VANCOUVER (CP) — Since 1922, every public school class in British Columbia was supposed\to begin its .. inte day with & Scripture reading and recitation of the Lord's Prayer.

The regulation has largely been ignored for years, but crops up occasionally.

Next month the Education Ministry will begin seeking public comment into whether prayers and Bible readings should be part of the school system.

The current regulations, introduced in 1922, state the school day must be opened with “a passage of Scripture” from the Bible followed by the “recitation of the Lord’s Prayer.”

West V: school ini by a parent who wants to “bring religion back into the schools,” will meet next week to find ways to follow the law

In Vancouver, Hope Wotherspoon and Ken Denike, Civic Non-Partisan Association school board candidates, announced Thursday that “prayer has never hurt anybody,” and they want the law enforced

IMPROPER TO PUSH

Spokesmen for both the United Church of Canada and the Pacific Interfaith Citizenship Association of B.C. say it is improper to push Christianity on students with other religious backgrounds or on those who don’t believe in God.

‘The prayers are ordered by Section 164 of the Public Schools Act, which also demands that “schools shall be conducted on strictly secular and non-sectarian prin ciples. The highest morality shall be inculcated, but no religious dogma or creed shall be taught.”

Teachers who don’t want to lead the prayers or Scripture readings are not required to do so. Students who don't want to follow the readings are allowed to remain silent or leave the room.

“A few teachers open with the Lord’s Prayer, but most do not,” said Dick Melville, Education Ministry spokesman.

yong c's By maw preobmety declined to outline them, but said they “will reflect tlie times we live ih.”

Pat Clarke, president of the B.C. Teachers Federa- tion, said the federation has wanted the prayers dropped for the’ past 20 years.

In West Vancouver, the prayer issue has been brought up by Nigel Barttelot.

Asked about reading the Bible to non-Christians, Barttelot said: “If they go to school, they should accept what the system is. This is a Christian country and the students should be exposed to religion.”

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Rev. Dal MeCrindie, president of the B.C. Confer- ence of the United Church of Canada and a former Prince Rupert school trustee, introduced the position adopted by the B.C. School Trustees Association's convention that prayers and readings be scrapped and replaced by a religious studies program.

“The Bible and the Lord's Prayer are acts of worship,” he said. “To have students compelled to go through an act of worship they don't follow goes against everything the United Church stands for.”

Wotherspoon and Denike are out of step with reality by insisting on enforced Bible readings, said Aziz Khaki, president of the Pacifie Interfaith group. The group includes the Council of Christian Churches, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Council of Moslem Communities plus Sikh, Hindu, Roman Catholic and Unitarian bodies.

“If we are going to have morning prayers, they should reflect the reality of our mutlicultural country, and not be strictly Christian,” said Khaki, a Sunni Moslem.

Khaki believes there should be courses on world religions in B.C. schools so students “will learn about the diversity among their own neighbors that makes Canada what it is.”

Women suffer

BOSTON (AP) — Women are more likely than men to suffer physical and emotional problems from the breakup of a romance, even when they do the jilting, a psychological study concludes.

Dr. Robin Akert of Wellesley College surveyed 344 college students about their hearaches. Not surprisingly,

, she found their level of misery depended a lot of whether they initiated the break-up, were dumped, or reached a mutual agreement to split up, she said. But in all cases, the business was usually more traumatic for women.

“I'm not saying that men are callous and cruel, that they aren't hurt at all and blithely go on with their lives,” said Akert. “But it does look like women are more upset, no matter what role they are in.”

Both men and women often feel wreteched when they get jilted. But the women tended to have more trouble adjusting to the split, regardless of who called it quits. They suffered more

over breakups

who terminated a relationship suffered physical ills afterward, compared with 26 per cent of the men who made the break. Among those who got dumped, 88 per cent of the women and 76 per cent of the men remembered these symptoms.

The study also found that the women liked to spend more time than men talking over the impending split with their mates. And the women also were interested in staying on friendly terms, while the men, in general, were not.

“Men have a different approach to this than women,” Akert said Monday. “It might be healthier to get your life started again. Women's strategy might cause them more pain.

Why women suffer more at the end of an affair was not clear. However, Akert speculated: “To some extent, it may be part of the female sex role. Women are supposed to be the nurturers, the ones who are in charge of the r i

depression and, especially, anger, than did men. They also were more apt to sleep too much or too little, lose their appetite or overeat, or suffer stomach aches, headaches and other physical woes.

The unp in part at a meeting of the American Psychological Association, was based on a survey 171 men and 173 women.

It found, for example, that 49 per cent of the women

“Men value relationships very much,” she added, “but I think that when they end, the loss is taken more philosophically by men, whereas women may place more of their self-est in their r Akert said it's possible that the women surveyed were simply more willing to acknowledge how bad they felt when affairs ended, but she doesn’t believe that can explain the differences.

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VANCOUVER (CP) — Re- searchers at St. Paul's Hos- pital have launched a $300,000 study to try to un cover the natural history of AIDS.

The one-year study into acquired immune deficiency syndrome, headed by Dr. William Boyko, will involve more than 700 homosexuals.

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Marine workers poised to strike

By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer

Marine workers at Westar Timber's Celgar Lumber Operations are getting ready to launch their first-ever strike, after contract talks between Westar management and the Guild broke off ‘Tuesday

Mediator Jim Toogood hasn't booked out of negotiations yet, but when he does, “it appears there will be a with drawal of services,” says Ed Conroy Jr., Arrow Lakes representative for the Canadian Merchant Services Guild, which represents the 30 marine workers.

Guild members voted an overwhelm ing 100 per cent in favor of strike action in a vote taken about thee weeks ago.

But Ken Halliday, Westar’s vice. president of human resources, says mediator Toogood is still involved in negotiations. Halliday said Toogood “didn't say he was asked to book out.”

