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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1971

Terrace

class mail registration number 1201.

"EDITOR: RON THODY
Business Address: ! 4613 Lazelle Ave.,

GENERAL MANAGER ; GORDON HAMILTON. -

Terrace,B.C. | Phone: 635-6357 7

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ADVERTISING MANAGER: GARY CARD

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OUR OPINION

We're proud! —

We feel pretty proud today.

We have just finished digesting the
Davey Report on the mass media and
high on the list of praise was the
community weekly newspaper.

Senator Davey, in his report, states:
“The weekly press complements ail
other media and in doing so plays a
significant community role probably
beyond the capability of any other
medium.”

He says that more often than not
“the nation’s weekly press is the first,
the most local, the most immediate
medium for hundreds of thousands of
Canadians,”

We are, he said, a national institution
in a country that has too few national
institutions.

In his report, Senator Davey points”
out that people will read a weekly
newspaper more carefully and more
completely than a daily which most
people skim through.

Advertisers, he inferred, should be
aware of this. He said you can’t beat a
weekly newspaper as an advertising
medium, especially when its chock-full
of local news.

Even editorial pages are well read in
weeklies, whereas too few read the
editorial pages of daily newspapers.

The report states there is, in
weeklies, a pronounced emphasis on
the local scene and is ‘‘understandably
paralled by a very marked degree of
individualism on the part of both
publishers and editors.”

That’s a pretty good summing up of
your Terrace Herald. We strive to be
individual, local and bright. A well-
rounded local paper with plenty of

local zip in its news columns, Senator - :

Davey reports, shoiild be the biggest
lure of all to the advertiser.

And advertisements, like the written
word, he said, sticks with the reader.
And, unlike radio and television, the
reader may peruse at his liesure both
news and advertising and then he can
always refer back to it.

But we musn’t get too smug. Senator
Davey had a few suggestions and
criticisms to make.

Some, but not all, apply to The
Herald.

Most weekly readers, he said, tend
towards conservatism. ;

We think we are more liberal in our
approach here, however.

Editorials seldom take a partisan
view of politics, ‘‘a fact the committee
couldn’t comprehend.”

True enough. But no matter what
our personal political beliefs are, and
we pretty well run the gamut at The
Herald, we are, indeeed, non-partisan.
We feel it is our duty to present can-
didates to our readers and lef them
make up their own minds. However,
it’s safe to say that we, at The Herald,
pretty well tend towards the man
before the party. But that’s the in-
dividualism of the north,

The committee suggests that the
weekly newspaper can survive only if
it has enough advertising -- but its
survival isn’t important if its pursuit of
advertising becomes an end in itself.

Rising costs are said to be hurting
weeklies.

That’s why we, at The Herald,
switched to offset printing over two
years ago --- a clean, less expensive
method of production producing a
more versatile newspaper than the old,
letterpress newspaper.

But to cut costs, we make up all the
pages here in Terrace and send them to
Prince Rupert where they are run off
the press.

However, we expect that as Terrace
grows, so does The Herald and
someday we will have a modern, offset
press right here in town.

“Tf is also “up"to the advertisers in.
Terrace to help us grow and present a
better newspaper for everyone which
will grow in circulation and both ad-
vertising and news will reach more
peopie to the benefit of both the paper
and the advertiser.

That’s what Senator Davey thinks.
And that’s what we think.
Let’s all grow together!

Going
The Federal

Government’s

decision to research marijuana and ~

other cannabis substances in order to
determine their detrimental effects, if
any, should win wide approval. -In
recent years the public has been
confused by contradictory statements
from various sources, some speaking
with an air of authority, others
parroting opinions picked up on the
street.

On the one hand have been those
who assert that use of marijuana is bad
in itself and a starting point for use of
hard drugs; on the other,’ that

to pot?

marijuana is no worse than tobacco —
not as bad, in fact. The Le Dain
committee did little to clarify the issue
and court proceedings across the
country are continuing. If marijuana is
a harmless substance, why prohibitory

laws? If it is harmful as a narcotic,

why such widespread acceptance of its
use? .

