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doesn’t

Have you ever heard of
‘payola’? Do you believe
it exists?

I am referring, of
course, to the practice,
believed to be common in
the sixties, of paylng disc
jockeys to broadcast
certain songs and musical
performances.

Perhaps it died out,
along with sit-ins, ban-
the-bomb, flower power
and other idiocies of that
decade.

But I wonder, when 1.
hear on my radio, a
proliferation of ‘modern’
discordant tapes,
broadcasting mindless
words and music.

If this musical fare be
popular, then where are
those people who enjoy
classical, western, jazz
and blues, to name just a
few alternate types of
music? Et would seem
that their wishes do not
count and we are
reverting to the jungle.

THOMAS ATRILL
Rock music

soothe

T am not suggesting
that we should hear only
traditional music. Far
from it. 1 would like to see
a varied program, with
something for everyone,
possibly divided as to
time, for the listening
pleasure of different
classes of people, I well
remember ‘The Scandy
Hour’ and ‘Old Time
Music’, of yesteryear.
Many of us simply tuned
in the programs we liked
and then turned the set off
afterward. We were net
Sarbeg to listen to musical
garbage hour after hour.

T am taking up a
collection for a local disc

, He is 80 that
has to use same
tape every day, in such a
way that I can sel my
watch by the tune that is
playing. So you see, 1 am-
going to give him a new
tape in self defence.
And I won't pay him to

play it.

Light side

of the news

FARMINGTON, N.M.
(AP) — Forecaster Linda
Peed didn’t have to rely on
weather instruments to tell
KIVA-TV viewers about the
cold that gripped the
Mountain community—it
was inside.

The station's heating
system failed Friday
evening and temperatures
inside the studio plunged to
minus-i6 degrees Celcius by
the 5:30 p.m. news and
colder during the 9 p.m.
broadcast.

Anchorman Richard
Draper delivered the news
bundied in a thermal ski
jackel. sportscaster Dale
Hansen wore a full-length
cordurey coat and Ms. Peed
was wrapped in a double-
lined, fur-collared coat.

“Sure is cold in here,”
Draper said as Ms, Peed
began her forecast,

But Farmington’s Channel
lf newscasters were in good
spirits. “You think it's cold
outside’? You should be in
here,"' Draper quipped to
viewers.

More than one viewer
called during the newscast to
tell the three to go home and
get by a warm fire,

BURLINGTON, N.C, (AP}
-— Store managers didn't
believe it at first, but the
money kept coming in $5 and
$10 batches, Debts they
didn't even know about were
being paid off.

“Tt was the right thing to
do,’’ said Lucius Wilson, a 29-
yearold teacher at Breadloaf
Bible College here who got
religion and turned his
wallet and hia life inside out,

There was a time, Wilson
said, when he didn’t do the
right thing.

in 1967, he was voted best-
dressed student at Williams
High School. After
graduating that year, he took
a job at a department store
and “developed thia system
of helping myself to
clothes.”’

Hut, Wilson said, he kept a

recard of all the clothes he
took--every necktle, shirt
and pair of slacks. The total
came to about §1,000 in six
months.

Then in 1971, he turned to
Christianity, prayer and
Bible study, It was then, he
said, that he realized he had
to alone for his past.

He visited several stores to
pay for items he had stolen,
then screwed up his courage
and walked into Sellars, the
department store where he
had worked.

“They were real shocked,”
Wilson said. They “sald a lot
of people had sent money in
after stealing something, but
this was the first time they
had ever had anyhody come

in.

Wilson set up an account
and paid in $10 or $15 every
couple of weeks. Last
Tuesday, he dropped off the
final $35.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.
(AP) — New "Merry
Christmas” signs in Italian
will be going up on downtown
lampposts today. The
originals, it turned out,
didn’t say quite what they
were supposed to say.

The original banners, put
up by the Chamber of
Commerce, said ‘Bona
Natale,"

However, the Itallan
Cultural Institute in New
York City said that in at least
one Italian dialect, “bona’’
can mean sexual at-
tractiveness in women. The
signs came down Friday.

Chamber President
Willlam Hawkins said the
banners were among ones in
20 languages that are going
up before night eo

“As you might expect, one
or two of them were not
correctly spelled," he said.
“It’s an insignificant thing.”

The new Italian signs will
say “Buon Natale,” which
she chamber bays is . more
widely accepted spelling for
the boliday greeting.

