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PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1986 Classified advertising: Marie Kapshey Editorial: Melodee Martinuk, Mark Bryson (news); Richard O‘Brien (sports) Circulation: June Toushan, Jerry Fischer Typesetting and Composing: Fairway Press Publisher: Paul Winkler _ .mm 0_ Mandger: Bill Karges Editor: Rick Campbel! Circulation manager: Greg Cassidy Display advertising: Helen Smiley, Paula Hummel, Gerry Mattice Second Class Mail Registration Number 5540 Waterioo Chronicle is published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd., owner. Publishing address 225 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener, Ont. Address all correspondence to Waterioo office, 45 Erb St. E., Waterioo, Ont. N2J 1L7 Telephone 886â€"2830 News and Sports line 886â€"3021 Waterioo Chronicie office is located in the Haney, White law office building (rear entrance, upper floor). Parking at the rear of the building. Open Monday to Friday 9 a.m At the time of this writing, we rejoice with the Southern Ontario community and in fact all Canadians at the news of the successful liver transplant performed on Gabriel Bruce Monday at London‘s University Hospital. As with any delicate surgery of this type, Gabriel‘s condition could change for better or worse at a moment‘s notice, but early reports on the fourâ€"yearâ€"old indicate he came through the nearlyâ€"sevenâ€"hour operation extremely well; should he make it through the crucial rejection period this week, there is every hope he will be breathing independent of respirator aid within a few days and could be back home in Manitoba in about six weeks. But as yet another (it is hoped) transplant success story unfolds, there remains an onâ€"going questioning of the media‘s role in transplant stories and publicity. As technology has improved and medical science advanced in recent years, the number and type of transplants have increased dramatically. Unfortunâ€" ately, an overall awareness of the need for donors and the procedures involved in making one‘s healthy organs available upon death has not matched the progress of the former. Recognizing this shortcoming, the medical fraternity has sought support from the media in publicizing the need for donors, the methods involved, how organ retrieval systems work and so on. At times, often with some reluctance, massive attention has also been directed to hardship, lifeâ€"threatened cases such as Gabriel‘s and little Lindsay Eberhart, the Malton tot who captured everyone‘s heart with her dramatic struggle over a year ago. It is situations such as these that bring up the following questions about the role of the media in organ transplant cases: e Should medical officials prioritize cases for media coverage? If so, is it the duty of the media to respond accordingly? Should the media itself decide whether or not an individual‘s plight is worthy of coverage? Who will act as the ultimate conscience? e How do officials, media, medical or otherwise, rationalize such intense coverage of individuals such as Gabriel Bruce when other youngsters across the country remain in lifeâ€"threatening situations? How are parents of these other children to feel? e Does the media become too involved, too emotional in these stories of desperate need? And how is it to react each time the outcome results not in success, but in failure, in death? e Is there a chance of media overkill with such stories? If they become commonplace, will not the general public become indifferent to them? How can such a situation be avoided, while allowing for documentation of thecontinual need for donors and the marvelous work being done by doctors and support staff? _ > e Does publicity about these cases put unfair pressure on those who do not necessarily believe in organ transplants? Should they suffer a "guilt trip‘‘ if they decline to donate organs? e Would it be better for the media to focus strictly on a generalized program of donor awareness? These are but a few of the questions that must be pondered by all concerned as we advance down the organ transplant path. Most media people know what they would like the answers to be. But are they the right answers? We don‘t pretend to have the answers. But we do offer praise to everyone involved in the Gabriel Bruce operation, and to the little fourâ€"yearâ€"old himself, we offer our prayers and hopes for quality life, a new beâ€" ginning. Is it right? Sreey ann Srree ass established 1854 Memo to boss: Hi. How are you today? I‘m fine. What I‘m dropping you a line about is, well, you know that our company has suddenly gone all out with this open line of communication gunk and all that stuff, how everyone should know about everyone else‘s job and everyone‘s else‘s affairs (well, to a point). I‘d just like to inform you, so