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Courting Criticism

{n @ recent: column in the Kamloops
News, Mel Rothenburger recounted an
incident reflecting an occupational hazard
common to newspaper editors.

“Irate fellow came in the other day
demanding to know why his name was in the
Paper,” Rothenburger wrote. "He'd been
charged with assaulting a police officer and
with swearing and shouting in public.

“As he swore and shouted at me, he
couldn't figure out why he always ‘got his
fname In the paper every time he was hauled
before a judge ‘for some little thing.’ He had
aright to keep his name out of the paper,
he said, and we'd better shape up.” :

Of course, visitors to the Castlegar
News voicing similar complaints about local
courts coverage are decidedly less
belligerent. They are usually soflspoken and
embarrassed and are often apologetic
emissories of others facing or being
sentenced on criminal charges. (Example:
“My brother got busted for possession and if
our father finds out he'll kill him... ")

Nevertheless, along with a letter by one

number of local residents aro interested, and
praising the failure of another newspaper to
provide coverage In that area as a virtue.

Not thot this newspaper takes a
porticular joy in reporting the assorted
criminal code offences and misdemeanors
that occur in the Castlegar area,

In fact, Castlegar News editoral staff os
recently as last summer were involved in
extensive discussions on whether it was
worthwhile for this newspaper to continue
reporting local court proceedings. But a local
RCMP detachment member involved in the
discussions argued persuasively that running
court news served as a surprisingly effective
deterrent of further offences by the same
individuals named in the. reports. Ofenders
will have second thoughts about further
offences, the RCMP member argued, if they
are'exposed to public scrutiny for their acts.

{tis this public scrutiny that a number of
those involved in such cases are unable to
accept. As the recent charging and conviction
of Mr. Justice E. Davie Fulton of the B.C,
Supreme Court for impaired driving pointed
out no divid ith the

—Joe and Pier

By RICHARD JACKSON

{A column in the Victoria
Duily Times.)

WITH . THE EXPERI-
ence of two Parliaments and
seven years in the House of
Commons seasoning him poli-
tically, Allan McKinnon, Con-
servative MP for Victoria,
simply shook his head and
shrugged at the question.

Why were the Conserva-
tives letting the Liberals run
with the proposition that the
oncoming federal election will
be fought on the issue of
leadership?

More to the point, why
were they taking, with no
comeback, the kidding the
Liberals were giving Joc Clark
as some clueless boob from the
boonies? ‘

ALLAN McKINNON, THE
Conservative defence critic and
former Army officer, might be
expected to mount an offensive,
or al least wonder why the
Opposition seemed to have no
counterattack. i

But the question stopped
him as it has’ stumped other
leading Conservatives.

Some leadership when the
best the Liberals have come on
with has been a boring repe-
tilion of how Joe Clark lost his
luggage and allowed his press
parly to.run out of booze on his
round-the-world trip.

Just s to show you,
laugh the Liberals, how silly.
Joe would look on the inter-
national stage. Imagine Joe at a
meeting of world leaders, the

F, M, Miller of Castlegar which ap din
another area newspaper recently, those
visits. ° reveal .on unfortunate
misunderstanding of the entire point of court
news coverage.

Citing the "Mickey Mouse attitude” of
the Castlegar News in this field, the Miller
letter described this newspaper as "the only
one which still sells papers by the number of
columns it can fill with the local court
happenings.” After suggesting court news
appears “through the insistence of the local
police," the author commended: the
newspaper in which the letter appeared for
its" 1 1

of such
heartbreaking tragedies that befall so many
of us.”

Itis pointless to speculate on what direct
or indirect effect such coverage has had on
the author of the letter. But it is necessary to
question F. M, Miller's rationale for likening
to a Walt Disney character the legitimate
coverage of proceedings in which a” large

p of i los'S or defend
protected by special restrictions imposed by
the court—is exempt from that consequence
of an offence.

It is easy to sympathize with ‘the Miller.

letter's statement that regular coverage of

. Such proceedings can be tragic and

heartbreaking for the parties involved. But
using the some logic, it is equally "Mickey
Mouse" to report the tragic and
heartbreaking traffic accidents, disasters and
most of the other forms of human activity in
which the average newspaper reader takes
aninterest. -

Above all, it must be remembered that
those who resent the listing of their names in
local court news can easily prevent further
embarrassments by no longer getting hauled
up in court.

As the editor of the Kamloops News
Pointed out, if you go before the judge the

medio have every right to tell the public
it thes :

about it.

Here We Go Again —

{From an editorial last week in the Arrow Lakes News.)

8.C. Hydro isat it again.

They just can’t leave well enough
alone. Now, they are digging out of the
closet the Murphy Creek dam proposal. 3

In an announcement Monday, Hydro°
says thot field studies, coupled with in-
house studies will be completed this sum-
mer to determine the feasibility of the
project. The studies will determine
whether or not to seek government ap-
proval or a water licence.

The Murphy Creek dam would be
located on the Columbia River just three
miles upstream from Trail and would cap-

eer ie

ture a short portion of the free flow of the
Columbia below the Hugh Keenleyside
dam at Castlegar,

The Murphy Creek proposal has long
been a possibility but one which many felt
would ‘never become a reality because of
the size of the potential.

