PAGE Ad, THE HERALO, Friday June 3, 1977 ipso eaunnontenencnsnnsmaaeea year s the herald. pom Terrace - 635-6357 &ou Kitimat - 632-5706 Published by. Sterling Publishers Ltd. Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St., Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 1201, Postage paid in cash, return ‘postage guaranteed. Seoeeetintatactt », *, steelatedet ta! Dace rare e aan ES SSS eS See aaa eSetetet eet eee eee OSeehe pectacat "enna" "e sere! eta! ADVERTISING MANAGER KAYE EHWSES MANAGING EDITOR ALLAN KRASNICK SAUBLISHER GORDON W. HAMILTON: ‘KITIMAT MANAGER W.S. ‘KIM’ KIMBLE NOTE OF COPYRIGHT | The Herald retains full, complefe and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or editorial or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Fublisher. SS SS SRW RR Oa ag an ee ose Patel. Haute alate rete Sia os eee ierenatatee Neeser eee rai areaeserarece sete PO [x Pete than no hope | Wednesday, Washington Governor Dixy Lee Ray | signed a bill legalizing the sale and use of Laetrile, a substance believed by some to be an effective treatment for cancer. Laetrile, derived from the pits of certain fruits | ; such as apricots, Is also known as vitamin 14 and Is legal in 22 couniries around the world. Canada fs not among them. Controversy and bitter feelings surround Laetrile and its legal and medical status. Proponents argue that the simple, natural substance has proven effective in the treatment of cancer in Mexico and a number of other countries. At the very worst, they say, It can do no harm, which Is more than can be sald for some conventional cancer treatments. The Canadian Cancer Society, on the other hand, maintains that to legalize Laetrile wovid be to sanction it in the eyesof the public. This would give cancer patients false hope and cause some of them to forego the traditional surgical and _phar- maceutical treatments. Opponents of Laerile also oeaeee "4 fs a moot point. But those who are digging ‘in ‘against the inevitable legalization of the substance . must reallze they cannot legislate against “false . hopes.’ | A person who is dying and knows-he Is dying; a "person for whom the whole content of life is Its impending end, will find hope in anything if he Is that way inclIned. And if he spends money In ob- faining that hope, who are we, for whom death is more abstract and distant, to call ita waste? if Laetrile Is an utter fraud, a malicious and larsonous con, game, then It-can be best exposed through exhaustive research by recognized medical sclentists. Since. the Canadian Cancer Saciety, which solicits funds from all of us to do research into cancer treatment, has stated publicly ' that Ht will not test Laetrile as long as it is itegal in _ Canada, there seems no other sensible course of action but to de-criminalize its sale and use. Properly explairied, such a move would not be miscronstrued as an endorsement of the substance. It would be seen as an attempt to clarify an Issue which, right now, Is causing confusion and bit-— terness, oo ; Those who would block the legalizing to the substance should perhaps try to Imagine what it would be like to be a cancer patient in Terrace without sufficlent money to go to Washington, | Callfornia or Mexico for one last chance, no.matter Get out and vote If the turnout at the advance poll is any in- dication, Terrace residents are taking a keen In- terest in the mayoral and regional district elec: tions. , Both candidates for mayor, Sharon Biggs and David Maroney, have spent the last weeks Greer campaigning for the top job In the istrict. The only real shame with this election Is that the district will inevitably lose the services of one of them. Both have been conscientious and competent aldermen and whoever does not make It tom. morrow will be sorely missed around the council able, . The public also should not underestimate the importance of the regional district elections. Eliher Vic Jolliffe or David Pease will be representing Terrace on Issues as vital as regional. development, boundary extension, and tran- Sportation services. All in all, tommorrow’s elections are extremely important to the future of Terrace and its development as a community. 