6 - Sunday, October 19, 1986 - North Shore News Me voIce OF NORTH AND WEST VANCIUVER ‘north shore! Publisher: . Editor-in-Chief Distribution : Managing Editor . . Bassett Fisher Subscriptions 906-1337 Advertising Director .Linda Stewart Ue ht trace ace enya say bys neice st is Saeed ee y Eno See ond Class Mop! Regudrahon Mumber SiS Subs on eques! Sut misuurls ate welcome but we Cannot Acc! Peter Speck Noel Wright Display Advertising 980-051 Classifled Advortising 986-6222 Newsroom 2 News Viewpoint The great debate SUNDAY . WEDNESDAY 1 SRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave. ony Non and West Vancouver. $25 pet yeat Mailing rates, SDONWDNTY fof UnSObeited maternal including manuscopts major issue debated by the public during the election campaign has been the refusal of Premier Bill Vander Zalm and his Social Cred- it colleagues to debate issues. But it’s highly unlikely that this Socred strategy has deprived voters of any in- formation vital to them for choosing B.C.’s next gov- ernment. Mr. Vander Zalm says debates are for losers. Whether his choice of words is right will be decided at Wednesday’s polls. But during any election campaign it’s true that challenges to public or TV debates in- variably come from the underdogs. And one of their main goals is clearly the publicity that a head-to-head confrontation with the top dogs can bring. Politics being a ruthless game, it would be naive to expect the top cogs to cooperate unless they saw potential gains in a debate which outweighed the ex- posure it gave the opposition. Mr. Vander Zalm evi- dently didn’t. The main argument against election campaign debates, however, is that they are primarily a spectator sport in which the adversaries concentrate solely on scoring immediate points off one another. Their weapons are promises and denunciations which, in the heat of the fray, frequently lack both real substance and basic honesty. The winner merely proves he’s a smart debater—NOT that he’s capable of running a province or a country. Voters to whom issues are important can learn much more by gquizzing candidates directly than by simply watching them slug each other like ancient gladiators. And no such pre-election spectacle has ever produced improved government. SELLING BRICKS is the big preoccupation these days of Rev. Raymond Murrin, rector of St. John’s, North Van, which was destroyed by fire 20 months ago and is now being rebuilt on the same site at 13th and Chesterfield. Wher finished, some 7,000 bricks will have been laid in place, so what better way (the parish vook- keepers figured) to finance com- pletion of the project than by sell- ing individual “ownership” of those bricks to members of the wide community served by the 75-year-old Anglican church—the first on the North Shore? The new church promises to be an imposing addition to North cheque to: St. Van's architecture and for a mere 20 bucks you can boast that one of its bricks is yours, with your titie inscribed in a permanent register of donors to be kept on display in the lobby. The other good news is that there’s no limit to the number you can buy—like five for $100 or 50 for $1,000—with tax receipts issued promptly. Simply mail your John's Anglican Church -- *‘BRICKS’’, 209 West 13th St., North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 3K8. Cash donations may be made from 9 to 12 noon weekdays at the church office. Can you imagine any easier way to go down in history as a church builder? NEW FACES ‘on the hustings ... aldermanic hopefuls Rick Buchols, North Van District (left) and Andy Danyliu, West Van (right). LETTER OF THE DAY A cure for rednecks c Dear Editor: The editorial staff of the News should be commended for suppor- ting chiropractors in their request to be permitted to attend patients in Lions Gate Hospital and other publicly funded hospitals throughout the provinee. Your wise and objective comments are appreciated. It is very unfortunate, however, that columnist Doug Collins has at- tempted to discredit the entire chiropractic profession simply because his own back problem failed to respond to chiropractic care. The Oct. 8 and 10 articles by your correspondent are further evidence that Doug Collins deserves his reputation as a red- neck journalist who demonstrates more concern for controversy than for fact. The following facts will help to clarify the issue: Despite Collins’ accusations, chiropractors are not quacks, bone-crunchers, angels, gurus or gods—nor do they pass themselves off as such. Chiropractic is not a cult, a faith or a system of belief. Chiropractors do not hammer, knock, yank, jerk, thump, pull, punch or pound their patients. Chiropractors do not claim to cure North Vancouver, B.C. Y7M 2H4 57,656 (average, Wednesday ; Sund: Faday & Sunday) So nvrecite GO DOWN IN HISTORY ... make ne De tutes atich