Sage 4, The Herald, t'riday, June 8, 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT] | daily herald - Published by Sterling Publishers General Office - 435-4357 Circutatlon - 615-6357 GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION - TERRACE- KITIMATOFRFICE -632-2747 Pubtished every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Verified Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration. number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. . 695-6957 NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in Sny acveriisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted. EDITORIAL The superintendent of schools for the Terrace area, Frank Hamilton, will be at Copper Mountain School on Tuesday In the afternoon. He says that he and the principal of the school, Bruce Phillips, are willing to meet with any parents who feel they have concerns about the school. Hamilton, who assures the Herald he is always willing to talk. to parents-who have.concerns about the education thelr children are-receiving, says he has not heard. any’suggestions that there may be anything “unusual at that»: school, Arid it may well be that It is unfalr that Copper Mountain has been singled out. It just happens, however, that parents of two.chiidren who go to Copper Mountain schoo}. have come forward, It:could be there are difficulties in many of the schools [n this area. Perhaps It isn't a problem. that ds. Con... fined _— to Terrace, There is a growing feeling among many people that there are serious problems with the entire school system. Ageneral permissiveness in the 1960's in the universities and experiments with various models of education, later reflected In the public school ‘system, the basics” movement. This, and a growing movement toward a more conservative and disciplinary system, has parents like Gene and Claudette Sandeck! coming into conflict with a school system still caught up In the trend toward more liberal and freedom-oriented education. Meanwhile, education costs are In- creasing but school boards are also caught up in a move to cut expenses and keep taxes from going even higher. Herald editor Greg Middleton will attempt to come to grips with some of these problems and issues in a-series of y we sey om ra Toweeay “There they go — tpoom a + showing off their superiority over nature again.” ' SOME CONFUSION . Gasoline not the problem. EDMONTON (CP) — As for the truckers’ OTTAWA OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON _vagetables. may become a Fears that fresh fruit and blockade in the U.S., Bell said: “There's a small ¢ of independents Mel John, branch manager the blockade by truckers for Western Grocers, said escalate and cause delays in delveries are arriving on deliveries, McDonalds might time inReginaandtherehas be able to increase ita columns. scarce, more expensive, “segment commodity in Western” Canada by next week because of gasoline shor- tages and an independent truckers’ blockade in the United States were dis- counted. Thursday by Spokesmen for wholesale produce firms. The four Western provinces get most of their fresh produce from California, Texas and Mexico by truck. Truckers and food retailers had warned early this week that shortages and price increases could be expected .barause. of.. U.S. soline shortages that were The situation was further complicated Monday when independent truckers in the U.S, began to blockade fuel stops to protest what they consider to be phoney shortages of diesel fuel. But Keith Bell, a buyer for produce wholesaler Scott National in Edmonton, said that so far there have been ho major problems and the potential difficulties are being exaggerated, - “The whole thing is becoming stupid,” Bell said, “T’yve been on the phone all. morning and it’s just getting atupid. Even American depots are calling and saying Alberta won't give us their gas for the haul back,” | HAAR, Movetiont crear Hdl helhg’ motel 06 tare using this politically been no increase in frelght shipments by reil “but I to no end and it happens rates, which went upfiveper don’t foresee that hap- evety year, “T’ve been here 25 years and in certain degree you run out.of trucks in the summer because of all the soft fruits coming in from California.” Spokesmen for McDonalds Consolidated Ltd., which supplies Safeway stores in -the city, said company trucks. still are loading in California and there is enough fresh produce in stock to last until next Wednesday, “But other produce im- Joad Thursday in California and Mexico and if the blockade continues there definitely would be shor- tages next week. Darren Barbers, produce Manager far Co-Op stores in the Alberta towns of Westlock and Barrhead, said that if a shortage does occur rural towns will suffer most. > “There won't be much for selection... high prices... low quality.” But Barkers doesn't ex- pect a chronic shortage to develop. He said Canadian stocks from British _ Columbia should arrive by - month's end, easing the situ- ation considerably. cent recently, John Ell, manager for Scott Natlonal in Regina, sald there have been no problems as yet. If difficulties do occur, fruit and vegetables could he brought in by train. But rail transport takes 10 to 14 days corapared with three days by Ell said supplies in California are plentiful and prices down a bit. ‘producer - pening." ok He said t although a. large percentage of BC 5 produce is ‘imported the province is: blessed’ with having a goott slipply of frult'“ and vegetable crops year - Truckers ‘in Edmonton said they'll keeping sending their units south despite the blockade. “We really don't know. what's happening down there,”’ Peter Sawchuk, de if in deliveries ‘but the — a ation is not treublesomie Brown, a week." for Kelly He said diesel prices in the Dougtas, a