you can‘t say you weren‘t apprised of the situation, that, well, there might not be anyone here to run the Chronicle tomorrow. But we want to be fair about things, so here is some information on where we‘ll all be and what we‘ll be doing once we hit cashola freeway, just in case you need to retire dental plans or send along pension peanuts or for sentimental reasons, in case you still want to invite us to the annual Christmas party: e Bill Karges: Klutch Kargo won‘t be hard to find, he‘ll sell his house and pool and beer cap collection in a minute and head right to Fort Myers, where he‘ll buy a condo complex and ride out his days in quest of the perfect pina colada. e Mark Bryson: Marcos, my man, is not a hard person to please. He will retire to a chalet just outside Bracebridge, will claim all rights to Central Ontario WWF wrestling matches, will purchase the Toronto Blue Jays and relegate Willie Upshaw.to beer nut salesman status, and will play out his string figuring out how to catch a recordâ€"sized rainbow while snoozing in his manâ€" made canoe. e Richard O‘Brien: Falsé alarm. I forgot Richard doesn‘t believe in lottery tickets. He will remain at the Chronicle as its sole survivor, answering phones until he is 89 or certifiable. Bet on the latâ€" ter. e Melodee Martinuk: Again, simple pleasures. She will buy a local tire factory and make her brother work for her. Will also invest in a chain of eyewear To make a long story short, a bunch of us in the office have gone together to purchase a Lotto 6/49 ticket for tonight‘s $7.6 million draw. That may not be news, but the fact we have the winning ticket is. How am I so sure? I asked everyone. Unanimous city. Jackpot, my man, here we come. And, I am sorry to say, once we scoop our winnings, there we go. We kept the pool to eight people so basically we‘re talking nearly a million per. Hardly fair, wouldn‘t you agree, to expect each of us to set our alarms for 6 a.m. and work through to 11 each night the way we‘re doing now, when our trousers are bursting with megabucks. â€"â€"It is written ‘‘Through the evaluation we can see where it (job) fits into the scheme of things and what kind of pay it deserves. We‘re getting too large to operate on a gut feeling." O Rick Campbell Jackpot Chronicle Editor City personnel director Terry Hallman on Waterloo‘s current job evaluation and compenâ€" sation study. â€" SEE PAGE 11. boutiques, and will buy Blue Jay season tickets so a)she has a choice whether to attend on rainy days, and b)so she can tell Willie Upshaw where to stuff his beer nuts. e Helen Smiley: She may say she likes the simple life, but with close to a milo she will buy the town of Kincardine, her favorite retreat, and burn its silly stupid bylaws. She will probably buy another Mustang, her 18th in a row I think, and get husband Ken a shiny new fire truck to drive around town. Will likely sublet a condo in Fort Myers from Karges, and finish out her days as the hardestâ€"working nonâ€"worker known to man. e Paula Hummel: Will buy one each of every red sports car over $20,000 and ruin the brakes and clutch on every sucker before its 4,800km check. Will purchase and operate her own dating service, and for the sake of safety, will screen each male applicant personally. Paula will commission her own private Concorde jet and on a bet will attempt to land it, first time, in the parking lot out back of the Olde English Parlour. She‘ll also die happy. Young maybe, but happy. e Gerry Mattice: Will buy the Toronto Sun and put Sunshine girls on every page. Will build a new home in the infield at Cayuga raceway. Big guy Gerry will also buy North American rights to the Swahili shorts industry and double his fortune in less than a year. Sadly, he will also be in the OEP parking lot when Paula requests Concorde clearâ€" ance. Destiny unfulfilled. e Greg Cassidy: Will parlay his winnings until he has enough money to buy Canada. Then, on the closing date, he will tell the country to go to hell and will move to Grenada as the second coming of Ronald Reagan. e Rick Campbell: What would I possibly do with my 950 grandos? If I stashed it away for a rainy day, I‘d be broke next week. I like snow so I wouldn‘t want to move to Florida, but like warm weather enough to avoid Kincardine. I hate taking fish off hooks, can‘t stand the smell of tire factories, have no intention of spending more than $8,000 for a car, believe (ah well, at least on record) that Sunshine girls are sexist, and can never see myself owning this country. Or Grenada. Hey, this spending loot is going to be a tougher gig than I thought. Ah, it‘s a dirty job, but... So boss, please accept this in lieu of notice. If by chance, and it is only the remotest of chances, we somehow fail to win the 6/49 draw, please disregard this memo entirely, Yours truly, yeh, yeh, yeh, Rico.