Page 4, The Herald, Wednesday, April 29, 1991 de E-K ailu aily herald Published every weekday al 3010 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. by Sterling Publishers Ltd. Authorized as second class mail. Reg!stration Number 1201. Postage pald in cash, return postage . guaranteed. ” Terrace: Classifieds: Kitimat: ” 635-6357 635-4000 632-5482 ". Editor: Brian Grega = John Korchinski : (Terrace) Publisher: Gary Husak Production: Jim Preston Staff Writers-Photographers: Mike Howlett, Becky Raglon Advertising Sales: David Hamilton, Keith Keating 2 Reception-Classified: i : Maria Taylor Cireulation: Carol Ballantyne (Kitimat) = NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT =" The Heratd retains full, complete and sole copyright 2% inany advertisement produced and-or any editorlal °, or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. . LETFERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Words don't come to me easily but I would like to make my point ta the school frustees and the school truslees' superintendent. They seem te think they can make any decision without being questioned just because they were elecled. The schools are ours as taxpayers, not theirs as trustees; they are_ simply our spokesmen, - What they tell us when they are campaigning is, they will speak for us as taxpayers and parents on our board of education. Many times what seems to happen, at all levels of government, once they are elected they no longer listen to the voters. They are there ta do as they wish and if we don’t like it we will just have to wait until next November and vote them out. Meanwhile a lot of harm is done and our children are the ones that suffer. Whatever the reason for Mr. Hamakawa's demotion, is not important to me right now because I’m convinced the reasons are petty. I chose to pul my faith in some 700 plus students and staff at Skeena School who believe Mr, Hamakawa ig a just man and is well loved and respected, rather than nine or 10 school trustees. lam a parent, am writing © to the minister of education and the trustees. I hope many of you will do the same. Roberta Preece To the Editor; The theory of perpetual motion is today a reality. The vacuum in outer space, with oo apparent friction as we know it, an engine canbe built to run itself and give off a little bit. The theory covers many aspeciz to creation. But it does not cover the builder of the engine. Or can matter be produced from light? Do all electrons, protons and - Meutrons travel at exactly the same rate of specd? Such that, if electrons for example do not travel at exactly the same rate could other electrons, neutrons and protons catch up and compound thus forming matter. This of course over time efernal and infinite distance. Or can light ap- pear from nothing? Or can nothing be compressed, compressed to the point of heat and then light and again matter? Well, I don't know. The only thing [ know for sure is that the more closer we come to the secret the mare trouble mankind finds himself. The Socratic truth, ‘I think therefore I am’, has been reversed to, ‘I am and I'm gonna think.’ Theologians call foul and today’s sensationalism takes full advantage: Doomsday and prophets of doom on every corner. Everyone in fear 50 everyone arms — Countdown to Armageddon or The Last Great Planet Earth. If told enough, people will believe. Look at the U.S. media, violence and sex at every turn and what is the-U.5. today, a composite of violence and em, | must say that most people in the U.S. are not that way, but a picture can be drawn. “If a man truly believes in God he will know his position and delve no fur- ther, There are secrets we weren’t meant to know. And, we ali die, I trust not all togetber and not ali at mice, David R. Erickson To the Editor: On behalf of the Coalition for World Disarmament 1 wouid like to thank all those people who came and participated ln the Unite for Survival Day, held Sunday, April 26. Many thanks especially to Dave Marlyn, Randy Potts, and Erik Olthof for their deep con- cern on the issue. The prospects of a Nuclear Halocaust are frightening and many ex- perts believe that even now it is too Late to change the flow of events that could lead to Nuclear Omnicide, In the event of a war, there is no defense and no shelter that we the peaple could take, we would in fact be responsible for our own inailation. We must make our voices heard. The Citizens of the world have the power to prevent such global destruction, by speaking out and protesting government policies, and by teaching out and informing peoples of the world of ‘ danger to us all.