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- College students
ban Playboy

. BURNABY, B.C. (CP) —.Playboy-Magazine had Simon
Fraser University students hot under the collar — and they
‘want it taken out of their library and bookstore.

: Student representatives say the magazine is por- _

Inographic and is on order even though academic journals
ihave had to be cancelled because of general cutbacks. They
ipay they don't-like the administration’ 8 priorites. _
& “Tt didn’t seem appropriate that when newspaper and.
‘Magazine and periodical subscriptions — which might be.
heeded for research — might be cut, we maintain a‘sub-
iseription to Playboy,” said Laurie White, a student Forum -
Fepresentative.
«White said students alao asked the Canadian National —
jnstitute for the Blind to remove seven types of magazines
- including Playboy, Oul, Hustler, and Penthouse —~ from
jts concession stand. earlier this month.

_ + "The student society contacted the main office of the ~
IB and they quite willingly removed them," she said. By

_jhBut the library and bookstore, whieh falls under the?
library’ 8 jurisdiction, were not a5 “co-pperative, she said.
: University brarian Ted Dobb was asked to pull Playboy

off the ‘shelves ‘and microfilms in. . favor” of other

publications.

“He told us librarians don’ tget involved in what he called

censorship," White said.’

“] think it's ridiculous,” said: White. “I don’t think tax-

payers who subsidize universities would like’ to know we're
getting Playboy.”

University president George Pedersen has said he will :

look into the matter: in August when when he returns from
holiday,

-IWA fights
a sale of logs -

NELSON, B.C, (CP) — An explosive situation - is.

developing because of a sale of pulp and sawmill logs by

_ dauisianna Pacific Canada Lid. to B.C. Timber Co.'s
Castlegar mill, sald Kiaus Offermann, business agent for
the International Woodworkers of America in Nelson.

The Labor Relations Board decided Thursday not to act:

on a request | by the union to halt the, sale. a

" Offermann-said-ihe-sale“of the’ timber” ‘Faises question

about one forest. firm selling {ts allocation- of timber to
another forest company,

The sale of 21,000 cunits of timber has enabled ‘the
Castlegar sawmill, which was slated to shui by the end of
this week, to continue production until mid-August.

sale, :

Angry union menihers include workers al U. ‘$-owned
Louisiana Pacific’s Salmo mill; who haven't worked since
last sammer’s province-wide strike began July 13, 1881.

Unemployment. benefits for many | of “the 60 laid-off

workers have run out and families are now on welfare,. he
said.
: “They. can see. their. jobs leaving thr the e milyard
: gate along with the logs.”

Louisiana’ Pacific: has’ admitted they are. looking fora:

buyer for their, mltE.--

~ “The question we're asking is, “why should the” ‘province say: they understand it.

_give a timber quota to a‘specific operator, with the intent
that it be processed in a particular mill to employ workers

in a-particular community —and thén ‘allow the. tirhber to -
-be transferred to: another comnti within a ‘different .

tenure?” Lo 2

A tenure ‘refers. to a. mills timber allneation. from. a” 7

7 - specific area. .

B.C Timiber's' 150 union loggers in Nakuisp, about n
kilometres northwest of Nelson, who have worked less than .
six months during the last 18 months are also angry about

~ lhe transfer, Offermann said; becaise they would normally ,

- supply the Castlegar saw and: pulp mills with logs.

Meanwhile, John Montgomery, presiffent of. ‘log:
purchaser B.C. Timber, sald; in an interview that Loulsiaria
Pacific is selling (he.timber:because it is deteriorating
while the mill is closed.

Montgomery would nét say how much B. C, Timber, paid
for the logs. .

As u result of the purchase, 295 workers al the Castlegar -

sawmill will have an additional month of ‘work: ‘They. were...

lo have been faid off beginning this week for. an ‘indefinte
“petlod, Montgomery said.”

oe a Lo st

frogs, Others had théir heads stuffed Into tubs filled-with

‘deprivation’ Bnd’ .use ‘of: hammers te, smash riper"

follow standard Amnesty procedures, including “stringent
. criteria as to what are the facts.’’» pera ame
"All of the Broup's 150-odd staff members are well aware of

’~ Following further research, Benenson published a list of .
. ‘forgotten prisoners” ’—.men and) women .held. (often

Offermann said in union n workers have are ¢ angry about the .

“LONDON (CP): ~ Some victims | were forced to eat live. _

blood, vomit and excrement, Still others } were hung. upalde
dawn so: water could be ‘Poured ‘into their. nostril

Whe. 20-year-old j group docurnented hevergl oth ‘
ethors:including electric shoghs, mock executions, sleep

fingers and ‘toes.

