TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald ‘General Office 635-6357 Clreulaton « 635-6357 Published by Sterling Publishers GEN, MANAGER. Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION- TERRACE. 635-4987 KITEMAT OF FICE . 632-2747 Pyblilshed avery weekday at 2212 Kalum Street, Yerrace, B.C, A member of Verlfled Circulation. Authorized as second ¢lass mall. Registration number 1201, Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranieed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT ‘The Herald retains full, camplete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographie content published In the Herald. Reproduction is not permitied, - EDITORIAL -révolt. ‘The Kitimat oll pert and pipeline to Edmonton proposal Is not only dead by burled, exhumed, reburled. bring It back now. The threat of an oll tanker traffic up the Douglas Channel and the frightening prospect of a pipeline along the ever- changing Skeena River and through the Telkwa Pass Is past. We still, however, face the probability of tanker traffic down the West Coast of British Columbia as the United States searches frantically ways to pump more oil Into the petroleum-dependent economy. autopsied and With the energy shortage bushing the U.S. government to take a harder line ahd after theproblems It has had with Its traditional suppilers, we can expect a. move toward relying less on others for even supply routes , let alone the raw: matertals. : With the land route for a pipeline from the American supplies down through Ganadian territory the least likely froposal for the V.S. government to ébby for and as It would also Involve Some c1Skse,./t would be Ingthe best in- terest of the, Canadlam government to. stress the offshore boundaries within which It would allow tanker traffic. iA hard line from our government of this Issue, and a good case for Canadian sovereignty, can be made by the federal fisherles department through en- fdrcement of the 200-mile limit. ; a \ ; There will certainly be refalliation . fgom south of the border. The Clark § overnment is going to have to face hreats of economic sanctlons and those ojd saws about the amount of American Investment In this country. The United States, however, has its back against the wall. The state and féderal governments there are facing both economic recession and a taxpayer ; This Is not a time of friendly concessions but of hard bargaining. Let us hope the Conservatives realize that how they handle our resource management now determines our abllity to survive and expand our secondary Industries. mo, ; EDITOR'S JOURNAL BY GREG MIDDLETON The late Friday night rain washed the spilt blood and beer off the downtown Terrace streets, but the remains of the hall of beer bottles that mark the cloeing of the pubs still littered the streets Saturday. ’ For four or five hours the RCMP rana shuttle from the city’s core to the police statlon, marking the confiscated beer bottles on the way, dating them and — intitialing them before piling them with the others In the evidence lockers. _ twas a game of cat and mouse, or rats as the police call youngsters they roust out of the dark corners around the hotels and pool halls. Shortly after the policeman helped the local lad take the bottles of beer out of his: socks, the same officer jumped a pair of pot smokers passing a joint, hardly in the shadows enough so light from the roach could be seen. Meanwhile, the youth who had been handed a ticket for the beer he should have waited a couple of years yet to have stood only a few hundreds yards away, getting over the start.he got as the policeman had pounced on him earlier. ‘rhe need tor constant patrol downtown takes a lot of the police department’s resources. The residentlal areas are tosome extentleft to call for assistance. The police don’t like it but they say they can’t leave akulkers for too long or the vandalism spreads like an epidemic of plague out from the city’s centre. No page-long eulogies will «5 PRISON FEATURE Wiajor changes needed? By DIANE WAYDA KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) -- Jagged barbed wire tops the high fence enclosing the keepers and the kept at Millhaven Institute, a maximum- security prison that still bears the axars of its yiolent birth eight years _Ago. : Most officials say some reforms have eased a crisis situation discovered two years ago not only at Millhaven but throughout Canada's prison syste! m. But some fear that tinkering with © the system instead of making major changes will only increase the chances for more chaos and violence. “Tf don’t think the situation ja as acute as it was when we did the report," said Mark MacGuigan, the \Windsor-Walkerville Liberal MP who two years ago headed a four: party lariiamentary subcommittee ~that investigated: the state—of— Canadian penitentiaries following riots at Millhaven and two other federal prisons. "“T don't think it's improved radically, either,'’- added Mac: — Fifth pa And although the subcommittee found that the worst excesses of staff brutality were in the past, it reported thal lowlevel verbal and psychological warfare still existed between some guards and prisoners. Tt also found that program and security staff were working at cross purposes. A triangle —. union, | management and prisoners — had developed, and correctional efforts were paralysed in the middle of union-management struggles. Arthur Trono, regional director- general of penitentlaries, says there’s no reluctance on the part of the service ta remove its staff from the protective wing of the Public . Service Commission, “but that'snot something you can just jump into overnight, it's fantagtically com- plicated. 