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Celestial dog, Sult. . |

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In that. You see; Harry was a flings.

wn. causes, ‘at flfty- five. . ‘We will miss

“LETTERS TO”
‘ THE EDITOR |

“pus. of th t tant | Pee oe Bs CR ie SON i ee ee ne Be —_
Dear Sir: ee tion "ibe impor oan > the. virtues. of. exercise... He believed. ‘tn: -
The following isthe reply 1 be made .at the school - - exercising . his: ‘vocal. cds. as ell as. the...

received from the ‘Minister

of Education in response to-

my request that he conduct

an impartial investigation,

into the hiring practices of
Schoo) District 88 to deter-

mine whether or not the local’
teachers are being given a

fair opportunity to receive
promotions within this
district: ,

“Blease excuse the delay

in responding to you letter of |

June 11th. Summer
vacations have interrupted
the smooth flow of mail.

“One of my senior r officials ;

has investigated the question soeoeee in Vv ANCOUVER (CP) — sharp. becatse many “fish enough. The. camera can't | “emg he “Like thé loafers of my youth théy’ “work hard:
of the appoin the ‘Thornhill vestigation wad conducted: ‘Charlie White is the Peeping make only” half-hearted function. at lo lower than 22: surface: of the:sea, oo te: avoid work.’ .. "But. -untikes.the abygone
Gunior Secondary School, Did thetivestigator actually’ Tam of the salmon fishing’ swipes at the bait, = | MENG. big’ With the protits trom that, . Javabouts,, they .gor‘on cay daliy: binge of.
There were 82 applicants for ‘travel to “Terrace and per- World. __The camerd, which is al “It has beepine incre y; che launched“: Saltaire - Gercise to atone" for hours” of'slothfulness.

ere W PP He has seen Chester tached to a downrlgger and expensive to-make a film,” -

the position, of which five

“district Jevel, I am sure
slong candidates are often
found at-the local tevel and
appointed to key positions.
However, ‘if ‘stronger can--
didates ‘are’ to “be found

outside the district, then it is

important for.school boards
to make the best decision for
the’ children 2 and the schools
‘involved. : .

“Thank you ‘for your
‘concern and ‘for’. taking the
time to write’ ‘to me.on this
important educational

sonally. review. all, 82. ap-

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He shows fin:

placed behind the bait, can

. White. says. He hopes. to

flicks

Publishing Co.,- which | has -

na him: loging by. the ald homestead, '

at

[ Héery wi was the first: In ihe ‘area to learn .

about § Porticipaction. “For months | thought
TF: we 3

ether Muscles. ae

4 ten wondered why Harry did riot grow a a
garden, use a hand lawn mower, walk to.

“works or. Spit, stovewood. © Not Harry;. he

owned a muscle car, 8 riding mower and a

"gas furnace. The only thing that he could or

arnt you cured with all- bran |

would grow was his beard. He. had all the —

latest: labour-saving gadgets that. were -
available and: ‘complained that Wing, 7

lacks. was a‘chore, ©

lifestyle” Indeed, the majority.of people who.
_piakea fetish of physical fitness,'avold work,
Whe everyday grubby kind, Itke:the plague.

= Chinook and Connie Coho
were local teachers. Four plications orieetee doing their thing to a naked now be'set to photograph two recover part of the cost af hid’ - turned out a successful | ‘Perhaps: this Is lust one more. ‘aspect of the
people were short-listed, letters of reference? Ordid: herring and caught the lures atthe same time. expeditions’ - from the series‘ of “How To” | pa- “nye Gf. Insanity in which we'live. We have
three from outside theschool eettle for our “district action on, film. Voyeurs up ” ‘The trouble’ we have seminars. . _ Perbacks, seven of them abandoned Reason; -we have downgraded
district and a local teacher. dministrator’s". version of and down’ the coast have: had,” he said, “is that ifwe | White’ was born: ‘in Penii- * written by White. They have the We k Eth Be € thi he
: Unfortunately, the local the competition éxpressed in lined up to’ view it. ae) placed ‘the. ures too far sylvania and received a civi . gold °. 400,-000 _copits, with e or Cc. ecause. Oo S, we neve

candidate was not in-
terviewed because he had
accepted a position outside
the district prior to the in-

a long distance phone call? ”

Talso wonder why only five.
local teachers applied? Do.

White is a fisherman;*
author, publisher an
engineer-cum-biologist from’

Vancouver Island. He has, * together, they tangled. Now -.

apart, one of them was out of.

camera range.
“If we placed: them closer

engineering degree at t!
University of Oregon in.