M hn some ‘countries’ methods, ‘ich na ‘flogaatig andar
on putation, were ‘carried out'in public,” added. Amnesty
: International's 426-page. ‘annual report. a

The: document : lists dozens of countries, both, pro’
. ‘communist and Protapitalist, in whieh acts of torture and .

Canada was not mentioned. ,
But David Laulicht, press officer at amnéaty Inter-

" national’s modest London headquarters, noted - several

Canadian lawyers have asked for: an independent in-

vestigation into reports of brutality and torture re by Toronto- .
. ‘area police. "

If'an inquiry is initiated, Laulicht said it will ‘probably

the possible damage if ‘any government were falsely ac-

| cused of torture or ‘illegal imprisonment.

“We live and die by our credibility," he said.

‘Amuesty International began In 1961 when British lawyer
Peter, Benenson read news reports of twa Portuguese
students. who received seven-year jail sentences, after
raising a toast in a restaurant to freedom,. ©"

secretly) in violation of the United Nations’ Universal

“Declaration of Human Rights and similar international

statutes,

4p 15) countries and territories. Many tembers belong.

mnesty Intemational has lists —

The . lawyer's. one-year : campaigi blossomed : into ‘an
“organization now boaating 250,000 members and supporters

" doption groups" that eta fot me. Hoste of

Tor ror ot: Amnesty
press arid ‘publications: department. ‘in. ‘London, sald. the
Canadian section's 8,000 ‘members-aré particularly active,

That, represents a.major: change from 10 years ago; he.
“sald: —~:‘before refugees: began arriving: in’ Canada with”
- horror stories of thelr treatment back. fome,

 ” Reoch sald “things really took off” for his group ‘when 7

church .Jeaders, representing. established - and’ credible

voices in. Canadian’ society, took ‘up. Amnesty Inter- -

*natlonal's ‘cause. ‘ Support waa" soon comin ‘from: every”

sector of saclety,

Amnesty has personal files on more’ than 4,600 “prisoners
of conscience" — men and wamen the group feels have been
jailed notfor criminal acts ln the ordinary sense, but rather
for their beliefs; religion, race, color, sex or ethnic origin.

Yel all the numbers represent little more than the “tip of
.. he iceberg," Laulicht said. “There may in fact be 50 or 100
~ prisoners of conselence: for every one we've been able to

~. document.’”

During the. 12-month
freed,

Laulicht said there isno way of knowing how large a role ,
Amnesty International, using a budget of $4.9 million last |

year (almost all raised by charitable donations), played. in
anyone's release, :

But he said. Amnesty members’

certainly must have had-an effect. °
: Angry leadersof both pro-communist and pro-capitalist
regimes have lashed out at the group, accusing it of being a

front for everything from the Soviet politburo to the United.

States’ Central Intelligence ® Agency.

‘Renting. homes cheaper? —

EDMONTON (CP) — It is cheaper to rent: than to
buy a home in today’s housing market, says
_ Edmonton appraiser David Sanna.

Sanna,:who has appraised-houses here for eight.

years, uses an‘example that shows unless homes
increase in value by 10.7 per cent each year, renting
is a better decision. Edmonton homes-have increased
in value by about two per cent in the last year.

* A $79,000 mortgage on a $94,000 home, at 19-per-
cent inlerest over a 25-year™arportization period

would cost $14,770 per year, says Sanna. ‘He adds

another $3,200 for Laxes, maintenance and utilities for
a total of $17,970 per year to buy a home.

Rental of a similar home, he says, would cost about”

| $700 a month, plus $100 for utilities, for a total annual
cost of $9,600,
Sanna presented the. figures Wednesday at the

moanthiy meeting of the Edmonton branch of the.

or Housiiiie aiid "UNERH' Deyelopiitien iy" Asdbe(BtiGn nal y ain

Canada. It wasn't-exactlyswhat™ ‘tHe. diidiened, inibide”
"pot builders and! member's of refated tradés, wanted”
- to hear. -

'” Home purchases have dropped dramatically in

Edmonton in recent months. *

Purchases are also’ down in Regina, partly due to

the slowdown. in “residential construction, said :

HUDAC spokesman Doug Rogers.

homes’ are’ opting instead’ to remain in rental ac-
commodation. Regina's rental vacancy rate now is
1.1 per cent, or 72 units of 6,212,

To complete his example, Sanna took the $14,100 .

down payment on the home and found it would have
made $1,692 per year interest had it been invested at
-12: per. cent. He- subtracted that from the cost of © “'

. ténting to gel $7,908 for the total cost of renting. When

rent cost was subtracted from the cost of buying, he
arrived al $10,062, the amount the home would have to
.increase in value ach year to break even.

