’ time they turned down a plea for an appeal. Page 4, The Horald, Monday, May 28, 1970 TERR ACE/KITIMAT daily herald. General Gifice - 635-6357 Circulation - 635-4357 Published by Sterling Publishers GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland - EDITOR - Greg Milddleton CIRCULATION - TERRACE. ‘635-6357 ; KETIMAT OFFICE - 632-2747 Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, &.C. A member of Verified Cireutation. Authorized as second class mall. Registration number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In ony adverilsament produced and-or any editorial or Pholographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted. EDITOR'S JOURNAL BY GREG MIDDLETON The state of Florida murdered a man Friday, There is no other way to describe the ‘execution of convict murderer John Spenkelink. At 10:12 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time 32 witnesses watched a cold-blooded Killing of a man after the United States Supreme - Court voted six to four against even hearing an appeal, and that was the sixth More executions are now scheduled to take place in the United States as more than 500 condemned. prisoners wait on death row in prisons around that country, ; ’ While the death penalty .was done away with in Canada, I don’t think we can take much comfort in that victory over the cruelest and most final penaity. The. United States Supreme Court struck down the - deatii/penalty there in 1972 and now 32 states have written it into their statutes. ber§-of the police forces across Canada are lopbying.ta have the death penalty here reinstated. With,a new government we may again be faced with — the prospect of government sanctioned killing. While I do not believe that laws which allow persons who have killed to gain their complete and unrestricted ‘freedom, I am totally unequivicably against the death penalty, Targue against allowing the state to take life, -. ur entire system of law is based on the belief that the courts can be wrong. If you are convicted in a lower. court, you may appeal to a higher court. Ii all your appeals are not successful. you may, if new: evidence is found, ask for a new trial. Even if the courts uphold a conviction, parliament may-grant a pardon. The recognition of fallibility is paramount. I believe that should the state execute someone in error, then that makes all of us party to that crime. And it happens. As much as our courts try togive the accused the benefit of the doubt, and it is only right that they should, the courts make mistakes. The in- nocegtare convicted. There dre cases on record where innodence has been denionstrated after an:execution, I think right-thinking persons will work towards a society in which we have eliminated many of the causes of crime. I doubt it is possible to have a perfect world, and I think we will undoubtedly always need places into which some members of society can be placed so that other members of society can be safe, ’ Tam realistic enough to recognize that there will be individuals who have no regard for life or who are otherwise uncontrollable and have to be segregated, To take even the slightest chance of depriving an innocent man or woman of life, however, is something that degrades us all. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: Former residents of Dear Sir: The year 1880 will be an ~— al ne mee = | “Mildew was going to vo va 4 te till he.heard he'd be exercising his democratic privilege he abhors any form of exercise.” ’ ” Ottawd,It taked one to know one...a Canadiagt | supreme charge. By PAUL GESSELL Maureen McTeer, pale, weary and ill, stood at the edge of a playground Saturday, skeptically watching television cameras record Joe Clark pusting their daughter | Catherine .on a swing, * “Not so high, Joe,” she said weakly, - having crawled out of a sickbed for the occasion. ; ‘“OK, -mother,'" the prime minister-designate said, smiling for’ the. cameras, “et After eight grueling weeks on the campalgn trail, Ms, MecTeer, 27, obviously would prefer to stay secluded in her bungalow on the grounds of a Rocky Mountain. resort near this com- . munity, 400 kilometres west of Edmonton. A few days ago’ she caught what was first - billed as the “Progressive Conservative cold.” About a third of Clark's . JASPER, Alta. (CP) — ~ entourage camé down with a cold while flying over Calgary last week, - ““T took the wrong, . medication,” she said. 