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— Editorial ©

A noted northwest .publisher-editor recently i
- commented that from his experience In the

Terrace area there have been attempts to

“manage” the news ‘frequently by local ;

officials.
This can be done ‘in ‘several ways,’
Advertisers-who tow a particular. party line and

whose political view may be: under certain ~-

criticism In’ newspapers ‘can . withdraw.

‘Pressure is often put: Upon
newspaper ‘ownership. One will never. forget
the statement by a former alderman tn Terrace
who sald he looked forward to the day when
newspapers ‘“got back” to printing what Ahey —
were told to print.

Of course there are those who cry ‘they are -
getting unfair coverage because in the rush of -
deadlines It was Impossible to get quotes from
one side or the other. Often a: newspaper will -
-gover a goverriment or administrative ‘report
without comments from officials or politicians.
As noted often by reporters when reports are

sometimes happens. - af:
Then there Is the column. A ‘columm Is that: -
_ small portion of a paper that reporters are~: ~~
_ given fo express thelr own particular viewpoint «°°
_ on an issue. But In-the venom of hate circles: .:
there Is a group who purposefully. confuse:
. columns with news, reports, mix’ the two. |
together ‘and cry. they are getting - biased
It seems that those who ‘want to ©.
manage the news don’t really. care what-is a.
- particular: viewpoint and what. Is news. They... .-
use terms IIke.““scurilous yellow them in to.
nan... "

reporting.

describe. stories that put them
unfavorable light. -.

For example, there Is the politician who, 7 a way

during an ‘election, was angry at the. Dally

Herald because we refused to print his election...
propaganda. We gave him one shot to say what: |
‘he had to say and the radio station did much the —
‘same. He got.on national radio and complained : ©
that the local press was biased against him and
He .
couldn't manage the news. The same pattern _
was used the following year and the newspaper *
was praised highly. for its election coverage.. :.
The old saying in newspapers still holds: ‘If

you aren't condemned by 9 a.m. you aren't

he could not get any election coverage.

doing | your lob.” ”

Company s smaller

VANCOUVER (CP) — Mac
atches’ the company’ ‘8
description of itself -= bwitpmier and smaller, :

The report, printed on waprint and without the ‘usual

glossy photographs and charts, backs MacMillan Bigedel’s |:
lean image with the discloure that ifs salaried stalf was cut’. -
by 23 per cent or 1 a1 employees between mid-1981 and. the

_ nd of 1982. .

The report notes’ that: the reduction in salaried staff will
result in an annual saving going into 1983 of more than §60

million. Also as part of its overhead reductions, inventories

and accounts recelvable were reduced by $110 ‘million in
1962.

_ The information circular accompanying the report sai
that Calvert Knudsen, . chairman. and: chief. executive

officer, earned $394,127 in salary, bonuses and director's .
. fees last year, compared-to $359,6621 in 1991, Ray, Smith, »

president and chief operating officer, earned $108, 465, down
$3,289 from. 1961,

The 44 officers and directors (including, Kaudeon ‘and: ”

Smith) received aggregate salaries, bonuses and fees of
$3,008, 401 jast year, against $3,569 501 in 1981. ;

MacMillan Bloedel had previously reported 81962 inet tse
(after extraordinary items) of $57.3 milllon on sales of $1.9

billion. In 1961 after allowing for extraordinary items the.

company had net earnings of $3. a millon, on 2.2. billion in
gales,

5.7 per cént on invested capital. in 1981,- the return barely

crept above the break-even level at 0.1.per cent; & sharp

drop from’ 12'per cent in 1000 and 16 per cent in 1972,
The annual report says the company's interest-bearing
debt at the end of 1982 totalled $006 million, an increase of!

* $142 million’ from: ‘the previous ‘Year.

ian Bloedel Ltd.’ 's annual .

’ said the’ airline Tost $22.6 million for the year, the largest
Last year’s loss was the equivalent ofs a negative retum of ,

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. Various forms of religious probit (many pe

"strange ‘twist of. tradition, he was: : both the‘

. Tammuzas he was called, Peering st ; hailed :

_for- arninuz”? and kde ie the sun-god;
According ‘to tradition, Tammuz had been killed by
boar, had been mourned for 40 days, then was raised from
the “dead. “However, the deified son soon” bec: le
‘ overshadowed by the mother-child combination —~ the se
madonna with the virgin-born child in arms, s

Merril F. ‘Unger says that Tammuz was the. husband-

mother of: China, being represented
arms, anda glory around’
, The temple virgins of: ‘Ishta

‘with’
Christianity. - CO ae ce
We are told today Easter is tor: ‘the a day. at ‘christ

resurrection and originates fromEoetre”, the name’ of an. -

" Anglo-Saxon diety. As ‘goddess of dawn, spring: and: fertility,

Eostre was honored ata festival occurring around the same. ©

- time’as our present celebration of Easter. But Bostre, too,

comes from the ancient rites of Ishtar. The story goes thal

“God scattered the peoples ¢ of theworld from a unified cen

of worship by confusing ‘their ‘tongues and dispersing th

_ false. madonna, ritual allover the world.’ os
While: Easter. has. always ‘been. a global springtime

célebration of Baal worship from the Middle East to Cen: © -

. tralAmerica, its confusion with’ Christianity began when the ©.
. Roman emperors, Hoing | back before Julius. Caesar, aa high:
priests of. Rome, + Mote the Pomp and ceremony of a thle

