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Useless pep talk

3}. The federal government could find better ways to spread
zits glad tidings than sending Senator Ray Perrault around
+ again.

: His speech last Friday to a half-full banquet room didn’t
+ impress anybody, Though his delivery was smooth and his
+ Jokes were passably funny, the audience mostly sat and
; stared,

Bees ene see ts

< His message was basically that businessmen should co-
+ Operate with a government department that admits its out
> of touch with the people its supposed to be serving. The feds
have been sending representatives all over northern B.C.
: Just to tell us that.

+, We suggest the government is really politicking despite

:Perrault’s requent denials. His speech, which revealed
:nothing really worth listening to, came after a day-long
:économic development seminar sponsored by the provin-
cial and federal governments which local people found
‘useful.

:. There is no reason to foist a politician upon the people
‘over a dinner of rubber chicken preceded by cocktails when
.the job has already been done and the subject! thoroughly
:dealt with.

We wonder how much did this pep talk cost us?

Interpreting the News

Britain quarrels
with market

By BRUCE LEVETT
’ LONDON (CP) — Prime Minister James Callaghan, in
attempting to placate Labor party dissidents at home, has
raised the ire of Britain’s Common Market partners.

' The prime minister, in a letter to the party’s national
execulive last week, promised a tough and independent ap-
proach to Community business. Observers here saw it as a
maye to appease anti-market factions. aa .

tever the measure of Callaghan’s success there is
little question that he has offended, in the process, powerful
allies within the Community.

- West Germany has reacted most forcefully, that coun-
try's foreign minister stating that the Callaghan approach
to such matters as enlargement of the European Economic
Community (EEC) differs from that of the partners.
GROWTH RESISTED
~ West Germany believes that enlargement of the EEC by
three~-Portugal, Spain and Greece—-would strengthen that
body. Callaghan said he felt it would weaken its integration.

Caught in the middle is Ray Jenkins, British president of
the EEC’s ruling commission, who has remained silent on
the controversy, Jenkins is believed to sympathize with
Callaghan, realizing the prime minister is up against heavy
anti-market sentiment within the Labor party with little
Foom to manoeuvre.

-: What has touched off EEC ire particularly is Callaghan’s
stand on maintaining the authority of national parliaments
and governments: his claim to the right to pursue national
economic and social policies and his apparent concern over
Enlargement of EEC authority, experts here say.

» Government apologists state that Callaghan’s philosophy
on such matters is dictated by the necessity for intra-party

rmony.

Others, however, say he really feels this way and that he
has always questioned the ideas of EEC economic and
monetary union.

An early quotation by the prime minister—“I don't be-
lieve you can do it and what's more I don't think anybody
else does either'’—is resurrected in support of this belief.

The controversy comes at a delicate period for Jenkins,
who is about to embark ona campaign for monetary union,
to include a common currency throughout the EEC coun-

ies.

- Callaghan, in his letter to Ron Hayward, Labor party
genera] secretary, said it would take near-miraculous
powers of persuasion to coax Britain into going along with

e idea.

HEDMAN

Peorivs aTT

61977 Universal Prawn Sendcatte Mel

"As mast of you know, our company treasurer
won't be with us for the next fifteen
annual meetings.”

An old Gimer once said that a heavy crop of mountain

ae person would not learn as

ash berries in the fall means cold weather in. the

winter.

Poor sanitation

WHO fights against cholera

beirut reuter- In a
mountain village in the Middle East,
an old man is struck down by
disease. His wife helpless in the face
of this unkown sickness and is soon
mouring his death.

She never learns that husband is
the first link ina deadly chain which
will lead to an epidemic of the
disease thousands of miles away in
Africa.

It is an extreme example of how
cholera can spread rapidly through
several countries-but it can happen,
Says an official of the World Health
Organization WHO.

It also explains the mass cam-

igns being conducated by Middle

ast governments to protect their
people from a Syrian epidemic
which has taken more than 60 lives
so far.