4 "The trlangie? It always will exit, in private industry too." In an interview, Troho sald a new. code of conduct for staff, scheduled to be put into effect soon, will give directora the power of dismissal. Staff will still have recourse to appeal such decisions with the SOC RE EH rt of an wind up back at Millhaven if their names are published. Both say tension at Millhaven has lessened and guards now being hired are ‘more professional, _ ” “They're giving the guys little things, like longer time fora shower, 2! one prisoner sald. _ and it helps, e One Millhaven staff member also sald a small group of guards still make life miserable not only for pesonera but for other guards and gram stat! aa well. “Bach night when I went off my shift they’d tell me 1 locked like a . con, that I should be careful because they might make a mistake and shoot me. And that was every night.” ste MavGuigan said troublemaking guards were to be reassigned to duties involving little or no contact __.With prisoners, "] don't know what has happened with that," he sald, “There's atill.a lot of pressure from those guards." He said the implementation this year of a new grievance procedure 280,088 IR. Vee tate ete a a ee" Il-part feature on prisons sytePe" sate Pen? Oe) ESAS OL OR AC Ora Guigan, who expressed frustration at the disappointing pace with which he sees the subcommittee’s 65 recommendations being im- plemented. He sald the major recommen- dations have not been carried out — “the ones that will affect the most lasting change, the ones having to do ‘with the reorganization of the ser- vice itself.” , The subcommittee found that the unionizing of prison staff in 1987 and the growth of a- topheavy bureaucracy had removed power from prison directors and left ho one running the prisons. It recommended modelling the service after the RCMP, with a well- selected, motivated and better-paid staff subject to discharge for misconduct or incompetence, and putting the power of decision- making back Into the hands of prison directors. “We can hardly expect to control inmates if we cannot control those who are sugposedly guarding and inatructing trem," said MacGuigan. The system still has problems “not because of a presence of red tape, although there is some red tape, but because the employees are not properly selected, trained and motivated.” The: subecommitiee’s harshest words were for guards at Millhaven, a penitentiary prematurely opened in 197; when prisoners ricted at nearby Kingeton penitentiary. Almost 400 convicta, trensferred to Millhaven following the riot which took two lives, were forced ta run a gauntlet of clubswinging guards during the first four days of Milihaven's existence, sore tt 4, 66,8 85.98 107,904% 8 Bathe hg taal Batata teCaticlal akateSatateliterayeten tose eieratatatetotatatatatatatats’ a al sna atatatate’ c regional director, the commissionet of penitentiaries and an outs ajudicator. . “We have an excellent, rapport now with the Public Service Alliance of Canada (the union-representing-* © guards) bul that's not to say that everyone thinks it’s a; bed of roses, because it's not,” jsays Henry Neufeld, Millhaveg’s girector. He aald staffi altitudes are changing for the better but ‘the only thing that wi ty totally the tension of inmates isilf I open the . doors and let the ody Psa Both Neufeld and Trono say moat subcommittag,seacommendations have either been -implemented or are in the works and that - the situation ia much better. Neufeld said petty harassment of peisoners by guards — incidents Tanging from namecalling to making ptisoners return to their cells at the climax of a movie — occurs rarely. “There may be an isolated case where an officer is doing his jot and some of the inmates take that aa harassment,” Neufeld said, “You hear about brutal guards at Millhaven — there have been isolated cases and they're not oc- curring = anymore."” Prisoners say a small percentage of guards are still causing trouble, harassing them in subtle ways by making visitors wait unnecessarily, fiddling with mail aud taking head counts when one would do. “But a lot of things are starting to change,” said one former Millhaven prisoner now in medium-security at Collins Bay penitentiary. Heand other prisoners fear they'll » rartobatatadetadatedolelefobebeforeheetereteh’ geneenelatetatedetetes tat Atizeraye tetany wie id*\eiéa gpmmittee made up of equal ,#diBebs of staff and . prisoners ¢yaWhiehjhears prisoners’ complaints — was resisted by some guards, ce” ” “Séitie guards at Millhaven began threatening other guards. One man had his new car damaged.” Gotdon MacFarlane, executive director of the John Howard Society ‘of Ontario, said the government's difficulty in getting control of the syatem may mean “we'll have to re- think the the whole juatice system." “Temporizing Isn’t going to work much longer. Ina large measure the crisis still exists. It may be on a longer fuse.” He said guards are as much a victim of the system as prisoners. “] doubt that the system's changed much. But at least there haven't been any major riots in the Jast two years,” Graham Stewart, director of the society’s Kingston branch, says he believes little can be done to create a constructive environment inside today’s prisons. “The emotional significance of being locked away for years and years in a system rife with distrust, animosity, violence and fear is still there, They feel anger inside and the potential ta build something ex- plosive in there. “A prison system is an envi- ronment where you've got a number of forcea working against each. other. They are institutions where people are serving tremendously. long eentences and in their own gula they're tremendously frightened. “That's why we advocate smaller institutions where people (staff and Prisoners) can communicate one on