1 To fail to vote would be no less than an abdication of one's responsibility as a citizen. We believe that the people of the district do care. You can prove it tomorrow. Please vote. claim certain “disreputable” people stand tomake - the pile lvallvets ipaalizgdveeus- -him to be LONDON (CP) — British government hopes of obtaining a new round of pay restraint from restive British workers—up to now regarded as a faint pros- pect—have received a shot in the arm from two major trade union conferences. As a result of the new accord, there now are 2.4 million votes in favor of continued restraint, as against 2.8 million in oppesi- tion. The Munici {GMWU), members, has voted overwhelmingly to seek “an orderly return to voluntary collective bargaining rather than to try for General and immediate return to free & Laetrile better §j BEFORE THERE WERE BRIDGES there was-the ferry from Fe picture was takenin 1922, (L. Johnstone . Sa A oii, cae lewis - erese Pa Ea an Y VANCOUVER {CP) - Gordon Gibson no longer is a fisherman, legger, leader of the British Columbia Liberal fey. or a two- bottle-a-day drinker, but he still is the no-nonsense, old- school free enterpriser who dominated B.C. politics for 13 years. How the 72-year-old maverick swore off booze 12 years ago is a story. tha discloses the practical but ornery disposition that led e first politician ever expelled from the B.C. legislature in 82 years. 'T drank Rye #3 because it comes ina flat bottle,” he said in aninterview. “Round bottles roll back atid forth in the car glove compartment but that 83 fitted 1 in quite beautifully.” Still, despite the two- bottle-a-day habit, Gibson P* felt ‘a little lacking in pep” and asked his doctor for some iron pills. “He asked me how much I drank. I figured it was none of hig damned. business 80 I said about three-quarters of a bottle a day. He hit the roof and ordered me to cut it to four ounces a day.” Gibson remembers the scene a week later when he went back to the doctor. “The waiting room is full of people, Most of them knew me. The doctor opens his door and starts right in hollering at me: ‘Get cut of here. I can’t stand liars.’ LOCKED HORN “we locked horns right there. ‘What in the hell is the matter with you?’ I said, 4"yet who do you think wre talking to?" “and this’ little five-foot- one doctor tells me, ‘I phoned the chief of police and your bartender, You're - drinking two bottles a day. Get out and stay cut until you stop drinking.” Gibson stormed out and went to his car for a drink. But the doctor’s warning bothered him and with the bottle in his hand, he ‘decided not to drink again. “T took the cork out of the bottle, then put it back and said to myself, ‘Gibson, I'm — 1’ Workers Union. with 916,000. - Pion collective “bargaining” as the GMWU, left wing had urged. fi addition, the [ron and ’ Steel Trades Confederation has agreed to support further pay restraints— current arrangements run cut next month—provided any new social contract contains adequate arrange- ments for improving productivity. ‘ The 105,000-strong con- - federation turned in a surprising 101-to-16 vote to support an ‘orderly, rather than immediate, return to free bargaining. ‘ This means that the _palance can be decided by the local government and transport workers and the miners. telling you right now, you big son of a bitch, I'll never let you take another drink again,’ I put the bottle back. I've never dreamed or had a passing fancy that I'd like another drink.” That kind of deter- mination was what earlier sent him, his father and two brothers to the north tip of Yancouver ‘Island, where they. began a tiny saw- milling operation. WON FORTUNE Form logping: milling, salmon-fishing, whart- building and fur-buying, the Gibson clan built up’ an export lumber business that made them wealthy, Four Gibson brothers- Clarke, Gordon, Jack and Eargson-still split their oceeds four ways. Still physically for- midable at 6-feet-2, Gibson has moved back to Van- couver permanently after 25 , ft Oil costs HALIFAX (CP) —" Things looked good for Lesmere Forrest Kirk- patrick and the brandnew Nova Scotia Power Cogp. in 1973. - Kirkpatrick, engineer- executive, tennis buff and native of the Bay of Fundy town of Parrsboro, N.S., had been involved in running electric utilities in the province for about 35 years. Since he was made superintendent of the municipal electric system in his home town in 1039, Nova Scotia and other ju- risdictions had moved to congolidate and streamline electrical generation and distribution, especially in the 1960s. Kirkpatrick, 60, recalled in an interview that everything seemed to have jelled in 1973 after the $76- million purchase of the outstanding shares of the Nova Scotia Light and Power Co, by the Crown- Interpreting the news British unionists back restraint. __ There are conditions, however. The price the GMWU is asking for its support in- cludes a reflationary budget this summer or an equivalent package of extra price controls, help for the unemployed—particular! the