PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Tuesday, December 6, 1977

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Vandalism And
Organized Crime

Many - perhaps most of
us, vhen we think of
crime think, first of all of
Mafia-type organized
crime as being the major
threat to Canadian
society.

Meanwhile, however,
an ominous trend in
crime has developed that
has grown - and continues
to grow - beneath our
very noses that poses
much more of a threat to
the average Canadian -
juvenile crime.

The dollars and cents
damage and costs to the
citizenry is ~no. longer
penny-ante stuff. It is not
only running into millions
of dollars a year; nor
“Just” tens of millions of
dollars - it has reached
proportions approaching
the HUNDREDS of
millions of dollars per
year in Canada, alone.

To the South - in the
United States - statistics
lace it now in the

ILLIONS of dollars
annually the cost to the
public caused by van-
dalism, theft, muggings,
beatings, murders, drug
traffiking, automobile
and other vehicular
accidents and thefts of
vehicles from
snowmobiles to
planes.

Wein Terrace are in no
way exempt from this
sinister growth; this
creeping upsurge in
senseless vandalism and
juvenile-caused crime. It
is not only happening to
“those guys down the
street”; it is happening
right now, to our neigh-
bour, and the young - but
nonetheless devastating -
offenders are even now
looking in our windows
“casing the joint’ - as
well as checking out our
cars and our lifestyle.

What is needed is NOT
“another commission”.

air-

We need organization for
action of a responsible
intelligent sort at the
local level.

In the coming days we
shall attempt to carry a
series of editorials in
which positive, remedial
approaches will be looked
a

We ask our readers to
send in their comments ta
us at the Daily Herald
office so that we can
assess local interest and
reader reaction. We need
to know how the com-
munity of Terrace feels
on the subject of van-

‘dalism and juvenile

crime. If there is local
apathy there will be little
we can do effectively,
towards a solution. If
there is public response
of an affirmative nature,
the exercise could prove
worthwhile.

We need to hear from
the parents - as well as
the ‘“‘juveniles'’; the
churches as well as the
schools (in Prince Rupert
last month the Roman
Catholic Church was
brutally desecrated;
human filth was spread
throughout and the
tabernacle and chalice
removed and smashed
beyond repair. The
Anglican cathedral was
twice vandalized the
same month. At Port
Edward most of the
school windows had to be
replaced with plywood
until new glass could be
shipped in to replace
broken panes).

We also would like to
hear the views of the

businessmen, olice,
social workers, doctors,
psychologists, teachers

and public health officials
- all whose jobs and
professions require them
to mix and move and
work with
vandalize.

Unusual News

BALTIMORE (AP) —
Two bandits got $33 and
more than they
bargained for when they
invaded a West
Baltimore home.

The bandits handcuffed
Richard English, 24, and
his brother Leroy, 25,
together after breaking
into the house.

When the = robbers
demanded money, the
two brothers suggested
that one of them search
the hause with 13-year-old
Denise Powell, the
English brothers’ half-
sister.

While Denise was
upstairs with one robber,
the handcuffed pair
“charged” the other rob-

ber, and shoved him
through a first-floor
window.

At the same time,
Denise pushed the sur-
prised second robber off a
second-storey porch.

The bandits fled as a
neighbor appeared on the
scene, and police have
not found them.

LAKEMORE,
(AP) ad William
(Grandpa) Goddard,
who, at age §1, has
outlived two wives, is
looking for another. And
this time he’s going to
Mexico.

“IT guess [ll advertise
in some Mexican papers
for a wife," said God.
dard. “That way I'll geta
better choice.” -

His daughter, “Elinor
McCardle, anda waitress
a a eur he

equents are going to
teach him enough Suan:

Ohio

r

ish to get along in Mexico.
What's the age limit for
a potential bride?

‘Well, let’s say 18 to
80,” he said. ‘“You better
make that 21 instead of
18. I don't want people to
think I’d rob the cradle. I
don’t want to leave
anybody out:

“The only thing is the
older they are, the richer

they have to be.”

