Pistol packin’ press

SAIGON (Reuter) — The edi-
tor of the Saigon opposition
daily newspaper massaged the
butt of a pistol on hisdesk as he
spoke about the press in South
Vietnam,

Extra ammunition Jay strewn
in the pencil tray.

“T keep it here—just in case,"
he said, slightly embarrassed at
being asked about the
automatic weapon in its white
holster.

_ _ Theshouting and confusion of
deadline time in his cramped
editoria] office reflected the ag-
gressive, impulsive and often
zany world of the press in Sai-
gon—a city with 54 daily news-
papers for its population of
three million,

“There is freedom of the
press, but itis a fiberty enjoyed
only by the few people-who by
virtue of their position—usually
in parliament—can afford to
publish newspapers,"’ the editor
said.

LONG-HAND STORIES

On his desk lay a stack of
manuscripts written by hand—
“we cannot afford too many
typewriters" —and waiting to go
to press as the daily was ap-
proaching its 2p.m. deadline,

By Sp.m, the editors take a
copy of the newspaper to the in-
formation ministry and within
an hour the main worry of the
day—confiscation—will be ei-
ther relieved or confirmed.

“The ministry just signs a slip
saying the journal has violated
thepress law and on its goes to
the interior ministry,’ the
young editor said. The police
then raid the printing works and
order publication to stop.

“They leave us witha chit for
the issues they confiscate.”

In August, the opposition
newspaper Lap Truong folded
after being confiscated 194
times during its 13-month exist-
ence. its publisher charged the
governmient with exerting pres-
sure on the private printing
shop which turned out the news-

paper.
HAD BACKED KY

Lap Truong had spoken out
strongly in favor of Vice-Presi-
dent Nguyen Cao Ky and at-
tacked President Nguyen Van

*Thieu for Ky’s disqualification
in the presidential election race.

Consfiscations, eventually
followed by a trial and fines, are
usually based on Article 29 of
the press code, which bars the
dissemination of “‘speculati
false news or: true:néws dined:
at jeopardizing security, the
economy, army morale or to
sow division among the. popula-
tion,”

The publishers complain that
the law is elastic enough for the
government to be able to confis-
cate any political story.

But government officials
point to the thriving and lively
press as proof that the
publishers are not suffering
unduly, :

Confiscation of daily news-

papers, sometimes three or four |
a day, is as ineffective as it is :

frequent, however,
‘SAFETY IN NUMBERS

Most newspapers are printed .

at five or six printing works and

of editions: have been whisked
away by a highly organized dis-
tribution system,

“Then there's another tac-
tic,” the young editor said. “We
always keep another printing
shop in reserve somewhere

which can swing into action If
the police have managed to
round up all the editions from
the other presses."

The publisher of a more con-

servative journal said he gets
his presses moving promp Hy,
iy

as a confiscation order usua

takes about an hour to get from
the information ministry to the
police ‘and by that time we can

have thousands of issues on the

streets."’

With policy lines often diffi.
.cult to determine—especially

among the batch. of: sexand

‘erime-orlentated: dailies—12 .

newspapers appear to be pro-
government and about eight
lean towards or side vigorously
with the opposition.
BACKS GOVERNMENT

The main daily, Chinh Luan,

which usually backs the govern-
ment, has a circulation of up to

35,000 and is published by a sen-

ator, Dang Van Sung,

A few doors up the street, the
chief opposition newspaper, Tin
Sang, is published by a former

’.Naticnal Assembly deputy, Ngo

Cong Duc, it has a circulation of
about 25,000.

Kitimat museum open
with varied displays .

The summer holidays saw an
excellent attendance of tha
varied displays at Kitimat’s
Centennial Museum, July
brought 3,000 visitors while

August and September had

2,500.

Two shows that travelled here
during those months had the
B.C, Centennial theme: one was
a historical display fram. Vic-
toria and theother a-modern art
display sponsored by the

federation of Canadian Artisits,

From Glenbow, Alberta came
two excellent shows,. The
Totem" which was composed of
various media and styles and
George Catlin's display of
Buffaio and Indians. Another
exhibit “Painting in the Park”
was produced by the children of
the area under the direction of
Heidi Born, —

During the latter part of June
the museum received two
mastodon bones from the
*‘find" in the Babine Lake area.
They also now have a display of
old bottles. These were lent by

Reg Pritchard from’ his Port :

Essington collection, They ‘are.’
displayed with two bottles from
the Roman and Greek: era,.
courtesy of Mr, Maragliano,
Ancther new display was
arranged by Mr. M. Whetter
who has lent the museum his
Asian money collection,
There are now te displays

oot great ie

spotisofed’

Phi, nened h Oct. 1 md Site mt
on display until \ anuary 15,,
1972. There are more than 75

