Page. 2 The rHerald, Monday, perl 30, 1984 da ally i id weekday at X10 Kalu Sirest, Terrace, reid Nair Steciing Publishers Ltd. Authorized @1 becond clas mail. Registration Number 1261. Posrage pald in cash, retvrn postage Publithed every Guarentee Tarraca: Clreulation: 43.4557 435-4000 Publiihar « David Hamilton’ . Editor: Advertising Sales: |, Brian Gregg Nick Watton Staff Writers-Photographer Sports: . Raiph Reschke . Holly Glaon ~" Reception-Ciassified: Clreylation: Claire Wadley ; Sue Booten NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT ‘The Her sid retains full. complete and sole copyright In any advert lsament Reproduction ls net permitted without the written parmission of the Publivher, ‘The Terrace: Kilimet Dally Herald Newspaper la po! lian Thy Levee pee amember of ihe British. Columbia Preutoncie fie Letters to the Editor. Dwindling ~ - salmon run . To the Editor, ~ The 1984 salmon season will be in full swing in a few months and some ° ‘trendsare appearing. First, there la “a gloomy forecast on the size of the run, and a decrease in the number of -° And sports © fish to be harvested. fishermen. ‘will be favored. over. “commercial fishermen, because “they spend more money for the number of fish caught, give the sport ‘shop owners a bigger profit, and « “Keap the boats-for-hire people -happy Many sports fishermen are from outside the province or country. Though many commercial fisher- men, rely on the salmon for their livelihood they ard being pushed into the background, [ can’t understand the logic of the ae H federal fisheries department, who . spend millions to upgrade spawning grounds, while th’ e provincial government sells Fishing licences in unlimited numbers, and allows anglers, with very little or no supervision, to fish these same spawning grounds. I have lived many years about a mile from: the mauth of the Kit- sumkalum River, and as a boy - . fished there many times. We were content to limit our catch to the many trout. But before 1925, if one fancied a salmon, one could wade out the first week tember, ' stand While thet and pick the dice: vail’ There are about seventeen miles of prime spawning grounds on the Kalum for the big spring salmon to lay their. eggs; and the fisheries department has closed it to anglers, ” Possibly a third of the big springs spawn net upriver, but in the mouth of the Kalum and the gravel bars on this area of the Skeena, It has become known as the home of the big springs. First fe Americans came in, and cep - neighBors- from Alberta are cpr everyone out. The spring sain tun into the = Kalum was poor for rin ‘years, but . 1983 was a banner year and the sports fishermen took advantage of the large run, One Albertan took over a thousand pounds of salmon . home. When the fish reach the 5 pawning . grounds they pair off and the female picks a spot te spawn. The male becomes an aggressive protector of the spol, striking at anything likely - to interfere with his plans. The most likely object is the fisherman's flasher, and the male is likely to get caught. Then the fernales will not lay her eggs, or if she does the eggs will not be fer- tilized Is fishing spawning areas one of the main reasons for our declining Stocks? It would be interesting to _ find outif we are losing thousands or millions of fingelrings because of infertile eggs. If so, we must make drastic changes and keep anglers off the spawning areas, . Sincerely - F. Frank, Box 925 Terrace Hy Gordon Hardy of the People's Law School Segments of the Canadian public have long held that the courts are soft on juvenile delinquents. People with this view may take heart that the new Young Offenders Act, ’ passed by the federal government to replace the Juvenile Delinquents Act, makes young people between their 12th and 18th birthdays more accountable for their behavior. The Act took effect April 1, 1984. The other side of the coin, however, is that if the law makes a person more Hable for his or her actions, then it must also provide the same legal protections as enjoyed by other citizens who are accountable for their actions. The Young Of- fenders Act accordingly provides DON'T EVEN - BOTHER ASKING YOURSELF WHO'LL BE THE NEXT LIB- FRAL LEADER... _ JUST ask ANY Less show-biz, glitz, in leadership battle: Liberal president SASKATOON (CP) — A policy session Sunday involving the seven - men vying for the leadership of the federal Liberal party looked more