These are issues which should be
clarified. A scientific age should be
capable of determining accurately: the

‘effects on human beings of this sub-

stance.

| ET NY _VLOWS pacino

Yesterday: Thousands of

gaunt, hollow-eyed, Canadians new pair.

shoes and genuinely needed a

just-loyely on you", said the
children, “And it seems to fit

. The Terrace Herald is a member of the ‘Canadian Weekly News
Association, The B.C. Weekly Nespapers' Association, and the Audit Bureau
of Circulations, Published every Monday and Thursday at 4613 Lazelle Ave,, °
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The California earthquake
near Los Angeles cracked a city
resevoir and threatened to flood
a large area; as a
precautionary measure 80,000
persons were evacuated, --
The resevolr has now been
drained to a safe level and
Mayor Sam Yorty has allowed
the residents to return to their

homes. :
More than 60 people died

4 through other effects of the

quake and President Nixon has
declared the section a disaster
area,

All of this is well known. But
what interests us is what was
not reported in the media. How
did 80,000 people react when the
evacuation was aflnounced?
How did they drive their cars?
They had to run-how decently

W.-K. NEILLFOSTE "
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did they run? How many’ were
paralyzed with fear? How many
were dissolved to hysteria and
impotence et yt
How--brave did the. police
really feel as they stood guard
over. evacuated homes
threatened all the while by, a
cracked dam and 10,000 tons of
water? ‘ .
Specifically, what .did the
disaster mentality do,.to the-
people? - Gg
Posed questions all
inadequate at best, yet we can
say this; among the 80,000 there
certainly were many. with
personal faith in Christ.
“Peace. with God,” is no
pulpit phrase. It’s an ex-
perience for worried people.
And these days that’s just about
everybody '

| Effects of effulent on fish

“REALLY Alvin! -- using language like a prime minister . - .”

BILL SMILEY: Our ‘fat cat

Well, I've got the
snowmobilers of Canada on
my back, almost
unanimously, after a recent
column which suggested
mildly that the machines are
instruments of Satan at best,
the finest tool for noise-stink
pollution since the automobile
took to the roads.

That makes up about one
quarter of my readers. This
week I shall alienate another -
two-quarters of them by °
giving my  unvarnished-.
opinion of cats.

Cats, like snowmobiles,

_ have their uses. They’re »
handy to have around a farm,
where they help keep the «

vermin under.control. © ie

CHICKEN PALACES :
They have in the past, been

just the thing for the

proprietors of some chicken
palaces, when the price of
chicken was high.

There were some in prison
camp, presumably to keep
down the rats.

Their numbers were
diminishing with increasing
speed, until the German camp
commandant issued the
dictum:

“Prisoners will cease and
desist killing and eating of
long-tailed rabbits." Héhada
sense of humour. Which is
more than you can say for a
cat.

ON CALENDERS

Then, they are useful, when
kittens, for . putting, on
calendars: ge And> finally; Pl
admit they provide company
of sorts for lonely people, who
pamper them, stuff them with

tidbits, and turn them from
sleek felines into bloated,
contemptuous parasites who
take over the best chair in the
house, shed hair over
everything at will, and want
out at five in the morning.

If 1 should grow old and
lonely, I would prefer a snake
as a pet.

Like cats, they just sleep
and eat. They also eat mice.

But they don’t come fawning
and whining and rubbing
fiereely against your legs
when you're getting their food
out.

MIDNIGHT CAPERS

They don’t want out in the
middie of the night. And they

- don’t. get, pregnant every ‘six

weeks, .

It's a well-known fact that.
cats have nolove for anybody.
Not even for other cats.