'It.. turns out I have some kind of virus, I-guess that shows I'm a lawyer, not a: doctor.” Ms. McTeer, an Ottawa Valley .native from the town of Cumberland, | Ont., had once considered a career in medicine but ‘turned to law. when she: . discovered the sight of,- - blood'upset her. Politics has remained one of her great loves. She was an actlve Con- servalive several years before Clark entered | rural Alberta politics and she campaigned vigorousty for her hus- - band in election campaign, From the playground, | the Clarks, television crews and RCMP security officers hiked to nearby Beaufvert Lake. the May 22° . aboard a lea ,. MAUREEN McTEER A look at Mrs. Joe Clark. | The Clarks hopped onto a peddle-boat and pad- died away. Two RCMP . . Will move into 24 Sussex clambered ky-looking row-beat and followed them with great effort. Clark is a non-swimmer, Clark plans to visit this town in his home riding of officers Yellowhead several times. a year, possibly holding cabinet meetings here. Two-year-old — * Catherine, nicknamed Muffin, by..;her parents, was displeased the hoat, ride lasted only a few minutes. - . "TL want to do it again,” ‘She said testily, “Are you going to throw _& tantrum?” Clark asked. Before she could an- © swer, the child was swung through. the air and placed on Clark's shoul- ders, ; The last relaxing day before returning to Ot- tawa for some cabinet- - making was over. The new -- minority - government will be sworn in June 4 dnd the Clarks Drive, thé official. residence. of. | prime — ministers, of June 9. | Earlier Saturday, the . Conservative leader - autographed what-has . come to be known aa his lucky football: far Mike - Vivian, 21, a walter from Montreal at the Jasper Park Lodge. Co “erg ey) be! “< Clark's last ‘campaign “activity ‘before Tuesday's” election was to visit the : lodge. When he ap. proached some off-duty hotel workers, -Vivian * Iobbed the ball. at Clark and he caught it. — Clark’s predecessor, Robert Stanfield, was-- photographed fumbling a fouthall during the 1974 campaign and the photo came to symbolize his three unsuccessful at- tempts to topple Pierre - Trudeau's government.’ historic occasion for one of the leading musical organizations of British Columbia. The Vancouver Bach Choir will be celebrating its 50th an- ‘niversary throughout that year, Many of the pravince’s small communities have had some contact with the choir over the past half century. Some of your citizens may have belonged to the choir at one time. Some may have heard the choir on one of its tours or broadcasts. Many will have enjoyed the music - of the Serzecin Choir of Poland which toured th province last spring under the sponsorship of the Vancouver Bach Choir. In preparation for the Upcoming year of celebratlon, we are trying to contact as many of our former members as possible. If any of your readers have been members of the choir or know of other alumni we would appreciate hearing from them, Just a note with a current address will do (even a post card). We will get back to them. | The contact person is Mrs. Joyce Maguire, V.B.C. 50th Anniversary Project, 3526 - Weat Sth Avenue, Van- couver, B.C. V6éR 1R9. We are eager to hear from anyone who has been In- volved with the Vancouver Bach Choir at any, time during its history. Thanks to your pe for helping us the word. spreai Sincerely, Susanne Lloyd & Maureen Gitta Vancouver Bach Choir 50th Anniversary Project Hedley, east of Princeton, will hold a reunion this August to recall the heyday of the town and Its nearby mines which yielded more than $50 million in gold during the first half of the century. Ironically, the former beom town now is such a small community today that the re-union has been hooked in Penticton to ensure suf- ficient accommodation. The beginnings of Hedley . were actially shaped by the | first claims an nearby Nickel Plate Mountain in 1884. But it was gold not nickel that everyone was seeking. By 1809 the area was covered with claims and a com. munity was established named after R.R. Hedley, manager of the smelter at Nelzon _In addition to Nickel Plate -Mountain which paid out $47 million dollars in gold, there was the rich Hedley Mascot Mine which out of a frac- tlonal claim of just over two acres returned to the owners $8 million dollars in gold. The mines closed in 1855 and Hedley is now a quiet town with many homes occupied by pensioners and others seeking economical accommodation. Many residents have moved to other = communities throughout the province. Any former Hedley resident now living in the area and who wishes to at- tend the re-union should contact Mr, Jack C. Moore, 14616-111A Avenue, Surrey, B.C. The re-union will be held al the Penticton Peach Bowl Convention Centre, August 18th, 1979. - Jack Moore é ‘ n ! don’t know what the brand is, but it makes my husband more predisposed to the NDP. BY RICHARD JACKSON politician, thatis.-;..°0 2° LE And to know what's happening to governments, fo the country, and more important, to you and yours. Such 4 man is William Taylor, former Energy Minister, and before that Minister of Cornmunity and Soclal Services in: Prema iam Davis’ Ontarig Conservative governnuent,” Ce i ' You must have readiitl yoo; newspaper from Hime tq time, ‘perhaps’ evén ‘heard “Opposition. members | serveral different governments warn of it, butseldom. — before has a leading politician blown the whistle on the ‘4 process of politica that is slowly turning Canada int o what Mr. Taylor describes as one. gigan bureaucratic establishment; 3 In his first year of power, bursting with ambition and flushed with the ms of glory as to what he knew should be done, Prime Minister Trudeatd promised to turn the whole thing around. ©. 