Halliday says that as far as he knows, Toogood, along with Westar, is

awaiting results of a vote Saturday night by the workers on a final contract offer.

Marine workers have been without a contract since Oct.-1, 1983. The work ers do towboat work for Westar along the 322 kilometres (200 miles) of the Arrow Lakes from Revelstoke to Castlegar. About half of the members are stationed in Castlegar and half in Nakusp.

The workers have been with Westar since 1951 and have never had a strike in 38 years.

Negotiations have been taking place between the two sides for the past six months, before finally breaking off Tuesday.

Conroy says one of the reasons for the delay in negotiating a contract was because of Westar's attempt to have the Guild put into another union. But the Guild won the Labor Relations Board ruling, and when the company appealed the ruling, the Guild also won the appeal.

CALLS THEM 'POSITIVE'

By RON NORMAN Editer Koptenay West MP Bob Brisco says he's “positive” about the measures

contained in Finance Minister Michael Wilson's Thurs.

budget, which Brisco expects to be brought down in mid-February. Brisco said the economic state. ment will send a message to the small business community “that there's

day, and denies that the Tory govern ment is more concerned with reducing the deficit than unemployment.

“I'm very positive about (the econ omic statement),” Brisco said Friday in a telephone interview from his Ottawa office.

“I really have no difficulty with the financial statement.”

He said the statement has given Canadians “an indication” that the government is prepared to take control of federal spending and address the “very serious problem” of high interest rates.

Briseo called high interest rates the biggest obstacle to reducing unem ployment.

“There is no question that jobs are our primary goal, but in order to reach it we need to put the country in a position where we can afford it,” he said.

Briseo pointed out that the actual reduction in the deficit is “not really enormously significant. What's signifi cant is we are making that effort and demonstrating that responsibility to Canadians.”

He called the economic statement “an initial step.”

There will be others to follow,” he said, likely in the government's first

in charge.”

That in turn will give small busi nessmen confidence to invest in their own businesses, creating “spin-off benefits” in employment.

Brisco also pointed to the $1.2 billion increase in job creation funding for next year. However, he said the program has “not (been) spelled out in full detail.”

Conroy claims the company wants to put the marine workers in another union so there would only be two unions to deal with: the International Woodworkers of America and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada.

But Halliday says all Westar did was oppose the local marine workers’ official application for certification with the Canadian Merchant Services Guild.

The company was unsuccessful in its attempt to prevent certifieation.

Halliday says the reason for Wes- tar’s objection is the fact that towboat workers on the Arrow Lakes and members of the Merchant Services Guild on the coast do different types of work

He said workers on the Arrow Lakes are involved in rafting, towing, tying up logs, putting them through the dam and taking the wood to the mill, but that is similar to work on the coast done primarily by mill unions belong- ing to the TWA.

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‘ Brisco likes cutbacks

Asked how cutting spending will help create jobs, Brisco replied: “I'm sure that thinking Canadians under. stand the two are inextricably linked.”

He said there will be high levels of unemployment with a large deficit.

Asked what the measures offer unemployed in Kootenay West, Brisco said he hopes some will be included in the job creation program.

In addition, he is hopeful that the measures taken to restore confidence in small business will show some “early

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By CasNews Staff

Castlegar will join communities throughout Canada by holding a Remembrance Day parade and ser vice this morning.

The parade will start on 3rd St. at 10:30, and end up at the cenotaph at the Kinsmen Park where a service will be held beginning at 11 a.m. and running until about 11:30, according to Jim Moore, president of Branch No. 170 of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Featured in the parade will be the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,

REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONIES TODAY

boy scouts and air cadets, as well as war veterans, Moore said. The par ade marshall will be C. Pepper.

Mayor Audrey Moore and Jim Moore will make remarks at the service, and Ald. Bob MacBain will make the address.

The honor roll will be read by Com. Albert Culley, the bugier will be Aaron Stoushnow. The mother’s wreath laying will be performed by Kay Bate.

The benediction will be given by Jim Waldie, a lay reader from the Anglican Church.

Kindergartens change?

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN

The Castlegar school board is be ginning « push to switch all kinder gartens in the district from half to full days in order to save money on noon-time

“| dén't think there's any question the board favors the reducing of the kindergarten (bus runs) at lunch hour,” said schools superintendent Terry Wayling in an interview.

Wayling said government funding for all noon-time busing in the district for 1984 is $31,046, while the actual cost is $38,497 — a difference of about $7,400.

Switehing district kindergartens from half to full days means pupils

‘And eliminating the noon-time

routes would be “a very significant saving, given the tight budget we're operating within,” Wayling said

As well, Wayling says dropping the routes would mean the bus drivers — who double as men would have more time to work continuously, which is an extra saving.

On Wednesday night, Wayling and representatives from the school board met with about 20 members of the Tarrys-Shoreacres parents’ group to discuss changing the Tarrys kinder. garten from half to full days.

Wayling told parents that teachers and parents of kindergarten pupils at Robson kindergarten (now the only full-day kindergarten in the district) say they're pleased with the fullday arrangement.

“I feel as a professional educator, a move to a full-day kindergarten will not jeopardize the kindergarten experi

ence,” Wayling said in an interview

“My research indicates a very positive reception by teachers and par. ents.

“Other districts have gone to full-day kindergartens where busing is in volved, and the results are quite positive,” he added.

Wayling told the meeting that the school board has instructed him to try te avoid increasing class sizes and the quality of programs in all schools, des pite an estimated reduction in govern- ment funding of about $200,000 for the district next year.

He said remoying noon-time bus runs from the district busing service was the only viable alternative

“There isn’t another program in the school district operations I could reduce By 19 per cent and not seriously reduce the quality of the program.”

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