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“LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Sir:

Terrace Little Theatre would like to thank you for all the publicity -you so generously give us during the year. We would especially like to thank

n Gregg for his frequent coverage of our productions. aeoay Bhs a rie na ives up his own time to attend rehersals and take pictures, and all this Is Gone, by. the Herald aso pu

at the EM, Lee on June ist; Thé:proceeds from that

senting doen going toward | the cast and crew’ of “Isadora and G.B.”

erent 6 prov: ‘ATA featival in North Vancouver.

Thanks to the excellent coverage on the press and radio, the turnout was ex-

lent. .

We wish also to thank all the patrons of the T.L.T. who attended “Winners’ Circle” and helped ws raise funds. We would like you to know that thanks to you, we ralsed a total of $750.00, and were

le to send the cast and-

down to Vancouver.

well, was gratifying, Over $200 was ralsed through the efforts of auctioneer, Lionel Sears,who ako donated his tite very gratifying to I

t's very gratl! 0 live in a town where this sort of sup) is given to Theatre both irom the media, an

from the public. Now I am beginning to understand why

Terrace Little Theatreisone -

of the oldest and best established little theatres in B.C. It’s thanks to you, Terrace!

To the Editor:

Commenting on the letter written by Bill Homburg, on

the subject of- boycotting °

certaln “hot’’ goods, I am glad to see that. Mr. Hom- burg is well informed on the situation.

But, it suprises me to see that someone who is ob- viously intelligent, and Proscribes to the idea of boycotting Chilean and other goods, still insists on pur- chasing these goods. I use an old time honowred saying: "'I

can resist everything but

temptation. woo tead of turning our heads, and waiting for a miracle to take place, why don’t: we use our own

‘ strength to defeat the human

suffering and sacrifice in

- these countries. Why close

The response to the aizctiqn.:: OureyeR ‘and hope for the .

problem to go away? While these polltical factions are still in rule we must voice ourselves, else nothing will . be done. We do not need, or want, a repeat of Idi Amin,

‘Yours truly, Mike Smyth

COMMENT

’ by Greg Middleton

_ How well trained are the teachers in our schools? The B.C, Federation of Teachers and the principals of a number of schéols have been complaining to university faculties of education that the teachers

coming out of university lack practical experlence and:

the knowledge of how to deal with classroom situations.

The univeristies have also been under preasure from

"the students themselves, or atleast those students who

originally took the regular university program instead

of the one watered down for the‘education students, to’

improve the _ teacher-training courses,

The giat of the complaints is that teachers are going out into schools without getting enough knowledge about the problems they were likely to face in the classroom or enough experience in classrooms,

. The education departments are trying to do what they can to change this with new programa but change in hard and slow to come by in these most con- servative of university faculties, ‘

‘Univerelty education professors are even more.

conservative than many teachers. For the most part these teachers of teachers are those who have ccn- Yinued on in summer education coursed and worked vhrough the school system and into the university.

Some, however, have either never taught or not been in a classroom in years, For the most part they both have, if any academic qualifications at all, only graduate training in the education faculty, which is another watered-down version of a real academic program.

And so you have the under-educated, under-trained, unwilling to go out and face any other part of the world, going into education because they lack imagination or courage.

These are your novice teachers, And what are they

facing? That is another column,

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OTTAWA OFFBEAT |

BY RICHARD’ JACKSON

TORONTO (CP) -- Ontario's doctors are walking a legal and moral

tightrope .when their pledge of confidentiality toa patient clashes with a duty to protect the public,

The dilemma hegins with the Canadian Medical Association’s code of ethics, which says. ‘a'doctor should keep in confidence information

. derived from: his patient or from. a colleague, . well, under’ the Health Disciplines Act, a doctor ig not allowed to volunteer confidential information about his patient’s condition,

However, the in- formation can be revealed when the patient

gives permission and when the law requires it under force of a warrant or under authority of a court, .

But recently this pledge of confidentiality. has come under question.

A London, Ont., police officer testified that a former psychiatric patient might have been prevented from com- mitting seven sex mur- ders had his psychiatrist warmed police that the man was dangerous.

A week later, an On- tario Supreme Court judge noted that a man described as a walking firebomb was allowed

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enough freedom to enable him to set a fire in a Toronto psychiatric hospital that burned — another patient to death, And in the same week,

’ the Ontario Appeal Court told doctors that they -

could expect no special privilege if they break the law by volunteering to po- liée confidential médical

{Information about their

patients. Medical information has been kept confidential

to prevent unscrupulous persons with access to ‘medical records from using them to damage the - reputation of political candidates, discredit job seekers or simply embar- . -rass patients before friends or relatives. However, Dr. Fred Jensen, a psychiatrist at a Toronto mental health centre, doubts whether informing the police or putting a patient in’ jail will protect the public in the long run. “7 don't know how

many people are prevented from com- mitting subsequent

erimes by being put in prison for a short time,” Jensen says. “I don't know whether we. as

’ therapists don’t do a

better job of protecting the public by keeping them (offenders) in therapy.