4 . He was going to cut the overblown bureaucracy downto size, And in the cutting, he was going to strip it of its often secretly-used power of regulation and -give the ultimate authority back to Parliament.and the peopie, But in retrospect the bureaucracy then was a feeble . thing, an infant compared to the powerful giant it has become in the’last 11 years, SS * When Trudeau took over, three mandarins-the kingdom—were fn super-basses of the bureaucratic -_ They were Gordon ‘Robertson, Clerk of the Privy Council ‘and Secretary of the Cabinet; Robert Bryce, Deputy Minister of Finance, and George Davidsap; Secretary of the Treasury Board... 00) 0" -- They held-the strings ‘of bureaucratic power and keys fo. the national treasury. — “t They each made an annual $29,000, and they rode herd’ over some 100 other deputies, commissaign chairmen and crown corporation presidents most ‘of whom had been appointed by former Prime Minister Lester Pearson in the twoor three previous years. . * Pearson, a weak administrator, solved most of hig problems of responsibility by delegating it. oy : And while thé bureaucratic rot had set in Robertson, Bryce'and Davidson still were very much in charge, . ‘Trudeau knew what, had been going on and was’ ta reverse jit before the rot went too deep. a But he didn't--or couldn’t--the bureaucratic grip ha -60 lightened on the administration it had becom unbreakable, and today there’ are more than 20,000 ~ ‘bureaucrats who make more than the $28,000 the Big . Three were paid when Trideay first took over. ~”: ‘" The process now has gone so. far, says Mr. Taylor, that members of the cabinet of any Canadian . government are “manipulated like marionettes by the mandarins.”' ~ - . ‘ . . “ - _ Government, he warned, now but a charade, has lef the electorate, the taxpayers who carry the can for al . the bureaucratic worms, with but a semblance, q shadow of power...” rt 4 Taylor described himself as one who has ‘‘walked the corridors of power and been mugged in the back alleys .of the bureaucracy.” , oo _, Bureaucratic empire-bullding—which is job-creation “xbyuthe-public:..service for: the public gervice—has . destroyed distoric/conservative values of\value-for- money and public self-reliance, and those in’ govern- ment who hold to those virtues. ’ ““There seems to be a socialist passion to homogenize Canadians into submissive residents of one gigantic company town-a socialist corporate ” state where there is no place for the self-employed, the creative or enterprising. : “It no longer is considered right to be thrifty and hard-working so that you can save and be secure," he Says, “because.to do so would be to deprive some buresucrat of his authority to interfere in your life.” This time out both Joe Clark and Pierre Trudeay | have promised to do something about the cancer of bureaucratic power misuse and abuse. JOUR CANADA By John Fisher of the Council forCanadian Unity‘ _ corners of Canada, bo co ‘ ' Conseil pour "unite canadienne The wise men at the ’ University of Western Ont- atio, London, rationalized that actions speak louder than words. If learning a second contribute to Canadian ‘unity then getting to know people of the culture would make more sense. So, Western Univer- ‘sity locked for a Quebec village that was typical of French Canada's - heritage and culture. They would open a summer school, and draw: students from all The students would be pen: language .would | second | tical project. Since. then, thousands -of Canadians with ‘Anglophone back: - grounds have had an oppor tunity to build bridges to the Francophone: world of. Quebec, and vice versa. Trois Pistoles, on the south shore of the Lower St, Lawrence is typical of the culture of rural Quebec. It worked ‘so well and im: pressed so many Que- becers, Western now has courses for’ French Can- adians, What a pity a hundred other institutions didn’t have the vision of the Univ. sioned in Quebecois homes, eat, socialize, shop and play in another language. UWO | established © a ‘school at Frois Pistoles in ersity of Western Ontario ‘forty five years ago? John’ Fisher, Executive Vice President of the 1934, Out of old South Council for Canadian Unity Western Ontario came this was Canada's Centennial imaginative and y~' prac- Commissioner, | a Letters welcome The Herald welcomes Its readers com- ments. All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste, We may also edit letters for style and ' length. All letters to be d¢onsidered for Publication must — be signed.