MIAMI, Fla. (AP) —
Milton Facen was
scheduled to be tried this
week for allegedly killing
a man over a game of
craps. But he won't be in
court. He was shot to
death in another dice
game.

Facen, 51, had been
charged with the July 29
slaying of James Dukes.
The two men argued over
8 dice game in a Miami
bar, and police said Fa-
cen shot Dukes as he
walked across the bar’s
parking lot.

Facen was charged
with firstdegree murder
and was freed on bail,

Homicide Detective
Louis Vasquez said
Facen was shooting dice
again Saturday. this time
in front of his house. Also
playing were an
unidentified man and
Anthony McCloud, 19.

Facen and McCloud
apparently argued, and
McCloud left only to
return and shoot Facen in
the back, Vasquez said.

McCloud was charged
with first-degree murder
after Facen died Sunday
at Jackson Memorial
Hospital.

those who

Briefs

DERED

LONDON (Reuter) —
An Ethiopian trade union
official was assassinated
in the Ethiopian capital
Saturday, Addis Ababa
radio reported Sunday.
The radio, monitored
here, said Kebede Gebre
Mikael, chief treasurer of
the All-Ethiopian trade
union, was killed by
“anti-popular” forces on
the way home from his
office.

PLANT EXPLODES

NEW DELHI (Reuter)
-— Twenty persons suf-
fered minor burns when a
factory which produces
heavy water for nuclear

wer plants exploded

turday night in the
Indian town of Baroda,
the Samachar news
agency said Sunday.

SMOKE IN PEACE

JERUSALEM
(Reuter) — Israeli
government ministers

puffed contentedly at
their pipes and cigarettes
at Sunday's weekly
cabinet meeting, taking
advantage of the absence
of Prime Minister
Menachem Begin, who
does not allow smoking.

FAMED SCIENTIST

DIES

MOSCOW (Reuter) —
One of the Soviet Union's
leading scientists, Dr.
llya Vekua, known for his
research in mathema-
tical physics, has died
after a long illness. He
was 70. In 1964, Vekua,
who died Friday, was
awarded the Lenin prize,
the Soviet Union’s highest
mark of distinction for
scientists.

BIRD SAVES LIVES

URAWA, Japan
{Reuter) — A noisy
mynah bird gave the
alarm and saved his
owner and 18 other
persons when fire de-
stroyed two wooden
houses here Sunday,
police said.

DEVALUE PESO

SANTIAGO (Reuter) — -

The Chiledh govertitnent
has devalued its currency
by 4.3 per cent compared
with the U.S. dollar. It
fixed a new exchange
rate of 27.39 pesos a
dollar Saturday. The
previous rate was 26.23.

OARSMAN DIES

LONDON (AP) — Jack
Beresford, 78, Britain’s
best-ever racing oar-
sman, died Saturday at
his-home, his family said.
He competed in five
Olympics between 1920
and 1936, winning three
gold and two silver med-
als in single and double
sculls, fours and eights.
He won the coveted
diamond scull at Henley
Royal Regatta four times
and was a record seven-
times winner of the
amateur sculling
championship of the
Thames.

DISPUTES NUMBERS

ROME (Reuter) —
When Christopher
Columbus set sail on his
voyage of discovery to
the New World in 1492 he
went with four—not
three—ships, Italian
historian Marinella Bon-
vini Mazzanti said
Sunday. She said a letter
from the ambassador of
Naples to the Spanish
court dated March9, 1493,
states a certain
Columbus just returned
from the “Indies” with
four vessels.

Censored

KITCHENER, Ont.
(CP) — Mailing room
employees at The Record
used black felt pens to
cover the lower portion of
a scantily-clad woman
whose picture appeared
in the Weekend magazine
supplement.

K.A. Baird, publisher
of The Record, said the
blacking of the picture in
70,000 copies of the
weekend supplement was
done because ‘“‘in our
view the picture would
have been unacceptable
to a significant number of
our readers.”

Last week, employers
at Hamilton Spectator
and Brantford Expositor
used black felt pens to
remove the word bugger
in a comic strip. About
200,-000 copies were
altered at the two papers.