Eugene. -He subsequently
had a change of heart on bot

How. To Catch Salmon |

leading the list with 100,000

in sales, -

projects iat

- brought our guilt feelings to a higher plane,

_ making. necessary these exercise’ rituals;

tl iu wish Harry could have lived to see and -

7 of course, ‘Harry. was ‘not alone in his -

terview. The board, guy jocal teachers kngw — been,showing his slick new: we appear: to: hayes that. matters 4

- . c care ag yet “ib
therefogec dale SS } something unsayo Paton ich is highlighted by! ‘problem sojted."™. ae - ghee pee, An been. oa ted. ‘by... my ttle few Jog agers | Wheels, am 7
three’ Cons 7 I've'always ‘ant Was! curiosity," sald’ WHith: © “18's 16 make’ louging"€BEler.

ree ROR ny the ’ pasition thatPeitor!ontimdte shots of salmon = The improvement. ‘allowed ‘Canadian born. on the wrong |. “y “heard ‘fishermen
didates. distriet teachers: don’t know? taken by. his: underwater White to carry out different ~ se id ou've hea
fortunate whe top local camera. - experimenty this summer as © side of the border,’ he sa d. sitting around discussing | He would. have ‘appreciated 4 them, .
candidate. dropped out With 80. “few vice- ‘The film is the focal point fe worked the waters ‘off I loved’ the attitude and how fish grab the bait. 7
before the actual com- principalship positions i inour. of White's many.- salmon Vancouver Istand in bis nine- ahd t's fate Fe ewed the ~
petition bad been completed. district, and the’ ‘calibre of - ‘fishing seminars. in‘: West metre ‘boat. He planned ‘to fing.” ace it, I loved t ae guy would say be .

, - staff we “haye guiding our . Coast communities. . _ piace an artificial lureon one ‘salmon slaps the herring -

‘In reviewing the education: system” I'd have White has béen shooting, line and a natural bait on the He came to Sidney on 1 Van- with its iail to knock it out: 7. "LETTERS. WE LCo M E

procedures carried out by

expected to see many more

underwater film for seven -

other.

He. also huped to-

couver Island 25 years ago-

and then takes. it;-Ask him -”

School Baord local applicaiits, and more if years and ‘each séason at- compare large herring with after. foresaking . his .howhe knows ard hesays his. TKé Herald welcomes ils readers cornments,

Me whe district ad- notall of-cur local applicants “jempts to delve deeper into small ones, slowrolting engineering degree for'a shot dad told him. thought there. ait Hera the editor of general public interest
ministrator, I can find no Short-listed. ~ what makes a salmon strike herring withfast-rolling and — as a working biologist for the. must be some way. to- get ” |. willbe printed. We do, however, retain the ight
fault with their efforts t0 somehow Pm lett with the °® lure, Or for that-matter, scented lures with unscented Oregon Fish. Commission: down| there and have a look. ~* | to refuse'to print letters on grounds of possible
secure the best possibie uneasy feeli ng. this com- what makes-them turn away, aones.- But his. “engineering . | The sight ofa stx-k am 1 libel. oF. -bad taste. We may also edit letters for

didate for — vice- as most salmon do: - Obtaining ‘presentable film education and. his. love of | log ' | stylé and length, All letters to b

can . | petition has spotlighted So far he has’ some: in- is painstaking. It is rare fishing, came together when -. coho, mouth agape, -bearing ©]. ers to be considered for
principalship. Strong several problem areas in our when the Water is clear . down upon a piece of herring - | "pabliggtton must be signed.

leadership in our schools
‘through = effective’ vice-
principals and principals is

school diatriet.

dications, but no def! inite an-
swers' and his only advice is

enaugh, ' the surface calm

> enough and the. fish shallow

he built the Undersea
Gardens in Victoria in 1963,

‘any fi fisherman.

strip. 1s. enough te Interest: -

. Mrs. Claudette Sandecki (0. make sure . hooks are

which strippea away some af

elt oy

RICHARD GWYN

SALVAGE, NEWFOUNDLAND—Ellison
Barsitt Isa pretty mean hand at the wheel.
He tikes to bring his 40-foot langliner back In
to harbor at. top speed, and just when. he

seems about to crash Into the wharf. to slam —

her into reverse and bring. her. fo a shud-
dering,. rocking, wallowing haltis *.

‘He’s a pretty mean hand at woFds as. 5 well,
“The fisherman, the poor, the «stupid
fisherman,’’ he told a 62 longliner skipper

"and crewmen and sharemen and trap boat

men: gathered In St. Stephen’s Hall, which
other times Is used for church socials and
suppers for the old folks and p&rties: for the
kids, “the dumb, stunned, fisherman;.Is the
fellow who brings the doliars:. into the

province. Everyone else just moves those

dollars, our dollars, around.” ~

Once Barslitt has sald his piece there
wasn’t much doubt that the men of Salvage
would vote to goon sirike for theitlest time In
the 300 odd years the people had: ‘settled In,

. thiscover, kept out of Cowhead.. “Don't give.

‘em nothing, not even a scale or a'pail,”’ sald.
an old guy who talked while barely moving
his lips, perhaps as a habit acquired to keep
out Atlantic gales. “We've got to back up the
boys around Newfoundland,” sald a young
guy with the lean ‘craggy tobk of an
Ellzabethan mariner ;

A smail affair. At peak of ‘tie season,

perhaps 150,000 pounds of turbot and’cod and —

small flounder and some sole; go over the
wharfinto the P. Janes plant here. Salvage’s
population is no more than $00, but growing,
with 14 fongliners where a half a dozen years
aga there were just thréa, ard with new

houses, | ‘as his: -progress,. but sheaved in:

aluminum | ‘siding. instead of. weathered

. clapboard so that they could have been - ~
. parachuted down from Mississauga, asis the’ -

price -of. progress."