Heaith aurthorities in Lebanon
and Jordon have acted quickly to
contain outbreaks in their countries.

Dr. Draugutin Savic, the WHO
chief in Beirut said: ‘‘Cholera is a

highly contagious disease and

revious experience shows that a
lew isolated cases often spread
rapidly to thousands of people.
*Underdeveloped countries with
poor sanitation facilities are par-
ticulary at risk and it is quite

One man’s

ST. THOMAS, ONT.CP-Paul
Shaver doesn't like the idea of
storing a student's records in a
computer.

He says a computer, by its very
nature, can make information
available at the touch of a button,
and this has grave implications for
a citizen’s privacy.

So since 1974, Shaver has in-
structed his daugther not to giver
her social insurance number to her
teacher.It is with this number that
student academic records are
processed by the computer.

Computers don't compromise and
the school has simply invented a
nine-digit number for Shaver’s
daughter. Butitis not satisfied with
this invention and at the start of
every school year the girl is asked to
supply her real number.

_ Last year things came to a head.
When the number was requested and
her father refused her permission to
grant it., the girl broke down and
cried,

Shaver said he wrote provincial

remote

possible for an infected travellero
rom another country or continent to
initatite an epidemic underthese
conditions.

Savic said one of thegreates
problemsf aing helath authorities is
the misconception that vaccination
guarantees immunity from cholera.

“Existing vaccines have Proved
between 30 and 50 percent effective
and, only for a limited period,” he
said.

“Widespread ignorance of this
fact creates a false sense of security,
leading people to ignore basic
preventive measures.”

The cholera germ attacks the
intestines ,and if not treated it kills
between five and 20 percent of its
victims.

The first symptoms are profuse
diarrhea and vomiting leading toa
serious Joss of body fluid, muscular

‘pain and general weakness. In
extreme  cases,the
culminoates in coma and death. —

Cholrea thrives in unhyginenic
conditions and spreads quickly
through the infection of food and
water supplies. .

Throughout the threatened areas
of Middle East, health -authorities
are warning people to observé strict
personnal hyginen, boil drinking

Do computers invade privacy?

battle against the machine

ombudsman Arthur Maloney,
outlining 10 objections to the
practice of using social insurance
numbers in the school system.

In addition te this concerns about
privacy, Shaver’s letter noted that
the original purpose of the social
insurance number was to tabulate
individual contributions to anc
deductions from personnel income

x.

But after months of being bounced

from bureacrat to bureaucrat he is -

still wainting for answers. He
demands a public investiagtion to
determind why an alternate system
of coding hasn’t been devised.

Administrators insist that
Safeguards are taken to ensure
ultimate confidentiality. Some,
however, concede that in the end, it
is impossible to make such promises
stick.

‘“T don’t know whether guarantees
can be provided,’’Joe Tabone,
director of information systems and
the records branch ofthe education
ministry, said in a telephone in-

infection —

waterm wash vegetables and fruit
and burn rubbish.

Chlorination of domestice water
Supplies has increased, restaurants
are beinginspected regulalry and
teams of nurses and sanitation
experts have been sent to distant
settlements to press homethe need
for simple hygiene.

In Beirut, cholrea found an
unexpected ally inthe recent civil
war, which crippledthe city’s water-
disposal systems.

e main garabe-compost station
was put out of action and sewage-
treatment facilities and water-
supply systmes were extensively
damaged. Vital schemicals and
laboratory equipment were lost.

Sanitation deparmento officials
are working overtime, to remove
uncollected waste, but piles of
stinking rubbish still littler many
streets.

Informed sources said about one-
third of the solid wastes collected
daily is being buried in large tren-
ches at the end of a runaway at the
city’s international airport.

vic said that even with the most
rigorous preventive measures it will
take several months to wipe out the
Middlee East epidemic.

terview from his Toronto office.

“We are extremely conscious
about what is being done with these
records and every action is subject
to careful scrutiny.”