“You're looking at paying $10,000 a year for pride of
ownership,” he said. “And if-we're only going to live
in a home for two or three years, as the national
average shows, it doesn't make sense to buy a home
because you end up with no equity."

But Sanna said there were ways homebuyers could ;
improve thelr lot. Reducing the amortization: period -
and paying off the mortgage more quickly isone way
to reduce debt.-

Homebuyers should also be looking at making : a
maximum down | Payment ‘and. paying. over .a

qnininagm number of years, rather than a minimum
down id Maximum, Tepaynient iperiod. as is offered.” Hs
- in'the ‘market place today, fhe suggested,» 5."
But Terry Myers, general manager of single family - ;
residential sales with Nu-West Development Carp.

and vice-present of ‘-HUDAC; questioned Sanna’s -

statements. .
“There's a difference that goes ‘beyond dollars” In.

-" buying a home, Myers-said in an interview.
‘He said-tenanls who would normally be buying new —

“We've got to get back to the basics. 1 don't know
how most people took at it, bul -think there's a hell of
‘a difference between raising your family in an
-apartment or ina home. if I'm old- fashioned, then
I'm old- fashioned, " :

-drish struggle with language ~

“ DUBOIN (CP) — Sean O Cleirigh, chief executive of Bord °

na Gaeltacht, a body set up by. the Irish government to —

promote the use of the Irish language, keeps a New
‘ Brunswick flag in ‘his office as a souvenir of a recent trip to
‘Canada:

Aside from the mutual affinity for.potaloes, Ireland and
New Brunswick have in common a desire to breathe life
into an endangered language. A

“They are much more serlous about it,"’ 0 Cleirigh said in ;

an interview, praising efforts by New Brunswick to provide

. Services in French and to encourage bilingualism...’

Like many French-speaking people in New Brunswick, |

’ Irish-speakers in Ireland are concentrated in economically —

depressed rural areas. Most also speak English and in both

cases there is Breat pressure to forget the other language

bec ause English is the language of ‘advancement,
‘() Cleirigh rejected the notion that the English forced the -

. tris to give up their language. “We gave our language

way,” he said, explaining that frish, parents in the 19th -
century taught . their children English “BO they could
“emigrate.

When Southern Ireland became independent of Briain

earlier this century, one of its stated goals was restoration ..
_ ofthe Irish langtiage. The republic's constitution designates -

‘Irish as the official language of the country but in practice.
English remains the everyday language.
© Cleirigh said there has been an impravement since

nee pendence, noling that.in 1923 only 18 per cent of Irish:

men.and women could understand Irish. Now a7 per. cent

' This is a poor record considering ‘that Irish \ was a com-
-pulsory school subuect until recently. ‘Now that. it is no”
Jonger abligatory,O Cleirigh perceives a ‘change in attitude.
Peopte want to learn Irish: i
- But,teaching methods rust change, | he said. “Children -
are being taught: literary. Irish‘ which. is-not. practical.” 7

has enjoyed wide popularity, O Cleirigh said, and shows the

potential: television has for teaching the’ ‘language.

However, there are no television programs in Irish for.
children. - ;
“The probiem in Ireland is rioney. In Ireland we have
lots of policies but no resources."
While in Canada 0 Cleirigh also visited Quebec and met
-with federal officials, He was impressed at the extent to

-which-Ottawa has become a bilingual city and interested in”

efforisby Quebec lo make French the dominant language of
- the province, .
“Et could understand, aS an Irishman, how the Quebecois
feel,” he soit. “Bul in Ireland language is nol a political
“issue.” ‘
_ Areas of Ireland where people speak Irish’ are called

: Anois is: ‘Aris,: a‘television series on the Irish language, -

Gaeltachis. Most of them are on ‘the West Coast, although
there are pockets of Irish-speakers in Dublin and a tiny
Gaeltacht in Belfast.