‘paintings from local artists

being shown and many are for
sale. On the staircase leading
up to the Painting display is a
collection of photographs taken
by Mr. A. Price of Kitimat. And
lastly is anotlier photo display
entitled “Edkimo Life’’ by the
Lomen Brothers of Glenbow,
Alberta. This display will also
be shown until January 15, 1972,

Following this, from January
21 to March 31 will be a local
Young Peoples. Art Show. A
display of photos of Indian
Villages of our area will be
shown sometime in March. This
will be by the Dept. of Indian
Affairs, During the rest of 1972
there will be displays of Indian
Portraits, Dutch Guaches, War
Sketches, W.W.1 Japanese
Wood Cuts, ESP and African
Sculpture. —-

Displays which are. now in
preparation include: “Beaver”,
“Hotsprings” and “Claque Mt.
Municipal Park”, The Sealife
Showcase is being expanded to
include a section of crabs.

The Kitimat Centennial
. Museum is -open Tuesday,
Wednesdays, ‘Thursdays 3-5,
Friday 3-9 and Saturday 11-4.
” Alexander Tran, Vancouver,
has Prince Rupert as part of his

beat with the payroll savings
organization ih the current

Canada Savings Bonds cam-

vai
ees: . Young, Weir
a rate is one of nine
jnvestment™ dealers on loan
from their firms to help
organize the payroll savings

es SRT oN

: Greenpeace. .
to wor

THE HEALD, TERRACE - KITIMAT, B.C.

No fish. |
in’ chips |

Governments, even when
operating under the best of
molives,. frequently either
take the ‘right actions for the
wrong reasons or undertake
the wrong steps for the right
reasons, One of the latter is
the attempt by the United
States Air Force to‘slim its
‘ground crews stationed in
Britain back into shape,

_In the past, ground crews
were ‘allowed as much as 29
pounds over the maximum
weight prescribed for flight
crews. But. after watching
their ground men . lose _ the
battle of the bulge, Air Force
Officials decided the same
weight limitations would
apply to all personnel.

That decision seems,
eminently fair, But then came
time to.implement the back-
into-shape campaign. No

more fish and chips, the Air ©

Force decided, and banned the
delicacy, which consists of
fried cod smothered with
french fries, from several of
its largest bases in Britain.
Further, nearby fish.and chip
houses were placed off limits,

That decision is decidedly .
unfair. Not only does it
deprive airmen of a favorite
British. pastime, but it
assumes they lack  self-
discipline. If carried to‘ its
logical conclusion, ‘it also
would include a ban on
spaghetti in Italy and beer in
Germany, not to mention
other national favorites.

Setting weight standards is
a service's prerogative.
Abolishing fish and chips
borders on fanaticism.

Champions
lose —

MONTREAL (CP) — The de-
fending Grey Cup champions
are losing money, Red O’Quinn,
general manager of Montreal
Alouettes, said Thursday,

“It's something I really even

don't like to talk about,”.

O'Quinn said.
“Every time we start talking
about our financial position,

. people say we are-crying,!....:

The, higgest- problem, still, is

getting fans to fill. the “Autos: ‘t

tade, a department in which the
Als have fallen behind last
year's pace.

heads home -

VANCOUVER (CP) — The 12

’ man Greenpeace mission has

decided to return home to con:
Unue its anti-Amchitka protest
from Vancouver, Greenpeace
communications co-ordinator
Dorothy Metcalfe said today,

Mrs, -Metealfe, wife of crew
member Ben Metcalfe, said the
mission made the decision be-
cause of repeated delays in the

d U.S. fivemegaton nu-
clear bomb test on the Aleutian
island of Amchitka.

The Greenpeace mission,
aboard -the Canadian halibut
boat Phyllis Cormack, has been

tied up at Sand Point, Alaska,
about 900 miles east of Am-

. chitka, for a week. The Phyllis

Cormack had planned to cruise
off Amchitka just outside the
three-mile U.S. territorial limit,
on the day of the test.

The 72-foot Phyllis Cormack,
carrying the name Greenpeace
across the wheelhouse, sailed
from Vancouver Sept. 15 with a

crew of ecologists, nuclear sci.

entists and journalists, The
crew planned to take air and
water samples off Amchitka be-
fore and after the test blast,

HYDRO TALKS ©
TO START

VANCOUVER (CP) +~ Arbi-
tration proceedings before Mr.
Justice Nathan Nemetz in the
dispute between B.C. and local
258 of the International Broth.
erhood of Electrical Workers
will open Thursday.

The proceedings will open al
10:30 a.m, PDT and are ex- .

pected to last a week, Mr. Jus-
tice Nemetz’s findings will be
binding on both parties.