YOUR OPINION--

Pea-brained motorist

. The Editor
Terrace Herald
Terrace, B.C.
Dear Sir:
In the week around February
10, I stepped alongside a parked
car to back into the space.
behind it. ;
Tt was the double Jane section
across from the Terrace
Shopping Center and I had to
wait for other vehicles to pass
or risk hitting one of them with:
the left front corner of my,

CLAC replies to WA

* justice. ‘rhe [WA on the other
hand is also “religiously-
_ « Oriented”,

truck, ;

Since my intentions were
obvious, all the other cars in my
lane switched tothe inside lane,
All but one.

A red Vauxhall Deluxe,
licence CKF-628, continued to
approach, I flashed my backup
light but the car drove up
behind my truck. I backed up
about a foot, my right signal on,
so there could:be no misun-
derstanding.

The Editor
Terrace Herald
Terrace, B.C, ;
; », _ While clairning to be neutral,
Dear Sir: . it too promotes a concept of
: ' * labor-management relations in
oe | had hoped _that - keeping with its principles. I
“Brotherhood Week’? would suggest that FWA membership‘
have prompted IWA _ in the B.C. Federation of Labor
representatives to correct: which openly supports the
apparent misunderstanding of ' socialist oriented New
the IWA of an article printed - Democratic Party, makes it
Feb.8 reporting on a successful - anything but neutral. All labor
organizing .campaign by the unions, consciously or un-
Christian Labor Association of = consciously, promote a concept

Seemann]

Did the driver exhibit cour-
tesy and consideration by
alicwing me to back into the
parking spot 1 had already
claimed?

He did not! He turned his
wheels hard to the right and
pulled his little red car into the

spot,

PShocked at such a disgusting
action I went around to the rear
of the truck and said, as I would
to a small child I'd caught

“stealing, “That wasn’t a very

nice thing to do.”’

With an exhuberant victor’s
grin he answered, ‘‘You
should've backed into it when
you had the chance.”’ He
triumphantly walked into a
doorway...

“Chance? What chance? I was
waiting for a safe opportunity. I
didn’t know that backing into a
parking spot had to be a contest

between the one who tried to

back into it and anyone who
feels like trying to steal.it,
Had it been anyone else,
perhaps they wauld’ve played
according to his rules and

driven the four tons of truck into~

the spot while he was trying to
Steal it. .
‘ [hope the next time he tries
it, he reaps as he sows.

VANCOLVER (CP) — If 20
fish are put into water con-
taining 65 per cent effluent
from a pulp mill and all of
them survive for 96 hours, the
pollution level is considered
acceptable, says a leading
Vancouver researcher,

But, warned Dr, Don Mc-
Leay, who along with two
other senior researchers and
four technicians is carrying
out a special study, “nobody
knows yet if the fish would die
during the 97th hour or, if
they do live, whether they can
‘still reproduce.”

The research project is part
ofa five-year contract from
nine B.C, pulp mills which
have spent about $90,000 in
the last year to enable British
Columbia Research, at one
time called the B,C. Research
Council, to determine the ef-
fects of effluent on fish,

Dr. MeLeay said the work
is vital, for results could show
that pollution control pro-
grams now accepted are inad-
equate and necessitate consid-

erable cost to replace them -

with adequate ones.

STANDARDS ARBITRARY

“People should be aware
that today’s standards are
just arbitrary and not mean-

ingful,” said theresearcher in...
ab-interview!‘tBut :whit.elses

can you do when you don’t
have the knowledge? You
have to set some kind of
standards.”

The 65-pe r-cen t, 96-hour
standard is one set by the fed-
eral department of fisheries.

One of the biggest dangers
at the moment, said Dr, Mc-
Leay, is that until the knowl

edge is forthcoming, inade-
quatecontro linstallations
may be built. ;
““You-don’t have’ to kill the
fish outright. You could be de-
creasing their viability or re-
productive capacity.- ©
“If you lower their resist-
ance, they could become more
susceptibleto Infection. Or the
force of the water's current
could be enough to push them

over the edge of toleration ~

and kill them.”