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will table his federal budget April 19 but the only hint he
‘ provided about its content was that job creation is his chief
concern:

Lalonde ‘told the Commons. that job: creation “will be -
. -achieved _ fundamentally - ‘through: ‘the :: private -sector .
‘although. we ‘recognize that the government sector, the: ”
public sector, haa a responsibility. asa pump primer. a

‘Meanwhile, government insiders say: they expect. the “”

. budget to add about 7 biltion to the already swollen federal : . te. vas: ‘Paid in Jenuery, 1 per. Coot idee than &

deficit...

". Lalonde previously issued an estimate that the defielt for: .’.
the 1962-83 fiscal year of $27.2 billion would rise to just over ©;
$30 billion in.1993-84, even before he adds stimulative

Finance: Minister Mare Lalonde arinounced Wednesday he,

markets ‘caused by the ‘recession were largely to blame, .
“In other business tews Wednesday: «

.. == ‘The Bank of Canada rate slipped fractionally tc to 9; a
<_[Rer cent from 9.51 pet cent but the dip was_considered too
small to prompt changes ino ther rates. The: ‘trend-setting
Fate has been hovering around: the 8.5-per-cent devel since -
rf mid-February. 5

| Statistics Canada sald: a record De 061 billion: in jobless .

month: earlier and 67 pet cent‘more than in January, 1962. .
There -were almost 1:5. million: beneficiaries during the

month, nine per-cent:more than Ix Degernber. ane 9 per

cent ‘more than a year earller.

ee

measures. Another $2 billiori would boost the. Geficit- to $9262

billion for the fiscal year beginning Friday... >

., ‘The number of fobs that will be generated with $2 billion:

. depends on how. the money is spent. Official figures say:
. there are ‘1.6 million people or 12.5 per cent of the work force «. -
_memployed. The general rule of thumb for: direct |.”
“government job creation is 100,000 jobs for $500 million, *
. although the latest federal program is supposed to generate 2
60,000 jobs for $500 million. .- |. ;

in other business developmenté Wecneaday, the feeias ae
government got-a plateful of bad news as two. major Crown a :
iy JNelther . Strain nor assistant ‘deputy ni

corporations announced staggering losses for 1982.

-Cansdian National Railways reported to the Commons: .}

that it lsat $223 million last year, compared to a Profit of
$193.2 million in. 1981, ; :

But the corporation said in its annual report it expects to”
post a modest profit this. year.. Décisions- in 1962 to! cut...
expenditures and pare the payroll by tore than’ 6,000"
workers have left the. company poised to handle -ihe. -
anticipated. upswing in business as economic captions

improve, the report sald. |
And.in Montreal, Air, Canada president ‘Claude | ‘Taylor

annual deficit in its 46-year history...
show “a loss of about thé sarne: magnitude as we had in

° Telatlonship between the ininistry and the COMPANY.
: “There are 10 Plans to meet. “with. labor or smuielpal :
" councils, said Strain.

"to be completed at the enid of April: ”

a Is a dramatic,

Be ‘Timber studied

PRINCE. RUPERT, BC. CPi = ~The brvineta

“government has appointed a two-man committee. to
investigate “broad problema’ being enperience, by, a
~ Nimber Ltd, in‘northwestern B.C. | :
are Vern. ‘Beeain, ‘regional: iuatt

The two mem
‘manager of timber, range and. recreation for the Miniatry of
Forests ‘and Duncan Davies, a company “executive

irlgte
McPherson would coniment on, what kind ot problem
be. reviewed. =
‘It appears, however, that the study will be limited ho

‘MePherson said a ‘report from the éomoraities is expected

"He said it would not be fair tothe commraltied to comm ment

‘now.on problem areas but anid “we have tonet, the compaiy

back in production.”

“Tivestment Corp., Is. the ; main. source: at

it Will resumie partial rail its Watson island philp

| Termaes, Hazelton and ‘Kltwangs reals. clove:

“To the Editor, en

“y ‘appreciate: being. given’ ‘this | sppartuhity a:
’ “Alicen Keamarden’s tet{er of March 23 in the Daily. érald I
“foal Linugt comment onthe BCTF's. pro-choice’ “gtantl,' the
«4pra-choice-pro-abattion"’” ‘farms, and? the’ “Gallip:, Poll
“conducted on behalf of the Canadian. Abortion Righits:Attion
_ League (CARAL). I would like to state here clearly that the
Pro-Life Society i ig att ‘educational group only, dedi ted to
informing the public. on, the pro-life issues. > > i
Referring toa letter sent to the school board by: atadbsrine
McLean, Status of Women Representative, on: the: BCTF’s
stand, she states!
” "Atthe 1982 BCTF. AGM, the membership dorsed the
- following: coy oes ¥ 7
47.25' that. the . BCTF support: the. right
‘Tegardlss at age, niarital aati, income, ‘or’ or gnosis

oe services: with. spel to thelr ‘health. sid ‘well
- being, ‘and (b) decide whether or-wheni to have children, and

‘42.99 that the: Canadiah Teacher's Federation should seek to

" have abortion removed from the Criminel Code. ‘The intent

"of 42.29 is a statement to our: ‘parent organization ‘tor

“directed, ‘concerted. action. i .
"You may call this ‘procholce or proabortidn the ‘end
result: may-the the seme. I therefore: agree” “witli: Ms.