VANCOUVER. (cp) —
ada’s oil-exploration
conglomerate works farther
north than Indians and Eskimos
live but wanta them in the oil
fields anyway.

Charles: Hetherington, presi-
dent of Panarctic Oils Ltd, told
the Vancouver Board af Trade
recently:

‘“The new industries of the
Ne are going 1o need these

PT ey haye got to be assisted
out of a marginal hunters’ exist-
ence, where the mere act of

survival has been a 24-hour-a-
day task,” *

Panarctic, which has ‘spent

$50 million already on Arctic re-

source development, is a con-
sortium of 19 private companies

which held oil leases in the

North and the federal’ govern-

ment,

POORER City .
NEW YORK (AP) — New
York City’s welfare rolls rose.
by 10,560 persons in August. The
department of social services
reported Tuesday there were
1,206,973 New Yorkers cn wel-

fare, 15 per cent of the’ city’ s-

popula tion,

QUITS AT 105 | .

BROKEN ARROW, Okla.
(AP) — At the age of 105, Wil-
liam Newton Williams has quit
driving and sold his car. “My
eyes, hearing and co-ordination
have failed me so I’ve decided
tostay home,” said Williams, a
real] estate man.

Can- .

the following decision:
Decision CRTC 71.305
TERRACE, B.C. - 7102759

. BC, vt

Oecision: APPROVED

specified in the licence.

Canadian Radio-Television Commission

.. The Canadian Radio-Televiston . Commission announced

Application by Skeene Broadcasters Ltd. for'a licence to
carry on a CATV broadcasting undertaking 1 to serve Terrace,

‘The Commission grants a licence for a period ending
September 30, 1975 subject to the conditions which will be

ingoe ‘opinion of, the Conitinission;, the aan receiving.
+ undertaking..will., inthe, present circumstances :Rrevide. =,
service to subscribers In.the area. ©. “y

police find it hard to hit them at. ~

the same time before hundreds."

wants to
call it quits

LILLOOET, B.C, (CP) ~°''

The Bridg e River-Lillovet

News is for sale and crusty.

editor Margaret (Ma) Mur-
_ Tay, &, wants to quit the:
- newspaper business. .

Ina letter to Province staf-
fer Fred Curtin she offered
the weekly for sale to working ©
journalists,

“Tt occurred to me gome of -
you high-power writing slaves «

of the big dailies who might~

: have saved your shekels
_ . Should have a crack : first,” ”
she said, im

“Tam 84 years ld and have |

20 years ahead of me working

"sensitive instruments

It, along with. ‘other com.

panies, - must give. the nor-
therners the same opportunities
available to other: Canadians,
said: Mr, “Hetherington, But

there are problems. “Panare-
tie’s'’ operations are much

farther north than any Eskimo
or Indian settlement, so ‘that:
difficulties have been . en.

countered in: getting native
northerners. to fit into .
bachelor camp-type of
operations now used,”

foresees a day when northern
people adapt more readily.

’ “eventually when oil-and gas
go into.production we hope to

employ largely native’ norther-

ners in permanent settlements,

time, Panarctic is attempting to
acquire and train northerners
for these jobs.” -

nthe | firni's | operations ‘a a

’ strictly policed by a compat
. group to make certain that:

ecology ” ‘of the | ‘North is pr

’ teeted,-

The company has had iv

problems in exploring and. d¢im

gas every. day until January a
when the first attempt. suda
ceeded. in extinguishing ‘

flame,” ai

The company had.to fly in sift ;
million pounds: of equipmengy
and minerals and invent -uniquag

But Mr, Hetherington said he . ‘(methods to quell the blaze, .

“Our personnel did: this. e
tirely in the dretic night

veloping’ natural gas and oil des
posits inthe North, ~~

“In terms of obstacles,” "Bb
said, “the extinguishing of t
King Christian Island gas‘blo

- wout in January was the mos
And i in preparation for this dr. ary

‘amatic..

’ “The well blew out October

1970, The 250-foot flame ‘con:
sumed 100 million cubic feet o

“Skilled hands—2, 154 of them. 1 077. people—mechanica, wwetdora:
‘partsmen, equipment salesmen, sqrvice specialists, design engi-
neérs, data processing programmers, systems. analysts, secretaries. -
. People—organizad Into” individually-managed civisions,. depart-
ments and locations, from Natal in the south-east corner of: ‘the
provin @ to Inuvik deep in the Northwest Territories. Groups ‘of
I ervice, an ‘industry or a te
coinplete ‘range’ of: services un:
match id. by any other equipri dealer. Small enough to have
‘involvament. with. the: customer; an individual interest |
is.équipment, his job and: his. success. That's Finning..A Briti
nis ecu company with 1 077 skilled, interested people, providing
personalized, specialized $

on \ what Pd like to do,

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