CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 11, 1979 BS

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Message From Space

—Alcatts’ lil-Fated invasion of Earth—

By ARTHUR HOPPE

{A column in the San
Francisco Chronicle.)

THE FIRST MESSAGE
from outer space was picked up
by radio telescopes at NASA
tracking stations in Mojave,

to Saturday, Jan. 13 in. ali
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COMMENT vocrmosmcnm 7
A No-Win Dilemma

it was aout three months ago, when
the ren of confilct among members of
the region's. Doukhobor community first
became Imminent, that the staff of this
Newspaper found th ives agonizing over
a decision on coverage of a particularly
dramatic incident.

The problem with which they were

of this further restraint. The essential choice
ls between simply not printing such letters
or deleting specific comments on the case.

Two dallles in the region have adopted

_ the first erasing nee Policy t under which no
Al

letters
In an effort to rains degree of

wrestling was a familiar one for
je West K: how to

walk the hin tine between falling to Inform
adequately and increasing tensions

In a situation which threatened to polarize
the community and lead to further conflict.
It was a no-win dilemma. Castlegar

hat Incident

with Its policy for letters dealing
with other Issues, this newspaper has
adopted the latter practice. The Castlegar
News has retained Its right to edit letters to
the editor for style, bravity,
tegallty. In other words It na di
advice of tegal coun
case which are elther "I

jews of

drew the Inevitable criticlam from several
readers for exploiting or being expicited by
those who participated In it. ~

Now, following the arrest and charging
of John J. Verigin, the leader of the Union of
‘Spiritual Communities of Christ, on four
‘counts of arson conspiracy, this newapapet

of court.

This news, r adopted the latter
practice because many of the letters voice
valld and sincere opinions on topics other
than the specifics of the charges against the
USCC leader. The largor problom of which
the Verigin case (8 only bereits growing

of arson In the

faces a similar dilemma as the
the different sectors of the communiiles rH
serves gradually emerge. Last week's
Castlegar News featured a wide variety of
viewpotnts in the first of what Is expected to
be a steady stream of letters on the Verigin
ca

r It Is that
many readers have strong feelings about the
case and foe! compelled to alr thelr

It Is an fact that

comment on the case and upcoming trial,

could be Interpreted as contempt of court.

region—Is of vital importance to West
and discus-

ston.

Nevertheless, the task of censoring
readers’ letters Is as distasteful to the
censors as it is to the letters’ authors. Of
course, one way In which the authors could
avold such censorship is to avold making
comments which would be deleted. Perhaps
further letters, rather tha tempting to
discuss an issue only the courts can resolve,
shoutd concentrate the problem only local
can resolve.

As the public’s of the

Isa Issue In

Ne case, comment In tne | focal press In any
form Is liable.

To be sure, providing an opportunity for

comment Is doubly difficult with the addition

Now Is jood a time as any for
rasidents to discuss and Isolate the reason
for the conflict in the Doukhobor community
and propose measures through which It can
be resolved.

$ Flung Into the Air

(From an editorial In the Kamloops Dally Sentinel.)

{if anyone still harbors any doubts that”

the federal bureaucracy Is now bloated to an
utterly unmanageable size, he has only to

glance at a few recent statistics on the

awarding of government contracts.

Try this one on for size, for example:
the treasury board has awarded a $133,000
contract for a study ‘‘on the psychosocial
factors the
and behavior of public servants.”

There was another contract, for $24,-
000, for ‘an independent study of the pay
scales and remuneration paid to the sentor
executive officer category in the public

service of Canada and to make recommenda-
tlons thereon."

For $12,000, we have ‘independent
studies relating to the Identification of gaps
and conflicts In compensation policy and
directives, and the method to be followed in
overcoming such gaps and conflicts."*

The list goes on. And on, and on.

Now, nobody Is suggesting that ne

federal government should

California, and Bayonne, N.J.,
at 5:58 p.m, on Sunday, Oct, 22,
8.

Allit said was: “We are the
Alcatts, We are coming."

“Could this be a hoax?”
asked a nervous president,

“Absolutely not, sir,” said
his chief scientific adviser.

“Callan emergency session
of the UN," said the president
grimly.

THE SESSION WAS A
sombre one. “In order to travel
such great distances,” the di-
rector-general warned the dele-
gates, “the-Alcatts must have a
greatly superior technology. If
they attack, we won't stand a
‘chance, Shall we surrender,
then, to these alien creatures?
Or shall we fight to the last
member of our species?”

With a roar, the delegates
voted unanimously to fight,
Israelis and Arabs emotionally
embraced, as did Greeks and
Turks, Chinese and Russians,
and Koreans from both North
and South. Mankind was united
at least against a common
enemy. Around the world,
missiles aimed at neighboring
nations slowly rose to point up
into the black void of space.