Dr. McLeay’s experiments
include placing coho’ salmon
fry in different concentrations
of effluent and studying the
effects.
SIGN OF POISON. | |.

He algo examines the ability

- of the fry to swim in polluted
water by having them swim
“*ypstream” in artificially cre-
ated currents, ‘

A conirol situation of fry in
pure water is used for com-
parison in both cases. ‘

So far, his studies have
shown that if the fish manage
to survive the first 24 hours in
effluent, they usually don't die-
in the next 72 hours.

He said there is no evidence
that any poison is stored in
the fish as DDT and mercury
are, ,

The researcher emphasized
. that this type: of study, could
be conducted on. a. wider,
scale. . ne

“I don't know why more of

it isn’t done by graduate stu-
dents atuniversilies.

"As the publicattitude
changes, perhaps then there
will be more emphasis toward
environment orientation and
away from today’s academic
orientation.”’ .

CNR passenger debate

OTTAWA (CP) — Canadian
National Railways must not
be sidelracked on to the profit
route from its mainiine of pub-
lic service the Commons was
told. The government should
get a national transportation
policy on the rails.

In debate on the CNR-Air
Canada financing bill, MPs
from all parties said the
Crown-owned railway should
provide transportation first,
then worry about profits.’

The bill, which was sent ta
‘committee after second

reading, would provide.CNR ~

up to $229 million for 1970

expenses such as equipment, —

property, branch lines,
communications and hotels.

It would provide another $80
million for the first six months
of 1971 for obligations incurred

“before January, and a further
$163 million for other capital
projects in the same period,

The bill weuld also

guarantee loans and deben- °

‘corporations,
‘agencies,
. Canadian transport commis-

* experiment - &
passenger train methods to 4
prevent the “absolute mad- -

Today, the House is to
resume debate on, the
reorganization bill that
provides for expansion of the
cabinet and the establishment
of’ an envirenment depart-
ment. 4 ;

Doug Rowland (NDP—Sel-
kirk) urged a national: tran- -
sportation policy to replace
the current piecemeal ; ap-
proach, Co

First priority - should © be’

service to the public, rather
than turning a profit, he said.

Mr. Rowland said, the
government: should : exercise
greater control over CNR, Air .
‘Canada and other Crown
Regulatory
such as the
sion, also should be tied more
closely to government policy.

The government should -
with better

ness”. of increased use of .

et

Canada in Kitwanga. Instead - of man, work and industrial
we are subjected to further WA “ relations in accordance with
inaccuracies in a Feb. 15 write- .. certain beliefs (confessions)
up entitled, “Midget Union , whether they -be socialist,
Angers Giant”. . « Christain or otherwise,
. Allow me to make a few ob- We respect the right of the
servations and corrections. TWA to work out its program in
_ George Hiemstra, who is not a harmony with its beliefs, we ask
‘CLAC business agent, ( for similar treatment. .
alledgedly stated “It (CLAC) :. The same article infers that
believes in God and Kari : CLAC representatives sit, back
Marx”, in an article printed © while the local people are left to -
Feb, B, I-have some confidence ‘: do the negotiating for oneself. If
that “your readers recognized ‘” that were true, they are to be
’ this obvious error, as everyone * congratulated for concluding an
must know that Marxism and‘ excellent agreement while
Christianity stand: avoiding ‘labor, strife and

_ diametrically opposed. *, without resorting to the strike.
- Further, statements attribted ;. In closing, the statement
to Mr, W. Penner IWA business 5; “that hardly a day passes by

. agent, “that: the. people in Kit- | that members of CLAC come
wanga won an inferlor contract into'to.us asking for assistance
are also missleading. .- = tofight for their claims”’, let the

_ . Surely Mr. Penner as union '-reader judge. - - ;

- leader’ must know . that a) Imightadd thatCLACinturn. -

‘contract must yet. be. stands ready to serve captive

_ negotiated.“ However, [ would: members everywhere com-

like to. point. out that CLAC - pelled to support a umion as a

organized, employees at Pole -. condition of employment.