one. OTTAWA OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON Ottawa - So you are on a private pension, the kind to which you contributed from your salary during your king years: And ea shrinking fast asinflation runs up the cost of living? : Say, for example, your entitlement is $100, After only 10 eats of elght per cent inflation, if it ian’t indexed, it will amount to less than #4 in pur- chasing power. And i fant indexed, unlike your old age and Canada nslong. PO every day, week, month and year, that private pension becomes less and less, Live long enough andit — will vanish in terms of purchasing power. But there is a small and privileged proup in the country which you help support, the pu enjoying the protection, even the enrichment of Pert fo despair, though 7 (i espair, though. Forces are at work within and without Parliament to better balance the scales. The Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the ¢ ate sector and even the insurance industry which #0 recently fought the indexing of public service pensions on grounds that it set up 6 yardstick against which ivate pensions were measured, slowly but surely Pave been modifying their position. Powerful yoices within the private sector are beginning toshow support for legislatlon — introduced shortly before the election — which would scale down the cost of living indexing of the public service to a more reasonable level. More reasonable, the argument both within and: outside government runs, because it would move down the public service level to a scale which private pension plans might equal or approach, It's no secret that with high Interest rates private pension funds are garnering inflated windfall profite on their investment — and failing to pass any them along to their pensioners, .) we The charge was openly levelled against the private pension industry just before the election by members of all parties at a special comnittee on pensions. It was this, mere than any f that. i usted the jovernment g in, thé: bill modifying tne n fower indexing formula orite public’ Barhit, Modifying it to the extent that as it came down some formula could be devised to index private pensions to _something approaching a comparable level. Not equal, mind you, but closer. The new Conservative government is believed ready to carry through the legislation. ~ And at the moment a member of cabinet is devoting all his working time to a study and report on the situation, Quick to read the signals flying in the wind, the insurance companies themselves - once the Greatest opponents of. tampering 7 Iwivate, pension ‘pyetem — voluntarily have Hak index Re put rather paying supplements on pensions. Not as a matter of right. But as a moral obligation. ‘ Further the insurance corporations have been bringing mora) persuasion to bear on their business and industry clients to follow their lead with: sup- plementa! payments. The banks have done it. Yes, of all.people, you might say, the Banks! But the insurance industry warna that the hand- lwriting is on-the wall, © 0 2 0 And If public service pensibii Idgexiiy’ 'issealed down to something within reasonable reach, those corporations which still hang back on pension sup- ~plements may. face. government. compulsion which could be more costly to them than moving voluntarily and in time. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Francals,” Avec le cooperation de la commision ecolalre de Terrace, nous n’avons pas eu de difficultees du cote transportation ou ecole, mais apparenment§ ls Commission Scolaire fut Incapable de trouver des ‘ professeurs quailfees, cet not encounter any problems sme est son enquete par with the transportationof the L’Assistant du Sons Ministre’ children to the designated et par nous memes les school. Apparently, qualified ¢xecutlfs du groupe. teachers were a problem as Lundi le 10. de Septembre a Terrace, or were not Aurons une assemble ou le qualified to teach French, Dr. Nick Ardanaz et lea The ‘teaching staff issue is Commlsairea d'ecoles de still under scrutiny of the Terrace seront present; Mr. assistant to the Deputy Ardanaz est directeur des Minister of Education and by ‘Services des programmes de the executives of our group, Francaise au Menistere de education. Nous invitons done toutes les personnes de langue Francais, et lea parents a venir a cette’ assemble qui seras dunninterest primordial pour le future de notre language ches nous enfants. Commencant avec ce to attend this meeting, as it will be of prime Interest 19 T#PPOrt, nour tiendrons lea agene de nouvelle locale everyone. The mesting will : beheld at7-J0P.M, at Cacele torme de toute information Hall valable qui sertiront de _ toutes recontre ave la Starting with this report, x Dear Sir: First, we would like to thank all the French parents who have joined together to implement the French core curriculum project in our schools. Due to approval of the school diatrict supervisor and school trustees, we did Monday, September 10, Dr. Nick Ardanaz, Assistant Deputy Minister of Education, wlll be in Terrace to meet with the School Trustees and parents of the French children. Everyone who speaks French is urged Commission Scolaire ou le we will inform the mea of Deputee Ministre, wo: e information Leo Mailloux , Secre' regarding our meeting with Parenty for Franke the school executives or with 2604 Skeena Street representatives of the Terrace, B.C, VeG Ki Ministry of Education. Phone: 638-5038 Premlerment, nous Editor's note: Untortun voulons remercier toute les nelther the editor onthe Parents de langue Francaise typesetters rend and write qui se sont joint ensemble enough Fr orret: pour mettre en ceuvre le & French toc tor proof read the Freach Programme ‘Cadre de version of this letter.