young and reversal of some public expenditure cuts, especially in the . construction industry. It includes a hew minimum wage target for the low-paid, to be set by the Trades Union Congress maintenance of living standards for all against a current inflation rate of 16 per cent, extra money for differentials and incentive schemes for those who can negotiate them. wynrts re thas Serer er ee a ea Thee atdetitab a * f years in Hawaii. Gibson used to sail his 130-foot acht to sessions of the egislature, but now lives in Vancouver’s west end with his second wife, Gertrude. Now worth several million dollars by his own reckoning, Gibson says he never worked for money. “It was always what I thought of myself at the end ofeachday. Had I done my - best. Money eas never the goal.” Gibson says one reason for his success is that he wasn't “handicapped by other people’s ideas, leaving me with the freedom to think for myself from i2 on and develop what little brain I had more than I would have if I had gone to school. KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL “I came out of school without anything,” he-siad of his six years of education. “One of my teachers told owned Nova Scotia Power Commission, ; Kirkpatrick, who joined the power commission in 1955 became president and general manager April 1, ‘4973, of the newly-formed, Crown-owned corporation which had a_ virtual monopoly on the electrical power business in the -provinee, . , , “Frankly, I was happy,” he said. “I thought we’d finally put it all together. We made’ tiveyear projectians for operating and capital budgets which showed a very healthy future for the th vin Within months, the rosy picture began te dissolve as a result. of rising in- ternational oil prices. Kirkpatrick said the changes in future projec- tions for the corporation are “Just a sickening thing.” Annual fuel costs rose to a projected $130 million this year from $25 million in 1972 The unexpectedly heavy support for further pay restraint came at the syme time as the National In- stitute of Economic and Social Research was warh- ing of a disasterous increase in inflation, rising unem- ployment and falling living standards should wage -eurbs be lifted. vs its quarterly review, e government must strive keep the increase in average earnings as much below 15 per cent as possible. In essence, the institute says the outlook for the British economy is bleak even witha tough new round of restraint, t hideous without it. Without a phase 3, the in- rry Island to the mouth of Thornhill Creek. This : “" GORDON GIBSON SR eer logger still firm me once he had a dog that could understand things better than J could. “T said, ‘Who the hell is . teaching the dog’ and the teacher threw me out.” Gibson says his son Gordon Jr., on the other hand, the current B.C. Liberal party leader, “is a pro. He reads a paragraph atatime. lread a wordata time.” . Gibson’s celebrated ex- Pulsion came in 1955 when was thrown out of the legislature after he charged the Social Credit govern- ment with impropriety in the granting of timber leases. . Gibson waited three years to be vindicated by the 1058 trial, conviction and im- prisonment of Robert Sommers, then lands and forests: minister, for ac- cepting bribes in return for forest management licences. . Gibson hadresigned his NOVA SCOTIA | - confound utility — with dramatic increases in eustomer charges. This has delayed the day when the corporation will be able to build up any new capital for plant expansion and im- provement. That, in turn, has forced heavy borrowing to pay for plant renewa pansion which could not be delayed, The moynting debts pose a potential threat to the utility's credit po- sition and with it the prospect of higher interest rates and higher power service charges to pay em. Kirkpatrick sald the 1973 merger and the rising fkel costs and power rates that arrived shortly afterwards have led many to link the higher rates to the merger. It’s hard to prove otherwise, he said, because “the picture is so distorted” bx new fuel charges. However, as high as rates might be, ‘‘I believe the cost institute says the - and ex-. stitute says, earnings would rise 20 per cent by middle of next year. In the short term, it would make taxpayers more com- fortable. After-tax incomes would buy more, the economy would grow faster atid unemployment would rise more slowly.n To any government facin the possibility of a genera election before the middle of 1978, it presents an ap- pelizing prospect. | However, the bill would come later. A collapse of phase 3, the institute argues, Besieged scf loses its cla