PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Tuesday, June 20, 1978

— EDITORIAL

Visiting Quebec last month, I was struck by the
preat amount of restorations of “heritage”
buildings, ancient sites and streets including
battlements that was going on.

Taking a two hour, five dollar bus tour of “Old
Quebec” city (one hour was made up of stops so
the tourists could get out and “refresh” them-
selves--which of course meant an opportunity to
spend money in souvenir shops and junk foods,
by ‘“‘arrangement’) showed me most of the
streets visited had been, were being, or were
about to be ‘restored’. As they were built of
field-stone or brick, one could see this was a
multi-million dollar project. The occasional
signs at the construction sites revealed, in small
print, funding was by departments of the federal
government —Ottawa.

So it comes as something of a shock to pick up
a copy of “TOURISME”, a publication of the
Canadian Government Office of Tourism,
published by authority of the Minister of In-
dustry, Trade and Commerce and edited by
Information Services of that office, and read the
following statements:... “Tourism, Quebec's
second most important industry after pulp and
paper, has been declining in recent years,”

EDITOR'S NOTE

..From time to time the
HERALD reprints editorials

on social issues from other

newspapers, including those
within ite newspaper chain,
Recently we re-printed one
on the high death toll on
Highway 16, originally
published many years ago.
Two weeks ago we reprinted
one on “What Ever Hap-
pened To Mary”’=concerning
the tragic case of a woman
whose unclad body was
found in April on the high-
way to Terrace. Last week
we published two articles
appearing in a Vancouver
dally reporting the in-
fervention in the 8B.C.:
legislature — by MLA
Rosemary Brown on behalf
of a Rupert woman sald to
have been hospitalized. by
torture and beating at home,
in Rupert. The following day
we reprinted an explanation
by the RCMP of their part In
the same case. n
..Below is reprinted an

editorlal from the Prince.

Rupert DAILY NEWS of
June 15th which comments
om MLA Brown's in
volvement, ,

»»We feel this coverage is
timely, rather than

‘| She's got her nerve -

Well, how about that
Rosemary Brown? She's
sure got her nerve picking on
our Mounties, hasn't she?

She's just another one of
those politicians who come
here for 24 hours once in a

Blue Moon and thereby -

become Instant Experts on
our problems, And then

makes loud noises about |

something they don’t know
anything about or haven't
investigated thoroughly and
get us in the headlines in
Vancouver papers in an
extremely unpleasant light--
something wa can well do
without, eapecially if it’s not
all that accurafe,

This interfering in family
squabbles ia one of the most
touchiest situations which
our police-and others—have
arnongat their more touchier
problems, There are all
kinds of things to take into
consideration in casea of
family violence-especially if
the couple are on their own
property,’ if one refuses to
testify against the other, if
other people or kiddies are
involved, and most im-

portant of all, if there are:

liquor or drugs involved.
Who is to say for sure what
- goes on in these situations?
Who can tell the whole. tale
except those directly in-
volved, and that tale might
be delayed if one of the
people involved spends some
time in hospital, as happened
in this case. But the
Mounties have every detail
of that case and their in-
volvement in it meticulously
documented in their files,
never fear!

The Mounties in this Sub-

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“muckraking” as last week.
a twoday seminar an
“Family Violence’ attended
by over 80 was held at ¢

Northwest Communi

College, Terrace, sponsored
by the Terrace Family
Violence Committee and the
United Way.of Vancouver.

+ That not everyone may
agree with the editor of the

- Rupert DAILY NEWS will be

evident from the copy of a
Letter to the Editor there,
sent to us by the President of ,
the Rupert “Options For
Wemen", which we are also
publishing on this page.

Except to state simply that
we are against violence of
any kind, be it in the family,
if the community, in the
nation and among nations,
and to declare that we are
Strongly in support of
democratic law and order,
we have purposely refrained
from making any statement
om the ‘Rawson case.

Especially since the matter

13 “before the courts” and

any comment upon: it by

. ourselves or this newspaper

could be deemed prejudicial
and make us Ilable to
prosecution.

Division have a large area to
cover, uzing their plane and
boat for coastal work, and
they have a great deal of
work and patrolling to do
within the city. And much
vandalism to cope with it
must be tiresome,
frustrating business in-
vestigating all the cases of
smashed windows and

i and enterings--

and they can’t be

everywhere at once, more’s ©

the pity.

