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THE RED DEER ADVOCATE Published at 4929 49th Street, Red Deer, Alberta by The Red Deer Advocate Limited F. P. GALBRAITH, Publisher and Editor, 1934-1970 FRED TURNBULL Honorary Chairman of the Board GORDON J. GRIERSON J. E.

BOWER Publisher Editor Second Class Mail Reg No. 0200. Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation there's one thing the opposition ought to lay off, it's the present government's use of government aircraft to get around the country. The only exception ought to be for electioneering purposes after an election has been called until such time as Canada is ready for a rational system in which all bona fide parties get travel aid during elections. Meanwhile, in a country as huge and as sparsely settled as Canada and with all the risks of regional alienation it's weird not to use modern technology to reduce the remoteness between governors and governed.

It makes far more sense to criticize a government for not utilizing every device at its com- Tuesday, July 11, 1972 And why not? mand to facilitate communication. About all that can be further said about the opposition's latest sniping about the prime minister's use of government aircraft is this: if elected to office, would the present opposition not use government aircraft to get around Canada? If that's their position, it dates them back to sometime before the First World War, Scarcely a commendation for public office in the otherwise mobile age of the 1970s. Curiously, too, it's in direct contradiction to the policy of the new Alberta Conservative government, using every technical device at society's command to get out and mingle with Albertans, wherever they live. And why not? Personal delivery THANKS to departmental examinations being held earlier in the school year winners of the traditional Governor General's medals for Grade 9 now are known earlier than in past years, when the suspense ran on into August. This year, for example, Parkland school district winners include Kathleen Fretwell for the Lacombe county; Bob Cooper for Red Deer city and Marilyn Moore for Red Deer county.

So the winners are known. So the -General will be in Red Deer next week, for the Exhibition. Why not put them together, underlining the importance of the medals as symbols of excellence and achievement? Pleasant if it could be al. ranged to have Mr. Michener personally present the medals to young people from this area.

Spoiled FOR PETE's sake: now Bobby Fischer wants a chessboard with green squares at the world championship at Reykjavik. Before it was a special chair (airlifted in for him from the U.S., if you please). Before that, it was the pay. Before that it was well, who cares anymore? Win or lose, if the match ever occurs, only Soviet contender Boris Spassky has emerged in dignity. As for Fischer, maybe a chess master but an ever greater genius for acting like a spoiled child.

And weirdest of all, the rest of the world takes the fiasco seriously. VICTOR AND VANQUISHED- You don't need a program to distinguish Paul Hellyer, after blocking passage of the family allowance reform bill in Parliament, from Health and Welfare Minister John Munro. The minister's work went down the drain when the maverick former Liberal cabinet minister witheld consent to allow debate in the last hour before summer recess Friday. ital 1 11 PARKLAND SURPRISES Driving down district roads in Central creek valley north of Lacombe. Advocate photographer Calvin Alberta can be an interesting hobby in all seasons, offering visual Caldwell caught this scene, near the northern limit of Lacombe surprises such as this picturesque view of a farm nestled in a small County.

You can almost hear the pipes in the mists of Cape Breton By MICHAEL BENNETT Canadian Press Staff Writer When the mist rolls in over George Bay on Cape Breton Island, you can almost hear the pipes and drums of the Highlands and the Hebrides. It is music of the mind, calling back Celtic traditions doggedly clung to since the Highlanders were driven from their lands in 1792 to make way for English sheep. Those who didn't die of exposure and starvation on the "reserves" of barren Scottish crags, tried to make a new life, with the old ways, in North and South Carolina, the Appalachian mountains and Nova Scotia. The traditions survived better than the immigrants. "The thing they brought with them is piping and fidding and Gaelic singing," says John Allan Cameron, who, almost two centuries later, is spreading the sounds of "Cape Breton soul" nurtured in his boyhood at Mabou.