EXACTLY ONE WEEK

later, the second message ar- -

rived, this time from Mars:
“For more than 60 years, we,
the Alcatts, have been ob-
serving your planet. Despite
your faults, we ‘have come to
devoutly admire you human
beings for your nobility of
spirit, your grandeur of pur-
pose and, above all, the broth-
erly love that glows within each
of you. At precisely 12:01 a.m.
tomorrow, we will land in the
plaza of your United Nations to
celebrate with you the advent
of lasting peace.”

“Mankind saved,” cried the
deadlines jubilantly. And a-
round the world blacks, whites,
yellows, browns and reds hug-
ged each other in wild joy.
‘AT PRECISELY 12:01
the following day, as thousands
jammed every nook and cranny,
a huge purple balloon floated
silently over the East River and
settled gently in the UN Plaza.

Out of the basket stepped a
kindly-looking man smoking a
pipe. He was followed by a
stout woman in a print dress.

. “Hi,” he said. “I'm Al Katz.
This is my wife, Mrs. Katz. I
invented a laser radio trans-
mitter with which I'm able to

studies. But to commission outside studies
on which mundane civil service matters Is to
fling fistfulls of taxpayers’ money aimlessly
into the air.

A proposed bylaw which would prohibit children under the age of 15 from entering an
amusement hall is referred to city council's health and welfare committee after receiving mixed

reactions from council members.
*

A six-per-cent wage increase is included in a thi

*

bounce off distant
planets, I thought I'd use it to
show everybody how easily
they-could put aside their petty

No Geritol
For These
Senior Citizens.

A 74-year-old woman re-
cently made her first parachute
jump. Another senior citizen

board's guidelines for

settlement between local teachers and School District No. 9.
eo 8 &

made a try ski trip
from Vancouver to Calgary last
winter. For some people, de-

that the rest of sociely is

-differences and achieve a last-
ing peace by simply. realizing
they were all members of the
same little species adrift in a
boundless universe. Isn't this
wonderful?”

(An editorial in the Ed-
monton Journal.)

THE PROBLEM WITH
kids’ “sports is ‘that adults
invariably get: involved, and
when they do they bring all the
complications and absurdities
of their world.

Gail Cummings, a Hunts-
ville, Ontario girl who is now
12, was picked to play goal on
an. otherwise all-boy all-star
hockey team. She played in four
games, apparently winning at
least one by shutout, and ob-
viously she and her friends
were having one heck of a time,

Until the adults got in-
volved. The Ontario Minor
Hockey Association refused to
certify Gail as a player because

you
probably tue. ... but they are in charge.”

, WELL, THE CROWD,
which had come to see alien
creatures, naturally felt cheat-
ed, and a growling mob prompt-
ly tore Mr. and Mrs. Katz limb
from limb.

As for the delegates, they
went back inside to accuse each
other angrily of plotting the
entire episode, Within a week,
three brushfire wars, two bor-
der contlets and the usual

The Adults Butt In Again

Showing Those Uppity Females

she was—shudder—a girl ina
sport with an all-male tradition.

THAT WAS TWO YEARS
ago, and Gail has been in the
middle of a raucous debate ever
since. Gail's mother took the
case to the Ontario Human

won. The court decided the
facilities offered by the OMHA
were not open to the public,
thus the organization had the
right to exclude girls,

SAID THE COURT: “THE
actly offered by the OMHA is

Rights Cr which
ruled the boys-only tradition
violated a section of the Human

- Rights Code that says no one

can be denied access to public
services and facilities because
of his or her sex.

The OMHA, perhaps fear-
ing a female assault on the
private enclave of the sport,
appealed and, after a hearing
before the Ontario Supreme
Court chief justice and- two
other judges, the organization

program for the
Bianiotion of boys’ hockey—it is
nota facility available for girls’
hockey or integrated hockey or

. even hockey in general, but a

facility restricted to a specific
objective, that is, hockey for
boys within certain age groups.
“Surely a volunteer organi-
zation of this nature has the
right to limit the scope of its
activities and, cannot be com-
pelled ‘ to : provide - tocility’
which | it “has “no desire ”

mad is

number of terrorist attacks had
been launched.

SO IT WAS HARDLY’
any time at all before the highly
adaptable human species had
restored everything to normal.

undertake; for which there is
no great demand and the imple-
mentation of which may well
destroy an organization which
has contributed much to the
development of young boys.”

"$0 THAT'S THE FINAL
word (up to this point), Ontario-
style. The entire minor hockey
bureaucracy is not big enough
to tolerate a girl playing within
it; moreover the fabric of our
national winter pastime could
be rent if we let kids play the
game their way instead of the
way adults set it up. These
uppity girls don't.realize that
minor hockey is a factory
system to churn out potential
pros, not a way tolet kids enjoy
sport.

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