should be accompanied by a Stamped addressed enentoper Entire contents © 1986 North Shore Free Press Ltd. Alt tights reserved. meu Ves ee eaay 1. your name as a twenty-buck builder of North Van's new St. John’s Church, shown above in architect’s model. Noel Wright UP AND RUNNING: With the provincial boys and girls finally out of the way this Wednesday, it’s time to recheck our Nov.t5 municipal clection candidates. Eight days before the Oct.27 nomination deadline only two out- siders have so far emerged in the North Van District aldermanic stakes--Norm Vipond, who breathed down Ald. Ernie Crist'’s neck last time, and accountant Rick Buchols, a Carson Graham alumnus and son-in-law of former District alderman Jim Ball. To date, still nary a cloud on Mayor Marilyn Baker’s horizon. West Van presents a livelier scene—with parks and planning commissioner Rod Day, present school trustee Pat Boname, personnel services manager Andy Danytin and perennial hopeful Bert Fleming out to unseat council incumbents. Thinking hard about joining the fun is electrical company owner dames Cupit. SLIME TIME: Meanwhile, the West Van mayoralty race between incumbent Mayor Derrick Hum- phreys and challenger Don Lan- all mankind’s problems. Chiropractic patients—there were 322,000 of them in B.C. in 1985—are not simply “Taithful...believers”’ The ‘“experts’’ cited are not ihe experts on chiropractic or low back pain—they both wrote self-help books about back pain that are anecdotal ia nature and do not represent the mainstream in’ cur- rent scientific thought about the management of that very complex problem of low back pain, Anyone pretending to have ‘all the answers’’ about back pain is not only fooling himself but also his patients. © sunday brunch e skail is churning up some pretty smelly mud: to wit, a poison-pen letter oozing with vicious innuen- dos and outright falsehoods about Humphreys, and also defaming a third party, Libel action by the lat- ter is pending against the clandestine circulators of the letter, once they can be identified. There's not the slightest suggestion that Lanskail himself is implicated in any way or even (until now) aware of the letter, but with “friends” like those who needs enemies? Stay tuned—and maybe shed a tear for what’s happening to West Van politics ... wae WRAP-UP: The second white child to be born in North Van, Miss Bonnie Gill, died Sept.27 ag- ed 87, Daughter of an carly North Van mayor, James Gill and his wife Margaret (nce Burnes), she trained in UBC's first nursing class and served overseas with the army during World War Two ... West Van MLA and family man John Reynolds, whose children range in age from 23 to 1.3) (that’s Yvonne's tively young Mente ft NEWS photo submitted Christopher) is now preparing to move into the grandpa business. Nicole, wife of eldest son Paul, a stockbroker with Canarim Invest- ments, has a date with the stork in late May 1987 ... Joining two West Van finalists in the prestigious B.C. Book Prizes contest (Cct.15 News, page 35) is veteran North Van author and poet Anne Mar- rintt whose book ‘Letters From Some Islands” has also made the finals. Winners of the $1,000 prizes and citations for writing and publishing excellence will be an- nounced Oct.24 And reader Greg Richmend’s letter exposing the absurdity of calling Vancouver a ‘nuclear free zone’? (Oct.10 News, page 6) delighted officers and ¢rew of the visiting U.S. air- craft carrier ‘‘Ranger’’, to whom he presented a copy during his tour of the behemoth last weckend. They gave him the royal treatment and are reprinting his letter in their ship’s newspaper. anht WRIGHT OR WRONG: A loafer is a person trying to make both weekends meet. MLA John Reynolds tee echeduled grandpa. ming up, Chiropractic care is covered by most insurance companies, the Workers’ Compensation Board, ICBC, and the Medical Services Plan (with the latter, up to 12 visits annually—perhaps Mr. Collins’ 13th and final visit with the chiro- practor was so painful because he had to pay out of his own pocket). Chiropractors believe chat thetc patients have the right to request and receive chiropractic care while they are hospitalized in a publicly funded hospital. Chiropractors do not want the right to admit or release patients to or from hospi- tal. Chiropractors do not want to interfere with medical care and they do not want unqualified, il- legitimate practitioners to function in hospitals. The issue is simple. Mr. Collins has confused matters by introduc- ing illogical and fallacious argu- ments about a complex topic he seems to be having difficulty understanding. Possibly about the time ‘Dr. Collins’ enters the 20th century, chiropractic research will have discovered a cure for red- necks. He will be the first to hear about it. John A.M, Taylor, D.C. Co-chairman, B.C, Chiropractic Examining Board