Hydro has knocked the stuffing out of
the Columbia now and do not seem to want
to quit until they have completely
destroyed the river,

looks like we have another fight on
our hands. :

Castlegar News Headlines from one year ago:

A senior CanCel executive denies the city's claim that the company is legally bound to help

secure a new water supply for Castlegar. -
ae *

Radiation expert says radiation in Castlegar’s water supply would be considered “borderline” on
ot i

a hazardous level if proper wert

by the federal

and French presi-
dents, the British prime minis-
ter and the rest, chuckles
Externa) Affairs Minister Don
Jamieson — what a speetaclel

BUT SPEAKING OF
spectacles abroad, how about
Prime Minister Trudeau, run-
ning around: London's clubs
with a lady of questionable
repute on his first trip to
Britain?

Or his slide down the
bannister at Marlborough
House during a Commonwealth
Conference?

And how about his piro-
uette behind the Queen's back
when going into dinner at
Buckingham Palace?

So let not the Liberals con
the public mind with belly
laughs about lost luggage as a
measyre of leadership abroad.

BUT HOW ABOUT SPEC-
tacles at home?

Like marriage.

* Trudeau and the footloose

home Maureen.
Or what about self-control?
Trudeau, angered by the
Montreal mail truck drivers
picketing Parliament Hill, roll-
ing down the window of his
-armored limo and bawling:
“Manger le merde?” a
. Trudeau and his “fuddle
duddle” across the floor of the
Commons, which everyone
there who saw and heard it
knew wasn't anything like

“fuddle duddle?”
TRUDEAU, IN A POUT,
mouthing “nasties” at George
Hees and others in opposition

‘|'who can get under his skin,
then throwing himself down in.

a small-boy snit.
What's he done to offend?
much,

OK, let's drop’ the nit-
picking. Accept leadership as

the issue, as the Liberals insist.

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re: Contrasts in Leaders—

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WE OFFER THE.
PEOPLE OF CANADA A”
CLEAR ALTERNATE!

LEADERSHIP, 11 YEARS
ago when, ‘to borrow a Liberal

“phrase, “the land was strong.”

Optimism, a future of promise,
a confident economy. At least
the appearance of unity. Now .
we have weakness everywhere

{An editori
loops Daily Ser

AHOCKEY TEAM FROM
North Vancouver was taught a
tough lesson early Friday morn-
ing by B.C, Winter Games
officials.

Booze and sports don't
mix. :

The North Vancouver club
was suspended from the Winter
Games after members were
found drinking beer in the dor.

in the Kam-
i)

we had strength when Trudeau
took over,

And one of the ironies of.
the worsening scenario is that
Trudeau attributes what small
successes there have been to
his leadership, while all our

failures are shucked off’ on
external circumstances beyond
his control,

JOE CLARK MIGHT NOT
have made a big impression
abroad. But say this for him: he
didn't come off as high-handed,

Rude Awakening for Beer-Drinking Hockey Club

A Lesson They'll All Remember

matory at NorKam Senior
Secondary.
After a meeting of the

were going home in disgrace at
1:30 a.m.

OFTEN IN SUCH CIR-
a, group of offen-

games 'y
late Thursday night, the 18
players, aged 17 to-19, were
sent home with their coaches on
a chartered bus at 1:30 a.m.
Friday. f

The club members, whose
initial reaction was “Hey, you
can’t do this to us,” became a
subdued bunch of young men
when they discovered they

ders are given one more
chance, a warning so to speak,
Games officials don't take this
route. Their decision is quick
and harsh and so it should have
been,

As Brian Green, accommo-
dations chairman for NorKam
said: “They knew the rules
before they came.”

flippant and a political playboy,

An international measure
of Trudeau: The London, (En-
gland) Sunday Express, with
its multi-million circulation, has
called Trudeau “an“tnpleasant

and disagreeable little creep,”

Other organizers agreed
that this should set an example
to other competitors that the
games committee will enforce
the regulations. *

It was extremely  impor-
tant that this precedent be set
right at the beginning of the

mes,

THERE IS NO DOUBT
the games are a booming suc-
cess. Organizers, volunteers,
participants’ and spectators
have combined to make it an
event to not just for

l Another Landmark Decision
For Labor Relations in B.C.

{An editorial in the Vie-
toria Daily Colonist.) :

LABOR DISPUTESSOME-,
times produce ludicrous argu-
ments, Even so, it would be
hard to top one offered recently
in defence of a prison guard at
Mission. :

The guard was suspended
from duty for two days when he
failed to detect two dummies in

be sleeping there were else-
where escaping.

In the grievance over the
suspension, an appeal board
was told the guard “was given
no formal training in detecting
dummies.” z

. That is a tempting open-
ing. Still, let it pass because
there's more. The. guard also
suggested -his-own breath, in

fail-cell. beds. while. the pri- ,.the-beam.of his flashlight: held
soners who were supposed to * ‘ned his head, might have been

responsible for his impression
that he saw movement in the
beds,

- The defence argued, in a
losing cause, that other guards
were fooled by the same
dummies, which were “realisti-
cally — perhaps artistically
constructed.”

Perhaps the real explana-
tion is that this ‘escape, this
exercise in imagination, took

- place on New Year's Eve.

area residents, but all-of B.C,

The numerous snags that
are bound to happen in any
event that involves so many
people are being ironed out
quickly. The next centre that
stages the winter games will
have an excellent example to
follow.

The tough decision by the
disciplinary committee. is an
important part of this example
which will make it easier for
future organizers to face and
handle any similar occurences.

THE GAMES OFFICIALS
are to be congratulated for

making a decision that we're °

sure was as hard on them as it
was the hockey ‘team . from
North Vancouver.

Margaret. Joe and the stay-at-,

The list goes on. But Joe? |

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