One Mountle was telling us
the other day, how, when he
drove to work by way of
Park Avenue, he saw all the
Caution signs had been
broken and twisted out of
shape during the night, with
the blinking lights smashed
all over. He mentioned he
mourned the -fact a patral
car hadn’t been near the
scene to grab the vandals {n
theact. And when we asked:

“And what if they were
jJuveniles?’’, he answered
they’d be taken home to their
parents. And that’s another
frustration the police have to
cope with-most of the
parents aren't home, or they
don't care, and so this
vandalism goes on and on
and it’s out of their power to
stop it. So they do indeed
have a lot of ticklish
problems to deal with.

their duties everywhere
across our great natlon. -
They, and the Canadian flag

Published by
Sterilng Publishers

Another $75 million to help Quebec’s ‘declining’ tourist trade

Because of this, the article. indicated, “A $76-
million agreement between Canada and Quebec
will give a much-needed boost to the provinces
tourism industry. (A) five-year Tourism
Development Sub-Agreement was signed
recently under terms of the earlier Canada-
Quebec General Development Agreement.
Guided by a general strategy it is expected a
wide range of tourism plant improvement
projects will be undertaken. Among many under
consideration are: toe

“Four provincial parks and a public beach in
the Montreal Region. Further restoration work
at Place Royale, Quebec City; provincial parks
on the Gaspe peninsula and the Magdalen
Islands; improvement to outdoor recreation
centres in the Saguenay-LacSaint-Jean Maurice,
North Shore and Abitibi-Temiscaningue; a new.
outdoor recreation centre in the Outaouais
region.”” -

With all the hundreds of millions of dollars the
Federal government of Canada has spent in
sprucing up Montreal--and other parts of Quebec
in preparation for the Worlds Fair, a few years
ago, plus the hundreds of millions spent also by
the federal government for the Montreal
Olympics, with multi-million dollars in world
wide publicity for persons of every race and
nationality to “Come. to Quebec”: with
(presumably) other hundreds of millions of

ollars “sprucing up”, building roads, hotels,
parks, beaches, parking lots, “facilities”, in-
formation centres, ferries, airports that ran not
only into the tens of millions and hundreds of
millions of dollars-but into the’ billions—to
present Quebec in a favourable light for in-
ternational tourism—we are now told, in small -

print, that ‘tourism in, Quebec, ... has been
declining in recent. years’? ~and therefore,
presumably, the FEDERAL government has to
pump another $76 million dollars over the next
five years—over fifteen million dollars a year--in

new construction--iust to help it out.
Cuupared to any other part of Canada 1 have.

yet seen, ~and remember, May is the pre-tourist
season-not the height of the season—Quebec was
the most tourist-developed, _tourist-
sophisticated, tourist-conscious place that I have
ever seen outside of the old pre-War Coney
Island and Atlantic City type operations.

Caleches--those horse-drawn, manure-dropping
traffic-snarling tourist carrying pieces of
transport; the tours, the advertising, th sidewalk

cafes, the “Old Town”, the bands, the night |

clubs, the cocktail lounges, the street musicians,
the specialty foods and restaurants--these were
but a sample of the tourist-oriented lures set out
for the tourist like the cheese in a mouse-trap.
_ And, even in May-all these methods and the
many more subtle ones seemed to be working.
‘No matter Aow dinky, tiny or ancient. and ‘“‘un-
sopnisuicated’’ a bistro or Disco or other hole-in-

“aleteleteteteyeaesneceeBTTHEt ereeaeen

eran detalles
;

1 place seemed, it was standing room only,
van line-ups of people waiting for a table to
ie ‘brief hes I spent in the Place

rief hour or two | spent in
Rane” was punctuated with busload after
busload of schoo! children from Ontario and the
U.S. disgorging hundreds of school children~all
with money to spend-taken on sight seeing tours.
Yet, the government publication I have on my

desk, dated May of this year (last month) says it

plainly,, in black and white--Quebec’s tourism
“has been declining in recent years’’-and we,
the taxpayers will have to pump another $76
million in there to beef it up-in addition to the
tens of millions we are already spending on the
federal share of tourism in Quebec. - .

I wondered about the multi-millions of dollars
tourists are spending when they visit
“Canada's” National Historic Sites in Quebec
where does it all go to? The planeloads,
trainloads, busloads and carloads of tourists
flocking there. Still it seems, tourism is
“declining” in Quebec and Canada-from sea to
sea~has to prime the Quebec pump with fresh
tens of millions of tax dollars. ,

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IN MY SHOES? _—

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Ms, Bowman, -

On August 13th, 1977, a
Prince Rupert woman was
taken from her home‘ by
ambulance to the hospital.

was unconscious and
bleeding from the head. Her
cheekbones had been
broken, her neck twisted.
She had massive burns to her
abdomen, chest and arms,
The doctof in attendance
stated that such burns could
have been caused with the
bot blade of a knife or
similar metal object. It was
evident the woman had been
horrendously beaten and
She . remained
unconscious for a week and
was flown to Vancouver
General Hospital. She is
presently in a Rehabilitation

bind us together, and their
fine name and their Musical
Ride are held in high esteem
all over the world.
Recently, we heard a
southern B.C. radio an-
nouncer tell of how his 43
year-old son, who was.
jogging from Agassiz to
Harrison Lake, stopped for a
rest beside the road, but
waved his arms about to
keep exercising. Next thing
he knew, an RCMP vehicle
pulled up alongside him,
thinking something was
wrong, but he waved them on

‘and started jogging and

waving again.