But this Is also an affair the historians will = -
- took back at -- one small part in the rising of

the collective consciousness of Newfaun-

dland‘s 20,000 inshore fishermen who have:

staged thelr first-ever general strike, to the
amazement of the fishing companies and of
the government and the public, and of much

. as to any of these of their own union which
“hadn't ‘dared fo call the strikebut had tt

called “by the fishermen ‘theniselves, tn

response to a company. lockout, and in an-
'' extraordinary welling up of spontaneous
anger in. places ‘like Salvage, and Old.

Perlican and Bonavista and St. Anthony, all
around Newfoundland’s shoreline.
And one issue, naturally enough is. cash.

The U.S. market had gone soft.: The com- -
panies, pinched for profits, are- offering 10% :

cents a pound for turbot, compared to the
122 cents (including a two cent government
subsidy the fishermen recelved in 1978). A
better example: the price of cod fo fisher-

_ men is stuck at the level of 1978;but the price’

to consumer has gone up by 30 percent,

The Issue behind the Issué, a seaboard

echo of: ‘what's’ happening in places like
Windsag 4 id Brantford and. Chatham, as
plant: ' utback is who should pay the
price of har i times -- the guys who actually

- bring.in the dollars, or their employers, or |

the rest of the public which ‘moves those
dollars around,

“nthe past: two: years the fishing com-
p. _s. lik the auto companies, have enjoyed
Tush times.

asked fo pe, an orlee.

: Now the times are hard, the -
fishermen ‘ike the auto workers, are being

$o;- while. fishermen’s : Union - President,
Richard Cashin, ‘talks about the price of fish, -

he’ talks. as much about “a fundamental
change in the: system”.

full disclosure of the companies . (govern. .

ment- subsidized) books. -
damns as ‘‘a romantic elitism that-will kéep

the fishermen forever. In bondage”, policy:

preference: ‘of Premier. Briaf. Peckford for a

Most ofall, he”

7 longliner that Is new and fully. equipped,

large, part-time shore. fishery, rather than a” :

smalt, full. time ore. _ ou

si nce 1977; the year ‘ot the 200) mille: limit,
the landed value of Newfoundiland’s- inshore Se
catch has jumped. by 80 percent. AY the: same - :
time though, the number of ‘fishermen has. = -

increased by 60° percent only two. thirds,
“real: fishermen”; about 6,000 are part-
timers, moonlighting “townles’’ who pick up
extra cash In their off hours.

The federal ‘government has been trying to

progressively ‘stricter licensing policy,

_» Peckford wants to take over licensing: from.

Citawa. and to apply a “looser ‘Policy’.
“Tight limits on the number of fishermen,”

he says, “would be wrongs socially and a

culturally.” =
Here robbed of the attair,

btam will Stay that way: for a decade, no

"matter: how much oil is found off-shore, the ;

inshore fishery has functioned both as.a

. In'a soélety. In
_ which unemployment Is 15 percent, and.
which the cause of the. legacy of the: baby

vy

social safety valve and as the mainstay of

‘small outports: laying out enough cod traps --

and lobsfer pots to quailty for -’stamp’’ —
(unemployment. insurance) was a way to fill: --
in ime between construction lobs or an.

_alternative to: leaving: for Ontarlo, or; row. |

for. Alberta. Also, it was part of every |

—_ Newfoundiander’ s way of life. .
By thishe means a.

ony | icorid voring ave ih veers, : : gland. Anew Newfoundland Is being shaped.
nat fonallzation of a large fish company, and: by the force of economics. The traditional

This is the culture of ‘the old Newfoun-.

inshore fisherman, which Is a 20-off foot open
trapboat could get by when prices were low

because he-had no overhead. The newer,- .

“professional” ‘paying off ‘the Interest on a

comes: at 100,000 dollars.

“No one expected the Inshore fishermen to: :

go on'strike--because they never had before, .

_ because so many are “‘real fishermen” and -
because they’ re doing It at the peak of their :

short season.

“They forgot we ‘re alway being. struck _

against ourselves,” Barsitt told me in his.»

«kitchen after the meeting, “by the weather, |.
by-the lee, last year by the whales, by gear.”

failures, by no fisti, so we got used to it, and

limit the. humber of fishermen: by a: have: learned to get by.”

“The he took me outside, and we stood on

the black twine of the ring selne net fixing up ee
., ’ “Also, a
._ dhey forgot we've gof no choice but ta strike.

to go off to. mackerel and herring.

That net cost me more than my house. It's
$24,000. Three year: 3 ago, it would have cost

: me $10,000, On this we get more for the fish,
cand Vm going under anyway. | The system
‘has: to change. "

_ ‘As Trealized listening to the meeting in $t. :
Stephen's Hall and afterwards at the Bar-
sitt’s, the fundaniental change already has |
‘happéned;... It’s a psychic change.. At fast;
‘Newfoundiand's itshore fishermen, have .

realized’ what. théy — aré--full-time
professionals who bring in the primary
dollars that eyervane alee fonds off nt