Page 4, The Herald, Wednesday, October 1B, 1978 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Office - 615-4357 Published by Circulation - 635-6357 Sterling Publishers PUBLISHER - Laurie Mallett GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION - TERRACE - Andy Wightman 635-6357 KITIMAT - Pat Zelinski 632-2747 KITIMAT OFFICE - 632-2747 : Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 1201. Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. Strikes hurt us too much With the postal workers strike we are once again faced with the dilemma of what should take precedence, the rights of the worker to withdraw his services as part of the bargaining process or the common food. There is little question that strikes are hurting this country. The welfare and prosperity of individuals and businesses at home and the reputation that Britain and Italy have for con- tinual Jabor troubles. Other countries are becoming leary of dealing with us. While at home, it isn’t the mail, its the trains or the airplanes docks that are shut down. Workers blame the companies for gouging out huge profits, Management blames labor for high wage demands. Both undoubtedly contribute to inflation, as does the ever increasing bureacracy; but how much are these constant work stoppages taking out of our pockets. NDP MLA Charles Barber has spent some time in Europe looking at alternative ways of dealing with labor-management negotiations. Perhaps it is time Canadians put aside the old- fashioned, caveman style of settling dispute by strikes and examined more co-operative ways of running things. Confrontation is costly. It has to stop. Even if it means the loss of some freedoms on both sides. Letters welcome The Herald welcomes its readers comments. «Ali letters.to.the editor.of general public interest . will be printed. We do, however, retain the right {6 ¢éfiise to print letters on grouiids ‘of possible © libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and jength. All letters to be considered for publication must be signed. We ask that letters be typed and double spaced. EDITOR'S JOURNAL BY GREG MIDDLETON About the mugging I[ The man wiped a little of participated in while in the blood frum his nuse with Vancouver recently: Ne, I an already darkened wasn’t (he mugger; ner was hankerchief. He was quite UAL aan TS praud of the fact that the : mugger hadn’\ gut his watch, Was wandering down Gliacugh, the strap was ; ro and the sta Granville Sireel, about ‘0 smashed. He held the watch heel OP oan guy crawled u his ear, He mumbled that oul of a parking jot. He it wasn't ticking and then slapgered io his feet as I noted, wilh a rather valiant sauntered past, louking at 2!'empl at humor, that it the bright lights and the vUld have been him whu had ladies who lounge around Stopped ticking. justuut of thuse bright lights. = | 1ovk the man in tow and As the fellow gol tuhisfeet steered him toa phone buvuth. 1 offered a dime whieh he’ it was apparent he was a litue worse for wear. His thanked me for as he tried to clothes, reasonably govd eal) the police. The pay clothes and not ill filing, phone, of course, didn’! were rumpled and stained. work. ] suggested we get a cab and gu to the police, His shirt was uut of his station but he wanled la trousers and his Ne was pulled askew, show the pulice where it had ‘In that part of town you happened. don’t stare, 1 was waiting for ; a light. The fellow ap- We couldn't get a cab proached three peuple who driver tu call fur a police car had cume across the street bul while my unfortunate acquaintance tried tu ialk a hiutel desk clerk into calling from the other direction. This slightly battered man 50" cop, I managed to lag une down on the street. asked if he could beurruw a dime fur the phone. He was , flatly fused. He seemed _ Alter getting the police, [ more amused than annuyed. 8018 cab. mere was nothing more [ could de and it began He commented that nubody scam foolhardy to walk around alone down there, cared. ; ee, oeid as he The fellaw who had been turned toward me, “Yuy "ebbed had thanked me could get killed and nubudy . profusely for whal seemed lu would care," he said. me tt be the feast 1 could do. It was then that 1 noticed Heseemed thrilled that J had that he was bleeding slightly ‘kena few minutes a make from a number of small Sure he was alright. He was abrasions on hisface and the 8” entertained jal I te stains on hig clothes were his concerned and (huugh’ own fresh blood. might well be fair game for ! asked him what had &nyone who wanted tu Lake a happened and he said he few more punches al him. supposed he had been rolled. The description uf himself as He tuld he thought the fellow 4 crippled animal which to be a friend and then ad- could be easily brought duwn mitted he had only met him by anvcther predator made in a bar an hour or two him smile, sumewhal before. They had decided tv quizzically, bul at least smile go fur a bite to eat and he did. walked into the parking lel ‘There was no way the together (u cruss over to the police were going tu be able nexl street. (u find a mugger without “He just hil me in the much of a descriptign or a face," the fellow said, name, but this fellow wanted describing how he had been jt put on the record. [ think punched and then kicked. jis pride way as much In- "He pulled my