BOVENSMILDE, the Netherlands (AP) — The parents of 105 children who were held hostage by South Moluccan terrorists in the village school here last week vowed on Thursday never to let the youngsters return to the building, A parents’ meeting decided that the modern one-storey scheot holds too many bad memories for their children, a spokesman for the parents said. “My son will never seethe inside of that school again,” declared Gerard van 't Hoog, whose seven-year-old son, Wim, was one of the hostages held in the school for four days by the terrorists. ‘The other parents feel the same way.” Young Wim didn't seem to feel strongly on the matter after his release last Friday. He told reporters then: “We had ‘a lot of fun in the classroom, It was just like a seat earlier after a royal commission found no im- pecpriety, lost a byelection and was only returned to the legislature after the trial. PROUD MOMENT "The proudest moment of his life, he said, came in the fall of 1860 when he rose in _the legislature as the Liberal member for North Vancouver and said, ac- cording to the record: “I am happy to be back in Victoria to take the humble apologies of Attorney-. General Robert Bonner, Premier W. A. C. Bennett and the whole cabinet for throwing me out on a point on which they were proved wrong." In 1%7, Gibson stepped down for the last time and, apart from several years as an appointed member of the Northwest Territories , council, he has left polities. of electricity would have been higher without the takeover.” AS an experienced em- ployee of both Crown-owned and investor-owned utllities, Kirkpatrick said the former can be as dedicated to ef- ficiency and ——_cost- consciousness as the latter, Public complaints roge in| those four years as power rates went up. Last year, the provincial government e corporation under the regulatory authority of the provinel public utilities In its first application to the board, the corporation asked increases up to 65 per cent and had planned to seek another boost later this - year. The board, after winter- - long hearings, approved an increase of 47.2 per cent this spring but added that there would be no more for the next 12 months. ut would move Britain back to the misery of 1974-75 with soaring inflation and soaring unempl ment and a deteriorating balance of yments, — In the meantime, Denis Healey, chancellor of the exchequer, is hinting that a minibudget is imminent, aimed at boosting demand and creating more jobs. It is expected to propose a further cut in income tax, on top of the two-per-cent reduction anngunted last - March, Jig _ Behind the news fe fete ws ray Gol. 4, bi big party and we played a lot of games... We were friends with the ‘Moluc- children were with e school’s principal and four teachers by at least four masked Moluccans, The gunmen released the children and a teacher last Friday after half the youngsters were stricken by an internal infection in the classroom where they lived ‘crowded together for four days. . thetngatieg that beginning meeting that be Monday they would send the children— aged 6 to 12—to the other school in this farming village, run by the Dutch Reformed Church and subsidized by the government. | “Most parents believe it's sensible to'get the children back to school and some vkind of normal environment pops oom aspossible,” van 't Hoog commented. Dr. Jan Smit, a peychiatrist who heads a m of 20 doctors and social workers monitoring the condition of the families, re- ‘ported: ‘The. recovery of parents and -children has een beyond all ex- pectations.” .: But, he warned, ‘'We still have to be prepared for longterm after effects." Ae Voice of — _ the readers Grateful Editor, Terrace Herald: School District No, 88 (Terrace) would like to thank the following Terrace merchants who contributed to thelr family picnic, which was held on May 29, 1977 at the Hart farm: . 1. Terrace Hotel 2. Acklands Ltd. 3. Omineca Building Supplies ; 4. E.B. Horsman & Son 5. Terrace Shell & Car Wash 6. Totem TV - Radio Steer Cc ti . Terrace Co-operative Association 8. Terrace Equipment Sales 9, Overwaitea Thank you. * (Mirs.) J:-Glbson School District (Terrace) Editor: ae 1 would like,to thank the girl that banged on apt. number 15, Flynn Apart: ments, during the recent fire, Many thanks:to her. Also, the following lécal businesses for help rendered myself and ‘family: “Bill's Janitorial Sexyi e, Terrace Co-op, Firled’s:Department Store, and Saleway.: Also to ‘Rérrace fire department fora job well done. And, thank you editor for the use of your letter to the editor column, D.C, Kneebone family. No, 88 and