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Voice of the readers

Dear Sir:

Some claim ours is a
sick society.

Many of us are sick of
having policemen
ridiculed and called ‘pigs’
while copkillers are
though of as folk heroes.

We are sick of hearing
the following. things -.

- Religion is the opiate
of the-- people but
marijuana should he
legalized!

- Pornography is th
right of the free press, but
this freedom doesn ot
include religious
freedom.

Commentators,
columnists,
revolutionaries and
criminal rapists etc,
condemn aw en-
forcement, where certain
criminals are brought to
justice.

More and more taxes
are paid to build schools,
but some faculty
members encourage
students to riot, etc.

Criminals are turned
leose on society, and
some laws take away our
means of protecting
homes and families.

Policemen are mad
dogs who shovld NOF
have guns, but criminals
with such weapons, who
kill, maim ete should be
understood and helped
hack to society.

It is wrong to use
napalm to end wars, BUT
a molotov cocktail or
bomb at home, why
they're 0.K., when one is
provoked. Families
cannot go to movies
unless they wish to be
exposed.to — nudity,
homosexifity, and the
Blorification of narcotics.

Drug Breakthroug!

CHICAGO (AP) —
Medical science may be
on the verge of a major
breakthrough in devel-
oping a new class of

ugs to cure virus
diseases for which there
currently is no treatment,
says the Journal of the
American Medical
Association.

An editorial by the
Journal's editor, Dr.
William, Barclay, says
the drugs may have as
great ,an impact as
penicilfin and other
antibiotics did in stopping
bacterial infection a
generation ago.

Dr. Barclay says two
antiviral drugs show
great promise, aman-
tadine hydrochloride for
the treatment of in-
fluenza and vidarabine
for the treatment of
herpes simplex _ in-
fections, which cause
skin blisters.

Pot taking entertainers
deluge us with their
condemnations of our
moral. standards on late
night T.V.

Riots, marches,
protests, demonstrations,
confrontations belong to

people who are in-
tellectually incapable of
working within our
system.

The same _ phrases,
slick slogans are charted
by people, who haven't
the capacity of ver-
balizing thought.

The reading also of so-
called modern literature,
is like the writing on the
walls of public toilets and
also sickens many of us.

Some also say we owe
them this and that - I
refer to our native people.
Some also are cynical as
regards patriotism - but
we are sick of politicians
with no backhone.

We are also sic of
permissiveness, the
dirty, the foul mouthed
and the unwashed. We
are sick of the decline of
personal honesty, per-
sonal integrity and
human sincerity. .

Most of all, though
we're sick of being told
we're sick. Yes, some of
us, who are straight may
seem sick, but we are the
kind who can help our
society get well, and also
our country.

You will not find cer-
tain of us, throwing rocks:
or bombs under placards,
taking to the streets,
ranting to wild-eyed
mobs, BUT you will find
us at work, paying taxes,
serving in the com-
munity whre we live. We
are also to be found
expressing our anger and

“The entrance of both
these drugs on to the
therapeutic scene has
been more gradual and
less dramatic than was
the introduction of
penicillin and strep-
tomycin, but the
ultimate impact on
medical practice may be

just as great or even
greater,’ Dr. Barclay
says.

The two drugs show, he
says, ‘that agents can be
found that selectively
damage virus particles
without injury to mam-
malian cells.’

“If we should enjoy the
same success in
developing additional
anli-viral agents in the
future as we have in
developing antibacterial
agents in the past, then
we will have conquered
most of the diseases that
shorten the normal life
span.”

indignation to elected
officials. You will find us,
speaking in support of
those officials, in-
stitutions and _per-
sonalitites who help to
elevate society, and not to
destroy it. You will find
us giving our time,
money and personal
influences to helping

churches, hospitals,
charities, and other
similar establishments,
which help to ease pain,
and _ suffering and
eliminate hunger and
generate brotherhood.
But, most of all, you'll
fund us at the polling
lace. There, you can

ar the thunder of the

commen man. There, we
can all cast our vote for a
country where children
will be educated and not
indoctrinated - for a
country of brotherhood
and understanding - for a
country that puts its trust
in God.