CONFIDENTIALLITY

“The fear is, if a law makes disclosure (to pelice)-a requisite, people who suffer from severe disturbances would never go toa psychiatrist in the first place, And if they

. did, they would never tell him about serious crimes

portunities there were of helping. defuse _ the patient’s agression.

“We can help the patient develop alternate ways of expressing anger. When you see this hap- pening, it's hard to say this isn’t the best way of protecting society,”

A committee of psychiatrists under Jensen's chairmanship has developed a set of guidelines for the Ontario royal commission on the confidentiality of. health records,

The guidelines admit the need to go to the police in the case of a serious threat. _

“Tf convinced the patient is serigus and cannot be dissuaded from a major criminal act, the psychiatrist has -the responsibility to. take all the steps necessary to th- wart the patient in his goal,” Jensen says.

Under the guidelines, one solution is ta commit

" of the patient.

- suade him to surrender to —

. psychiatrist should in-

_ be weighed against each’ "oth

_ losers,’*

the patient to a. mental institution, But if that's impossible - the psy- chiatrist should inform the intended victim and the police, who should be Biven the patient's cer- tificate, thereby enabling Involuntary commitment

However, if a patient. confesses,-.to. a+,seriousy . offence, the psychiatrist should attempt to per-

police. Otherwise, the

form the patient that it is a doctor's duty to divulge this information to the authorities — a course of action outside the law.

Jensen admits that if doctors act in good faith, then “surely the Jaw Is ultimately going to protect us,"’

Meanwhile, police note the difficulty of deciding whether doctors shoul give up confidential in- formation.

Supt. John Reid of the Metropolitan Toronto police force says the

ttom line must be left to common sense. Public and private rights must .

er. .. "If everyone got the. feeling they couldn’t talk to a doctor or a pevehiatrist, then ,in the ong run we'd all be

: Over ment taxes you to get the capital so that it can go into: business with one of its crown corporations or other agencies in competition with you or your employers: and then.taxes your firm’s profits and your ‘pay to cover itslosses, 2

That used. to be an. old business: . joke; But no longer. © . Co op aa And. business, .bruised and bullied - by ~ the. . bureaucracy that even governments now can't.ceen) to control,-is fighting back, 9 While Parliament was out of business in these recent weeks and the politicians campaigned for power, & new organization, The Business Council On National Issues issued a manifesto on how to wres' control out of the greedy grip of the bureaucrats anc return it to Parliament. . og, The council comprises the chief executive officers and presidents of 140 different national corporations. It published a brochure. oe Then presented it to a national preas conference in Ottawa. — . EL For individual attention where-it might_count moat,

Ottawa,-Capital punishment is. when: the govern

4 itcaused to he loaded onto the jet of each of the leaders ” of the major parties campaigning across the country,

a bundle of these brochures, pee cats This made it directly available to the three leaders, . their advisors and the press parties covering the campaigns. oe anaes For saturation covetage where it mattered most {n° terms of future parliamentary votes-should the. Council’s ideas be taken up~copies were sent to every candidate. - . - “oh The Council’s presentation to the national preag conference in Ottawa was overseen by Bell Canada’g Chief Executive Otticer and Chairman of the Board;- A. Jean De Grandpre. : " It was a big, thoughtful brochure, packed with suggestions for making Parliament more responsibig -

. to the government and the people electing it.

To put the parliamentary house in order, the Counci} suggested it. be placed on a regular working schedule

_like any other business enterprise.

Since Parliament now generally has become ac: cepted by the taxpayers as a full time enterprise, the - Council proposed fixed terms for adjournment fot . Easter and Christmas holidays with perhaps a short summer vacation break. ot a

But none of this time off should be longer or shorter;- but instead correspond to the average enjoyed by a.

- representative cross section of Canadians. :

With three time-outs predetermined, the Council then would have Parliament get down to work on a regular five-week cycle. .

Three of those weeks would be for regular alttings of

‘ the Commons, one for House Committee hearings and

the fifth for adjournment, this not to be used: for slipping out to the cottage in summer or down to Florida in winter, but for home-work in the con:

stituency. . ; SO} The- Council, like every recent government, notes

., that: under the constraints of time,and the immenge, “workload, Parliament simply can't cope with: the"

Estimates and the Budget. 7 As a result, both slip by with too little study and a lack of understanding, so that even the government's financial] officers admit taxing and spending are long far gone beyond control. To restore fiscal order to government business the’ Council wants a five-year advance overview of ex- penditures drafted by Treasury Board for Parliament. - Distrustful--and with good. reason-of the. Bureaucracy voracious appetite for power and control | at any price-the Council asks that such bodies as the

. Economic Council of Canada be allowed pre-budget

submissions to a special Senate-Commons Committee on financial planning. : . Finally, the Council urges that deputy ministers and other senior mandarins be made available to’

Smoking controversy cause,

the battle lines are drawn |

TORONTO (CP) — Dr.

