34 - THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Thursday, August 29,1985
S o u t h A f r ic a n
by THOMAS THOMSON
JOHANNESBURG (Reuter) An armored personnel carrier
trundles through a riot-torn South
African black township, its helmeted crew throwing tear-gas gre­
nades and using shotguns.
A black youth hurls a firebomb,
turning a passing mini-bus into a
blazing inferno. It is another rou­
tine day in 19 months of unabated
unrest that has claimed over 630
lives.
It is also another routine televi­
sion story for viewers around the
world, who almost daily watch
black anger erupt and the white
minority government clamp down
with riot police and soldiers.
But for South African viewers,
the most graphic account of the
rioting that has created world
alarm is often a tranquil still pic­
ture of a black township or a bland
caption behind the newsreader
spelling out “ unrest.”
“ When the Second World War
was all over, tens of thousands of
people said they didn’t know,”
says Rhodes University journalism
m e d ia d o w n p la y s v io le n c e
professor Gavin Stewart, referring
to Nazi atrocities.
“When it’s all over in South Afri­
ca, a lot of white people are going
to turn around and say we didn’t
know.”
The state-run South African
Broadcasting Corp., which has a
virtual monopoly on television
broadcasting, has rejected wide­
spread criticism in the press of its
coverage.
Jan van Zyl, the corporation’s
deputy director for news, told
Reuters: “ We feel we are giving
fair, sober coverage without fan­
ning the flames of further unrest.”
The corporation said in a recent
annual report that it tries to be im­
partial in its reporting while giving
priority to national and community
interests.
“ We have not only a duty to the
country but a social responsibili­
ty,” van Zyl says. “The lives of
people are at stake in the black
community.”
Virtually every white family has
a television set, but newspaper
readership has fallen by about 25
per cent as a proportion of the pop­
ulation since television began 10
years ago, media analysts say.
Van Zyl denies the corporation is
under any pressure from the gov­
ernment to curb political or riot re­
porting.
Journalism professor Stewart
says newspaper coverage of the
riots has been erratic, with some
papers like the Eastern Province
Herald in the troubled eastern
Cape providing superb reporting
and others much less detail.
Black newspapers provide graph­
ic coverage, but media analysts
say few whites read them.
South African Police Commis­
sioner Johan Coetzee appealed last
month to newspaper editors to
scale down their riots coverage af­
ter the government clamped a
state of emergency on areas worst
hit by the riots.
Under the emergency powers,
police have drastic rights to censor
or prevent press reporting from
riot-torn areas. But they have not
so far invoked the powers.
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Support for Kahane rising
Michael Etgar of Modi’in Ezrachi
noted that the poll was conducted
while Arab-Jewish tensions were high
following the killing in late July of
two Israeli schoolteachers from the
northern town of Afula.
“ Kach has become the national pro­
test party. People think the govern­
ment is not taking a strong enough
hand,” he said. “ If there are more
attacks . . . then Kahane’s support
will increase.”
Before last year’s elections made
him a member of parliament, Kahane
was virtually ignored by the Israeli
press and political commentators. He
had failed three times to win a seat.
After the election, Kahane and a
group of followers marched through
the Arab-populated Old City of Jeru­
salem, pushing aside Arabs, insulting
merchants and shouting, “ Death to
the Arabs!” He has been arrested a
score of times in Israel on charges of
inciting riots and desturbing the
peace.
His message is that all Arabs
should be forced to leave Israel and
the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the
Jordan River.
Apparently alarmed by Kahane’s
growing strength, the parliament pas­
sed a bill on July 30 banning from fu­
ture elections any party that incited
racism or acted against Israel’s dem­
ocratic character. But Kahane has
by MASHA H A M IL TO N
TEL AVIV (AP) - Rabbi Meir Ka­
hane and his political program for ex­
pelling all Arabs from Israeli-con­
trolled territory appear to be gaining
public support during a year of Arab
terrorist attacks on Jews.
The rise of the Brooklyn-born rabbi
is reflected in public opinion polls that
have shown him gaining strength as
Israeli frustration has risen over Arab
attacks on Jews, which have claimed
12 lives so far this year.
On Tuesday, the latest poll showed
that if an election were held now, Kahane's party would emerge as the
third-largest in the Israeli parliament.
