Page 4, The Herald, Wednesday, December 13, 1978

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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Dear Sir:

The B.C, Lions “Timmy’s-
Christmas Telethon’’ is now
history for 1978. The
phenomial success of this
venture is evidenced in the
amount of pledges received
— $854,600, With threatened
TV Blackout; ETY an-
tagonism to eliminate any,
but telethon reporting, (and
thus no coverage could be
given to locally manned
phone lines) did not deter the
public of B.C. from sup-
porting this venture.

Locally, pledges to the
Easter Seal House Building
funds; totaled $16,100, and an
additional $3,400 was
donated to the general fund.
It will be some time before
the actual iigures of
donations from this area are
determined, but, phone lines
were busy.

The performers, a large

Tumber being amateurs,
carried the telethon with
obvious enthusiasm, for the
good cause they served.
The response by service
and fraternal clubs, other
than Lions, was particularly
encouraging. Perhaps,
sooner than one dares hope,
differing groups will realize
we do serve commen cause.
On behalf of the Lions of
the Pacific Northwest, our
sincerest thanks to the
media and friends of our
society for your support, and
to all those who could con-
tribute, with their time,
talent or money, may you
one day witness the joy you

have brought a handicapped

child, by your thought-
fulness.

Thank you

Frank Donahue

PNW Coordinator,

Timmy's Telethon

OTTAWA
OFFBEAT

BY RICHARD JACKSON

OTTAWA Treasury
Super-Boss Robert Andras,
the only tried and true
defender of spending
restraint in the ever open-
handed Trudeau govern-
ment, may be fighting a
losing rearguard action
against the cabinet’s faint-
hearted, easy-come-easy-go
majority.

Still so shaken by losing 13

of the 15 recent byelections,
the spreading antipathy to
Trudeau personally, and the
rot of the once-powerful
national support for the
Liberals, the chicken-
hearted cabinet is afraid of
its own shadow,
_ It’s going .soft on its so-
recently tough stand against
the public service, and is
quietly preparing to bow to
what it expects will be the
inevitable robbing of the
Treasury by the postal
workers in the final set-
tlement of their illegal
sirike,

So now is a good time to
remind you as a taxpayer
just how badly the Trudeau
cabinet betrayed you to the
postal workers only three
years ago.

That was in October of 1975
when, demanding a 50
percent increase, ‘they
struck for six weeks, then
settled for an astounding 38
pereent.

During their strike, the
Anti-Inflation Board began
work, and at once stepped in
and ruled that gross 38
percent too fat by; far.

But by then secret cabinet
decrees, the doves of the
Trudeau cabinet leashed and
muzzled the Anil-Inflation
Board, and the postal
workers got their pay grab
that brought them up to
levels of firemen and the
police,

This lime, contemptuous
of the weak-kneed cabinet,
they demanded a 2.5 hour
day in a 12.5 hour “working”
week, with pay, of course,
for a full 40 hours.

It was so contemptible it
was hilarious.

They might have got it,
too, if it hadn’t been for
tough Rotert Andras and an
angry Canadian public well
aware that when U.S. postal
workers, just weeks before,
hed threatened to slrike, the
Carter government told
them to go ahead because
the Army would be brought
in to handle the mail and that
would be the end of the postal
union and their jobs.

This time, more tirghtened
of an enraged public than of
an irresponsibly militant
union, the Trudeau govern-
ment look a hard stand,

But there is pressure now
to ease up on plans to
prosecute the strike leaders
who urged the union to defy
Parliament's back to work

iW.

And if the prosecutions,
now against odds, go ahead,
there will be pressure to
reduce the charges and of
course the penalties,

Add to that, no matter
what the final pay and
privileges settlement, it will
be a “sweetheart’* since, to
keep the fragile postal
peace, the timorous
government won't dare give
the postal workers anything
Jess than was awarded the
letter carriers who got a
quietly arranged nine to 11
percent this very fall.

How about the rest of the
public service.

For years they have been a
highly-privileged
aristocracy.

Their indexed pensions led
all the rest of working
Canadians by far.

