election-winning stand and impose wage and price controls without kicking up much fuss aside from the unseccessful general strike a year ago, demonstrates how much citizens want to feel that someone is in the driver's seat of this country and know what he’s doing. What we had a right to expect from this year's throne speech was a concerted attack on the twin economic problems facing the nation. What we got was the recognition of the problem and tha’s about all. Sidney Allinson. 1102 Owen Blvd. Willowdale, Ont. The Bantams were an unusual and valiant brigade, and their story is Wave from the shore, ladies, don’t join in The dmall number of Unless the Liberal government is more alienated from the people than its appears to be it had better start recognizing something else as well, most recently indicated by the Manitboa elections. _ Political fortunes chage quickly in economically troubled times. It was only a month or so ago that nost observers ‘TORONTO cP-Male’ * would predict a Liberal sweep of 200 seats in a snap elec- tion. Now Trudeau may be forced into calling an election when his fortunes have sunk even further. People are beginning to realize that our economic problems are partiy the cause of national disunity, and the measures to strengthen language rights in courts and schoolrooms are only treating the symptoms, not the problern. The decision to continue the inflation contrals past the end of this year, while doing essentially nothing about unem- ‘ployment, also comes against the advice of economist, abor leaders and those on the opposition benches. But even after controls are removed, it looks like the fortunes of the labor movment won't improve at least in this province. The Social Credit government is apparently planning to introduce its own measures after federal egislation has been replaced with a monitoring agency. Today in history By THE CANADIAN PRESS Oct. 20, 1977 The seat of the Canadian fovernment was fixed at Ottawa 112 years ago today—in 1865. The Parliament Buildings were in use by 1866 and Ottawa was confirmed in its status by the British North America Act of 1867, which established the broader Dominion of Canada. Ot- tawa is situated on the Ot- tawa River ‘where the Rideau joins it, about: 100 ERMAN miles upstream from the St, Lawrence. 1187—Pope Urban IIT died of dysentery. 1518—Florence, Italy, re- uested that the remains of e writer Dante be moved there. 1632—Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, was born. 1884—France declared a blockade of Formosa. 1911—Roald Amundsen and his dog sleds set out for the South Pole. c i? t oot) sere =e. oe Hy SHOPS Ure mend Brees Syraieiite %y “It’s okay! | found the keys,” “Will you take the car as a down payment on the repair bill?” ‘Let us go,’ Cambodian refugees ask their Vietnamese keepers Cambodian Refugees Horst Faas, an Associated Press photographer and writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam war, recently returned tothe country with a West German tourist group. By HORST FAAS HANOI (AP) — About 60,000' Cambodians have been granted asylum in Vietnam in the last year and are living in desperate conditions on the outskirts of Saigon and in the provinces west of the former South Vietnamese capital, diplomatic sources in Hanoi say. At least 16,000 of these refugees are trying to leave Vietnam and have asked the Hanoi office of the UN High Commissioner For Refugees for help. diplomat Most of the refugees are reported to have been small traders, businessmen manufacturers or em- layees in shops, business houses: and manufacturing concerns. Most are said to be from towns where the entire opulation was moved orcibly to the countryside after the Communist takeover in 1975. “The Vietnamese government has _ been looking after the Cambodian refugees despite its own food shortages and economic difficulties," one said. ‘‘The Cambodians are receiving rice rations that just keep them alive and are under the ration of 14 kilos (30.8 pounds) every Vietnamese gets per month.” The source also said the Cambodians are allowed to work as small businessmen and vendors. ‘PEDDLE BELONGINGS' “That means they can peddle their last belongings to stay alive,” he said. A diplomat from a non- aligned country who is stationed in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, said during a visit to Hanoi that he and his colleagues know almost nothing about what is going on in the country. “We have to live in a hotel in downtown Phnom Penh which we can never leave,’’ he said. ''The food is delivered to us from the outside. We cannot even go out on the pavement outside the hotel.’ Cambodia and Vietnam have full diplomatic . relations. But diplomats in Business spotlight Vietnam say they believe the Vietnamese government has not returned any refu- gees to Cambodia. ‘In this respect the Vietnamese have acted with more respect for basic . human rights than some of the other Southeast Asian nations,’”” one Western diplomat said. He was referring to governments that have refused to admit refugees from the Indochinese countries, Of the 16,000 Cambodian refugees who have asked the UN commissioner for help, 3,000 have received entry visas for France. Seventy have received West German visas, and UN officials believe West Germany may take 150 more. Belgium also will take 150. ~ Mechanism needed to use sun energy - SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. (CP) — Man likely will live to see the end of the earth’s oil reserves, but one source of energy will survive him for many millions of years—the sun. performance under climatic conditions during the next three years, Davidson said, Although similar research has been done in the United States, different method, solar energy appears to be a more economical method for drying wheat. A major component of the re- search project is the variable of weather conditions! Davidson said it Dr. Harmon Davidson and Dr. John Clarke, researchers at the Swift Current Research Station, are currently investigating the ap plication of solar energy t agricultural operations. Together with E. M. Wrubleski, an agricultural engineer with thi agriculture department, they are developing and experimenting with solar heaters to be used as grain driers or as space heaters for live- stock and farm workshops. A solar driver under construction and expected to be ready shortly will be used to gather information on its Davidson said the. U.S. findings may not be applicable to the Canadian climate. “We're looking at it from the Prairies point of view.” NEED ALTERNATIVE Davidson said basic objectives of the research project include the design of an inexpensive solar driver which can be built by farmers them- selves and to show farmers that solar energy is an attractive al- ternative energy source for farm operations. Clarke said basing on the cost of wheat drying by the conventional would require a sunny day torun a drier, and on a dull day there might be just enough light to warm up a space heater. . Another component of research is the material used to collect heat from sunlight. Davidson said there are two basic types of solar heaters, one using water as heat transmitter and the other using air. The water system is more expensive but is said by some researchers to be more expensive. Davidson said an important question is which system will be more economical for the farmers. chauvinism has spread to a sport roost people do not know exists, says a woman who participates in it. Aside from periodic ap- Ppearances in television commercials the windsurfer is as familiar to Canadians as freezing rain is to Ecuadorians. But owners of Wind- surfers, 12-foot-long surf- boards with masts, booms and sails recognized as class beats by the Canadian Yachting Association, are multiplying in number. Most are men. Of 17 Canadians who com- peted last summer in the world windsurfing cham- pionships at the Italian island of Sardinia, only five were women. Men are not anxious to see women windsurf, says 24- yearold Anne Pescod of Cornwall, Ont., one of the Canadian competitors “There is an unspoken discouragement.” Ms. Pescod, who leamed to windsurf during the summer in Bendor, an island off the southern coast of France, added that the discouragement is not al- ways unspoken: “The guys used to tell me not to go out on the ocean on really windy days. They didn't think I could handle i ~ PUT DOWN BY WRITER The seriousness with which women windsurfers are regarded by some men is clearly illustrated in an article by a male author which appeared in the most recent issue of Windsurfer magazine, published in Amsterdam. He writes that women who windsurf are ‘‘at least half the fun-they lend at- mosphere to the after-surf when everyone is lired from sailing and seeks com- anionship and good cheer, hey confort losers, kiss the winners, shout and wave from the shore, have warm sweaters ready and dish up hot soup on cold days.” On the following pageisa splashy, color illustration for an article on wetsuits for windsurfers, featuring a busty blonde who has managed to stuff herself into a suit unzipped to her navel, women windsurfers and the even smailer number of good women windsurfers probably accounts in part or the inability of many men to consider windsurfing as anything other than a man’s sport, Of more than 600 competitors at the world championships, only 52 were women. ADVANCE “Many women lack the confidence necessary to win a race,’”’ said Claudie ForestFourcade, a 25-year- old Marseille schoolteacher who is women’s world champion. “Still more lack the confidence to get on a board.” “Women are not en- couraged by society to try new sports the way men are,” said Jill Smith, a Toronto advertising accoun- tant who represented Canada in Sardinia. "1 started windsurfing be- cause I wanted to ex- perience a new sport. I tried it for the firat time two May 24 weekends ago and ended up in hospital with four stitches in my head.”’ The world champion, who has been windsurfing only two years, wants to interest more women in windsurfing competitively. She Plans to run a women's training program in Marseille. “I will give them advice on racing in regattas—how to go around buoys-tactics like that.” She learned to windsurf by entering every regatta she could. That meant crashing into experienced com- petitors, most of whom were male, and receiving, as a result, threats that she was risking being impaled on 4 mast if she messed up one more person's race. Canadian women wind- surfers, a good number of whom stepped on a board for the first time this year, seem doomed to continue entering internationa regattas with no training behind them, There are as yet no plans for setting up a racing program for them. American and European . women have an edge on the Canadians because they have been windsurfin longer, said Ms, Pescod. ‘* think we could use some. help.”