Since 1968, when school boards
were given authority to maintain
students records, the ministry has
recorde Grade 12 and 13 marks in
order to provide them to post-
secindary institutions, said Tabone.

He said this information is coded
under individual SINs and this is
why the ministry requires the
numbers.

In a letter to Shaver, Education
Minister Tom Wells said, “It would
appear superfluous to create ne
coding systems.”

“The social insureance number

- can serve a multitude of purposes,”

the minster said.

Until Shaver js told the full extent
of ’’theseu purposes” he intends to
keep fighting for answers and refuse
to have his daughter become “part
of the system.”

An editorial by Sterling Newspapers«

A stadium where you can’t play ball

Voice of the readers

Saving money
isnt worth lives

1 am writing you con-
ceming the first aid courses
by St.John’s Ambulance
which is being taught at
Northwest Community
College:

I feel the two-weel crash

=: gourse on Industrial First

and the more you know of it,
the bigger the advantage to

. the person you are treating:

For this reason I wou
like to see the Workers
Compensation Board's
Industrial First Aid course
back at the college because
of its content and the time

, should be. The course is far

One of the least publicized
aspects of the Pacific
National Exhibition
proposal to build a 45,000
seat “roofed stadium” at a
cost of $32 million is that the
facility cannot be used for
baseball.

While many sports fans
may think that baseball is
on the decline, an editorial
in the October Ist edition of
the Sporting News, the
oldest American sports
newspaper, points to the
contrary:

“Attendance in the
majors this season broke the
all-time record of 31.3
million with a month to play
and the final audit should
show 38 to 39 million, Even
discounting th two new
clubs, Seattle and Toronto,
the attendance would
constitute a new record.

“Moreover, a national
sports survey disclosed that

baseball has regained its

traditional place as the Nor1
sport among fans. The same
survey had _ previously
showed football in the top
spot. Baseball has made
impressive strides in the
heavily populated East and
is gaining among younger,
better-educated people and
suburban dwellers.

“Of ca certainty, one of
the factors contributing to
baseball's popularity is that
itis the least expensive of all
the big time professional
sports. As {baseall)

ommissioner Kuhn says,
“It's only game whee a
man can bundle up¥t;he
family and spend a pid ant
afternoon or evening
without having to mortgaq
the house,

“Anither reason for the
gam's popularity, in our
view, is the game itself. Our
country seems now to be in
anera in which peo le want
to be restful and relaxed in

their leisure hours. In this
connection, baseball fills
their leisure hours. In this
connection, baseball fills the
bili perfectly. Ther ver

pace of the game, whic

critics denounced in the
sixties as too slow for the
times, now appears to be
exactly what people want.’

We agree, and we feel that
taxpayers who ultimatley
will foot the bill for the
roofed stadium ought to
have at least the basic cost-
benefit information on a
stadium which could handle
baseball.

Both Toronto and Seattle
have shown us that, under
the right conditions and with
the right facilit', baseball
can be a roaring success in
higherto minor league
towns.

In fact, until this year,
with the arrival of the
Seattle Mariners, Seattle
had a reputaion as a poor

.atten

baseball town. However, the
Kingdome eliminate
climatic uncertainty. Fans
could plan weeks ahead to
a certain game
knowing it would not be
rained out..

Both Seattle and Toronto
will draw well inexcess of
one million fans in their first
year. '

In every respect, Van-
couver is a big league town.
The combined population of
metro and suburban Van-
couver wuld qualify us for
admission in either the
American or the National
League.

We think Greater Van-
couver sport fans deserve
more serious consideration
of the baseball option and
we urge them to write the
Pacific National Exhibition
requesting mroe_ in-
formation on the costs and

otential revenue of a

aseball inclusive ‘roofed
stadium’’, °

Aid is inadquate and not as

thorough as it could or spent on learning how to

save human lives.

Your attention to the
matter would be greatly
appreciated.

Your Truly _
Harley D. Wilson. -.

tooshort and cramped and a
much as he should. .
We are dealing with

human lives and the better
you known your business

(This week
from Ottawa
Tona Campagnolo

Money is what makes the political process work.