. So the police pulled their
vehicle up ahead of him and
got out to investigate, quite
sure there was trouble
somewhere with all this
waving 6 gone on beside the
taain way. - They are a
conscientious bunch.

Ifyou have a Mounties for a
nelghbor, you are lucky. On
the whole, they are steady,
stolid citizens, raising
famillea and taking part in
community affairs, We have
bad many such policemen
pass through Prince Rupert
over the yeara and will be
bidding several of them
‘goodbye’ shortly as they
leave on transfer. We wish
postings, expeclally Sgt. Stan
pos 1 SBPeC! gt. Stan
Winarski of the City Detach-
ment who has been giving us
news releases these past
many months, and has an-
swered our numerous
questions with the utmost
patience and accuracy-and
that we appreciated very
much,

So, don’t you worry,
fellows, (and girl-mustn't
forget our Janicel)—we're
with you all the way. As this
case drags its way even-
tually through all the long
ponderous portions of our
legal systems, your ia-
veatigat prove in-
valuable in giving evidence
and action on the case.

_ And to heck with Ms,
Brownand her Little Bag of
Apples. Let her clean up her
party's act before she starts
picking on someone else.
And let her get her facts
straight first, too.

TODAY IN HISTORY

1853—Grownl was broken
for a canal between Lakes
Superior and Huron.

1886—Successful trials
were made of the first Ford
automobile. “

‘1911—Actress Rosalind
Russell was born.

-Centre in Vancouver. She
has brain damage, impaired
vision, and suffers from
amnesia extending from late
duly of 1977 to early January
of 1978. She-is now a
quadraplegic, Through
intensive physio-therapy
sessions she has regained
limited use of her arms but
she is never expected to walk
again.

have repeatedly asked every
conceivable agency for help.

They have asked if they
could lay charges or If the
police would. They have
been told over and over
again that there is a reluc-
tance on the of
authorities. to involve
themselves in marital:
disputes, that the woman
herself would have to lay
charges. if aya when ahe
. Teeovered physically, In
short no help had been forth-
coming until, finally, on June

’ 2, 1978, after much préssure’

from concerned relatives
and friends, charges were

These are the bare facts of
the case, Hearing of this
crime a citizen can only feel
outrage andshame. Outrage
at the posalbility of such a
crime; outrage that there
seems to be no help in our
town for women in these
circumstances; and’ shame
atbeing part of. society that
professes to be just while
preferring to hide ‘such
erimes rather than to act

them.

upon .

Instead we are presented
with Ms. Bowman’s editorial
of June 15th. To say that the
editorial is an exercise in

‘inganely convoluted logic

and atrocious grammar is to
state the obvious, However,
Iam moat'astounded by ‘the
values that are implied.

‘Ms. Bowman  berates.
Rosemary Brawn for
“GETiting) us in the
headlines in Vancouver
papers in an extremely
unpleasant light,” Thus for
Ms. Bowman, appearance Js
much more-important than
justice.

_ Mr. Bowman reduces this
extreme (but assuredly not
isolated) case to a ‘family ~
squabble”, implying that the
facta of the case have been
exaggerated out of all -
proportion. Will the enclosed
photograph convince Ms.
Bowman of these facts or
does she simply not want to
know? '

Ms. Bowman states “there
are all kinds of things to take
into consideration” in a case *
such as this, Mr, Bowman, is
there any justification for
such a criminal act? Surely
A Woman’ has a right to
protection and justice even if
the crime dees occur in her
own home,

I do not dispute that the
R.C.M.P, have much todo in

our area, However equating
-the battering of a woman to
this extent with “yan-
‘daliam" is an atrocious
misuse of the‘ editorial
responsibility.

Mr. Bowman exhibits a
blind faith in authority which
is horrendous. The editorial
is an appalling, irreaponsible
travesty. We readers ahoud
demand that Mr. Bowman
retract her editorial or
resign.

Sincerely,

Susan Tickson

“Smokebomb” Bennett at it again!

of the
membership at the last AGM —_federa.