coal aver MY jured as his budy. He had Jest head. 1 was helpiess. more dignity fhan money. ahd Tou, OTTAWA - OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON SIGN OF PROBLEM Detox becomes popular “Five years ago, ending up at a detox was the end of the line. Now, everyone from doctors to housewives come here to dry out’, says Ed Birkenthal, director of Pender Street Detox Centre. To many people, the term “detox facility” creates a mental picture of a dilapidated building with a bleak sign offering Skid Road alcoholics a short rest from ‘their’ street life. Certainly not a place one would choose to go. And not a place to send a friend or family member. In British Columbia, the reality In 1978 is far from this image. Government funded detoxication facilities In all areas of the province offer not only clean beds and hot meals but also a comfortable, homey at- * ‘masphere where men and women wishing to detoxify may prepare for ongoing treat- ment, For many people, a short-term stay in a detox centre is the first step along the road back to good health. Detox facilities were originally developed in the 1960's to replace the drunk tanks and specific hospital services, both of which were crisis oriented, and simply served to rid the street of noisy drunks or to save the drinker, at least temporarily, from physical harm. As such these facilities. merely responded to the Immediate need for shelter and only briefly separated the drinker trom his setting. What was needed was a facility to provide . a safe, supportive environment for people needing detoxication, a place that would encourage the client to dry out and also to get further treatment. It was important also to attract those people known to be among the 95 per cent of alcoholics who had always avoided the social stigma of asking for help. : Detox facillties have been developed on a psychosocial model which provides a safe, supportive, non-institutional environment. Clients are encouraged to participate ac- tively in their treatment. Staff attend to the physical and psychological needs of the client and attempt to establish rapport. Often the client is referred to ongoing counselling service. In the past two years, detox beds in the province have increased from 58 to 108. Plans for the coming fiscat year include a 48-bed compulsory detox centre to replace the Vancouver City Ploice drunk tank. Responding to local and regional needs, provincially funded centres range from a six bed facility in Merritt, housed in the same building as the local out-patient services, a 20bed facility In Prince George fo the new 20-bed detox located on the grounds of Woodlands In New Westminster. _ The first detox facility developed by the Alcohol and Drug Commission was on Pender Street In Vancouver, and has been in operation since 1974, In the 1977-76 fiscal year, 2,027 clients were admitted .to. the. centre. Of these, 85 per cent completed withdrawal and an encouraging 76 per cent were willing to accept referral to ongoing treatment. Although Pender Street Detox is located in downtown Vancouver, only 30 per cent of the clients are considered typicat Skid Road alecholics; 70 per cent are employed or employable. They include a cross-section of occupations from blue-coliar to professionals. A staff membec comments. “We've had doctors, lawyers, teachers, businessmen, social workers. A veterinarian is with us ns week. We get people from all walks of. ee,” Whatever their background, wherever . they have come from, people are given the opportunity to detoxify and move on to treatment. Depending on their needs they may be referred to a local out-patient counselling service or a residential facility in thelr region. . As awareness of the nature of alcoholism increases, more men and women are willing to take the initiative and enter a detox’ facility. To both the individual and the family who have suffered from the effects of alcoholism, this decision is often the first vital step on the road back to good health. SUPREME COURT SAYS Obstruction is the issue OTTAWA (CP) — = Columbia Cour! of Appeal fraction by a police of- Willard Estey, said one OTTAWA - it’s no surprise that Separatist Parti Quebecois Premier Rene Levesque seems to be starting to sweet talk his way back into the Canadian family circle. it isn't real Independence — not the separate state, closer to France than to Canada dream of the real separatists — but a relationship, he says, not much different than It’s always been. And while it never was @ warm relationship — all families have spats, don’t they — there was the mutually profitable economic association of kinship. 