like a day in the university lecture hall than a major political event. Billed as the Liberal prairie policy forum, the candidates spent the day ona concert hall stage giving brief speeches or methodically answering questions: in turn. Liberal party president Iona from the Saskatoon formula: “We're trying not to have demonstrations, placards and bands,” Campagnolo said. “We're attempting to have a concentration on policy in an almost academic style.” . During their allotted 10-minute speeches Sunday morning, each candidate tried to entice the $00 Liberal supporters with a wide variety of medicines to cure the Ills Campagnolo, . who ha, YOM, tO wo westera-Canadian:alienation,:<'.. remain impartial ., + Jeadership -batdle;- ‘said-the ~one-day forum was rigid by design. "T hope that the Canadian poeple will see it as a much-changed wey of choosing a leader,” she said Sunday in an interview. “There's a lot less glitz and show-biz and a lot more substance and thought.” The Saskatoon evént was the first of five policy forums to be held ‘before the June leadership con- vention in Ottawa. The .second gathering is next Sunday in Halifax with other sessions scheduled for Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. The format of the other. policy sessions will be decided by local urganizers | but likely won't vary Strike and Solidarity | plans nixed VANCOUVER — The president of the B-C Federation of Labor says there are no plans to revive Operation Solidarity to battle the provincial government over the use of non-union labor at the. Expo 36 site. Art Kube says the matter was discussed at a Solidarity Coalition steering committee meeting in Vancouver Sunday evening, but he says there are no plans for mobilizing forces for a general Strike. Kube says if the government ‘gives Expo chairman Jim Pattison the authority to work out a com- promise, one can be reached. -duting:.;.the ;; Energy i;Minister rJean: ‘Chretien called for an ‘elected ‘Senate, or failing that, representation by population for the House of Com- mons, But front runner John Turner rejected Chretien's proposals, saying the way for Liberals to win. the West is through policies. Under his leadership, Turner said, the Liberal government would have more aggressive trade policies, improve the transportation system . and previde incentives for farmers and small businesses. Employment Minister John Roberts stood aut from the other candidates twice during the day. In his formal opening remarks, he said: “Too many candidates are tip- ; toeing to the right.” And, responding to a written question from an unnamed delegate in the afternoon session about how to | woo support of disgruntled New Democrats and labor, Roberts suggested Liberals start by ignoring Dennis McDermott, president of the Canadian Labor Congress. Indian Affairs. Minister John Munro, the former labor minister, cautioned Roberts a few minutes later that to ignore McDermott, would be political suicide. ; Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan had the audience chuckling during his three-minute wrapup with an analogy of the Liberal party to his family. ‘Like the nine Whelan siblings who rarely agree at home, the Liberal. . party stands united as a family, he ~ gaid. Whelan said the Conservatives aren't a united family, noting how Brian Mulroney succeeded Joe Clark as national leader last year in a bitter battle. - Resou rces president. dedicated to paying | debt | ” VANCOUVER (CP) ‘Three "years ago, when Bruce. Howe took - over As: president of the B.C. : Resources Investment Corp., his job: was to figure out what to do with all ~ the cash the corporation had ac- cumulated. when ‘the . provincial government turned: its “resource assets loose on the atock: market, - Now. Howe’s-short-term goal is to pay off thé §1.2-billion debt -the corporation has run up in its three-. year spending spree in which it acquired interests in oll and gas - ventures in Britain’s North Sea and ~ . in Western Canada, as well as ex- panding the coal port at Roberts Bank,. B.C., and’ opening the Greenhills coal mine in southeastern British Colunibia. “We're dedicated to paying down - that debt,” said Howe, who may be asked to defend that position at the ; company’s annual general meeting Tuesday. B.C. Resources had assets of $2,446 billion at the end of 1983, up from $941 million in 1979, while its lorig-term debt rose to $1.2 billion from $192 million