-- Mi you are intérested in becoming involved in the movement towards World Disarmament, and most importantly towards World Peace please contact: Coalition for World Disarmament 1811 West i6th Avenue Vancouver, B.C. Vel 2M Thank you Yours in Peace Colleen Lucas AG Aigiin 81. _/ Labour witnesses play charades? LONDON, Ont. (CP) — The informality of labor ar- bitration oflen results in witnesses taking toq lightly their oath to tell the truth while giving evidence at arbitration hearings, a University of Western Ontario law professor said Tuesday. Greg Brandi, who has 12 years experience as an Ontario labor arbitrator, said a wellpublicized perjury trial might help to end the “charade"’ of witnesses whe lie or give mis- leading evidence at arbitration hearings. But Brandt told a labor law seminar sponsored by the Law Society of Upper Canada: “I don’t want to give the impression that there is an epidemic of problems.” He added that he was ‘generally happy” with ar- bitration, a process used when union aM management cannot settle a grievance. cae ald sometimes lakes to reach an arbitrated settlement. He told the seminar he has had three or four cases which took 18 months to resolve. Because of the length and intricacies of one case, photographs had to be used to remind him which witness said what. Michael Gordon, a Toronto corporate labor relations law- yer, told the seminar that smart union organizers will get foremen to engage in anti-union remarks or actions that can _be used as evidence in unien certification hearings before the Ontario Labor Relations Board. He said companies are often prosecuted for interfering with union organization because supervisors or foremen aren't explicitly told not to discuss the subject with their workers. “The big problem is often thata worker goes to a foreman and asks what he should do whea a union begins organ-. izing," Gordon said, ~ “Nine out of 10 times it is the urion organizer who is lesting the,foreman for over-zealovs reactions. I tell company executives to take a hands-off position, and I tell them to recognize the law.” Chris Paliare, a Toronto union lawyer, disagreed, saying “a good organizing campaign is done.so quietly that the Brandt said he is ‘concerned about. the ‘Jedigth of time it 7 fst ‘the* employer learns ‘of it is when ‘an application for - labor board certification lands on his desk." Peter Lockyer, another Toronto corporate labor relations lawyer, said company executives often write letters to their employees or give speeches that later result in interference charges. “Itis important for a lawyer to tell these executives that once the certification process has begun they have to be ex- tremely careful, for an intelligent theowner’s every shat and quickly make a fool of him.”’ Ils VD a moral or clinical issue? VANCOUVER (CP) A 23-year-old student at Simon Fra- ser University cays that if health officials spent as much time and effort promoting the use of condoms as they do fighting promiscuity, society would be a lot further ahead in the fight against sexually transmitted diseases. In his master's thesis on veneral disease, Ronald Labonte also says that mixing morality and medicine is no way to control the disease. He said society has befuddled its approach to'VD by laking the approach that peopie get venereal diseases because they deserve fo get them, and thaf society presents “a hidden moral bias to Victorian monogamy." Labonte said that while knowing your partner may not prevent contraction of the disease, being able to discuss VD can at least ease some of the problems if infection cecurs. Labonte, who has been working for the provincial health ministry for over seven years, designed an extensive VD campaign for the ministry in 1979-1580. Average attendance at Vancouver VD clinics increased by between 38 and 40 per cent during the time of the $192,000 campaign, but govern- ment cuts prevented further expansion of the program. The VD information line received a daily average of 154 lelephone calls and 160,0000 pamphlets and posters were distributed throughout the campaign. “The clinic was overburdened,” said Labonte. ‘People were going absolutely frantic. The campaign just got off the ground when It had to be canned.” Today, says Labonte, an adequate health program exists, but it still needs to be expanded. He said there is one clinic operating full time in Vancouver, five or six part-time clinics and aboul 16 in other parts of B.C. Lust KNow THE CALGARY FLAMES WILL WIN THe Series! THEY HAVE EVERY INCENTIVE, “Plans have been made to expand the clinic, but those bu- reaucratic processes move very slowly.” Labonte says the Pill indirectly contributes to the spread of VD, since replacing the condom as the number one birth * control device. Unlike the condom, it is unable to prevent the transmission of the diseases. . Doctors can also contribute to the problem by failing to report a patient with VD for reasons of confidentiality or to prevent possible embarrassment. He said 80 per cent of U.S. physicians don’t report the in-, cidence of venereal disease among thelr patients to health officials. No comparable,Canadian statistics are available. “My hunch is that it’s a little lower.” In his thesis, Labonte also discusses the historial per- spectives of the disease and says that from the 16th to the 19th centuries wigs were commonly used by infected men seeking ta hide baldness caused by syphilis. He traces condoms to 1350 B.C. in Eqypt when men wore “‘decorative covers.” The Herald welcomes its readers comments. Ali letters to the editor of general public Interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible {lbel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to