7 A kinship always a little special, and distant, foo, with the one usually restless and seldom satisfied member of the family always demanding — and being given — special con- sideration and treatment. Quebec was always a little “different from the others,’”’ 50 had ta be indulged in arrangements in the family made for its convenience if seldom contentment. . Federal prime ministers have always made an effort to accommodate Quebec. MacKenzie King did it with family allowances, introduced for the particular benefit of Quebec's then big birthrate. Louis St, Laurent did it with special tax and ’ shared-cost arrangements. Even John Diefenbaker did it with the two languages on government cheques, the in- troduction of bilinguatism. Lester Pearson went all the way on bilingualism and what amounted to the start ofa quota system for French Canadians in the pubtic service, all the way from Clerk Grade One to Senior Deputy Minister. And Pierre Trudeau did it with, among many other things, those $800 bilingual! bonuses largely for Francophones on the federal payroll. In dealing with each prime minister in turn, each Quebec .premier used the threat of alienation, separation softened down to “Masters in Our Own House,’ and finally” separation stiffened up to independence and now watered down to association. Like Quebec premiers before him, Rene Levesque only wants more of what the province always has been given — white gloves fecding from a silver spoon. And because it had all been tried before -—— and warked — he had to go further, all the way, initially, to separate statehood, - Then he discovered just the other day it was too far — further than other Canadians were ready to go for any reason. Sa he’s on his way back, starting to soft-shoe “his way"in agains” Two things turned him around. He saw the national polls which told him that he'd do better campaigning for Quebec separation in other parts of Canada than in his own province. His own political intelligence agents reminded him that outside of Montreal and Quebec City, the Quebecois are more interested in bread and butter issues and food on the table than elitist visions of the first French Republic in North America. About those palls: Onty 12 per cent of those questloned In Quebec wanted independence by any name. But 22 per cent of those on the prairies favored Quebec getting —- or being tossed -- out. While 18 per cent in British Columbia liked the idea of a Quebec divorce. And only Ontario wanted Quebec to remain more than Quebec did itself. The Ontario per centage, just eight. For same unfathomable reason, the poll seemed to ignore opinion in the Maritimes, where in New Brunswick at least, relations with Quebec, geographically, would indicate equality with those in Ontario. So now Rene Levesque, backing away as gracefully as he can, softens separation down to a special association. And unless the separatist extremists — the crazies of Montreal and Quebec City — push him fo the point of no return, Quebec and Canada will end up where they’ve always been. Still marrled if not in love. Bicycle drivers whu are seen breaking minor ‘traffic laws and then re- fuse (a give their names lw police are guilty of the mure serious charge vf ubstrucling pulice, says a §-lo2 decision today of the Supreme Court of Canada. The issue of whether the biker can claim the ‘right to remain silent under such = circum- stances arose In ithe appeal uf Richard Harvey Muure, 49, a Victoria resident who cycled through a red light in April, 1976, When More refused tu give his name i» a pulice ufficer, he was charged with obstructing the law. A jury acquitled him of the charge when told by the irial judge thal sec- tions of the B.C. moler vehicle laws imposed nu duly on him w identify lamself tv police. However, the British overturned that decision and urdered a new trial un lhe obstruction charge. Both the majurily and minority deelsions of the Supreme Court said that Moore had the right to remain silent. They also agreed that a secliun of lhe Criminal Cude allowed the police officer lv arrest Muore for going through the red light tu learn his identity. Bul they disagreed on whether Muure was guilty uf obstructing the police wficer and thus subject to a iwe-year jail sentence. Said Mr. Justice Wishart Spence on behalf of ihe majority: “Y have not furgollen the provisions of the Bill uf Rights ner the lople of individual freedom generally. But Iam of the upiniun that there is nat even minimal in- terference with any free- dom of a citizen, who is seen cummilling an in- ficer, in the police con- slable simply requesting his name and address without any atlemp! to obtain fram thal person any admission of fault or any cumment what- suever. “On the ather hand the refusal of a citizen lo identify himself under. such circumstances causes a majur incon- venience and obstruction tu the police in carrying out their proper duties,” Spence added that if anyone wanted te balance the iwo Interests invelved he had nv doubt that his decision would be sup- ported ‘‘by the uver- whelming public § in- terest,” Agreeing with him were Mr, Justices Ronald Martlin, Roland Ritchie, ‘Luuls-Philippe Pigeun and Jean Beelz. Mr. Justice Brian Dickson, speaking for himself and Mr. Justice issue had 1¢ do with the police power of in ierrogatiun and the righi uf citizens fu remain si- lent, . “That right has always been regarded as ab- sulute and as being firmly anchored tu two fun- damental commun law principles—the presumplion of innocence and the privilege against self-incrimination,” He said a person cannut be guilty uf ubstructing a police officer ‘merely by doing nothing, «unless there is a legal duty to act,"’ He said there was nuthing in the B.C. Motur Vehicle Act compelling a cyclist caught riding through a red light iw identify himself. Police had the power to arrest fur the infraction of going tirough the red light and thus establish the identify of the of- fender, HERMAN ‘2 91975 Unieersal Proc Synchicore “Hidden camera commercial, tale 9." \