The independent Modi’in Ezrachi
agency said a survey of 1,275 Jewish
adults conducted between Aug. 4 and
Aug. 11 showed that Kahane’s Kach
(Thus) party would get 11 seats in the
120-seat parliament.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres’ La­
bor party would get 51 seats, accord­
ing to the poll, and the Likud bloc
would get 24 seats. The poll has a
margin of error of plus or minus two
per cent.
Kahane won a single seat in parlia­
ment in 1984, but Tuesday’s poll indi­
cated Kahane is picking up most of
his support from Likud, the rightist
party headed by Foreign Minister
Yitzhak Shamir. Likud won 41 seats in
1984.
vowed to challenge the law.
Kahane is currently on a fund-rais­
ing tour in the United States. He has
resigned from the Jewish Defence
League, which he founded, to devote
more time to Israeli politics.
His anti-Arab campaign has played
on Jewish fears of becoming a minori­
ty in Israel. The net growth of the
Jewish population in 1982 was 1.3 per
cent compared to a net reproduction
rate of 2.3 per cent for Arabs, accord­
ing to the Central Bureau of Statis­
tics.
Currently, 3.5 million Jews and
700,000 Arabs live in Israel, where Ar­
abs have citizenship but do not serve
in the army and complain of being
second-class citizens.
In the West Bank, there are 45,000
Jewish settlers with Israeli citizenship
and 1.3 million Arabs, the majority of
whom carry Jordanian passports.
Kahane, 54, has not changed the
theme of his campaign since he immi­
grated to Israel 14 years ago. But the
response to it is new.
This summer, Kahane’s party be­
came part of the governing council of
Kiryat Arba, a West Bank settlment
near Hebron, and insisted as part of a
coalition agreement that the council
fire all its Arab workers. The Justice
Ministry forced the council to rescind
the measure, but settlers vowed to
maintain the policy in practice.
TEXASOILBARON
STUTTGART, West Germany (AFP) — One
hundred years ago, an unknown German engi­
neer named Gottlieb Daimler went to the Impe­
rial Patent Office in Berlin to register his new­
est invention — the motorcycle.
The contraption Daimler was promoting on
Aug. 29, 1885, bore little resemblance to the
chrome monsters of today. But, like them, it
had an engine fuelled with gasoline, and ran on
two wheels, and was thus considered the fore­
runner of the modern motorcycle.
Daimler’s riding car had two wooden wheels
with iron tires, crude straight handlebars, and
an enormous leather saddle over an air-cooled
internal combustion engine of .50 horsepower.
Daimler’s brainwave was to aim at reducing
the weight of his engine while at the same time
increasing its power to drive a vehicle.
In 1882, he set up his own business and went
to work with his partner William Maybach.
They succeeded in building an engine with
600 revolutions per minute while competitors
had only reached 180 rpm.
A major snag of this new vehicle was the fact
that it had no suspension system. When it went
on sale it was quickly named the backbreaker.
The four-stroke engine was patented in 1887
by another German engineer, Nikolaus Otto,
with whom Daimler had worked for five years.
But this kind of engine could only reach 10 hp
and weight 4.5 tonnes, which limited its mobili­
ty.
After winning a legal case with Otto over the
invention of a four-stroke engine, Daimler forg­
ed ahead with his riding car.
He had other dreams, and in November 1890,
founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft to man­
ufacture automobiles. Thus it was with his fourwheeled vehicles, not his motorcycles, that
Daimler built the reputation that survived after
his death in 1900 in the name of Daimler-Benz.
Adkins said her office has sold more
than $3,000 worth of birth and death
certificate copies so far this month.
“ I sold one lady yesterday $102
worth of certificates at $1.50 each,”
she said. “ There’s a lady standing
here right now that wants more than
that. It’ll cost her more than $200 for
what she wants.”
The fortune-seekers recount tales of
Meadows dying forgotten and alone in
a mental hospital in Texas in 1939,
leaving behind an unclaimed estate
worth billions. He also left behind a
vague family tree that includes some
of the largest clans in West Virginia
and Kentucky.
But Richard Ferris, a Pittsburgh
lawyer handling a suit for about 160
purported heirs, said Tuesday that
Meadows died in 1939 in Pittsburgh.
A growing number of would-be heirs
are claiming a share of the take in
federal court in Beaumont, Texas. Of­
ficials there are skeptical, and earlier
this year U.S. District Judge Joe Fish­
er threw out one of three cases seeking
a share of Meadows’ estate.