food distributorin U.S. having been going up Vancouver, said there have about five cents a week been some delays and _ recently. :Funning the government. oe Move up andrefurniish. disruptions but produce is coming in and there is an ample supply of fresh fruits and vegetables. A spokesman for Mc- Donalds Consolidated in Vancouver said he didn't even know about the preblems in the U.S. until “the media started phoning me.” “I talked to the produce people this morning and they told me that they don’t have any problems.” The spokesman said that if “We. managed to get through, but just,” said one Edmonton trucker who asked that his name not be used. “Some guys are get- ting delayed down there,” ' He eaid at one point on his most recent trip north it took him four stops to find fuel. “It could get tough down there from what they're say- ing," said Henning Johnsen, an independent trucker from Lethbridge who had just brought in a load of pears from Washington. By AL COLLETTI UNITED NATIONS (CF} — Prime Minister Joe Clark has fashioned‘a crown of thorns for Canada at the United Nations by indicating readiness to give diplomatic recognition to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, “This move means that Flora MacDonald now is faced with her first political crisis,” says a N dlplamat, referring to Canada's first woman external affairs minister who succeeded Don Jamieson, Tt # clear that Clark's pledge to move the Canadian Embasry In Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv without guarantees from the Israelis that the holy sites will be safeguarded will not be fulfilled for some time, Miss MacDonald sald in Ottawa that while the embassy shift remains a goal of the new Progressive Conservative government, it will not take place in the im- mediate future. But damage already has Canada’s position In the UN by Clark’s reversal of what has been Canadian been done to, policy for 32 yeara. As one of the original members of the UN, Canada anpported the partition of the Holy Land in 1947, Including creation of a separate entity for Jerusalem under in- ternational supervision. However, the partition that ended the British mandate in Palestine brought war between the Arab states and [srael _ and led to the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, Three more Arab- Israel Eayean the new raell. peace treaty still have not set- tled the statu of Jerusalem, taken over completely by larael atter the six-day 1967 conflict. Diplomate who negotiated the [sraell- Egyptian peace pact, which ig not al well with the Arab world and the UN in general, deliberately avoided the question of Jerusalem be- cause it is «ao in flammatory. By moving Ite diplomatic activities to Jerusalem, Canada would in effect be giving recog- nition to the Jewish oc- cupation of East Jerusalem, the old Arab sector so holy ta the Moslem world. EMBASSY MOVE The Canadian move Is seen at the UN aa ill- timed and ill-advised because in reality the new peace treaty is still not much more than a piece of paper. The move does not hel the Egyptians who st must negotiate with the Israelia equitable rights for the Palestinians. It algo takes away a lot of the creditability Canada has earned in the UN during its lengthy role of peacekeeping in the iddle East, What the new treaty must do to bring peace generally to the Middle East ja to allow other Arab slates a chance to become part of larger negotiations. So far that has not happened, Instead, most of the . Arab world ts denouncing Eavet for making peace with Israel unilaleraily, The United States particularly ta finding iteelf in a dilemma because of world oll shortages and the need for Middle East oll at a time when the American- inspired peace treaty has tended to only aggravate the Arabs more. Saudi Arabia, the main oil exporter, has the political sting to hurt the United States any tlme it wants to by joining In the recent wholesale raising of crude oil prices or keeping production within Hmite to help maintain shortages. The Saudis, who bankroll key Arab hard- liners, are regarded as indispensible go- betweens in any bid to widen the Egyptlan- | Israeli treaty into an over-ail Middle, East fighting a diplomatic holding action until some- thing comes out of the expected lengthy negotiations on the Pal- eatinian isaue and the future of the Israeli oc- copied West Bank as a homeland for the Palestinians. At the same time, the Carter adminiatration ‘s trying to head off a complete break between Saudia Arabla and Egypt, Bighteen Arab coun- tries already have decided to severe diplomatic and economic relations with Egypt. The most likely casualty Ls the Egyptian domestic arms manufacturing Industry that the Saudis helped set upin 1975 with a capital of \ Clark may have created problem $1.5 billlon. ‘The American Jewish Congress, in its May the Arab certainly create con: fusion and turmoil in the Mideast," The boycott among ‘ other things calls for an end to all Arab financial aid or investments, in- cluding loans, bank deposits, gurantees or contributions te Egypt. ’ For Canadians, It took years to crack the Saudi market and now when lucrative contracts are to pay off, the shift of embassies might prove to be counter- productive and costly if the Saudis wish it. For one thing, Saudia Arabla will never accept Jerusalem as strictly a Jewish city. They regard it as the third moat holy place in the Moslem world next to Mecca and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s own sition is that the Arab If of Jerusalem must come under Arab sovereignty. The city was divided by minefields until the 1967 war, when Israel cap- ‘such a change. tured the Arab haif controlled by Jordan's Arab Legion. No country has recognized this act and Israel's construction of huge apartment houses in Arab Jerusalem has drawn world-wide con- deranation. ' There are 270,000 Jews, 90,000 Moslems and 12,000 Christiana in the: two sectors where mosques, churches and synagogues abound, President Carter, who helped transform failure at Camp David, Md., into peace Cairo and Tel Aviy, so far has been againat moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem despite running in 1978 on a Platform that promised The national Democratle platform on which Carter was elected said: . "We recognize and support the established status of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, with free access to all its hold cea provided to all . As a symbol of thia . the U.S. Embassy should be moved from Tel Avly to Jerusalem.” ' Ottawa; - Youthink theelectioncostabundie.