during the same perlod. It’s not good news — at least in the short term — for the company’s hundreds of thousands of shareholders who have yet to receive a dividend on the company’s 86 million common shares. SHARES CREATED The Social Credit government gave five free shares to every British Columbian when the: cor- poration was created amid much controversy in 1979. Millions more were sold at the same time to novice investors who were encouraged by ° Premier Bill Bennett’s endorsement of their value. — Howe said that although B.C. Resources’ top priority is making a profit, it has a unique responsibility to its shareholders, more than half of whom have never owned shares ~ before: “Our most unique challenge ts to . prove that privatization can work,’’ ‘added Howe, who has bald the allure : _of the\company's unusual potential "is what prompted him to leave » MacMillan Bloedel, where he was. -being groomed to succeed then- ,preaident Calvert Knudsen, who retired last year. _ B.C, Resources puts its book value at $7.67 a share but it closed at $5.70. a. share on the Vancouver Stock " Exchange Friday. Howe promises that the company will be a good investment over the long term. “In the early years ofa company "Ss . - existence, we've juat ’ company up and get it got to build a anced, get the assets in the kind of shape - they're at, so a dividend just isn't posalble in the early stages,” he said in a recent Interview. .. ; * $100 MILLION GOAL His goal is for B.C, Resourcea to be turning a profit of $100 million a. year in about, five years, In 1963 it: recorded net earnings of $6 million — off. on revenues of $856 million, up from . a loss of $31 million in 1962 on revenues of $694 million. ' _ B.C. Resources has more than its - put “forward” by itsregiatered [i -shareholders. vould ba ‘formiod to B - ‘hoard Informed of ther & keep ‘the. interests," ."s.: Howe said memberihip on that ea committee will be announced as ian Don ie soon as company - _ Watson sorts through the itominees ‘shareholders. . But that's- not. the end-of Howe's & problems, The company’s. forest § products -division. ia beliaved to be ' back in'the red for the first quarter of 1984 after a. ‘two-month “labor “dispute shut down British “Colum. -bia’s pulp and paper industry, . The ‘corporation can ‘be divided into two sectors; energy ‘under Westar Industries Ltd.’ and Westar Petroleum Ltd, which have interesis “in coal, oil ‘and gas: ventitres, and forest: prodiicts under B.C. Timber Ltd. - While the energy alde recorded -~ operating profits of $122°million in ‘ 1963, the forest products’ ‘division lost $48 million and has caused speculation that some unptofitable - parts of B.C, Timber might be sold It has also. prompted Howe. to suggest publicly that . the forest : industry should go back to company- share of critics but this is the first - year when there may not be organized opposition at the. com pany’s annual meeting. - One year ago Murray Pezim, a wheeler-dealer "Vancouver stock promoter, announced he was going to take a run at gaining represen- tation on the corporation's board. But two months ago Pezim withdrew _ from. the battle. The only ‘concession Pezim ad- mitted to gaining was a commitment that a committee of smail by-company. labor negotlations instead of: the industry-wide ap- ~ proach now. used. In addition there hes been criticism from some shareholders that the company is not living up’ to its name by investing in ‘British Columbia. “| think the reality is that , the ‘great welght of our investments are going to be in British Columbla,” he said, adding that the company's decision to diversify in the oil and gas sector meant “we have -to.go where the resources are.” - Storming throughTennessee Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson are storming through’ Tennessee today in pursuit of the 65 national convention. delegate at stake Tuesday in its U.S. Democratic presidential primary. Also casting presidential ballots Tuesday are Democrats in the District of Columbia, where 15 national convention delegates are at. Stake and where Jackson is hoping the delegates to the Democratic Saturday, he accused Hart .of topick up his first clear-cut primary National Convention this summer “Jabor-balting". .. after., he .. had victory. » dt than he-now has... 3%. 