The oil developer’s estate reportedly
included a one-eighth interest in the
famed Spindletop oil field, and prom­
ise of instant wealth has spread like
wildfire through West Virginia’s unem­
ployment-plagued hills.
Ferris said the first step in any
claim is to establish that Meadows in­
deed owned a share in the oil field,
something that has yet to be accepted
by a court. He said no one knows how
much the man was really worth.
“All these people have gone crazy,”
he said. “ I ’m up to my eyeballs in ru­
mors.”
Local officials say determining an­
cestry is especially complicated be­
cause the tycoon’s forebears alternate­
ly spelled their name Meador, Mea­
dors, Meadow and Meadows, and some
also married into the Lilly clan, one of
southern West Virginia’s biggest fami­
lies.
“ All of a sudden there are a million
relatives of the Meador family — and
we are getting most of them in our
office,” Mercer County clerk Rudolph
Jennings lamented.
The Lillys alone would fill any pro­
bate courtroom. Several thousand
attend the family reunion each year in
Beckley.
Beckley nurse May Lilly is spending
her week’s vacation poring through geneological records, and said she spent
$60 getting copies of the family tree.
“There’s always a chance, even if
there are 10,000 of us,” said Lilly, who
said she figures she has at least four
shots at the wealth.
“ My husband is a Lilly, and I was a
Meadors, my mother was a Meadows
and my grandmother was a Lilly,” she
said. “All these families intertwine.”
C o p in g .
P u t t in g y o u r life b a c k
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN (hat a Hearing w ill be
held pursuant to Section 936 of the M unicipal A ct, in
the C ouncil C h am b ers of City Hall. 1100 P a tricia
B oulevard. P rince G eorge. B C. on S eptem ber 9th,
1984 at 8:00 p.m . to hea r representation by the C h ie f
B y-Law E n forcem ent O fficer and others as to w h y the
follow ing prem ises should be declared a nuisance.
Lot 49, District Lot 2608, Cariboo District, Plan
26049, (Heritage Crescent), Prince George, B.C.
Lot 8, District Lot 754, Cariboo District, Plan 26821.
(7568 St. Kevin Place) Prince George, B.C.
Lots 22 and 23, Block 130, District Lot 343, Cariboo
District, Plan 1268. (1598 Fourth Avenue) Prince
• George, B.C.
Lots 15 and 16, Block 329, District Lot 343, Cariboo
District, Plan 1268. (1980 Willow Street) Prince
George, B.C.
Lot 45, District Lot 2608, Cariboo District, Plan
26049. (Heritage Crescent) Prince George, B.C.
A n d if Council finds the aforem entioned property to be
d a n gerous and or unsightly and a nuisance to the c o m ­
m unity. they m ay direct and order that said d an ger,
app earance and nuisance be rem e died or oth e rw ise
d e a lt with by its ow ner, agent, lessee or occupier, w ith ­
in sixty (60) d a y s of the service of such order.
C o u n cil m ay furth e r ord e r that, in case of d e fa u lt by
the owner, agent, lessee or occupier to com ply w ith the
o rd e r w ithin said sixty (60) days, the City, by its e m ­
p loyees and others, m ay enter and effect the re m e d ia l
m easures as directed o r ordered by C ouncil, at the
expe nse of the person defaulting, and m ay o rd e r that
th e ch arges fo r d o in g so, in c lu d in g all in c id e n ta l
expenses, if unp aid on D ecem ber 31st, 1985, sh a ll be
a dd ed to and form part of the taxes payable o n the
subject property as taxes in arrears.
All affected parties shall take notice and be gove rn e d
accordingly.
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C H A R LE STO N , W .V a. (A P ) Hundreds of would-be heirs to a Texas
oil baron’s supposedly unclaimed for­
tune are besieging county offices
across southern West Virginia, search­
ing for ancestral records they hope
will make them instant millionaires.
It was enough Tuesday to prompt
deputy Summers County clerk Rachel
Adkins to wish that reclusive tycoon
James Meadows had never been born.
“ Right now, I do, I really do,”
Adkins said. “ It ’s really been a circus
here. Our vaults are packed with peo­
ple looking through documents.
There’s been 50 to 60 people here a
day, asking for birth certificates and
land records.”
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