Ray Jon s chaired meeting

Sol Sanderson,  vice-
president of the Saskat-
chewan Federation of In-
dians, warned the delegates
to the Gitksan-Carrier Tribal
Convention in Kisplox
Friday to he wary of
government moves to induce
natives to organize along the
lines of the municipalities.

Sanderson, speaking at the
conclusion of the two-day
meeting, charged that the
federal and provincial
governments were trying to
extinguish the treaty rights
of the native peoples. He
outlined how the Saskat-
chewan native orgainzation
was trying to counter this by
establishing a bureaucracy
along provincial lines.

The 37-year-old native
leader, who is elected chief
of the Jamesmith reserve,
said the goal of the native
people should be to continue
the spirit and intent of the
original treaties. Sanderson
said their forefathers had
certain objectives and that
those are what the natives
should centinue to strive for.
Those goals, which San-
derson described as seperate
economic, political and
spiritual status, were under
attack then as now by the
government. He said it was
the responsibility of native
leaders to guarantee the

ongoing title of the Indian
lands. ;

Sanderson also said the
government is trying to
extinguish the basic in-
dividual native rights of
hunting fishing, gathering
and exemption from
taxation.

‘To combat the deliberate
moves of government to take
away these traditional In-
dian rights, Sanderson said
Indian government is
needed. He described how
the Saskatchewan
organization started from a
Splinter group and now has a
structure and bureaucracy
which parallels the govern-
ment, He said this was the
only way to deal with a
bureaucracy. He described
how there was a cabinet and
a Senate of elders. The
senate has veto power.

“They have only used that
veto once,” Sanderson said,
‘but they have turned a lot of
things back to us to do bet-
ter.”

Sanderson also told the
group the federation has a
youth wing and that they

_ take an active role in affairs
of the organization.

“We now have a political
structure and can speak with
the authority of our people,’
Sanderson said.

Sanderson told the
representatives of the eight

REVERSAL

tocal bands which form the
Gitksan-Carrier tribal group
that his organization now
influences 17 seats and hopes
to influence 25 by the next
election.

The federation of
Saskatchewan Indians, a
group which represents the
64 reserves in that province,
is working toward
estabiishing a Indian legal
system under an Indian
government. He said they
were also working on an
Indian banking system and a
program of Indian resource
development.

Sanderson, who charged
that the Indian affairs
department was fostering
deliberate | administrative
confusion to help extinguish
Indian rights, said that the
government wouldn't make
money available for these
projects and proposals to set
up an Indian oil company
and get involved in hydro
development, so the natives
were going to the provate
sector for funding.

The group was looking for
government funds to
establish their political
system, however. Sanderson
said they were requesting
money so that chiefs and
band councils would be able
to work full time.

“Part time chiefs are no
good,” Sanderson said. ‘‘4

A happy ending

TORONTO (cP) ~_
Douglas Wiesen-Todd is a
$2,000 baby.

“Before Diane and | got
married, 1 made a promise
that we'd try to have a child,
no matter what the cost,’’
says father Dr. Lain Tedd, 46,
a Foronto urologist and past
president of the Ontario
Medical Association.

Nine years earlier, he had
a vasectomy after having
four children with his first
wife. He thought that ended
his chances of fatherhood.

But in April of last year, he
made a $2,000 trip to St.
Louis, Mé., for a vasectomy
reversal performed under

microsurgery by Or.
Sherman J.Sitber—a pioneer
of the technique.

“Afterwards we drank
champagne in the motel,”
says Diane Wiesen-Todd, the
32-year-old mother,

The celebration soon was
justified when she became
pregnant seven months after
“the operation. Douglas was
bern in July this year,

“It seems miraculous,'’
says Diane. “Sterilization is
the most permanent form of
birth control there is.”

Todd, a specialist who has

performed hundreds of
vasectomies—~including his
own—says he realized the
chances of a successful
reversal using ordinary
surgery were only 30 per
cent.

But under microsurgery,
with a 25-power magnifying
device and almost invisible
thread to stitch together the
tiny, spermearrylng vas
deferens tube, chances of
successful reconnection are
at least $0 per cent.

“Finding the right doctor
for the job took a lot of
research,’’ says Todd.
“There was no one in
Toronto doing this. type of
microsurgery at the time.”

Since his own surgery,
Tadd has performed more
than 90 micro-reversals in
Toronto, mostly on men over
30 who are starting their
seco families,

“Usually a man decides on
& vasectomy when he's
married and has had a
family," says Todd, “Thea
the marriage breaks up and
his second wife wants
children.”