7g at il 4 raus} wat) bor' ‘ Mondale returns to the campaign~-PAID-$1-EACH ieee if Beary ” va a : trail today - aiter --spending the~' ~ At ‘another ‘rally’ at’:the= oni” « sl weekend. in his Washington home, - venturing. out once to his D.C. campaign headquarters to meet supporters, to pledge support for home-rule for the capital, and to get in a blast at President Reagan. “Thope President Reagan's trip to China is a success,”’ said the former vice-president. ‘But it will succeed only because after 30 years of being wrong, he is finally beginning to understand what is right. “We need a president who un- derstands history and doesn’t take that long to come arourid. We need a president — which we don't have now — who knows what he's doing the day he steps into office,” VISITS THREE STATES . Mondale planned morning stops in Rockville, Md, and Greenville, N.C. — both in states with May @ primaries — before spending the afternoon in Knoxville, Tenn. Hart, who has been concentrating on Texas and its 169 delegates at. stake in Saturday's caucuses, planned a trip to Memphis today for a.final pitch to Tennessee voters. ‘And Jackson was also campaigning in Memphis. Hart campaigned among Hispanic voters Sunday’ in Texas, saying Mexican-Americans should be in- volved in formulating U.S. foreign. policy in Central America — where, | he said, the “enemy is. not com-— munism, it's poverty.” Hart pledged to have Mexican- Americans fully represented i in his administration. He also campaigned in Harlingen in the Rio Grande Valley, in Corpus Christi and in Houston, cancelling a flight to Oklahoma because of high winds there. _ Jackson campaigned in Ohio and Indiana on Sunday, continuing his call for a change in Democratic party rules to give him greater support at the national convention. Jackson contended that based on his share of, the popular vote in primaries and caucuses so far, he should have a far greater share of Fairgrounds, where about 2,500 people paid $1 each to get in, Jackson said: “The people of Ohio have seen the worst of policies that have continued under both the Carter-Mondale administration and the Reagan administration. Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale are good and honorable men, but they made a decision that was bad, bad for the American. . people. They chose missiles, rather than to invest in the Mahoning Valley (of Ohio).” AFL-CIO . ‘president: ‘Lane Kirkland, meanwhile, blasted Hart and said he should return the more than $135,000 he received from labor groups for his 1980. Colorado senatorial racé. In Houston. on Kirkland was referring to Hart's criticism that prompted Mondale inte. returning political ‘action committee donations. Mondale holds a large delegate lead going into Tuesday’s two primaries. Mondale has 1,147.05 delegates to 635.75 for Hart and 182.2 for Jackson. It takes 1,967 to secure ‘the nomination. Chernenko moving. into limelight | MOSCOW (AP) — Konstantin .Chernenko has moved frequently into the public eye this month, following the example of his patron’ ; Leonid Brezhney in stamping his image on Soviet minds. His picture has been featured nine times in 18 days on the front page of the Communist party daily Pravda. Meetings with . Poland, Finland, Greece and India have been covered prominently by visitors ' from ~ the news media, His writings’ are - well-displayed in bookstores and.he. often is pictured on Soviet television. On Sunday, for instance, the main television evening news devoted 50 minutes to a ceremonial sortie from the Kremlin to the capital’s Ham- mer and Sickle Metal Works. Chemenko, 72, WAS seen surrounded: by stiling workers, feted with bouquets and applause before’.a newscaster read a 40- minute speech the leader was said to have made... . ” His’ predecessor, Yuri Andro pov, paid a similar. visit to the workers. of a Moscow machine tool plant in January 1993. But the only pictures ever released of Andropov's. visit were ‘paraded across. Red Square last May Day. -And unlike Chernenko, Andropov gave stern warnings to the workers that they must perform better if living standards were to rise. The workers voiced relatively frank and critical answers to. Andropov’s _ questions about’ conditions, Although Chernenko's visit was the focus of lavish media attention, there was no film showing him . exchanging gore than platitudes with workers. . MAKE. COMPARISONS | 4 The Chernenko style has. led Soviets and’ Westerners alike | to make comparisons with Brezhnev, who even. in his.Jast ailing years ‘+ rarely missed