Their salaries, always a
notch ahead of business and
industry, led the inflation
spiral. :

Their special privileges,
extra holidays, built-in
automatic annual pay raises,
absolute job security,
leisurely work schedule, the
whole big, beautiful, almost
unbellevable bundle of
goodies, set them far and
above the humble taxpayers.

Then in the same reaction
they had to the postal
workers — greater fear at
the paying public than their
militant staff — the
Bovernment propoused
reigning in the public ser-
vice.

They would limit future
pay adjustments so that
public service salaries would
be no better — nor worse —
than yours or mine,

And they even talked of
curtalling feather-bedding
by firing — yes, actually
using -that awful phrase
"“Jaying off — the costly
weight of public service
overstaffing.

Now there are second
thoughts, a general toning
down, a backing off; con-
cessions here, dispensations
there.

The same old merry-go-
round, with you as taxpayers
going for the ride,

‘SUAMEH FAN'S FAIR

“T guess winter must be here — our furnace stopped working.”

Shoplifting losses by the
nation’s merchants will rise
again this year. And the
upcoming holiday season
always signals an upsurge in
this kind of theft as crowds
throng stores fully-stocked
with tempting merchandise.

While crime against retail
and service businesses in
‘urban areas is at a rate
nearly double than in small
towns, shoplifters are in-
creasingly active ;
everywhere, Experts
suggest that the continuing
squeeze of inflation, high
levels of unemployment in
some communities, and a
general breakdown — of
traditional moral values are
alliactors in the steep rise in
shoplifting,

Pickerton’s of Canada
Limited, a firm with more
than a century and quarter
of experience in in-
vestigations and security,
has found a- number of
practical deterrent steps a
merchant can take.

First, Bill Aird, Managing
Director of FPinkerton’s
suggests that the merchant
should know the basic
categories of shoplifters. The
largest identifiable group is
the juvenile or teenage

shoplifters, who accounts for
about half of this kind of
‘theft. Often they move in
groups or ‘“packs'’ and
create enough diversionary
activity and noise so that
merchants are hard put to
watch them all. There is the
amateur adult shoplifter who
may steal on impulse or tp
see if he can get away with it,
or just for the excitement of
it. There is the compulsive
shoplifter or kieptomaniac
who may have no need or use
for the goods he steals. There
is the vagrant or alcoholic
shoplifter who is frequently
somewhat easier to identify.
Another variety is the drug
addict who is feeding an
expensive habit and
therefore tends to zero in on
expensive items, And, of
course, there is the
professional shoplifter who
is often extremely skillful at
his specialty and more
difficult to catch.

The experience of
Pinkerton investigators
suggests that there are times
of the day and of the week —
as well as seasons of the year
— when shoplifting increases
and merchants should be
particularly alert. The most
critical hours of the day are

ESPECIALLY NOW —

from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The
days of highest levels of theft
are Saturday and Friday,
followed by Thursday,
Sunday, Monday, Wed-
nesday, and Tuesday.

Security for the smaller
retail or service shop starts
at the front door. .The
merchant should have an
unobstructed view of the
entrance and front of the
store at all times. One of the

easiest and most common -

rip-offs is the theft of mer-
chandise close to the en-
trance while the store keeper
is busy with a customer at
the back. (And sometimes
that customer at the back is
a planted confederate of the
thief.) This is reason enough
to keep highly valuable
smaller goods in locked
cases, preferably close to the
cash. register or checkout
area, Larger stores find it a
worthwhile investment to
have a security guard posted
at the entrance; the sight of
a uniform has consistently
proved to be an effective
deterrent.

The smaller store with
only one or two salespersons
should not have multiple
entrances — these increase

MAY EXPLODE
Namibian problem

UNITED NATIONS (CP)
— The anger and frustration
of black African states over
the stillbirth of a new nation
in Namibia is about to ex-
plode in the UN General
Assembly against South
Africa.

The African states have
had their fill of South
Africa's continued fencing
over the UN plan for an
independent Namibia. They
want the UN to impose
economic sanctions against
South Africa.

Namibia, rich in minerals
end diamonds, provides
South Africa with an annual
income of $400 million, The
South Africans are not about
fo lurn the territory, known
as Suuth-West Africa, to a
hostile future government
that might nationalize basic
industries and grab the
weaith for the state.