Of the operation, Disne
says, “Douglas is one of the
few babies whose father

suffered as much as his
mother did."

Todd chose not to have a
general anesthetic because
he wanted to watch and learn
the procedure.

Under loca) anesthetic, he
watched Silber make a tiny
incision in the scrotum, cut
off the damaged ends of the
spaghetti-like vas tube (one

onehundredth of an inch in|

diameter) and sew the tiny
ends together with barely
visible thread.

“It was a gruelling two
hours, but it was just as
tough for Sitber," Todd
recalls. “Microsurgery 1s
one of the most demanding
procedures a doctor could
learn.”

After the operation, Todd
refused tostay in hospital for
the usual one-day recovery
period and went to a hotel,
where he had to apply ice
packs to ward off swelling.

He was allowed no sports,
showers or sex for some time
aftey surgery.

Fivemonth-old Douglas is
the Todds’ reward for the
ordeal, Now they

FIRST ANNUAL .. |

Bill Blackwater re-elected oe

Gitksan-Carrier get the message

chief whe has to farm 35
percent of the time can’t do

his job.”
Sanderson said the
Saskatchewan native

peoples were looking at a
kind of protectorate status to
guarantee that there would
be no further erosion of
Indian righis. He said that
Indians would have to define
the degree of sovereignty the
wished to have, municipal
or provincial, Sanderson
accused the federal and
provincial governments of a
policy cf assimilation.

The governments are
moving the Indian people
toward a municipal style of
government, Sanderson
said, He said this was a move
to deprive Indian people of
their rights to land.

To support his charges
that this move would leave
the natives In a position
where they would be com-
peting with cities and
municipalities for money
and be taxed with them,
Sanderson said there were
documents indicating such a

policy, He said chages in the

British North America Act

were being discussed, |

changes which would hand
the responsibility for native
affairs over to the provinces.

Sanderson said the coming
struggle would be one of

municipal government as
opposed to Indian govern-

ment. He said what the

Saskatchewan native people
wanted was a doctrine of co-

existence where there would
be both clear and shared
jurisdiction between federal |
provincial ‘and Indian
government. mo,

Sol Sanderson speaks out - |

OTTAWA \CPi — A
team of Ottawa scientists
say they have shown
Canada is a world leader
in finding and identifying
oil spills.

Researchers from the
Canada centre for remote
sensing were invited
recently to test their
equipment against their
American counterparts in
the National Acrenauties
and Space Administration
(NASA), Says project
director Bob ()'Neil,

The crews squared off
at Wallops, Island, Va.,
where a series of
deliberale oil spills were
crealed on three con-
seculive days.

“We haven't started to
work on the - in-depth
analysis of the ex-
periment, but we feel it
went really well,” O'Neil
says.

The showpiece of the
Canadian contingent was
a DC-3 flying laboratory
stocked with $1.5million
worth of computing and
scanning equipment, in-
cluding a
fluorosensor which the
centre hopes will soon be

laser -

OIL SPILLS

Canada a leader -

ready tor commercial
production,

A Convair 580 carried
avother $lmillion worth
of computers and scan-
ning devices. .

"The goal of the aver-
all experiment was to see
how the different systems
compared with each other
under standard con-
ditions," Neil says,

“What was valuable
from our ewn point of
view was (hal we had an
oil spill. arranged so we
could do the work in a
methodical fashion.”

O'Neil says ihat while
the Us. madel is more
researchoriented there is
more difticulty in in-
terpreting the data pro-
duced.

By comparison,
Canadian equipment was
simpler and ‘was a good
success,"

The Canadian device
projects light from a Jaser
onto the water below the
aircraft and analyses the
reflection to determine
whether there is oil,

‘The trick is to make the
answer ous simple as
possible stiys 4)'Neil,

The perfect system, he
says, would boil down all
the information and allow
Someone to look at the
screen and. say “ev-
erylthing that is black is
water and everything that
is white is oil."

The fluoresensor is
being developed under a.
federal fisheries and
environment develop-
ment contract with the

centre for possible
detection of Aretic oil
Spilts. .
“The goal is to.

demonstrate that Canada
has a good thing and to ©
help get Canadian in-
dustry into a position
Where they can market It
overseas," he says.
“Canada has one of the
foremost remote sensing
units in the world. In
terms of an airborne
program, ours is second
to none. People come
from all over the world
every week fo see our
centre." :
In a test earlier this
year, the team was sent to
find the source of a small
natural oil seep in Scott
Iniet, N.W.T. =