"When you're driven out of your own homeland, the roots really stay with you a heck of a lot longer than if you go voluntarily." a Scottish music isn't all jigs and reels and "get up and kick your heels at the ceila ing." It is intrinsically bound to an abiding faith and sense of heritage. Before there were instruments to play, people in the Highlands got together for dances and two or three of them would perform "mouth music," imitating the pipes and fifes with their voices to the accompaniment of spoons, hand-clapping and foot-stomping. "I sort of liked the look of the guitar, SO my father, through very great effort, went and got one for me and I just learned it on my own. And I started playing pipe tunes and fiddle tunes on the guitar because I had played them on the fiddle before." He was barely 13 when he started to develop his thumbpick, down-stroke style and sort out the traditional marches, jigs and reels. The world of the classics opened up to him four years later after he entered the seminary.

"I probably never would have gotten that close to the music of, say, Mozart or Beethoven had it not been for the seminary, because I never really had a chance to hear it before." John Allan was six months to a year away from ordination into the priesthood when he "gave the benefit of the doubt to the church" and left. It was at St. Francis Xavier University that the music of Mabou came back to him again and soon he was appearing with a group of folksingers called the Cavaliers on campuses throughout the Maritimes. Peter, Paul and Mary and Pete Seeger became part of his contemporary repertoire. But music would have to wait to become a career.

A year of teaching religion at a Catholic school in London, made the decision for him. In the summer of 1968, John Allan began appearing the folks down home" at lobster carnivals, strawberry fes- Doctors' handwriting irritates druggists SYDNEY, Australia (AP) The traditional bad handwriting of doctors is being attacked by a House of Representatives committee investigating pharmaceutical operations. It reports that druggists waste hundreds of hours every year getting in touch with doctors to verify prescriptions. "Handwritten prescriptions are a continual source of potential error in patient treatment," the report says. The committee recommended that doctors print or type prescriptions.

The Australian Pharmacy Guild has been pressing for this. Its spokesman says: "A lot of drugs have similar names and it is very difficult to distinguish some drugs because of bad handwriting. Every time a chemist is unsure of which drug to prescribe he has to check with the doctor. This involves a loss of the chemist's time and causes inconvenience to the patient." A spokesman for the Australian Medical Association said doctors write prescriptions because it is against the law to type them. He added "The majority of doctors are also against typing prescriptions because it would make forgery easy." What happens when Marxists own the means of production? By ARTHUR MAX HAIFA, Israel (AP) What happens when, as Karl Marx advocated, the workers own the means of production? This basic question of socialism is the operating theory behind Israel's largest manufacturing concern, Koor Industries.

Its director says Marx would be disappointed with the answer. Koor is wholly owned by Histadrut, the giant labor federation which counts as members 95 per cent of Israel's labor force, or one-third of the population. As the organization controlling Histadrut industry, Koor owns or is a partner in 55 factories, ranging from a steel mill to sophisticated electronics production lines. It also is involved in 15 non-manufacturing firms and employs 18,000 workers. In a sense, the Koor workers, as equal partners in Histadrut, own the plants.

This fulfills a Zionist-socialist dream from the days when the first revolutionary Marxists came to Palestine pipes tivals and fishermen's reunions. John Allan began showing up regularly on Singalong Jubilee about the same time as an attractive young singer from Springhill, N.S., named Anne Murray, and did guest appearances with Don Messer and the Irish Rovers. Then came an incredible minutes on Grand Ol' Opry in 1970, right behind Roy Rogers and Dale Evans with an intro-. duction from Roy Acuff. He did: medley, about a minute of a pipe tune o11 his 12-string guitar which slowly built up to a country song written by a guy from Nashville "to top it off with ice cream." The audience gave him a two-minute ovation.