That rather blunt fact is certainly well knownto anyone
who has thrown their hat into the campiagn ring--on any
level—or who has worked on an election canpaign. .

In 1974 in oder to make our Canadian political process
more open, and to involve more people, the federal
government made a number of signigcant changes to the
federal Election Expenses Act. The most important of
these chages were disclosure of political donations over
$100,00 in size, and system of tax credits to encourage

‘donations to the political process.

DISCLOSURE :

Under the disclosure provisions of the Act, any donation
of more than $100.00 toa registered politcial party
autonatically becomes a matter of public record. Thus
while contributions of larger amounts are still permitted,
their existence will be known, and any interested person
will be able to see who the larger contributors to all can-
didates are.

The second new part of the Act--and one which I feel is
essential to the success of our electoral system--is the
granting, by the federal government of tac creidts to

ANADIANS WHO INVOLVE THEMSELVES FINAN-
CIALLY IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS...

The system works like this: If you give a donation of
(say) $100.00 tothe reigistered political party of your choice,
then the federal government will allow you to deduct $75.00

from your federal tax payable (not from your “taxable
income’’). So a $100.00 donation only cost you $25.00.
“SMOKE FILLED BACK ROOMS"

To me the importance of this new system is that it allows
atl Canadians-—at all income levels (tax credits are given on
donation as small as $10.00)-to become more full involved.
in the election of our federal government: No.lofiger ¢an we;
say that all of the money comes from the ‘smdke Tiled back,
rooms” and the “‘corportate giants’, “' °*" _

Now-if you want it to--it comes from you.

I am concerned, though that not encugh CANADIANS
ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OFTHIS NEW TAX CREDIT
SYSTEM. It is a significant opportunity to bring our
politics much more out into the open, but if we don’t use it,
then the “smoke-filled back rooms’ win by default.

At the end of this report. I have listed addresses of all four
political parties currently represented in the House of
Commons. If you are interested in taking advantage ofthe
néw tax credit system, and in being an important part of our
political system, then please contact the party of your
ehoice for futher information.

When the next election is called, I will again be asking for
your support at the polls. Now, however, I am asking for
your support of the political process that we in CANADA
TOO OFTEN TAKE FOR GRANTED. ~

Its your political system. Your government has made it
almost painless to contribute financially. Its now up to you, |
so give--the Party of your choice. .
you would like further information on this, or any other
matter dealing wiht the federal government, please write to

me care of the House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario (K1A

0X2). No postage is required.

The Fund for the Liberal Party ( ote
1155 Georgia Street West .
‘Vancouver, B.C

V6E 3H4

Telephone (604) 681-5171. re

New Democratic Party , "

301 Metcalfe Street . 5

Ottawa Ontario

K2P 1R9 rer

Telephone (613) 236-3616

Progressive Conservative Party ~~ en . ‘

178 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5E1_—Cis

Telephone (613) 238-6111 ; an “ a

Social Credit Party of Canada
Box 1391

Station “B?

Ottawa, Ontario

Chief Electoral Officer
440 Coverntry Road
Ottawa, Ontario

Kid 0M6

Telephone (613) 993-2975,

SYDNEY (AP) — Bue
iriver Jolin Francis downec
a beer to celebrate a court
decision which guarantees
him three free beers a day
for the rest of his life.

Francis, 40, won the beers
in a promotional contest at
the opening of a Canberra
hotel in 1970.

But in 1975, the hotel was
sold and the new owners cut

off his free beer. Francis
sued the previous owners —

the Supreme Court.

missed.
drinking for 20 years and
a day.

years of drinking left which

and his claim was uphelu in ’

averages lwo or three beers
He figures he’s got 37 -
means 40,000 glasses of free .

beer. At, today’s’ price ©
that's worth $15,000. |”

nee ge lt os

He was also awarded «
$9,979 for the beer he *

Francis says he has been 2