- Albert Fry, the son of a British soldier, isa singer of Irish ©

songs with several records to his credit. About 15 years ago
he got together with some friends in Belfast’ and they
decided. to build houses together to form a community
where Irish: was spoken. -

There’ now are 11 families in the Belfast. Gaeltacht on
Shaws Road i in the Roman Catholic district of Anderstown.
None ‘of the parents were’ [rish-speaking, but now the”
children speak the language. -

Fry said they are given an Irish identity at a school.

behind Shaws Road where children trom other parts of the
city also come to learn the language.:He is proud when he
sees them “fighting, pulling one anather’s hair in Irish, all...
the things that children do. Pe a
“: Fry: is outgoing -president : of | the “Gaelic: League; ‘a
nationalist organization roughly : ‘equivalent to. Quebec’ Ss.
Societe St. Jean-Baptiste.
“We're not British but we're-told every day that we are,’’

he sald explaining the relative success of the Belfast

Gaeltacht. “When you're under a threat itis a lot easier.'’,

Of the three million people living in Ireland, O Cleirigh -

_ estimates thal a million are bilingual, another million have

some knowledge of the language but only 50,000 use e Irish as-
their primary. language. .

Dublin ‘now has more Irish speakers since. new. Trish ©
‘schools were established in recent years, he sald, but in the
‘traditional Gaeltacht areas of Donegal, Galway and Kerry
the language is in danger. -

“There is is no domain where Irish. is needed in day: to-day

-reservoir of skilled people who speak French has made. it
“possible ta. replace. English.as the language of work, -

Unlike the French minorities in-Canada who can ‘turn to”

“Quebec and beyond to France, irish-speakers can't look, toa:-

-.. harger body of people who speak their language. The Irish:
_ can converse with Gaelic speakers on Cape Breton and in
Scotland but can’t understand the Celtic languages: of Wales-

‘and ‘Britanny,- ;

The government has tried lo ericourage Inizspeakers to-
“stay in Gaeltacht : ‘areas Or return there through housing ©
: Subsidies and by establishing industries under the Publicly

owned Udaras na Gaeltacht, ‘Gaeltacht Authority.
Unfortunately. the factory managers who: come™ from
oulside speak _in English, 0 Cleirigh said. :

Gne™ Success story in the Gaeltachts ig Raidlo. na

Gaeltachi, which marked... 0. years. of - Irish language
broadcasting in April. Started by local residents. as a
community statio, Raidio na Gaeltacht now Is run by Hadia-

Telefis Eireann, the stale brondeasting authority.

“To: : 7 _ 7 i . wy - - S

In. tesponse to- the Jane 24 letter to ihe ie elton ‘or per .

* welease. signed by Nancy Orr as ‘chairman of the board of ey
“Sehwol District 68-and published in the July 6. edition af the

period ending. May } last year, .
Amnesty added ‘I 475 new cases while a4 prisoners : ‘were .
ditions ‘at the Hart Fanm ware beyond toleration.” The

constant barrage of |
_ ‘lelters, news releases_and requests. for official inquiries

* school ‘sports fields.’

children is: concerned. ot

a "Letters to
a ne _the: Editor

@ Editor,

, News Advertiser,

‘The bosrd wos advised by Ann Clarkson, BOSTA Com: .

muzleations Officer, to treat all news media falrly:’ Yet the

board failed to-supply the Terrace Daily Herald and the :

CBC in- Prince Rupert with a copy of this news: ‘release,

~ Both media” outlats had entensively reported: this: Hatt .
, Farm issue.

If the instant repairs to the Hart Farm were the. direct
result: of the “egotistical sensationalism’? of my Herald
column, fine.” In seven months: battling with the board
through: proper, channels they've resisted putting into
practice the recommendations of the Review Board. Had I
dealt with the Hart farm problem- through proper channels

‘open to mb as a trusteé, nodoubt the fire hazards would still -

exist, =... - cote ne
The word “firetrap” § was a a direct quote, The principal’ 8
“ghoice of the word “firetrap” signalled to me that con-

fireman's report bore this out;. “I noted the large number ;

_ of tanks containing flammable and combustible liquids and
the manner in which they aré being stored,’ he reported.
“Here exists a very real setlous potential fire hazard that

not only involves the existing bulldings and forest, ‘but also

every school child.and adult that visits thisfacility.”
For Orr to say “‘the operation of this facility has been

‘watched: over by a dedicated staff committee” is an -

committee” consists of one person, an elementary school
_ principal. I'll net deny he may be dedicated; but torefer to
him as a committee gives an Impression of consultation
that does not exist. No one knows of any comumiltee
~tmeetings ever being held or any minutes of any such

* meetings,

That the operation is inspected and reviewed annually Is
a consummation devoutly to be wished, perhaps, but is
denied by the maintenance superintendent. He told. me, in
an interview with him June 25, they repair things. when they
are reported to him as in need of repair, but he conducts no
planned annual inspection, and was net now dolng an an-
_ ‘tual inspection, ane of the reasons being he has not budget
_for upgrading the facility: .

