A6 - Wednesday, March 2, 1983 - North Shore News EE editorial page The B.C. Teachers Federation is un- derstandably pleased with a recent poll indicating public support in their fight with Education Minister Bill Vander Zalm. But the poll apparently omitted one vital question. Among other findings, 66.5% of the respondents disagreed with the government cutting education funds, while 74.3% said teaching jobs should not be reduced, 72.9% thought teachers’ salaries are “about right”. and 45.1% believed education should be the government's first spending priority. Education was seen as a major issue in the next provincial election by 72.5% — but, hind the MAINSTREAM CANADA Help needed for entrepreneurs While governments procrastinate and big businesses hunker down in the face of the worst recession since the 1930s, average Canadians fully understand what’s happening, and they’re acting accordingly. Hence, the question the pollsters never directly asked: “What price are you per- sonally prepared to pay to avoid education cutbacks?” Would the unemployed be prepared to remain jobless longer than otherwise to the teachers? Would welfare recipients be happy to get by on less? The questions are not hypothetical. The bottom line is that Victoria has run out of money as a result of the depression and is already borrowing heavily to meet even reduced spending. Increased spending means either immediate tax increases or _farther borrowing, leading to FUTURE tax Despite sympathy for the teachers, most people still see job creation as the priority problem. And in both cases it's they, not “the government” who have to pay for the solutions. Money machines While oil prices drop throughout most of the world, here in Canada many political figures and business people are saying that rather than reflect the market conditions, this country should in fact, raise the price as already happened earlier this week. Something about it being ‘for the good of the nation’. Whatever reasons, rest assured that no matter what policy the government decides to follow, the taxpayers will be the ones who pay for it. TR VENTA OF NOWTIN Ale WERT VAsRCOUWER sunday news Display Advertising 880-0511 north shore Classified Advertising 986-6222 n ews Newsroom 985-2131 Circulation 086-1337 1139 Lonsdalie Ave .. North Vancouver, 8.C V7M 2H4 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Robert Graham Editor-in-chiet Now! 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WORTH Consider, for example, the fact that savings rates are the highest they've been for are actually paying down, rather than building up debt. The main reason for this phenomenon ts the fear that uncertainty connected with the employee layoffs and cutbacks that have become endemic. million Canadians unem- ployed, such jobs are badly needed. But if the politicians and governments are going to take credit for the new jobs (and rest assured they will), then surely they have an obligation to provide greater support for these hard- pressed entrepreneurs, all of whom risk their time, hard work, money and even their standards of living when they set up their own shops. The government support can be handled in a vanety of . THAT THE FIRST CRUISE MISSILE Teal WASA TOTAL SUCCESS! NOTHING in this amazing world of 1983 is as simple as it sometimes seems — not even the scenario for nuclear warfare. But let’s start, for a moment, a little closer to home. A few months ago an electrical transformer supplying power to the News offices blew and we had a blackout for an hour or so unul B.C) Hydro fixed it) Not only did work come to a standsull, bul several hours of previous work was destroyed Type for the News is set on computers A sudden power outage while the typesetting is in progress can wipe oul everything on the com puters memory disc Uthat has gone before Computers are alarmingly sensitive, not only to power outages but also to clectro magnetic of cnee radio interfer They ve even been known (to be knocked off halter by the stati from man made fibre carpeting Last year a Computer system to control Canadian nuclear reactors went bescrk (luckily only during a demoastration to potential buyers) because of antes. ference from amport sadar, according lo Southain science owriter Matyparet Munroe Automatic scissors ata garment factory. in another ease she cites started shredding cverything within reach when the computer tecd controls wee seal haywire by an clectromag net leak from oa nearby heal generator. Electronic car brakes have reportedly been known to jump into action when the vehicle passed a_ radio station. Electromagnetic polluton has been held responsible for the ac- eidental launch of an Indian satellite and for interference with systems aboard = the American space = shuttle. Some 30,000) complaints about the phenomenon were investigated last year along by the fedcral Department of Communications All of which brings us to a startling new angle on the nuclear war scenano A recent article by Wihiam J. Board, a writer for Science Magazine, cnvisages the possibility of the war being lost by the US) without a single nuclear bomb falling on the Noth Amencan continent lhe enemys weapon an cle tromagnctic pulse (EMP) trom a nuclear blast acveral hundred kilometres above the carth The intense burst of clec tromagnetic energy from such oa blast. says Board, could travel halfway across the continent at the speed of logehit and burning out all power comupumecations, and thereby making “ veth America dcfenceless without killing a single human being Communtations are the Nevertheless, while at- near-record levels, the number of business start-ups is remarkabic. Last year, 150,000 new firms were started in Canada, and im 1983 the number may reach 200,000, Such risk-taking in the st of a full-fledged recession, of course, is good in Ottawa and the provinces, because cach new firm represents imecreased ¢m- ploymest. And with 1.6 focus Noel Wright kcy to aucicar reprisal. In a split sccond, power would go out and communications would = dic The cnatirc continent would be thrown into dark confusion, with all action suspended. The warning camc in Hawaii in hufy 1962 when the U.S. cxploded ao nnucicar device, launched from an atoll 1,300 kilometres away. at a height of 400 kilometres above the carth. Phrec hundred = strect hghts on Oahu blew the fuscs Burglar alarms camc on Power lacs went dcad The US dcleace suthowties, says Broad, have the new job creators, of course, are low interest rates, because many have borrowed heavily as they attempt to make it on their own. A few extra tax breaks also wouldn't hurt, particularly. for those who lose heavily in the early business years and others who invest in research and development that may not pay off until well into the future. Federation president John Bulloch puts the matter succintly: “The best solution to our economic problems is the country’s finest resource _ 77 entrepreneurs,” Now, if only the politicians would agree, and provide the right ingredients for even greater success among this rare breed of (CFIB Feature Service) nuke? been wrestling ever since with the problem uncovered by their 1962 atomic test, in an effort to devise a com- munications and = control system immune to a nuclear EMP. Apparently, they haven't yet come up with a dependable answer — anv more than the North Shore News knows how to stop its type from being destroycd by a circuit-breaker that gocs on the blink. There's onc interesting twist in Broad’s story which makes onc ponder about scicatific “progress” Modern solid state cir. cuiutry and microchips are highly vulmcrable to clectro- magnetic pollution, ict alone a full-scaic nucicar EMP By contrast, those funny = old vacuum tubcs that used to run your hi-fi and TV 20 ycars ago apparently remain unaffected cven by rclatively heavy EM surges. In 1976 a Soviet pilot defected to Japan with his MIG-25, Russia's most advanced warplanc At first the Pentagon caperts laughed when they found the fcarcd interceptor was equipped wilh vacuum tubc systems. Then it dawned on them that the Russtans might, after all, have the fas faugh in a war confined to outer space Outer space is where | for onc, prefer it to happen if ever somc madman presses the button Even though 117) have to get by with candles and no phonc for a few days ea