“Public Minded”

Petawawa,

| OTTAWA OFFBEAT |

Ottawa, — It may be
only a strange and
isolated incident — or
it may be the shape of
things to come ~ but
English-French
friction along the
Quebec-Ontario border
in the National Capital
Region has reached
the stage of naked
hostility.

An English-speaking
trooper, Bert Reed, 17,
of Eighth Canadain
Hussars Armored
Brigade, posted at
Armed Forces Base

from the Quebec
border and 200 from
Montreal, has been
savagely beaten by 10
French-speaking

toughs in a bar in
Gatineau, Quebec, a
mill town across the
Ottawa River from the
National Capital.

So brutally was he
savaged when they put
the boots tohim that he
suffered a skull
fracture, may lose an
eye, and sustained
groin injuries
requiring surgery.

In_ retaliation, a
flying squad of 24
troopers from
Petawawa rolled into
Gatineau. and
“bombed”? with
“thunderflashes”  —
simulated - heavy
impact field explosives
—- a house where the
leader of the gang of
toughs lived. ;

There were no in-
juries and little
damage.

But a ‘“mini-war’”’
was on between the
Petawawa _ English-
speaking troopers and
the French-speaking
Gatineau gang. .

It is still raging in
the courts, military
and civil, and there is a
slow-burn of racial
rage smouldering
along this section of
the Ontario-Quebec
border. , ..

10 miles ©

wht Atte

The threatened
separation of Quebec
from the other nine
provinces and two
territories which
would cut Canada in
two is stoking up the
heat.

Trooper Reed, who
lives. in Gatineau, was
on weekend leave from
Petawawa and told
Quebec police he was
in the bar when he was
clouted on the head by

‘a flying ashtray, then

attacked by the 10
toughs.

Police confirmed
that it was a gang
assault without mercy.

Under their poun-
ding and kicking, he
told police he heard
them shouting
“Maudit Anglais’’
(bloody English) as he
passed out.

Friends were forced
to pay $56 before an
ambulance would take
him to hospital.

Police arrested four
of the 10 toughs who, if
convicted of a variety
of assault charges,
could do up to five
years in jail,

While one squad of
police was arresting

the four attackers in’

the bar, another squad
raided trooper Reed’s
home where, reported
his mother, they ‘‘tore
the place apart,”
confiscatingtwo
hunting rifles and her
barber’s scissors.

Since then, she says,
she has complained to
police about groups of
young toughs hanging
around her home
nights, swinging
bicycle chains.

Quebec police, she
reports now, have done
nothing except press
civilian charges
against the MW
Petawawa troops who
“thunderflashed” the

gang's hangout.

And this despite
action taken by
military authorities at
Petwawa against the
troopers, involving
fines of up to $300,
detention for up to
eight days in barracks,
and demotions.

Quebec Police In-
spector Yves Prejent
says this is not penalty
enough, so is pursuing
furhter charges in
Ontario.

Both police and
troopers agree that on
the “night of the
thunderflashing,’’ the
soldiers phoned and
warned they would be
raiding the hang
hangout.

The troopers claim
the police laughed and

“said we'd be doing

rough a favor by
roughing up the gang
which had been giving
them and the town a lot
of trouble.”

But police insist that
when the troopers
called with their raid
warning, they were
told to keep out of
town.

The atmosphere in
the National Capital on
both sides of the On-
tario-Quebec border
has become pretty
tense since the ‘*mini-
war.”

A few ontario cars
are being run off
Quebec roads or
damaged in parking
lots: and some Quebec
cars are getting
retaliatory treatment
on the Ontario side af
the border.

The danger of the
situation is heightened
by the'fact that if there
is need to call out the
troops in the erisis at
threatened Quartus
separation, the Air
borne Regiment, tlown
in recently feo td
monton, Alberta,
Petawawa, would be
wed. Bovder bload ws
up and its bad