4

". exaggeration. —Inyestigation- proves_the_‘‘dedicated. staif____

od

Orr says personnel interviews are held. in confidence to

prevent remarks being taken ‘‘out-of-context". Perhaps.

However, I feel the reason the principal asked to have his |

remarks kept confidential is quite different, Because. the

but also the maintenance superintendent and the caretaker,
- all take-a very personal ‘proprietary interest in the Hart

might be interpreted by these individuals as a critielam of

. what they are presently doing, The principal might have |

feared his ‘remarks would reach thelr ears and cause
repercussions. Whichseems to have been the case,

| “dedicated staff committee’’ is one person, and, not only he

* Farm; any suggestions for improvement of the facility —

Had Echosen to attack the problem by proper avenues, an :

Orr suggests’ I should nave J. would have been, fed a Jire
ddsighed th'put my’ fears to net, Ad fatigue uid, ce
'"Héen doiie. «As it wags, 8 reliable’

“ dicted’ imitiediately‘by "a ‘trained Tiretighver.” his ‘weil A

_ report dated May 28 was stamped officially received by the |

maintenance department of District 88 June 3, Yet at the
June8 board meeting in Hazelton Mrs, Ort stated the report
was nol yet available because it was still being compiled.

When-I quizzed the maintenance superintendent June'25
about the Hart Farm, many of his answers did not coincide
with what I had been told’ by. ‘trustees during my
disciplinary hearing June'22.-.

So on Sunday, July 4, with the president of the Terrace -
District Teactiers Association as an accompanying witness,
inspected the Hart Farm to see for myself what was really .

” what, Pas

We! found that allhough the maintenance superintendent's
follow-up report stated all window’ screens had been»
~” repaired, infact one window screen was still i in the process
of being rebuilt. .  *-

The woodburning stove, may be installed according to
regulations but the horizontal portion of the stovépipe is no

--tmore than four inches Slow the ceiling, and one can look

into the stove and see the tiledfloor beneath. —

The report says Diesel fuel storage has been cleaned up
and reduced to one tank. Infact seven or eight 45 gallon
drums, some of them full, some partly full, are .how

 corralled beneath the steel framework supporting ‘aloft the

-.500 gallon diesel tank, This tank and drums are closer,

gave as a ‘minimum safe distance.

“The follow-up report states the area over the wood.’
working shop is not to be used for a sleeping area. Yet the
‘area over the woodworking shop sports a newly installed
battery-opérated smoke detector and exactly 10 beds, the
‘maximum number of beds permitted before a fire alarm
detection system and fire separation walls must be in- |
.. Stalled.:- Also; a trustee had.told me-.the building had been:
.. padlocked for five years to prevent use as a sleeping aréa:
_. However, the area is. easily accessible by means of an
"outside stairway, and the door at the top of the stairs has
neither a keyhold to lock it nor the telltale signs of ever

having had the hardware essential to apply a padlock.

The report also says ‘sleeping bunks have been
rearranged t to facilltate egress -- infact one bed still wedges
shut the rear door to the area over the woodworking shop.

An addition, [ was informed the septic tank had, beer
"pumped four weeks previously to June 25, A phone call-to
the septic service proved this to be not so. In fact, the septic:
- tank was pumped as late as | Wednesday, July 7.

The fact the Hart Farm has operated as an Outdoor
Education center for 16 years without a serious accident i is
_ due no doubt to the care and vigilance of the teachers and .

. taker res: nsible for’ the safety. of the students: usin
- life,” he’said drawing a contrast with Quebec where a: ware a ty 8

the facility, “The principal : “who ‘called the Hart Farm a.
. firetrap dealt with the risk by curtailing his use of the: Hart,
‘Farm to warm weather wher no héating was required. .
How-muuch- more ‘and 'better. use could be made of the
“ facility. if the, board expiinded ‘its’ ‘dedicated ‘staff: com-
mittee": into ‘an honest-to- ‘goodness committee ‘that would:
. dare to’ vaistractively critleize the present operation with a-
‘view to improving it. Add to that if the board! Wold listen to,
“the: committee's. suggestions: and provide the’ buiiget up
.port to permit: upgrading. of the facility.” This ‘could be -
~ especially effective: it representatives. from the various -
' group.users were Invited to participate both in the brain-
storming and in the actual finansing and construction, just
as sports groups are now contributing, to'the. betterment of

. Confidentiality has its place, but not ‘where the safety of.

Bla nied rely yours;

Mrs, Claudette Sandecki —

co . Trustee

‘* much eloser, to the, trees than the 40 feet the fire inspector