Lumber enjoy ‘excellent rates, :.~ Meanwhile, on

second: to none. 1. “Brotherhood Week,’ ”

cars—and consequent |,
pollution and public cost of
highways, |» oa,

Today: A municipal official
in Terrace stated that Welfare
is the third largest industry in
our area.

Yesterday: ‘Boys who
wished to become doctors
shovelled manure from freight
cars and girls who aspired to be
nurses scrubbed floors for
pennies a day.,.when they coul
find jobs at all. .

Today: University official
say that © management -
recruitment. on campuses is
down 40 percent his year over
two years ago. And fear is being |
expressed at the numbers of
men and women being trained
in vocational schools who will
‘have no jobs when they
graduate, :

Yesterday: The conspiracy
to ‘save face’ was practised on
the Individual level. When the
child asked the. butcher for:
_“hones for the dog” both knew
the bones were for the hungry
‘family, Oo oi

Today: Poor :people are

(Name witheld by request)

husbands and fathers knocked West B.C
estover, B.C.

on endless doors asking, “Have
you any odd jobs lady? I'll do
anything at all...cut your lawn,’
clean the basement, mend your
fence... anything,..?” ;

‘oday: A man knocked on
thedoor to ask if he couldhave a
job shovelling snow.

A thirty year time gap sud:
denly snapped shut, The defeat
in his eyes and the droop of his
shotilders conjured the spectre
of yesterday.

Yesterday: Hundreds of
hungrey men protested
unemployment by ‘sitting-in’ at
the Post Office in Vancouver.
Police used tear gas to route
them A few years later many of
them gave their ‘Ilves for a
country which couldn't give
them a job. They were called
rabble-rousers and fascists.

Today: Protesters marched
against unemployment at the
‘opening of:-Parliament in
- Victoria. . They are» Inbelled

rabble-rausera:; and’ com- )

munisis, 9. gathering in ‘groups. across (

Yesterday: Little. children: Canada to -protest.en masse pollution, starvation,” | As. sfor CLAC being.
suffered the “indignity ‘ of’,’., against povertyinour rich land. deprivation, ghettos and greed.” ‘“religiously-oriented", that we,;Sincerely ©

- wailing into Welfare offices to’. :"‘Yesterday: Lies were told" “Yesterday: . There was.a~ do not.deny, The CLAC' openly”. Neil: J. Roos ey

lift “their. feet. like. horses. to on & personal tével as props for depression. |... a. advocates’. and promotes CLAS. Western , Canada
prove they Had big holes in their-:..peide. “Mummy that'coat looks *.. Today: 8s) °°" , Biblical -principles of’ social “Representatives 2. 500 9.0 oe

me, well too”, replied the
nation’s mothers. The coat was
dun colored and three sizes too
small. :

Today: Lying is official
regarding unemploymert’
figures, curtailments cul-back,
layoffs and work stoppages.

Hamburger, the mainstay of
the dinner table during a
depression sold for ten cents a
pound. om

Today: Rolls Royce stock -
tantamount to business solidity
. is selling. at four cents per,
share. =| -

tures of Air Canada up to $174
million. .

GET NER FEET UP Kib, AN’
WHEN NER'VE DRUNK YER
TEA, ONE A LITTLE NAP Ae
WHILE I GO aN! BO NER
SHOPPIN' FOR, YER

YER DOIN! TOO MUCH, FLO, Wa
ER SHOULD PACK IN THAT. Ti
CLEANIN' Jos —

Yesterday:
“wars. etl os
Today: There are wars.

Yesterday; There was.
racial prejudice,

Today: There is
prejudice. my :
. Yesterday: There was
“distrust, pollution, starvation,
- deprivation ghettos and greed. -;
. Today; There ore more .
poeple to cfuse more distrust,

There were

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