an occasion to make his s Mnare on the public, mind. . offenders given. adult rights under new act - young people with the same legal rights as adults, evident when we lock at what the Act says about the bail, the charge and — the trial. Under the Juvenile Delinquents Act, young people were often prosecuted for behavior which {s not lilegat in adults. Common examples were drinking under age and sexual immorality. These are called status offences because they are based on the person’s status. The Young Offenders Act eliminates status offences; under it, young people can only be convicted for behavior which ip prohibited for everybody under the Criminal Code and other federal statutes. In the future, young people who commit non-criminal offences based on their youthful status may only be prosecuted under provincial Jaws and, If convicted, will not suffer: the stigma of a criminal record. The Young Offenders Act gives a young person who haa been arrested the same right to release or release These are very ~ on bail as an adult. If the police arrest and charge a young person, they will not detain him prior to the court appearances unless they have a good reason for doing 80, such aga belief that the young person will fail to appear in court or. will commit another affence. Hf the police decide to detain the young person, the matter will go before a judge in the Youth Court. The Act encourages Judges to re-unite young people with their families unless there are good reasons for keeping ther in custody, — If the Youth Court judge has some doubts about whether the young person will re-appear in court for hia hearing, he may require that the young person provide a certain amount of money aga ball bond. If the young person then fails for show up for his hearing, he will lose this money. In certain cases’ the judge may decide to keep the young person in custody. (more on custody in the following article). The Young Offenders Act states that young people have a right to the ‘least interference with their {freedom that is compatible with the protection of society, as, in fact, do adults. ‘Youth Court judges, therefore, are to hold young people in custody only in cases where they believe the young person will not return for the hearing or will commit another offence. At all stages of the matter - arrest, bail hearing and trial - the young person is guaranteed the right to legal counsel by a lawyer. If the young person has not obtained the services of a lawyer, the Youth Court judge is empowered to appoint one on'his or her behalf. Under the Juvenile Delinquents Act, the right to counsel was not provided, with the result that many juveniles went through the entlre process without | legal advice. ‘When the matter comes to trial, it does not go to a regular adult court but toa Youth Court, Procedures in the Youth Court, however, are similar to those of a regular court, It ‘is-up to the prosecutor to prove . beyond a reasonable doubt that the young person did the thing of which he Is accused. The young person's lawyer may, if it is a good .. ’ idea for the defence, call witnesses” whose testimony will case doubté on” the prosecutor's case.’ But there are some important’ ’ . differences,’as well, between the . - Youth Court and a regular court, The young person's parents or guardians will be informed of the proceedings and encouraged to attend. If they do not want to do go, the Judge may order them to. The Young Offenders Act stresses that parents are responsible for their children. The trail, in most cases, will be open to the public and members of the few smedia, Reporters, however, are nol permitted to publish or broadcast any in- formation which reveals the identity of any young person involved in. the trial, including: the accused, the victim or a witness. -: Next: sentences’ Rebel ambush “glows: ‘drive -HALIFAX,(CP).~. Ken Langley | /and : Garry: Sowerby | arrived in Europe" during the “weekend and expect to reach the finat stop in their Africa to Arctic challenge Tuesday, ‘two. days behind schedule, a spokesman sald. The two 33-year-old Haligonians, who form ‘Odyasey International Lid., drove non-stop for 28 hours from Istanbul, Turkey, to Munich, Weat Germany, where they arrived Saturday, said Sandy Huntley. - On Sunday, they set out for | Copenhagen, Denmark, from where’ they will drive to Nordcapp , Nor- ” way, the end-of-the-line In te 21,000 awe kilometre.drive. i