Thus the obvious scenario
was the one South Africa set
up, leading to this week's
elections in Namibia
boycotted by opposition
natlonalist groups, The
favored pro-South African
political groups, with
minimal opposition,
guarantee South Africa
hegemony over the area.

That will make it more
difficult for the UN to hold Its
own elections late next year
and fulfil a Security Council
mandate.

The South-West Africa,
People's Organization
(SWAPO), recognized by the
UN as a legitimate
spokesman for Namibian
interests. has asked African

nations lo draft a program of
comprehensive sanctions
against South Africa.
Theoben Gurirab,
SWAPO's representative at
the UN, told the General
Assembly on Thursday that
the Security Council must

follow suit. .
Only the council can order

_ sanctions. He said there is no

hope whatever for a
negotiated settlement in

Namibia.
While South Africa
wrestles with the UN

proposals for Namibia, it has
contingency plans to soften
the impact of any sanctions
the UN may impose.

The main economic threat
would be some form of oll
embargo. But to make it
effective, the Security
Council would have to order
a naval blockade which
would jeopardize ihe West's
own tanker routes around
the Cape of Good Hope.

South Africa is far more
dependent on coal for energy
than on oil.

Interpreting the effections
of sanctions, Business Weel
magazine says that there is
some dount that they would
be effective,

South Africa has stock-
piled crude oil for years in
tank farms and disused coal
mines. The total reserve is a
state secret, but intelligence
sources estaimate that South
Africa has at least three
years’ crude oil requirement
in storage at ita current
consumption rate of 120
million barrels a year,

Oil produced from coal by

the Sasol I complex in the
Transvaal and by Sasol II, to
be completed in 1992, will
meet onethird of the coun-
try’s petroleum needs.

Rich coal reserves form
the backbone of the coun-
try's energy program. The
government also has its coa)-
powered locomotives in
reserve. They weren't
scrapped when the country
switched to diesel-electric
trains. .

Gold sales, which account
for 45 per cent of South
Africa's total exports, also
would be virtually sanction-
proof,

As the world’s major pro-
ducer, South Africa mines
more than 700 tons of gold
annually. With higher gold
prices, South Africa's
revenue from gold sales
alone is expected to hit $4.5
billion this year.

Sanctions also would
bruise black African states
which sell their raw
materials and goods to South
Africa.

South African exports to
Lesotho, Swaziland and
Botswana totalled more than
$300 million in the first eight
months of 1978.

Mozambique, which allows
thousands of workers to be
employed in South African
mines under contract, gets a

hefty return in gold
payments at the free official
rate.

South African advisers
also help run Mozambique's
ports and railways.

the ease of a getaway for a
thief or shoplifter.

There is an increasing
trend in larger cities and in
high crime locations toward
the “locked door’’ shop
where admission is gained
only after the owner or
salesperson has visually
“checked out" the customer.
While this seems to work
reasonably well for jewelry
stores, art and antique
shops, and other. expensive
Specialty shops, as well as
services such as dry
cleaning, it is not practical in
volume operations.
Moreover, says Pinkerton's,
there is a psychological
barrier set up; many people
strongly resent being looked
over before being admitted.

A shoplifter often operates
with shopping or tote bags
into which merchandise can
be quickly dropped. During
the Christmas shopping
season, a high percentage of
shoppers is carrying such a

Zz -- many stores now
require that all bags be
checked near the entrance.
Storekeepers should keep
special watch on boisterous
groups of teens; all too often
the action is faked to cover
shoplifting.

Corner mirrors are
another worthwhile aid to
detection of shoplifting, and
some stores go a step farther
and use extensive mirroring
as part of their decor,
making it ornamental as
well as practical.

Easy visibility throughout
the entire store, eliminating
displays that cannot be
readily seen over, is another
deterrent, as is strong and
even lighting throughout. ~

Store managers and
salespersons should make an
effort to get to know some of
the teenagers in the com-
munity. Young people
seldom steal from
businessmen they know and
respect, Shoplifting tends to
disappear when it becomes a
personal rather than im-
personal act.

