PAGE 4 TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C, - MONDAY, JANUARY, 25, 1971 f Business Address: _ 4613 LazelleAve.,_ “The Terrace Herald is a member Association, The B.C. Weekly Newspapers’ Association, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published every Monday and Thursday. Second class mail registration number 1201. GENERAL MANAGER : EDITOR: RON THODY Herald of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper PamMZ—-FZol- GORDON HAMILTON Terrace, B.C, OUR OPINION Happy birthday Centennial ‘71 officially gets un- derway in Terrace this coming Friday and, from tentative plans of Hugh McKinnon and his Terrace Centennial Committee, this year's going to be a blast. There'll be special “frontier days”, parades, perhaps a regatta, plenty of beards, dancing in the streets and you just name it. McKinnon couldn’t have picked a better time to launch the show. Our birthday will begin at one of the first and biggest social events of the season---the annual Chamber of Commerce dinner and installation of new officers. Over 350 begin. There's a giant, centennial cake for the occassion and when Mayor Victor Jolliffe cuts the first slice, Centennial ‘71, honoring our province’s entry in the Canadian Confederation in 1871, will begin. But to make it the blow-out we hope it will be will take you and co-operation. We hope that all service elubs and. organizations around town will throw their full weight behind the efforts of McKinnon and his team. He says he can still use ideas and welcomes them. Have you? persons are expected to Snowmobile danger At the risk of offending the many snowmobilers in the Terrace-Thornhill area, The Herald takes pleasure in rapping the knuckles of a few knuckleheads who are abusing the sport of snowmobiling, These are the super-sports, young and old, who flatten bushes, damage small trees and create a hazard along the sides of highways, or even along streets of the community. Last week Terrace RCMP received two complaints about snowmobiles. One snowmobile on Thomas Street managed to tear up 10 feet of hedge and damaged several raspberry bushes to the tune of $100 in damages. Another, it is reported, mangled several small trees in a front yard on Yeo. . Trouble is, theré’s no, regulationg }:’. ‘firm, faix’Fégulations.” .” regarding snowmobile use in British; . Columbia and even 10-year-olds are handling these potential killers. So far this season, 36 persons have died in Canadian snowmobile mishaps, says the Canadian Safety Council: The council predicts fatalities will top 100 before the winter is over, “Tt has become apparent that the stupidity of snowmobile operators is the principal cause of accidents and deaths,” a safety council spokesman said. British Columbia has no specific regulations about snowmobiles --- but the government is expected to in- troduce legislation next month after examining regulations in other provinces and in the United States. A spokesman for the B.C, Snowmobile Association has said the group favors legislation. “More than 95 per cent of snowmobilers are law-abiding citizens and must have their rights protected,” he said. ‘‘The best way is through " We would” hope thesé .‘tefulations would include licensing snowmobiles and stipulating that all those wishing to operate them pass a_provincially- directed examination, _ It will save property and, most important of all, lives. Stop segregation Canadians are horrified about the segregation and discrimination which exists in the States regarding negroes. Yet howmany of us are aware that our native Indians throughout our history have met with equally shameful discrimination at our hands. There was a time when Indians couldn’t travel in the same com- partments on trains as whites. Now, there still exists discrimination in the fact of separate hospitals for Indians, says the Guelph Daily Mercury. Jean Chretien, Indian affairs minister, recently cited the death of a - 15-month-old Indian boy to show how necessary it is to abolish separate hospitals for Indians. The boy’s parents travelled 22 miles in bad weather, only to find the door of the hospital locked, After finally being admitted, the boy died of | diarrhea, There was another hospital (for whites) just across the way from the Indian hospital, at which he could have received immediate treatment. It is tragic to think that such treatment could have meant the dif- ference between living and dying for the child, The death of a single child through lack of adequate medical care is reason enough for such a move on th part of the government. Indians should be receiving the same health care as all of us, and should come under the provincial health services. We hope that Mr. Chretien will press for the immediate abolishment of separate hospitals for our native people. oo. We should recognize Phone; 635-6357 | “How noble! That’s the 736th application for a secretarial post in Russia . . .”" a ce Bill Smiley: Rare and perfect winter day’ Evena winter sour-puss like me cannot but be affected when we hit one of those rare and perfect winter days. Today is one of them. Snapping twelve degrees. Sun grinning down like an old, yellow lecher as fresh snow lifts virginal, blue-white Pleading hands, Sky as cold and blue as Mr. Benson's heart, Ugly, fallen-down fence in back yard has vanished until Spring, Picnic table isa loaf of " white bread rising. Big spruce., by the ‘par dignity, i ‘arms, the big lumps of heavy: white cotton. - In the country, evergreens are startling black clumps of contrast. Ancient rail fences with jaunty, snow-capped posts run their erractic charm through the bluish drifts. So do the snow-shoers. WHIZZ DOWN Skiers whizz down like gulls swooping for scraps, And the damned snowmobiles grunt and bellow about like bulls in a chaste china shop, There. 1 knew something would spoil it. 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