be considered for publication must be signed. “TALKING: =| _ _ PO LITICS Thisspace offers your provincial.and federal elected officials a place to say their piece: Columns. are selected on the basis of relevance, not party preference and are the” union organizer can call _ _hewspaper. _ _ ByDAVEBARRETT ._ a Last month Premier Bennett's budget boosts and cad sequent tax ‘increases were greeted with drumming ap- ‘latte by the Socred caucus which hoped to drown oat the ; warnings ofits impacton our citizens andinflationrate. - Inrecent days, Statistics Canada has revealed that just partial month's result of the B.C. budget helped send our’ inflation rale to the highest rate we've Seen since the first OPEC ail shock. ‘The news was bad enough that Consumer Price Index for Vancouver during the past year was the worst in Canada — rising by 14.7 per cent compared with the nationial average of 13.4 per cent, But March’s figures — — coinciding with the Socred budgét — saw the rate jump by 2.1 per cent inflation in a singte month, That’s over 60 per cent higher than the national average of 1.3 per cent for the month, . . If that rate continues for the rest of this year, ‘British Columbians are going to taste the bitterness of an annual ’ inflation rate of more than 25 per cent. ‘The March figurea were heavily affected by the faiture ct the Socred government to develop an affordable bouniig policy. One of the causes of skyrocketing housing prices is :* ithe fact that under Social Credit our province has become . the only one in Canada without an active housing Crown corporation. Yet it is embarking on billions of debt for northeast coal export subsidy, B.C. Place and other monuments. The full effect of the 20 per cent increase in sales tas, similiar increases in gasoline and a host of other taxes will not be known until the April inflation figures are out. But the prospect is for accelerating inflation in B.C. well ahead of the other provinces because ‘of this year's mew budget policy of indexing many of the provincial tax increases to inflation, The provincial government-decreed boosts in school taxes everywhere will be added in the May and June itr flation figures. As interest rates continue rising without any provincial effort to moderate their impact on British Columbia home- buyers and businessmen, our economy is feetering on the brink of grim days. With a government in power preoccupied with the dismal performance of its BCRIC sell-out of provincial assets, the continuing takeovers of B.C. firms like MacMillan Bloedel and numerous other blunders, there is little hope that the Bennett regime will pay serious attention to the people's proviems. * This is evident in the sharp increases in things like office furniture, travel expenses and self-advertising budgets for ministerial television shows at public expensé which are spread throughout the spendihrift budget brought in by ’ Finance Minister Hugh Curtis. Three NDP members were ejected from the Legislature by the government majority because they insisted on graphically. portraying. this-gaversment, a Gly That seems to be-Prenier ‘Bennett’S- rales moti ouhod ight Hitt wndoe Rf milan wari of government propaganda. It's time we had a government that did not try sweep British Columbia citizens’ concerns under the rug. Child Safety Week. important The first week in May is Child Safety Week. in the $2 weeks before it, thousands of children'suffered needlessly as aresult of accidents in and around their homes. What is so heartbreaking is that virtually all of these accidents could have been prevented with a little care and attention and the use of good safety habits. Don’t give accidents a chance to happen: Store all chemical products out of the reach of children. Read their labels and use the warning symbols on them asa guide to handiing these. products. Never leave plastic bags lying around. A child innocently Playing with one could be suffocated. A good idea Is to knot them before throwing them out. Inspect your child’s pacifier regularly for deterioration, and never put il on a string around the child’s neck. Alert your children to the dangers of fire and teach them what to do if there is one. Familiarize them with escape procedures louse ifthereisafireinyourhome.. If your child is still using a crib or playpen, be sure both these items are in safe, usable condition. Mattresses should fit snugly, crib slats should be no more than 6 ‘cm (2%) apart, and playpen mesh walls should have fine holes like mosquito netting. Ityour children travel with you in the car, be certain that you have suitable car seats for them, that the seats have been installed properly and that your children are strapped in at all times. Ensure that older children wear their seat belts.: Last, but not least, think safety, and teach your children to think about their safety. While laws and regulations attempt to minimize and control possible hazards, associated with these products, they cannot do so without human care and attention. Remember, accidents can be prevented. HOME RINK, RABID FANS,., WIN He’p BUY EACH OF THEM oy. 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