Post signs warning that |

shoplifting will be
prosecuted. One of the chief
temptations to shoplifters is
the belief—warranted or
not—that the offender won't
be prosecuted but only
reprimanded if caught.
Pinkerton’s also points out
that more goods can be
Stolen and stolen more ef-
ficiently through the back

hoplifting costs us all

door than the front. In-
ereased activity and con-
fusion during the holiday
rush makes back door theft
even easier, Keep loading
platform or delivery en-
trances locked at all times
except when actual
deliveries are being made.
And during deliveries,
always have a store em-
ployee present to watch and
supervise. Inventory goods
as’ they are delivered’ to
make certain your order is
complete and intact.

Closed-circuit
systems and sensormatic
devices, which emit a sound
if not properly removed from
merchandise by a
salesperson, have proved to
be effective assists to
detectives and guards in
larger stores, ;

Highly visible security is
increasingly being
recognized as the most ef-
fective deterrent to
shoplifting. Pinkerton’s of
Canada Limited finds that
more stores are now placing
their emphasis on deterring
shoplifting because of the
time consuming and costly
process of apprehension and
prosecution.

WASHINGTON (CP) —
President Carter, now
locked in an unusually
bitter struggle onthe
ingredients of next year’s
federal budget, won a
weekend vote of con-
fidence from Democratic
party colleagues for his
inflation-fighting zeal.

But political analysts
say he alienated a large
section of the party's
liberal restablishment in
doing so, and left himself
vulnerable to a challenge
for the 1980 presidential
nomination,

The issue that flared
into debate at the
Democrats’ midterm
convention in Memphis,
Tenn., was Carter's
determined budget-
cutting plans in the fight
against inflation.

The president is on
record promising . to
reduce the federal deficit
to some $380 billion from
the current $39 billion. It
means a lot of programs
will be cut or frozen as a
sacrifice to keep the in-
flation ate from wor-
sening.

it took much backroom
manoeuvring by White
House staffers in
Memphis to ensure defeat
of a convention resolution
directing Carter to spare
domestic welfare
programs from budget
cuts.

Worse for Carter, the
analysts say, was the
boisterous response given

JIMMY CARTER
Win some, lose some

Senator Ted Kennedy
when he expressed his
dismay over the austerity
budget. Kennedy con-
tinues to be seen as front-
runner if he mounts a
challenge to Carter for
the presidential
nomination prior ta the
1980 genera) election,

Carter came bek to
Washington with a vic-
tory but analysts suggest
Memphis demonstrated
his inability to inspire
those in his own party on
whom he will have to
depend in 1930,

Particularly irritating
for the liberal Democrats
was Carter's refusal to
back down from higher
defence spending when he
is ready to slash funding
for social programa. It is
becoming 4 “guns versus
butter” issue for the
Democrats, one that
leaves its members in-
creasingly split.

At the White House,
Carter continues his
marathon meetings to
Shape the spending plans
he will send to Congress
on Jan. 22, He likely wil
ask congress to approve a
record budget of at least
$530 billion, up from the
current-year $495 billion.

Carter says it is “a
traumaile experience"
preparing the budget for
the 1990 financla] year
that starts next Oct. 3,
while fending off appeals
from special interests—
including labor unions

and minority groups—
that fear program cuts,

Rumored to be on the
block are funds for public
service bobs, health and
education projects and
public transportation
projects.

Even Carter cabinet,
members are trying
pressure tactics to save
their programs, including
notably PatriciaHarris,
secretary of housing and
urban development,
Somehow, a critical letter.
written by her about pro-
posals to reduce funding
for housing was leaked to
the press.

The White House sub-
Bequently received more
than 100 letters of protest
against the expected cuts.

The image of Carter
now emerging is of a
tough-minded, sometimes
peevish president who
reads all the fine details
in the packages for
Spending requests.
Meetinga run until mid-
night, and department

ads face sharp
questioning from the
president.

Only the defence
department appears
immune.

Carte will hear final
appeals from cabinet
officers on Dee. 20, after
which we will make his
final decisions. But what
he senda to Congress isn't
nevessarily what he will
get.

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