Donald Bews, a former.

medica] director for Bell Canada wh campaigned for years to get the utility to adopt smoking restrictions, Waa once exasperated by a young man smoking in a company elevator.

He ordered the man to put out the cigarette im- mediately or he would have hitn fire ,

The offender took a long, luxurious puff before

replying: “Tm gory, air, but I don't work here.’

Bell Canada still has no -

licy on office smoking but hundreds of other companies

In fact, smoking in the work place has emerged as a major problem for cor- poration with serious im- plications for workers.

Businesses are being preased In growing numbers to segregate smokers and non-smokers, to restrict smoking to designated

areas, ot to ban it outright,

“I've come to the con- clusion that smoking in the work place is the hottest issue of all,” said Garfield Mahood, executive director of the Non-Smokers Rights Association, a Torontobased group that claims credit for a 1977 bylaw that restricted smoking in many public areas of the city.

“T'll be travelling all across the country this year and we're going ‘te make it the focus of our campaign.”

Signs of a changing at: litude toward smoking in the work place are seen everywhere,

At Merle Norman Cosmetics (Canada) Ltd. in ftearby Brampton, job ap- plicanta are tald smoking is not a beautiful habit and has no place in the beauty business.

Smoking ls. not allowed in the plant, the offices or lunch room of Sluyler Chemical Ltd. in Toronto.

If office workers at the

Canadian headquurters of Campbell Soup Co. Lfd. in Toronto want tosr ike, they can do so at their desks but only after quitting tlme.

A salesman visiting the smncke-free premises of Les Industries du Hockey Canadien 1976 Inc. in Drummondville, Que., is lkely to be given a lecture on smoking and sent away with anti-smoking Iterature.

Statistics show that cigarette consumption - is falling even as population grows.

Wholesale unlt sales in Canada fell to 619 billion cigarettes in fiscal 1978 from 62.1 billion the previous year, a small but significant drop after unbroken years of

bing sales.

A federal heaith depart- ment survey of almost 5,000 employees showed that two- thirds of non-smokers

wanted smoking restrictions

in the work place. . Elaine Stran-Kinga, staff

nurse at Manufacturers Life

Insurance Co. Ltd. in Toronto, said non-smokera are becoming more asertive, They come to her for no- amoking signs to put on their desks. ;

The Ontario government has issued guidelines aimed at imiting smoking on ‘the

job. A petition from British.

Columbia Hydro employees roduced a ban on smoking h conference rooms and at

meetings.

Tn a precedent-setting |

decision in February, a hydro employee in Toronto was awarded workmen's compensation after clalming she could not work because of office smoke.

“It’s a very touchy miat- ter," said Susan Kobor of the Toronto non-smokers group.

“Because many managers

are smokera, non-smokers:

are afraid to talk to them. They are -afrald of being labelled troublemakers and losing their jobs. So they phone us."

Parliament committees and be required to give

straight

answers to

Straight questions.

It all makes sense and saves tax dollars. ’

OUR CANADA

When the Quebec Winter Carnival: is carried on national television, Prince Edward Islanders watch

very attentively for pictures -

of the canoe race across the: St. Lawrence. Pushing and paddling a boat over and between ice floes is a feature of le Carnaval. The distance between Quebec and Levis ia approximately one mile, Prince Edward Islanders smile when they think of the nine mile Northumberland Straits separating New Brunewick.

Until the powerful ice breaker car ferries were put

into wervice early in this -

century, the only way to travel across Northumber: land Straits was in an open boat that was either »<ved

“waters. - Mail

or pushed through the icey ; and © pass. engers had to get through in winter, oe

When. the water . was open, they would row the boat. When it was on an ice flow they would get out

: and push while ihe nervoua

passengers would huddle and shiver, In ‘stormy

. weather or during bad ice’

conditions, the trip might

‘ take a dozen hours, Boats

sometimes were stuck all. night in the bitter cold, Sometimes, they didn’t make It at all, a

This was no sport, |

John Fisher, Executive Viee President of the Council for Canadian Unity was Canade’s Centennial Commissioner, | os

TODAY IN HISTORY

June 15, 1070

King John signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England, 764 years ago today ‘— tn 1215, The charter,

considered the most im- portant instrument of English constitutional

history, originally was [n- tended to protect’ feudal rights and stop the king from encroaching on baronial

privileges, It also guaran: teed the freedom: “ot the church and the rights of | towna and subjects, and later was interpreted to include the rights of trial by jury and habeas corpus. King ‘John later repudiated the charter, saying he had beeh coérced into signing it; the re: leased him from it and etvil war broke out,