-Keamarden that the BCTF is in‘ fact *pro-chaide!’, “

Ag far as “pro-cholee!’ ‘and. “pro-abortion”. are

: 5 ‘coicerned, Ican onily conclude that the outcome can be the
* same: ‘the morther ‘aborts her unborn child. For example, if

“there was a program of native genocide and { claim:to be-
against it personally but support anyone else ‘in making
‘thelr c own decision, then support agencies and government
“ offielals who are taking: part in the genocide, and ‘also
_romole that “pro-choice” stand, 1 am effectively pro-
“genocide, am I not? Can't we see how morally arth ethically
_ bankrupt such @ position is? =

Concerning CARAL’s Gallup ‘Poll; Canwest Research
Corporation, a:polling firm located in Winnipeg Waa hired
_ by Manitoba League for Life. Dr. Angus Reid, president of
‘Canwest, charged that the Gallup Poll wording .'*dlimost
‘demanded a'tyes': answert’, Di, Reid:told reporters that
= Walirioat averyohe WodlPieepaikt with RY" answelwilin

_-hubked Whether!dbortitivstiould be pebtontived bya invented
physician: .* Norma Scarborough, president of CARAL said

‘in atriniterview in Toronto, “if we were going to do it over
- again, ‘we would never use a double-barreled question.”

. ‘Tagaln must support: our society's stand on approaching
the “schools with a ‘publi information format. BCTF
supports us in 42,25 fay
“Lastly, inferences: Mr; Weber dealt with publicly were

| “potat all those mentioned to. the school board in my letter.
The. society stands by. its cominents: in. the letter, to the

> sehool hoard, Thank you.

“VICTORIA
REPORT

alonde announces budget plan

by FRANK ©
HOWARD |
~Skeena MLA

_ three to, three and one half years:

; : BC. ‘Timber, ‘a. subsldiaiy of. the’ Crown-owned BG”
“Taylor also told reporters he expects results for 1963 willl Re
ae eniployment in the area.
i962." But he added 1 the balrtine la Srbecting profits again in:

. - mill in early April, after a seven-month shuldown; Lumber -

: these’ are: tie-ke to economi¢ recov:
~ operations in, the. northwestern. B.C,’ Snanunitin: oe ~ ; ey.

“When weelect a government we @ choose people who, for a
limited period of time, will manage our affairs | in: ‘public
office, - os ;
» Four years ago the Bil Bennett ‘Scoreds. were: elected
narrowly toform a provincial ‘Bovernment. By custbm and
* convention. in B.C. :, itis’ now. rine that: the people. chase
again. nae 7 re ;
2 Under’ our system we vote at regular intervals’ to’allow
‘freedom’ of choice and freedom to ‘express he choice ih a
way: that matters; On: average: in B.

<"AB’ Bill: Bennett. begins the’: ‘Fitth | "year née “British
~ dotuinblans last voted, there is a sense.that his: government

~ has lost some steam and some af the fightit onée hed."

“The: ‘Legislature has ‘not sat for six: Months: The Jong.
_ 'gwalted:-provincial budget is: delayed. ' In ‘fact; reliable
* finance ° ministry sources: indleaté nd. budget ‘has been
prépared. woe ‘

While the goretuacnt dtifts, Bill Hennettand his political
‘colleagues try to ) decide whether to risk 9 provincial vote or
-eall the legislature back or delay still longer. «

: The NDP caucus members recently. met | (n Kamloops
with nominated “NDP” candidates. to. plan for’ various

\ Fs : contingenices,’ inéluding an’ early: election. i.
“The MLAs and candidates represent every riding in the
: province i fhdy; ‘teparted the same finding - — people are

ready fora “provincial: vote. ‘and

Ttiey - also reported’ ‘that: recovery | ill. begin. ‘and be

_ carried aut within tocal communities,. ‘by: local Sovernment

_ and, by ‘locally-owned. BC. business, .. :
The NDP is united, as never before, “gratia the view that
» jobs i in local. municipal works arid local smal business will

q ‘lead the path to. recovery.

We believe this approach will work: _ “better than central
“mega project planning in Victoria — to create jobs.

~The NDP ‘has made jotis in local commiinities, bapecially
- for our: young people, our number one priarity for 1983,

‘Community recovery antl B. C, business development —

“This option is available to Bittish Columbidine, as’ don as
‘Bill Bennett gives t tis. the opportinity 1 0 howe. -