"Acuff came up to me scratching his head, and said: 'You hear that applause? Do another one." I've only got 'Do another Then he did a five-minute interview. right there in front of 3,000 people." John Allan has just released his first album for Columbia, a mellow blend of the music he knows best and contemporary folk songs, including one by his friend, Bruce Cockburn. But he's not going to get caught up in the "music jungle." "I'm not going through life hoping and groping for: a million-seller to put me on top 40 radio. 1 I'd much rather be a Steady Eddie than a flash in the pan. "I've been a nonentity in a lot of places.

I hope to do concerts in Cape Breton all my life." Marxists we, may make less profit. We have drawn a red line beyond which we will not go, no matter what the pressure." Koor instituted a profit-sharing plan seven months ago. This gives 6,000 working men an extra three weeks' salary at the end of the year. All profit above 10 per cent of the capital investment is divided among the workers in non securities. The scheme applies only to firms that make sufficient profit.

Koor has also tried a joint management scheme with the workers. One-third of the board of directors of Koor are workers elected by all 70 companies. The boards of a dozen or more companies include workers. "There is still a gap to bridge with the workers," Amit said. "We say that what is good for the company is good for the workers.

They say that what is good for the workers is good for the company. Somewhere in between, we are searching for a formula." 16. Worth report Futures forecasts CONTINUING prosperity, to gether with government efforts to provide for lower income groups, holds the promise of improved provision of most physical requirements for all. Health care, pure air and water will be the major focus of controversy. Health care will improve.

Although the quality and availability of health care is now greater than ever before, expectations will expand and values ascribed to health care will be upgraded, despite the threat of higher costs. Improvement of health care involves movement toward total services for everyone and upgrading in the quality of existing services. Rising expectations on the part of the public, shortage of qualified personnel, greater availability of medicine, the rise of genetic counselling and the spread of a physical fitness syndrome are factors that will contribute to improvement in the standard of health care available to each individual in the province. On the other hand, forecasts that include increasing population concentration in large urban areas and disturbance of ecological balances indicate a threat to our physical environment. Each person's physical environment may be threatened by continued economic growth with its attendant pollution of air and water and disturbance of ecological balances.

Environmental values will be emphasized by individuals as a result of the effectiveness of conservation groups, public education and the lowering of the quality of the urban environment below acceptable standards. Loyalty in 1882. In practice, says Koor president Meir Amit, an economic concern cannot be completely successful in a socialist framework within a capitalist environment, including the domestic and export markets. "We play by the same rules of the game as in any capitalist country," says the retired general, former military intelligence chief. Before Amit took over the conglomerate in 1968 it had accumulated losses of $5 million.

Some industries had been operating for ideological or security reasons despite a proven lack of viability. Amit laid down the law four years ago: "We don't want companies that lose money or can't stand on their own feet." Since then, production has doubled to $260 million. Exports rose to $42 million from $20 million, with $60 million expected by the end this year. One Koor plant, the Israeli Steel Mills Co. of Acre, had been considered a white elephant for 20 years.

Despite perennial losses the company remained in production for security reasons, in case the supply of steel from abroad should ever be cut. Amit's law changed that. This year Koor invited two partners, the Korf Industries und Handel group of Baden-Baden in West Germany, and a group led by Canadian York Steel Corp. of Toronto, to help modernize the obsolete mill. In return for half the shares, Koor hopes the foreign operators will increase production from 130,000 tons annually to 175,000 by 1975.

Amit admits that Koor bends, if not breaks, one of the supposed rules of capitalism--the exploitation of labor for maximum profit. Koor factories have been set up in developing areas where transportation costs are high. Wages and fringe benefits are higher than the national average. Amit says: "Our rule is that we will not money, though LONDON (AP) A 70-yearold widow sold her home for bought it back a couple of weeks later for $223,600 because "I heard the six gardeners might have to go." Dorothy Pierson said her gardeners "worked tremendously hard to make the grounds beautiful and I wouldn't like them to lose their jobs through any action of WeeWhimsy The PUAS moon is broke! 872, D. Snevd 7.11 Sere Joyce Burwell receives the original art for her Wee Whimsy.

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