“They should. call him
smokebomb Bennett,’’
President David Kandal said
June 8 in response to
Premier Bill Bennett's
accusation that school
boarda be _ fiscally
irresponsible. .
' “Every time he gets an
inkling about how disen-
chanted the taxpayers of
B.C, are becoming, he hides
away in that: Prime
Minister's office of his and
throws out the smokebomb,
hoping the smoke will hide
the facts,” David said in a
news release, “But this
latest smokescreen, the
statement that B.C. school
boards are fisealiy
irresponsible, is just too © David expressed concern
much,"he continued. about the counter-
_“T gould tell you a story productivity of Premier Bill
about real irresponsibility. Bennett’s public accusation
You know, we've been trying that school boards were
to meet with Mr. Bennett for fiscally irreaponsible (see
months now, trying to put story above).. David also
forward ways of reducing repeated the Association’s
the school tax burden on request for a meeting with
local property owners, McGeer, the Premier and
We've sent requests, we've Finance Minister Evan
sent a telegram, Well, he Wolfe to discuss the
didn’t answer our requests, government’s school policy.
he didn’t ‘answer the ALL FUTURE AGMs IN
telegram and he sure isn’t VANCOUVER
answering the problem, The BCSTA Executive
’ “au we can do is stand votedat its June3-4 meeting
back, walt for the smoke to to hold all future annual $11,000 to $17,000. permitted to live in
clear and. pray that the general meetings in Van- Meanwhile, the provincal retirement at Doorn Castle,

VIA-Rail “Fare for all” plan

VIA Rail Canada today announced that it’s new 'Fare-For-
All’ plan, to be introduced on June 15th, will apply on trains
operated by C.P,RallaswellasonViA trains.

When the new fares Were announced three weeks ago,
negotiations between VIA Rail Canada and. C.P, Rall
respecting application of the new fares toC.P, trains had not
been completed. Agreement has now: been reached and the
new common fare structure will become valid on trains of
both companies at mid June,

The new ‘Fare-For-All’ plan has both basic and Incentive
rates. On average, It is estimated basicrates will reduce cost
of travel on C.P. Rall trains by some 19 percent.. Basic rates
are quoted on a one-way basis, double for the round trip, good
every day of the year, All fares are quoted in dollars only, to
slmpilfy purchases,

In addition to the basic year-round fares, the ‘Fare-For-All’ .
plan offers a comprehensive range of incentive rates to
encourage rail travel at ‘off-peak times and particular to
attract automobile users. —

These incentives include: mo

-Round trip excursion rates, at one and one-third of the
basic one-way fare, available at off-peak times between any

Premier doesn't panic again couver. A survey
and drop another bomb.
With this in mind, I'll be
Meeting with the Minister of
Education, hoping to con-
vince him that this kind of
politieinin Bis hurting us all-
especially the -payers—
and that a more responsible
approach is the only chance
we have for solving British
Columbia's educational
dilemma,” i
KANDAL, McGEER
MEET IN VICTORIA -
' President David Kandal
and Education Minister Pat
McGeer discussed a wide
variety of issues at an in-
formal meeting in Victoria
June 9 .

goverament has accepted a
government proposal ©
indicated a great many that seatbeltsbe in
trustees objected to holding school buses capable of
the general meeting outside carrying 10 or less
Vancouver every fourth passengers.
yer BUS INSPECTORS
_ Algo, attendance at this The Motor Vehicle In-
year’s AGM in Prince spection Division has set up
George was down by 15 a mobile unit to
percent, while the cost of school buses in areas of the
staging the convention was province where permanent
up by over 35 percent. testing _ facilities
’ Many delegates also unavailable.
complained about the lack of Until now, the RCMP has
cen arbi ue school bus in-
spection esé areas. The
BCSTA has been proposing
the establishment of a
mobile testing unit for over
two years.
be

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Kaiver Wilhelm I], Ger-
many’s last monarch, died in
exile in Holland 97 years ago
today—in 141, Responsible
for the First World War as
much through

ac:
commodations.
BUS SAFETY STANDARDS
The May 31 deadline for
reactions to Transport
Canada’s proposal to
upgrade school bus safety
atandards has been extended
One. proposed dards
ep standards
deal with seat strength and
occupant crash protection
‘and are similar to thoge
established in the U.S. last -

year.

The American regulations
have been criticised by some
in the U.S. as heing
uneconomical and im-
practical. Critics clalm that
the new standards have

the cost of the
average school bus by

use
enormous loss of lif

sides resulted ‘trom “re
warfare, After the German
revolution of 1918, he was

points served by the respective railw ft

imu by ih pective railways, subject to certain
* clive group rates for parties of 2-4 adults, 7 - 29 ;

for 30 or more travelling together. 1 or

a Zener citizens will travel for one-third aff'basic one-way

“A series of five

Winnipeg and east, lines Winnipeg and west .
Windsor corridor, isdmonton-Calpary and vere city

For the time. being, and until the transfer of unionized
employees from C.N. and C.P. Rail to VIA take zee
fares will not be available for journeys invalving
interline movements from CP. Rail trains to VIA trains or
vice versa. The one exception will be VIA Passes which will -
be honored on trains of elther company within territorial
limits stated. Further details may be obtained from travel
agents or from salea offices of C.P, Rail or VIA Rail
respectively, Concurrent with introduction ‘of these new

fares, day cel reservations will be required for travel on

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