- ~ In excess of $50 million directly chargeable to the taxpayer through the office of Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Marc Hamel. ; What can never be accurately costed -~ buf as always on the tax bill — are the full spending accounts of the political parties, their:candidates and the voluntary contrijutions made by organizations and individuals, . And it's not over yet. . . Still to come is the bill for the game of musical chairs being played with offices by the parties and the parliamentarians. . poss The losers are here, packing it in — actually -— all = that’s left of their political lives, the Hansard reprints of their speeches, the. scrapbooks of newspaper ° clippings, the photographs down from the walls, the - astonishingly few letters of appreciation from con-. stituents they managed to help. So many write ~ so few bother to say thank you - and a few ingrates ask: ‘‘That’s okay for this time, but what are you going to do for me next?” This time it’s different. a Not only are the defeated backbench MPs moving I out, but cabinet ministers, too, 19 of them. Not just vacating suites of three and four rooms, but suites of suites — departmental headquarters com- | mand posts in the House of Commons, in any of the five other federal office ‘buildings on the “Parliamentary Campus,’”’ and out and around the city and its suburbs in the departments themselves. In the corridors stand enormous plastic garbage bags — transparent and marked in green as ‘“‘House of ~ Commons" property to foil the light-fingered -side by Side with the rows of “coffins,"’ those wooden boxes with rope hahdles, | : : The bags get the junks, the stuff that’s been through the shredders where secrets and confidentlal material has been chopped, the unused and now Unusable personal embossed stationery, the private files, all the disposables of public life. ‘Into the '‘coffins” go the keepsakes, the little things — autographed pictures, memorable photos of winning election nights and those swearings of the oaths of. . cabinet office -- letters from the Prime Minister, greetings from leaders abroad and those “gifta’’ ae courtesy of the foreign taxpayers, on global junkets. . ; Gone, all gone. Just memories now of the good life. The VIP jetson call, The chauffeured limos, the great feeling of well, if not omnipotence, something almost as heady. _ On a smaller seale it’s the same sad story for the beaten backbenchers. . - They haven’t lost as much as the cabinet boffins, but unless they have ample private means, they're going to be living on a different life scale. But if the losers are moving, so are the winners, Suites that have been entirely satisfactory during years in Opposition now will never do that they're decorate, ee The cost! ; Nothing but the best for the former occupant ~ lik Pierre Trudeau’s grey suede oversize chairs and chesterfields, his Indian hanging rugs, his giant — Eskimo soapstone carvings ~ but not in the style.of the more down-to-earth Joe Clark. a Even the cliange of official residences, the Clarks into ornate 24 Sussex Drive stuffed with ita artay luxury and Trudeau into Stornoway furnished with the bare essentials, - The trappings of power. The expense. . The waste, And.not just of material things. But human resources. Staff, trained for years for the job, now cut loose. New staff, green, unsure, untried, moving in. - ; Sad days. Happy days for the political players. Duplessies, ‘Qu For the taxpayer, a few more dollars on the bill, OUR CANADA| By John Fisher of the Council for Canadian Unity To the early French, a stone formation on the 5t. Maurice River above Trois Rivieres resembled the profile of an old woman, so it was named -‘'Grand Mere"’, Many of our colorful place names came from im- pressions made on pioneers or they were used to honour the name of a loved one or perhaps some historic figure. Saint John, New Brunswick and St. John's, Newfoundland were dis: covered on St. John the Baptist day, - ' Nostalgia for the home- land gives Ontario a atring of European cities: London, Paris, Moscow, Vienna, Yoho, British Columbia and 5t. Louisa du Ha He Que. ’ bee have speci! 1 igs ‘Yoho means “how wonder. Tul”. Saint Louis du Ha! Ha! refers to an admiring Ah! Ah! by the pioneers ‘when they firel saw the beautiful Lake © Temis- couata. Undoubtedly a writing error changed the French Ah! Ah! to Hal Hal. Newfoundland takes the prize for the unusual; Goose, Gander, Joe Batt’s Arm, Blow me Down Cove, Come by Chance and soothing ones like Heart’a: Content, Heart’s Desire. Tracing the origin of Canadian place names fs an intriguing gar». Jobn Fisher, Executive Vice President of the Council] for Canadian Unity was Canada’s Centennial Commisaloner, _ TODAY IN HISTORY June 8, 1079 632 — The prophet Mo- hammed died. . 1615 — The first priests in Canada, Fathers Le Caron, Jamet, Colbeau and arrived in ebec. 1738 -- Fur-trader Jean Baptlste de la Verendrye was murdered by. Sioux Indians on an island in Lake Superior. ; . the assassination of Martin | Luther King.